Able to provide help to emerging and established social enterprises and small businesses with:• Starting up their enterprises; defining their purpose, forming their organisational and legal structures and registering.• Business and financial planning, research, assessing financial performance, and funding and contracts.• Planning, organising and delivering training and events• Measuring social impact and improving their sustainability.In addition to advice work I have lots of experience of training groups, acting as a mentor and facilitator and in a non- executive director / management board type role or any other supporting role.ILM Accredited social enterprise adviser with good understanding of social enterprise and the community sector having worked in it for the past 7 years. Strong business and finance knowledge and experience having developed my own businesses, worked as a business analyst and currently as a finance director and have worked for the past six years supporting community groups and social enterprises in the Midlands. Specialist experience in projects and enterprises dealing with communities, land, food and rural enterprises. I have recently helped two new Community Interest Companies (CICs) set up and am currently helping a third to set up and obtain grant funding. Have just helped Hothorpe Hall obtain LEP funding for business growth measures and am mentoring a business which has obtained a Start up Loan through NWES. If you think you may have some work I could undertake in your organisation I would be very happy to come and discuss this with you.