Financial Services

PPS Accountants

Legal Services

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PPS Accountants specialize in helping small businesses reduce the time required to undertake accounting processes accurately, enabling owners to confidently focus on other areas of their operations. In addition, PPS Accountants can use their expert knowledge of accounting legislation to minimise client tax liabilities and maximise tax benefits. This can include supplementary pages for other types of applicable income. Download a brochure for more information.

Bishop Fleming Chartered Accountants

Bishop Fleming have extensive experience supporting ambitious food and drink manufacturers, gained through working with a diverse range of businesses across the sector. They provide a comprehensive suite of accountancy services including, financial management, audit compliance, tax planning, restructuring and advisory needs.

Potter Clarkson

Potter Clarkson helps you creates value from your food or drink innovation. As consultants and experts in intellectual property (IP) law, they can assist you understand, create, protect and defend the commercial value of your innovations anywhere in the world. This includes patents, trademarks, design, litigation and licencing.

Roythornes Solicitors

Roythornes have been providing legal support to the food and drink community for over 60 years, advising fresh and chilled food businesses and helping them achieve profitable relationships with their supermarket clients. Roythornes understand the industry pressures and go beyond providing pure legal advice by sharing their expertise.

Insurance

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South West
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London, Nottingham, Scandinavia

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NFU Mutual

NFU provide insurance to SME Manufacturing enterprises that protect the business, employees and business assets.

There policy includes standard covers suited to manufacturers and wholesalers, but it’s also flexible so you can choose optional covers to meet your business needs now and in the future

Beyondly

Beyondly is a B Corp environmental consultancy that has our planet at the heart of what they do. A values-driven organization, they assist businesses to become more confident about their environmental choices. Services include support with compliance obligations, identifying ways to contribute to the circular economy, and going beyond net zero. Use this link to find out more about Beyondly.

Business Skills Consultancy

East Anglia,
East Midlands

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Somerset

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UK wide

Wingfield Consultants. Ltd

Founder Simon Wingfield combines a passion for working with food and drink SMEs with over 30 years’ experience working for FMCG corporates including Sainsbury’s and Tesco. Wingfield Consultancy can provide a wide range of business support services including; strategy and planning, category management, procurement, supply chain management, routes-to-market and product launches. Wingfield can also provide individual mentoring to founders and members of their leadership teams.

The Hive - start up support

The Hive specializes in providing early-stage businesses with free* or low-cost impartial business advice and training from qualified advisors. In addition, they provide rentable office space and meeting rooms and a thriving business start-up and professional community.

*For residence of North Somerset Council

Environmental Consultancy

Software & Business Management Solutions

SouqBox

SouqBox provide a tool box for B2B companies to digitise everything from sales & operations to supply chain management. Their manufacturers M-hub provides an end to end digitised solution that enables you to rationalize and consolidate information to drive efficiency across your business management functions.

Use this link to read more about SouqBox.

Novecom Digital

Combining hardware, commodity software and automation, Novecom Digital offers early stage food producers the chance to streamline inventory, order processing, compliance, and data analysis. By reducing manual errors, improving food safety, and enhancing the customer experience, automation provides a solid foundation for growth and success in a competitive market. Use this link to read more about Novecom Digital.

NotaZone

NotaZone provides a flexible solution for managing traceability, food safety, input materials, and inventory for food producers of all sizes. As a paperless service platform, it allows you to upload, update, trace, and access your information, from anywhere, at any time. It has been specifically designed for food producers and provides unparalleled customization. Notazone integrates with over 35 of the most widely used digital platforms and services including Zero, Sage, Square Space,  Amazon and Shopify. Use this link to read more about Notazone.

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Marketing, Merchandising & Sales

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Cardiff
UK wide

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Leicestershire,
UK wide

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Whiltshire,
UK wide

Tidy

The team at Tidy graphic design studio have extensive experience working with challenger food and drinks brands, helping to develop the brand and its visual identify, on pack and across all consumer touch point.

Metric Connect

Metric Connect digital marketing agency specialise in providing social media management services including content creation, Facebook ads, influencer marketing and sales funnel management. They are accredited Google and Meta business partners and have mission to provide data driven excellent ROI.

Right Product Right Place

Catching the eye of potential customers – whether they will be the end-user of your product or a retailer that stocks your product – it’s critical to building your brand, ensuring sales, and therefore business success. Founder Judy Roberts can help you with tips and tricks to elevate your display skills; giving you the ability to quickly put together the most effective layout for market stalls or showcase opportunities, wherever they occur, and however much (or little) space you have to work with. Contact Judy via the website for a free chat.

HR, Learning and Development

Blossom HR

Managing people – keeping them happy, challenged, protected, and rewarded is a critical success factor for any business. However, most business owners are not fully aware of their legal responsibilities as an employer. Good people management is time-consuming, and many small businesses struggle to afford full-time HR support to do it effectively, and efficiently, and following employment law. People Management specialists, Blossom HR provide support on an ad-hoc or retained basis. Use this link to find out more.

Thrive

Thrive Learning Management Systems provide a one-stop e-learning solution complete with sector specific courses, expertly crafted learning pathways and a service that effortlessly fills your content gaps. The platform contains thousands of uniquely designed resources covering valuable topics such as health & safety, leadership, communication, information security, mental wellness, compliance and beyond.

The School of Artisan Food

The School of Artisan Foods provide short and degree level courses on a wide range of artisan food related subjects from hands-on making to the business of creating and running a successful food enterprise, with many options in between. Subjects include baking, patisserie, cheesemaking, butchery, charcuterie, pie making, preserves and pickling, foraging, fermenting, ice-cream making, business start-up, micro-bakery, and sessions on therapeutic baking.

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Nottinghamshire

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