BUSINESS PLANNING FOR THE THIRD SECTOR
Turning your strategy and social aims into a meaningful business plan, that's actually useful is a skill.
Preparation
We explore and understand your strategy, social aims, value proposition and motivations. We also work with you to understand your markets in detail and then your growth plans.
Due Diligence
This is where the detail takes form. We work with you to calculate the costs of delivering your plans - operational costs, funding sources, marketing and sales costs, overhead costs. We also look at your revenue expectations and can scenario plan (low, medium, high case etc).This is captured in fine detail and rolled up for summary presentation.
Business Plan
With the source data gathered or calculated, we pull together the plan. We produce this in a format to suit the audience you are using it for e.g. if you are seeking funding or acceptability from a parent organisation, the focus on the messaging may be different than that required for an internal document.
Our process for business planning:
We follow a straightforward process:
- Preparation: Understanding your strategy, social aims, markets and value proposition. We get to your DNA.
- Due Diligence: We then work with you or your lead team to gather all necessary information including finance information. We provide market analysis where needed to fill in your knowledge gaps. We can also investigate your costs in more detail if needed to get a more accurate analysis.
- Produce the Plan: We write or help you write your business plan, tailored to the audience(s) you may use it with.
- Our method of working means the plan are yours with real internal ownership.
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The value we bring
You are busy running your business, and your staff are busy delivering your services and products. We provide resource which is:
- We are not distracted by the day-to-day operation.
- Independent, impartial and constructively challenging.
- We report to you so are not influenced by organisational politics.
- We don't ignore those issues that others consider to be in the 'too difficult' category.
- We minimise disruption whilst we undertake our activities - you still have a business to run.
- We bring significant knowledge and experience of what works elsewhere.
- We have a proven track record of helping companies achieve growth and funding.