You can contact CB4B at:

 

Cumbria Business for Business Ltd,
17 Spinners Yard,
Fisher Street,
Carlisle,
Cumbria,
CA3 8RE

 

Telephone: 01228 527333
Fax: 01228 520915
Email: info@cumbriabusinessforbusiness.co.uk

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Relinear logoRelinear Ltd can boast one of the most experienced and effective online design and marketing teams in the county.

Web: relinear.com
Email: info@relinear.com

 

Adcroft Hilton logoIf your business is facing financial troubles, it is essential that you act quickly. Adcroft Hilton has over 20 years experience of guiding organisations through difficult times. Their friendly team have the understanding and expertise to get the best possible outcome for your business whilst easing pressure on you.

You’re not alone, bad debts, market slow down, lack of financial planning, famine, plague, flood the statistics offer hundreds of reasons why businesses go through financial hardship. The one thing that they all have in common is the immense pressure they place on the individuals responsible for running the business.

We can help, with a pedigree stemming back nearly a century; Adcroft Hilton is a highly respected Insolvency Practitioner and has a wealth of experience in the rescue and recovery field. Our advisors are professional and approachable, experienced and understanding and stay focussed on the solutions, not the problems.

Sooner rather than later, with a little help, many under performing businesses could be rescued if their directors had faced up to the situation sooner and acknowledged the need for intervention.

You can start addressing these issues and reducing the burden immediately with a free consultation from a member of the Adcroft Hilton team. They will work with you to gain a thorough understanding of your situation, explaining your options in plain English and staying focussed on what’s best for your business.

Telephone 0845 345 0399
Email recover@adcrofthilton.co.uk
Web www.adcrofthilton.co.uk

Showing Off logoShowing Off Ltd is a marketing consultancy based in the North West. We help you achieve your business goals better and faster, by allowing you to focus on your core business and benefit from our expertise as Chartered Marketers.

This includes:
Making You More Money, like we did for Whoop Hall: “We have been fully booked since last Friday (100% occupancy all week!!!) Could have done with 20 more bedrooms this week - could have sold them all!”
Saving You Money, like we did for AWOL Recruitment: “WOW, what a strategy. You have cut our spending by one third compared with last year and in fact halved it from the year before. Most of all, you have taken this task away from me, which leaves me free to concentrate on other areas of the business.”
Achieving Better Returns, like we did for Link Up: “After only one day working together, you achieved a prominent second page advert in the Blackpool press, a “20 questions” piece in the Guardian business page and even gained me a slot live on the BBC!”

What’s more, our advice is available free of charge through our blog and our monthly two-hour free seminars.

Telephone 0845 869 4766
Email enquiries@showingoff.net

Showing Off logoBased in Carlisle, Marylou Booth has been managing and training staff for over fifteen years. The courses, which are highly interactive, are designed to improve communication, effectiveness at work and ultimately business results.

As an independent trainer, Marylou is able to offer a professional, flexible, cost effective approach with both standard and tailored made courses delivered at times to suit the needs of the business.

Courses include:

  • What is management?
  • Motivating your workforce
  • Presentation Skills
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Team building
  • Time management
  • Planning and delegation
  • Recruitment and selection
  • Communication
  • Managing change
  • Appraisals
  • Assertiveness
  • Letter, report and written communication skills
  • Making meetings work
  • Customer care skills
  • Handling complaints
  • Successful telephone techniques
  • Handling difficult people and situations
  • Basic and advanced sales skills
  • Writing effective sales letters

Telephone 01228 511485
Email enquiries@trainingworksuk.co.uk
Web www.trainingworksuk.co.uk

Kaveney HR logoKaveney HR Solutions Limited offers a comprehensive,
quality HR Solution – whatever size your business.

Founded in 2008 by, Kaveney HR Solutions will work with you and your business to ensure you are compliant with current legislation and are kept aware of emerging legislation.

We will provide you with practical information in an easy to understand style — relevant for you and your staff. We can help you on the whole business journey from employing your first member of staff to exiting people from the organisation.

Unparalleled Human Resources expertise.

