Athwal Resourcing helps business owners like you to grow your businesses by formulating clear business strategies and plan talent management strategies, to ensure your business thrives. I, Devya Athwal, am the founding director of Athwal Resourcing, a finance recruitment and coaching business for the past 9 years. How can I help you? As an entrepreneur, I know first-hand the plight of growing businesses, wearing so many hats especially in these testing times. We help with Business Strategy and business development to ensure you and your business are on the right growth path. We provide guidance on the latest recruitment strategies to attract, recruit and onboard the best. With over 20 years’ experience, I have facilitated businesses' growth by recruiting finance talent and staff. It can be a really lonely existence as a business owner, we offer a sounding board and a series of mentoring or coaching sessions on a one to one basis to business owners to help clarify business issues and to think big and be more confident. The coaching programme can also be used to help motivate and keep your A-team. With finances being critical, as a qualified Accountant, we can provide sound finance advice and tools to understand the finances of your business. My aim is to grow you and ensure your business thrives

From counting the money in my mother’s purse as a child, to working in the school bank, and helping to run the school tuck shop in high school, I have always been passionate about, and wanting to work in finance. I left school, and started my career on an employed YTS scheme for a very large PLC, where I worked my way through the various departments, gaining experi-ence, starting from purchase ledger, through to management accounts, mean-while studying for my qualifications. Since qualifying as an accountant in 2001, I have worked for companies in differ-ent industries, gaining a vast amount of experience, including annual accounts, budgets, system implementation, monthly management accounts, setting up and monitoring cash flow spreadsheets, payroll and Vat returns, to name but a few. My strengths lie, in problem solving, being analytical, mentoring, improving pro-cesses, procedures, and in turn efficiencies. I now run my own accountancy practice, where my aim is to work with, and support small businesses, by providing accountancy services in a friendly approachable way.

Pathcreating Ltd. delivers value to clients through listening carefully to their goals and challenges. I am the lead passionate business consultant and empowers clients to take the next steps in their businesses through exploring development options for the business, widening their repertoire of possible business behaviours. Solutions are intelligence based, on recent market and industry insights and my experience with businesses in their sector. I have 15 years of experience working mainly with micro- and small businesses, and as a former Business Link adviser also worked with medium sized businesses directly. I have a wide skills set covering strategy and business planning, financial planning and management, start-up finance, marketing strategy, innovation and new service / product development, bringing new products to market, legal forms for business set up and development, social enterprise. My specialism is in business set up and modelling and making business operations and market positioning more sustainable, in financial, social and environmental ways. I have worked with all types of service sector businesses, creative entrepreneurs, and manufacturing businesses. I apply mentoring/coaching skills when needed and draw on many business examples I worked with. I am Black Country based, and have worked across the UK.

I am an experienced member of the Association of Business Mentors. I have supported scores of Businesses of differing sizes and sectors with specialised knowledge in Face to Face Sales. I am approachable and take the time to listen to your issues before helping you to prioritise them and overcome them with a proven methodology implemented with empathy and understanding. I have been self-employed for 17 years, love working for myself but with a team of other connectors and I am motivated by a genuine passion for helping others

I began my first business on my parent’s kitchen table in 2004 at the age of 12, 8 years later I was exporting to 17 countries around the world. Since 2008 I have been a consultant to both the public and private sector internationally. I have worked with some of the world’s largest organizations including PWC, Deloitte and Ernst & Young. I work with a wide variety of SME businesses across 30+ industry sectors.

Natalie Macaulay is the Managing Director of JCM Contracts (Midlands) Limited Director of Woodnook Limited. She specializes in investment for SMEs with owner occupiers wishing to exit but who lack a viable exit strategy. As part of her work as an investor Natalie builds on a 25 year career in human capital consulting and leadership advisory services. In addition to investing she also advises businesses looking to improve their leadership and governance practices and provides business turnaround insight as well. Professional Experience Natalie has 25 years of consulting experience in leadership development and advisory services. She served as Partner and U.K. Managing Director at a boutique consulting company focused on leadership and talent development. While there, she divided her time between Canada and the UK. Other experience includes senior HR advisory roles for Shell Canada, Vodafone, News International, ABN AMRO and Bass Brewers. Additionally, Natalie served as a Lieutenant in the British Royal Navy where she worked as part of a ship-based leadership team. Education Natalie received her B.Sc. in Geological Oceanography from the University of Wales; graduated from the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, where she received the Queen’s Binoculars, and received her M.Sc. in Human Resources from Portsmouth Business School in the UK. Professional Affiliation Natalie has served on the National Board of the Strategic Capability Network, a membership-based organization founded in 1979 for business leaders. She has been recognized as CHRP (Canada) and CIPD (UK) and is trained and certified in a number of leadership and assessment psychometric tools. Natalie recently featured as part of a KPMG book called “That’ll Never Work” featuring entrepreneurial leaders and also contributed to the book, “Contemporary Themes in Strategic People Management” published by Palgrave MacMillan.

Paul Jenkinson, MBA, spent 20 years in industry in FTSE 200 building product and utility PLCs in a variety of line management and group strategic planning roles. He then moved into working with SMEs for the next fifteen years. Paul is an expert at strategy and business planning and at investment readiness and fund raising. He has worked for Beer & Partners (Uk’s first angel network), Connect Midlands which was part of Warwick University, running investment readiness programmes and over the last few years as an independent Non Executive Director, investor and consultant. He has invested in eleven SMEs to date. Paul is also interested in Board governance and performance and works with several Boards and Directors in a mentoring capacity. He holds a Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors.

