Standard Business Planning Service

We specialise in business plans. The adviser who will help you prepare your plan is a member of a professional body, the Institute of Business Advisers (IBA), committed to continuing professional development and covered by professional indemnity insurance.

The adviser is also recognised as a professional business consultant and has been on the approved register of consultants for the government backed Business Link organisation. To view the CV’s of the advisers, click on the link.

There are four main stages in the business planning service you are offered.

Stage 1 

Stage 2 

Stage 3 

Stage 4

 

Fees

The price for a plan is based on the time involved, the materials used and the overheads in our own business that need to be paid for. You will find that similar professionals like accountants and solicitors will generally charge an hourly rate of anything from £50 to £150 an hour, £400 to £1,200 a day.

As we work from low cost offices, our main costs are marketing, phone and fax bills,

Professional indemnity insurance, membership fees of professional bodies, our labour and keeping up to date, through training courses and reading, with everything necessary to give professional business advice and produce a successful business plan.

As indicated, the process of producing a business plan normally takes several days. The average fee for a start up is £800. Prices can be as low as £500 for very basic plans or rise to £2,000, if the project is complex, or the amount sought substantial. An individual fixed price will be agreed with you at the end of stage one.

Our own research indicates our fees are very competitive for the quality of service provided.

If you have any questions please phone, fax or email one of the advisers.

We are confident that by working with you we will together produce a more professional business plan than you could on your own and a plan that is more likely to identify and raise the finance you need. 

 

Over the last 10 years we have:

 

  •  Helped prepare almost 1000 plans, adding value based on experience and knowledge
  •  Helped raise £ millions in finance through loans and grants
  •  Developed close relations with several banks and sources of venture capital.

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In addition to business plan preparation we also offer active assistance with raising finance and general business consultancy.

 

In all cases you will receive practical advice from people running their own business who work closely with a number of other businesses on an ongoing, regular, hands on basis. Over the years we have taken clients through various stages : producing a business plan, raising initial finance, developing the business, then raising additional funding and for further expansion