About Us.

As a retired business executive, with little interest in golf or gardening, I have become a social entrepreneur looking to help others.especially other social enterprises.

I'm a business graduate who has worked in a succession of research, product development, sales, marketing and general management positions. This work was mainly in in hi-tec business organisations e.g. Rank Xerox IHQ, The Medishield Corporation, British Olivetti, Thorn Ericsson, and BT. Most of my work focussed on innovation and “ Greenfield ” operations - researching and setting up new departments and new businesses, as well as managing change and rescuing a small subsidiary going into the red.

 

After retiring, I co-founded a business consultancy and was commissioned by the likes of Business Link and the Learning & Skills Council, in Surrey, and e-Skills UK to conduct research, training and website development projects. Unfortunately, following my family move from Surrety to Suffolk and the inability to maintain local contact with clients, the consultancy was wound down.

 

For the period 1991-2007 I was also an elected member for a Borough Council (Epsom & Ewell) and then a Town Council (Saxmundham).

Before retiring, , I had been a full member of the Chartered Intsitute of Marketing and the Market Research Society and, today, remain an associate member of the Institute of Learning.

 

Now, having moved to Suffolk, I can be your principal local support contact and, if necessary, I can bring in associates for extra expertise or skills. Based in Saxmundham - the "strategic hub of East Suffolk" - I have ready and easy access up and down the A12, A!4 and the rural hinterland.

Suffolk Enterprise Business Support will remain small and flexible - offering a rapid response, with low overheads and providing an inexpensive resource. 

Suffolk Enterprise Business Support is your local one-to-one business support resource.

I come to you - all of Suffolk, most of Norfolk and north-east Essex.

The initial consultation – to understand your issues – is free. So contact us now – you have nothing to lose and possibly a great deal to gain!

In the last 5 years, in Suffolk, I have personally been a founding director or chair of the following social enterprises

 

I'm also the vice-chair of the Social Enterprise Netwok Suffolk - the trade association for social enterprises in Suffolk - and personally set up SAXCOM to support, free-of-charge, local community and voluntary groups and social enterprises.

And now, to consolidate my local support activities, I have formed Suffolk Enterprise Business Support.

In 2009, because of my experience forming Community Interest Companies, I was invited to lead a Big Lottery fund workshop on "Becoming a CIC" and this was followed by being invited to become a member of Suffolk's Economic Prosperity Delivery Partnership Board (within the Suffolk Strategic Partnership).