Sally is a retail specialist supporting independent high street shops and businesses, who she believes have a strong role to play in the revival of our town centres. With over 25 years’ experience in the retail sector including 10 years’ project management she now works with a variety of business owners from start-up’s to well established businesses, supporting them with a wide range of services. With a blend of mentoring, coaching, and training she works on areas across the business including: planning, sales analysis, target setting, business vision and strategy, brand development, customer communication, marketing strategies, customer service, shop layout, visual merchandising and more. Sally has produced and delivered a Retail Development Programme for various Councils which involves workshops and 1:1 support for independent retailers. She is also a certified Women’s Coach with One of many™; supporting women with personal growth to make the impact they want through leadership in their personal life and in business. Based in Willenhall, West Midlands but works UK wide.

From our fully-equipped home office/studio in the heart of the Black Country, 58 communications is here to help you raise your brand and increase engagement with customers, prospects and the general public. Steve produces unique and creative video content for websites and social media, and dynamic video adverts for broadcast on local TV. Stella supports clients with their wider marketing needs including strategy, planning, copywriting, content writing, email marketing, social media and PR.

Taruna is the Director of T Chauhan Consultancy . Her work involves supporting businesses in the healthcare and social care sector who undertake a regulated activity with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). She started her business because she saw time and again through personal experience how lack of processes and continuous improvement meant those receiving a regulated activity were not getting person centred care, she wanted to change that. To support New Providers in both the Health and Care Sector Taruna has published Outstanding a Leaders Guide to Effective CQC Registration. The book has been shortlisted in the Business Book Awards 2020. In 2019 She was a Finalist of the Woman Who Solopreneur award. She has been featured in the Costco Magazine in their Leading Ladies feature the strength of female entrepreneurs in 2018.

Avonmead is an established Chartered Certified Accountancy Practice with offices in the west midlands. We offer a range of Accountants services such as bookkeeping, tax, cloud accounting, back-office outsourcing, management reporting and business plans to clients in the UK. By placing technology and efficiency at the forefront of our service offering, we support start-ups, established businesses, freelancers, individuals and contractors.

Ajay is a Google Certified professional with over 15 years of solid digital marketing experience, helping businesses generate more customers, leads and sales. Ajay’s expertise are within the following areas: • Google Ads – Developing Paid Search campaigns for Businesses • SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) • Facebook Ads / Creating Funnels to generate Leads • Building Strategic business development plans • LinkedIn Lead Generation • Auditing existing marketing • Building Websites • Training / Mentoring individuals and companies to learn digital marketing With Ajay experience, he is a straight talker, and is very transparent with his strategies and advice he provides. He runs his own YouTube channel and Podcast, as well as running several digital marketing businesses. Get in touch with Ajay using the details below for a strategy call, to see how he can help with your business growth and advise on marketing strategies he can help you implement

We are an independent FCA Authorised Commercial Finance Consultancy based in the heart of the Midlands; Specialising in arranging finance for SME’s offering an affordable corporate finance approach to the SME market. We have over 70 years collective experience in securing all types of commercial finance for all types of businesses. The combined experience of the team means that Central offers something that isn’t currently on the market..... REAL access to finance. Over the last 10 years we have helped upwards of 5000 businesses to access finance to improve growth. Creating thousands of jobs along the way.

Andrew is an ex Big 4 Chartered Accountant - 20+ year’s with EY & KPMG. Since 2008 he has advised SME's, developing them into better companies and their owners into better managers. He identifies long-term objectives and works alongside clients to achieve them. “Start with the end in mind”. This work is supported with his input as part time FD improving reporting and understanding; monthly accounts, KPIs and cash flow. Clients range from £0.5m to £10m. Advice is bespoke and results tangible.

We believe that having great HR in the workplace is essential to help your business grow. Here at The HR Dept (North Birmingham and Black Country), we have been working closely with SMEs during the COVID-19 pandemic and continue to provide urgent support to many businesses through this unprecedented time of change. Our core focus recently has involved supporting businesses through the many rules and updates to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, providing advice and guidance to many teams on embracing a new way of working remotely, restructuring organisations and unfortunately supporting with redundancy processes. Our team provides affordable outsourced HR advice, tailored to your business needs. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss some HR support for your business.

COVID-19 has hit us all hard. Our way of life changed overnight - and our people have been rocked to the core. Never has resilience been more important, to be equal to whatever comes our way. And I am passionate about helping leaders build resilience in themselves, their teams and organisations. Just a few shifts in our perspective can be transformational to your team’s engagement and motivation. And far from being touchy feely, it makes hard commercial sense to develop these skills. The latest global Gallup survey showed that engaged teams result in an increase in profitability of 21%.

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Do you need an affordable website for your business? Whether you’re a start-up, small local business or tradesperson, we can help. Our professional bespoke ‘Pay Monthly’ websites offer a simple, fully-managed solution for growing your brand online. We’ll build it. We’ll host it. We’ll manage it. You’ll love it. And all from only £29 per month.