  • General HR advice and guidance
  • Policy development and revision – best practice and relevant for your  
    business
  • Making sure you comply with current employment legislation
  • Recruitment and selection – from advert design to interviews
  • Personality Profiling and Psychometric Testing using Thomas International 
     - www.thomasinternational.net 
     - More about Thomas International and Psychometric testing
  • Assisting with specific casework – for example: grievances, disciplinaries, investigations, redundancies, attendance management, bullying and harassment, staff satisfaction surveys, appraisals, retirements, transfers under TUPE, business closures.
  • Supporting you and your line managers in implementing your policies

Tel: 01228 537153
Mob: 07917 273884
www.kaveney-hr.co.uk

Capita Symonds logois one of the UK’s largest multifaceted consultancies, delivering property and infrastructure projects on a local, national and international scale.

We have over 4,500 staff at 63 offices in the UK and internationally, offering a vast range of professional and technical expertise across an unrivalled number of services. The enormous breadth and depth of our experience ensures that we are able to add value to any project, regardless of its size, complexity or sector.

We do much more than simply delivering projects. We focus on being a strategic partner with our clients - delivering a comprehensive service across their portfolio and optimising the benefits of continuous improvement in efficiency, cost reduction and knowledge retention. We support them at all stages of a project or programme, and our understanding of the key risks and challenges means that we direct effort where it is most needed.

We are a wholly-owned division of The Capita Group Plc, a FTSE 100 member and the UK’s leading provider of integrated professional support service solutions.

Creative Capital logoCreative Capital is not just our name. It is our mission. We provide short term cash flow assistance and solutions for small to medium sized businesses by purchasing invoices at a discount and thereby assisting their growth and expansion.

Flexibility & Innovation
As a direct provider, we take a fresh approach to our clients needs, treating each on its own merits and in so doing provide a prompt, personalized service. Through local decision making, we are not bound by strict rules and regulations that are set in policies of other lenders. We are therefore able to operate quickly and efficiently and enabled to offer particular aspects that our competitors don’t.

Discover the Value of Independence
With credit constraints throughout the economy the demand for short term funding has never been greater. Small and medium sized firms continue to be among the most affected and lead the charge in seeking alternative and innovative short term funding solutions to ever increasing cash flow constraints.

Creative Capital was established specifically to assist these businesses and help them to grow by improving their cash flow position and increasing the amount of working capital available to them.

We offer a streamlined process and direct access to decision makers, giving you prompt access to funds.

Harvey Peters Business Consultants is a consultancy based in the north of England. Our business philosophy is to help our client's, throughout the UK, to grow their wealth through three key areas.

  • Business Development
  • Wealth Development
  • Wealth Retention

Our business philosophy is very simple — the customer always comes first.

That does not necessarily mean that the client is always right. We believe in a robust client relationship and we will always tell you if we believe something is wrong.

We have strong ethical values — a given you might think as we work with clients to create wealth. However, all too often, we come across businesses that are only interested in the quick fix. We believe that to develop a sustainable business which builds and retains wealth for clients, that you have to take a longer view.

In short, we work to the highest standards — both professional and ethical — and all of our clients subscribe to that view as well.

Where you are looking to acquire premises for your business, purchase property as an investment or develop a property we can source funding packages for you through a varied network of lenders. We can assist with new funding requirements, refinance packages and restructuring of borrowing. We look at your requirements, recommend a suitable funding structure and deal direct with the lenders on your behalf allowing you to concentrate on your business.

The range of funding we can source include:-
- Start up finance
- Commercial mortgages for purchase of premises or property for investment
- Refinance for commercial or investment property
- Development finance
- Bridging finance

Whatever sector your business operates in we have lenders who are able to provide funding

The Franchise Team logoWe offer a comprehensive service to companies that are looking to grow dynamically by Franchising Your Business.

We also work with organisations that have started their franchise business and now want to take it forward to the next level.

The emphasis in all we do is on Teamwork - building a successful business where everyone involved shares in the success that we have jointly created.

We aim to become the outsourced franchise department for your business leaving you to concentrate on running the core business. That does not mean that you will not be in control of your franchise's destiny. Quite the contrary - but we do tackle all the time consuming jobs that need to be done to make a successful franchise.

The Franchise Team was founded with one simple aim — to promote:

The Partnership Approach to Building Successful and Ethical Franchises into World Class Brands

We aim to become the outsourced franchise department for your business leaving you to concentrate on running the core business but still remain the driving force behind the franchise system we create together.

The Franchise Team works with only a limited number of clients in any given year.

We only want to work with clients who have something different to offer the world and who share our vision of expanding their business by helping others to share in success. We are dedicated to long-term relationships with increasingly successful clients.

www.franchiseteam.co.uk