Our Priory Consulting services include:
Grants and Other Funding
Benchmarking
Priory Business Club
Business Planning
Simple Stuff That Works (SSTW)
Grants and Other Funding
The Priory Partnership has been an accredited supplier for Business Link for Greater Merseyside since February 2004 under the Finance and Accounting Framework. This means that some of the work we do to help eligible businesses can be subsidised by 40% through Objective One funds.
We specialise in business plans and grant applications to obtain funding for both start-ups and established businesses, as well as being experts in the relevant matters of accounting. Basically, any project that improves your business and is outside the normal parameters of what your business does can be considered for funding.
We are experienced in obtaining SFI capital expenditure grants, MSIF loans, Skillworks training grants, local council funding, etc. and project managing financial packages including asset-backed finance, invoice discounting and private investment.
We aim to take as much of the bureaucracy out of the process as possible and use our experience to give you as good a chance as possible at accessing available funds.
We also signpost to other funding bodies and other available assistance, for example MMBI and TechINvest.
We have a wide range of industries in our portfolio, from inventors to IT firms, manufacturers to milkmen, and could help your business navigate the minefield of grant information out there.
Call or email our funding consultant Amy Timewell on 0151 649 3900 or atimewell@the-priory.co.uk
Benchmarking
At last… a chance to discover how well you are really doing
Like most other business owners, you would probably like to know exactly how you are performing. More importantly, you'd like to know exactly how much you are missing out on. And work out how to get what could and should be yours.
Now you can with your Confidential Performance Report. We have joined forces with some of the country's other leading firms of accountants to co-fund the development of the UK's largest financial benchmarking database.
As a result, you can focus your energies on catching up in those areas where you are weak and building on those areas where you are strong. So, with your Confidential Performance Report you'll have better measures and start on the road to better results.
What is in my report?
- 5 Star service £475
A detailed 25 page report that analyses every key number in your business. An in-depth meeting to help you work out exactly how to use the insights in the report and address and act on the issues raised.
- 4 Star service £150
A detailed 25 page report that analyses every key number in your business. Presented to you in person at a shorter meeting designed to give you the additional insights you need to use the report to identify exactly where your strengths and weaknesses are, and create an action plan.
- 3 Star service £40
A 6-7 page summary report that will help you to identify where your strengths and weaknesses are in the key areas of sales growth, debtors and profits.
Will it work for you?
Categorically YES. And we are so confident that it will add real value to your business that it comes with a 100% full and unconditional money-back guarantee. It doesn't cost the earth for your Confidential Performance Report but we insist that you ask for a full refund if you see no value in the process at all.
So the only way you can possibly lose out is by not giving it a try, isn't it?!
What do I do next?
Call us on 0151 649 3900 to get more information or request your Confidential Performance Report. Alternatively, drop Amy Timewell an email (atimewell@the-priory.co.uk) to answer any queries you may have.
Priory Business Club
Imagine how much more successful your business would be if 20 of the region's leading entrepreneurs gave up their time freely to help you to drive it forward.
Imagine how much easier and quicker it would be to solve problems and capitalise on opportunities if you could tap into the experience and expertise of over 3000 other business leaders and professionals across the UK.
And imagine how much more profitable your business would be if you were supported in all of this by some of the world's leading business thinkers and writers.
Well, now at last you can do all of this and much, much more.
As members of the AVN we run a completely new type of executive forum for business leaders. Called the Business Builder Forum (BBF) it makes it possible for you to:
- meet and network with many of the region's most successful entrepreneurs
- learn their success secrets - and use them to make your business more successful
- discover practical solutions to business problems
- build up an encyclopaedia of practical business growth tools and resources
- create an action plan for building your business profitably
The BBF is a self-help group for forward thinking business leaders. So, rather than bringing in expensive outside business gurus, the BBF makes the most of the best consultants in the world for your business... YOU, and other business leaders just like you.
People who:
- Really understand what business is about.
- Have faced and overcome every challenge in the book.
- Get results and make things happen.
And, most importantly,
- Are willing to get together for two hours every month to share ideas and insights to help each other become even more successful. (Don't worry, though, you'll never have to do anything uncomfortable like making a speech - since that's not how the forum works).
Facilitated by our team of business coaches, who use their experience and insights to kick-start proceedings, each BBF workshop will address the issues that you tell us are most important to the success of your business.
And remember - the BBF is not a networking group (although opportunities to network naturally present themselves) - it is a pro-active, highly structured forum for driving businesses forward.
For information on future workshop topics and how to join BBF, please contact us.
Business Planning
Every business must plan ahead in order to ensure success, but it is too easy to succumb to the daily pressures of work and delay or ignore strategic planning. The result of poor planning is often rushed and misinformed decisions, over/under capacity, inefficiency and missed opportunities.
Every business owner needs to invest time in developing a long-term plan, starting with what you want to achieve from your investment and what your reasons for being in business are, and then developing a plan to help achieve these objectives.
A business plan must, above all, be used as an integral part of the management process, which is not easy given some of the cumbersome plans that we have seen in the past! Our One Page Business Plan™ ensures that focus is maintained on what really matters in your business by identifying those areas that need to be managed especially well and, surprisingly, it's often the non financial areas that really count.
We are well placed to help you develop a business plan and have a considerable pool of experience and expertise to draw upon, including our specialist business development department – Priory Consulting
One of our key objectives is to help our clients increase the value of their business. Each year we can carry out a valuation of your business using software developed by the Added Value Network.
We will produce a detailed report showing the current value of the business and ideas on how you can maximise its worth.
Simple Stuff That Works (SSTW)
Simple Stuff That Works – SSTW for short - is a revolutionary PC-based tool to help owner-managed businesses. A tool that ‘AVN the accountants’ have co-funded and co-developed with the aim of transforming owner-managed businesses throughout the UK…
Paul Shrimpling AVN's Sales and Marketing Director says “Simple Stuff That Works simply acts as a catalyst by exposing owner-managed businesses to tried, tested and proven ideas from other business people who like them are dealing with the day to day hassles of running their own business". Imagine owner-managed businesses waking up in the next few days and finding SSTW on their business doormat. It potentially opens up endless potential for business growth that not only helps them, their business but also helps fuel the UK economy. And this is just the start!
- Imagine being able to quiz dozens and dozens of successful business owners on what they actually did to make their business grow and to make their business successful
- Imagine them telling you personally what they did, how they did it and what results it generated.
- Imagine recording your thoughts and actions in such a way that you were then able to apply their practical, proven insights and ideas to your business so that you could enjoy similar success?
- And imagine that for each strategy that you discover, SSTW will calculate the potential financial impact for your business based upon your own assessment of how powerful that strategy will be for your business." Well that’s what SSTW could do for you. Worth investigating don’t you think?
Available FREE for a limited time only – AVN members are making SSTW Module 01 available FREE to a limited number of businesses. It is expected that in the coming weeks up to £4million worth of SSTW will be made available to UK owner managed businesses all over the UK absolutely free.
To request your FREE copy of SSTW Module 01 – "Turn Your Business Potential Into Reality" e-mail regn@the-priory.co.uk.
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