How we help - our business growth consultancy services

Flexible Finance Directors

Clients use our finance director services anywhere from a few hours to 15 days per month as they need.

Planning your business's growth

• Business growth strategies
• Strategic business planning
• Forecasting and budgeting

Helping you get the investment you need to grow your business

• Bank lending
• Business Angels
• Venture Capital fundraising
• Preparing for IPO

Managing business growth

• Assessing and managing the finance team, and growing it if necessary
• Managing cashflow
• Implementing a finance system
• Reviewing your monthly reporting and making recommendations to help you focus on the key metrics which really matter
• Providing a strategic finance view of your business
• Reviewing procedures and controls in your business
• Analysing performance and recommending actions for improvement
• Planning and making an acquisition
• Downsizing to secure your business's future

Exit strategies

• Helping you to prepare an exit strategy
• Preparing a valuation of the business based on its peers
• Implementing the business exit strategy as required eg. managing the disposal process
• Assisting, through a partner firm, in developing a succession plan and helping to develop key staff prior to the exit

Business Angels

We can assist in finding business angels for growing businesses through the most appropriate networks.

Venture Capital fundraising

We have worked with clients raising from £250,000 to £10m from venture capital fundraisers.

Preparing for IPO

Looking to get your company onto PLUS / AIM / or the Main Market? See how we can Assist you.

Franchising businesses

Within Orchard we have experience of working with franchises, both as franchisee and franchisor, and can assist you in getting the best out of franchising either as franchisor or franchisee. We can also advise on the suitability of your business for franchising.

Continuing obligations of a PLC

So you're quoted/listed, what do you have to do to keep your quote/listing and how do you maximise the benefit from it.