Our Services

Despite living in a digital multimedia world, there is still no substitute for face-to-face contact. A good selection of resources are available online from the public and private sectors, but people want the opportunity to talk face-to-face with a trusted professional.

Suffolk Enterprise Business Support goes further and offers personal one-to-one support - at locations and times of your choice and convenience.

When you're an owner/proprietor/director setting up or running a "micro-enterprise" - one with less than 10 full-time employees - you can't be an expert in all business matters. Whether you're struggling or successful, there will be strains. To relieve the sress, why not call in someone who's "been there, done that, got the T-shirt" to provide a short burst of "rocket fuel" to help you out? Someone who'll come to you, when it suits you and talk through the issues and challenges and help you begin to see, plan and implement a way forward?

With over 30 years of business expertise and experience, ranging from small start-ups to global corporates, and potentially with additional associates, I offer specialist buiness support in:

Suffolk Enterprise Business Support  aims to be responsive, friendly, understanding, helpful and inexpensive.

An indication of our professional fees can be found on the Contact Us page, but some of our support is delivered to Suffolk social enterprises free or with third-party funding to deliver free to beneficiaries:

A Marketing Research report covering a communith survey of 5,500 households and business premises in the postal code are of IP17 was completed by Suffolk Enterprise Business Support for The Saxmundham & District Community Interest Company - at no charge.  A copy of the full report can be found by clicking here.

Suffolk Enterprise Business Support supported The Big Lottery Fund who put together a a one day workshop to help enterprises, who are coming to the end of their Lottery funding, plan for their long-term funding future and the sustainability of their projects and organisation. The day covered such topics as business planning for organisations, social enterprise in practice and commissioning and contracts. Don Tricker, PASTEL CEO, led the workshop on "Becoming a Community Interest Company (CIC)."

Through the Supplier Brokerage Service, Suffolk Enterprise Business Support are approved by Business Link as an external solutions provider to deliver free support services via their "Social Enterprise Business Support Grant" for one to one advice to social enterprises.

Only consultants or training providers registered on the Business Link˜Supplier Brokerage Service", such as Suffolk Enterprise Business Support, may be used under this scheme.

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?