Short to Medium Term Planning and Support

Planning for successful change and growth.

Short to Medium Term Planning and Support - Success Stories (11)

• Review of Community Facilities for a National Charity

  A leading national charity was operating a number of facilities to assist and support its Community Programmes in a major provincial city. These included a charity shop, coffee shop and day centre, which were required to be financially self-sufficient but were under-performing and proving a burden rather than a benefit. WLP were engaged to conduct Read More...

• Don’t Neglect the Business Plan!

  A lot of companies seem to think that because they have a business plan, they are on the right path. It’s good that you have business plan in place, but it also requires action. It is no good neglecting the plan as the company will begin to lose focus. A month ago I received a call from a Read More...

• Business Plan – Estate Agent

  A successful property sales negotiator, wished to obtain finance for a new estate agency operating in a select area of the Country. We guided him through detailed research of his target market and then helped him devise a comprehensive, practical business plan complete with personnel and resource requirement, marketing plan, budgets, P&L and cash-flow forecasts, Read More...

• Business Planning for Client with Growth Voucher

  Create Design approached us through the Growth Voucher scheme.  They wished to put in place a plan to enable them to grow from less than £1m to around £3m over three years. This is while retaining good profits, ensuring the right systems were in place as it grew and making sure the management structure and Read More...

• Business and Marketing Plan Enables Growth

  A specialist industrial paint spray business located in Norfolk had reached capacity for growth within their premises and were reliant on a small number of clients. Our consultant was invited to help reappraise their direction and potential. Our consultant assisted the Managing Director to devise and implement a business and marketing plan fit for the future growth Read More...

• Developing a Business Plan for Growth

  Our client had successfully developed an intense driving course approach in Norwich. Finances were stretched when the company expanded the concept into London, Manchester and Peterborough, and they required assistance in budgeting and structuring staff. Our consultant provided business advice and mentoring, established financial disciplines and developed a business plan for the growth of the business. As a result, Read More...

• Growth Vouchers Help Camouflage Company Reveal its True Potential

  What is Growth Vouchers? Growth Vouchers is a government programme to help businesses access strategic advice on a range of topics including finance, marketing and leadership. The funding available can cover up to 50% of the cost of the advice. However, time has run out as the Growth Vouchers scheme closed to new applications on the 31st March 2015. Read More...

• Growth Vouchers Help Business With New Venture

  Suresh Vasnani is a successful businessman who runs a business supporting a mobile phone company with technical work on their SIM cards. He has many other business ideas. However, he has not made any of them into a sustainable business. He applied for and obtained a matched funded grant of up to £2,000 using the Growth Voucher Read More...

• Producing an Action Plan to Reduce Costs

  The company has earned an excellent reputation as a traditional family retail business with good service standards. Recent expansion has caused a severe increase in borrowed money which the company has not experienced before. Early action was needed to arrest the deteriorating trend. We produced a Business Plan with Action Plan for the next twelve Read More...

• Family Company Seek Benchmarking and Business Planning

  Family company within the construction industry were seeking some benchmarking to confirm they were going in the right direction, this was completed and from that they discovered a need for focus and a plan for which they had little or no experience. A business plan as well as individual action plans were prepared, then agreed Read More...
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  Getting a new idea to market

  Tim Warner has been running a successful van rental business for some years. But alongside that he had another idea for a totally separate business: Tim’s good idea was a replica football stadium kit customized to a favourite team. He had one hand-crafted model and a burning ambition but, realising that he was going to Read More...