Our Business Support and Advisory activities exist to help small and medium sized businesses with any and all of the issues that beset them.
Running a small business is very tough and for the owner can be extremely lonely and stressful. You may be full of energy, technically adept and have a great product or service.... but the sheer weight of bureaucracy facing you, as well as all the people problems and the difficulties of fighting competition, and keeping customers loyal can be an immense burden. Sometimes it seems like you have the world on your shoulders!
We help you by:
Agreeing a plan of action and addressing the most important tasks – the ones where an improvement will make the most difference to the business.
We have access to skilled personnel in every area of business and make them available when they are needed.
Assisting you to manage compliance issues such as Health and Safety and Employment so they become a part of the regular business cycle rather than crises erupting when least expected
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Providing assistance as required with managing and improving cash flow and profitability.
So what do you get when using Ashcroft?
• Access to specialist skills
- Marketing, Financial Analysis, Funding, Health & Safety, Personal Taxation, Human Resources ….through a network of Advisers
• An objective Business Adviser
- Professional ,with qualifications and experience
- Works to a Code of Ethics
- Not allied to the past or other personnel: will be objective
- Practical Advice that Works
• Advice line during office hours or more
- Discussion is not usually charged. Can be any legitimate topic.
- Answers immediately or within a couple of days.
- Can save money consulting other charging professionals
• No long contracts. (And no long reports!)
- We can be fired from Business Support activities with 24 hours notice. Little risk for Business Owner
- We don’t do bureaucracy: e-mails replace reports and we rarely do proposals that run to more than 2 pages.
*Source Manchester Group Inc
“At Ashcroft, we appreciate that security and appropriate handling of data are very important whether they are client data or our own corporate data. All “ personal date” ( as defined by the legislation) are processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Part of our compliance is registration of the purposes for which we process data with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) – the “Notification”. This notification is available on the Public Register of Data Controllers at www.ico.gov.uk
We may share data with third parties as part of our contracted services and/or if we are required to do so by UK law. These “third parties” may include - but are not restricted to – other business professionals offering associated services. However, we cannot accept any liability for any processing conducted outside our remit.
None of the above affects your rights of access under the legislation. If you wish to request a copy of the personal date we may hold on you, please write to the address shown on the Contact Us page of this website. E-mail requests direct to the company are acceptable. Please note the company may charge a £10.00 administration fee for this service, which is payable in Advance and non-refundable.”
