|
 We
help businesses to plan development at both start-up and growth stages.
Our work is diverse, for example including:
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feasibility studies for new collaborative enterprises such as distribution co-operatives |
| | | development
advice for social enterprises and community-based projects | | | | enabling
supply chain connections and facilitating new supply contracts |
| | | audits
and business plans for producers and other supply chain businesses |  Our
inputs range from one day surgeries, to long-term hand-holding. Some new packages
we offer include:
| | | SFX
- a five-part process to assist organisations in achieving more sustainable practice
in catering and other food-related activity | | | | Hands
on help for start-ups and growth businesses to create professional accounting
and company management systems | | | | Fund
management - help for CDFIs and other funding bodies to identify, filter and provide
business help to hard-to-fund food enterprises. |
Here’s what one client said of us:
| | 'following
your work we're clearer about our values, objectives and options, as well as getting
loads of practical advice'
new co-opertaive venture | Simon
Michaels, a director of f3, is listed on the National Business Link Consultants
Register. This means that initial specialist consultancy obtained through a Business
Link organisation can in places be offered without cost to the client. Often,
our work can be subsidised or paid for partly by the funding we help generate.
See a summary of
some of our work in this area.
Contact Simon Michaels
to discuss your needs further, on 0845 458 0060. | 
