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Category: Planning

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Growing a Nursery Business: The Financial Considerations of Expansion

When a nursery reaches full capacity and starts turning families away, it’s both a fantastic achievement and a major business challenge. Do you stop growing and maintain what you have? Or do you expand to meet demand? This is exactly the situation one of my nursery clients found themselves in recently. Just two years after…
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Navigating 2025: Key Considerations for Businesses in the Care Sector

Happy New Year! As we step into 2025, it’s a great time to pause and reflect on the challenges and opportunities ahead for those of us operating in the care sector. Whether you run a fostering agency, a nursery, a care home, mental health support or indeed any another business supporting vulnerable individuals, the start…
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Embracing Technology in Care: A New Era for Foster Agencies, Child Nurseries, and Care Homes

Today, I’m diving into the exciting world of technology in the care sector. If you’re running a foster agency, child nursery, or care home, let’s explore how tech, especially Artificial Intelligence (AI), can make your life easier and, most importantly, improve the care you provide. The Rise of Digital Tools in Care Gone are the…
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Strategies for Implementing Cost-Control Measures in Care Businesses Without Compromising Quality

In the care industry, where margins can often be tight and the focus on quality care is paramount, finding ways to control costs without compromising the quality of service is a critical challenge. This blog post will delve into effective cost-control strategies that care businesses can implement to ensure financial health while maintaining, or even…
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Nurturing Finances: A supporting hand for Care-Centric Businesses

Are you running a children’s nursery, fostering agency, care home, or any business that focuses on caring for others? Do you remember when you were learning to ride a bike ? When that person teaching you gently placed their hand on your back to save you from falling and helping you with your balance ?…
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What is a VFO?

A VFO or Virtual Finance Office / Officer, is a service offered by an acountant where they bring the experience and expertise of a high-level Chief Finance Officer and finance suoort to your business – without the cost of hiring a full-time, in-house employee. It is a specialty provided to small and medium businesses and…
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Growth hacks for your small business

Deciding on an online marketing plan can be overwhelming for small business owners looking for affordable ways to nurture steady, sustainable growth. With time in short supply, the key is to find one or two growth strategies that will get results at minimal cost. These proven growth hacks offer business owners a few simple, cost-effective…
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Our Business Planning service

Setting goals & implementing strategies for achieving them is an important step towards unlocking business potential. If you don’t have a #BusinessPlan which you update quarterly and refer to weekly, get in touch to develop one now! Success is about planning; we want to help you achieve success. It’s essential to take time out from…
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Why local may be better than remote

As a business owner, choosing the right accountant is an important decision. While there are many remote accountants available to work with you, there are also many benefits to working with a local accountant. In this blog post, we’ll explore some of the key benefits of working with a local accountant and how it can…
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Grow your numbers – Activities and KPIs

What on earth is a KPI and why are KPIs important to your business? A KPI (Key Performance Indicator) is a result that can be used to measure the effectiveness of different activities in your business. Put another way, if you want to define what success looks like from your business activities, employees, or projects,…
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