Organisers of the
Warwickshire Business Club

Lodders Solicitors LLP is an established firm of solicitors based in Stratford-upon-Avon and Henley in Arden. We offer specialist advice to individuals and businesses. Private Client work has formed the core of our business for 150 years and remains the common thread of our other main areas of work: property, business and agriculture. We aim to combine technical ingenuity and thoughtful advice with a pragmatic approach to problem solving.

Lodders Solicitors LLP

Educogym is a revolutionary new approach to Body Sculpture, Fat Loss, Muscle Tone, Health, Strength, Fitness, Rejuvenation & Anti-Ageing combined with groundbreaking Mind Techniques which enhances your power of focus and ability to concentrate. It's the most effective program for fat loss and shaping up ever recorded in a 2 week period.

UNIVERSITY VALIDATED 12 DAY BODY SCULPTURE PROGRAM
Average results: 8lb fat loss, 3 lb firm tissue gain in 12 days

6 & 12 WEEK PROGRAMMES
Get into the best shape of your life in 6 weeks!

Educogym Leamington Spa,
1-2 Windsor Place, 6 Bedford Street, CV32 5DY

Tel. 01926 338 999
www.educogymleamington.com
www.daveoconnor.info

The Best of Warwick promotes the best local businesses on and offline. We go out of our way to uncover the real gems in the area and every single business on our Site has been recommended to us. We encourage recommendation and reviews from local people and promote choice. With high exposure on the major search engines it means new customers and increased profits for high calibre local businesses who become part of The Best of Warwick.

Many of whom are using www.thebestof.co.uk as a way to get more traffic onto their own websites, whilst those without a website are using it to establish a web presence.

The Best of Warwick
1 Church Street, Warwick CV34 4AB
Tel: 01926 405520

Letting and Management Agency

Covering Kenilworth, Leamington, Warwick and surrounding areas.
Offering a unique flat fee service based on the size of the property.

MARTIN PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
Whateley's Drive, Kenilworth CV8 2GY

www.martinproperty.co.uk

email: mail@martinproperty.co.uk  Tel: 01926 748045

WHY HAVE A WEB SITE,
IF YOU DON’T KNOW ITS REAL PURPOSE?

Surprisingly, many Companies do just that - and fail to make a return on their investment. They’re dissatisfied with the end results - confuse their intended audience and lose out to their competitors.

Eagle Web Solutions is a people-oriented Web Solutions Company, delivering web sites with purpose, clarity and innovation, for you and your business. Producing web sites targeted at your intended audience, in a manner they wish to receive information about your products and services.

Eagle Web Solutions
Regency House, 48 Birmingham Road, Bromsgrove, Worcs. B60 1JF
Tel: 01527 576 555            Email: info@eaglewebs.co.uk

Merry Marine provides leadership and team development services and specialises in using offshore sailing as a real and challenging environment to reinforce concepts in leadership and management.

In conjunction with associated business psychologists and organisational development specialists, we also provide a full range of organisational and people development services.

For more details, please visit www.merrymarine.com

Alternatively, if you’d like an informal discussion about any aspect of developing exceptional leaders or team members, please call Bill Merry on 0771 500 5323 or e-mail him at bill@merrymarine.com.

Hassle Free HR Ltd. is a HR Consultancy which provides peace of mind and confidence to the small to medium business sector.  By providing the services listed below, Hassle Free HR will take away the worry of non-compliance with employment law, therefore providing you with more time to focus on your business.

Hassle Free HR can work with you, providing advice and guidance therefore enabling you to manage your employee issue with confidence.  Alternatively, we can manage the problem for you.

To learn more about our services please visit www.hasslefreehr.co.uk to contact Elaine Hedley (MCIPD) at ehedley@hasslefreehr.co.uk or call 07817880943.

At SUE JENDEN ASSOCIATES our paramount consideration is to help you protect your family's interests and wealth. We specialise in particular with elderly clients and their families advising and assisting them to sort out often complex questions about their property, assets and financial affairs.

We cover Wills, Probate, Trusts and tax planning.

Sue Jenden spent 20 years practising as a solicitor dealing with property and probate matters.

TEL: 0121 445 5874
MOBILE : 07956 146378
EMAIL : info@suejenden.co.uk

Tek Response are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, providing cost-effective and efficient Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions and support services. Our success is based on developing a genuine understanding of our clients’ needs and objectives, before recommending a solution to help maximise their return on investment and deliver a sound reliable infrastructure that supports their business key goals.

Tek Response Ltd
Unit 15, The Oaks Business Park
Clews Road, Oakenshaw
Redditch, B98 7ST

Tel: 0870 350 2552 Fax: 0870 350 2662
Email: info@tekresponse.co.uk
www.tekresponse.co.uk

Bronte Business Networks provides high quality IT expertise to clients from a diverse range of sectors. We invest time learning about our client’s goals and introduce them to technologies that can help them both achieve and surpass them.

Bronte offer a range of tailor made solutions that deliver tangible benefits to your business. Solutions that are secure, reliable and effective to ensure a trouble-free working environment over the long-term

Bronte Business Networks Ltd
Blythe Valley Innovation Centre
Blythe Valley Park
Solihull
West Midlands
B90 8AJ

Telr: 0121 506 9230
www.brontebusinessnetworks.co.uk

Javelin Marketing Services Ltd supports customers of all types – from the self employed through to major plcs and across a wide range of industries – with a comprehensive range of marketing services including strategic planning and marketing consultancy; public relations; market and customer research; test marketing; product launches; direct mail; brochures and communications and copywriting. With 14 years clientside and 5 years supply side experience we are well poised to fulfil all your marketing requirements.

Javelin Marketing Services Ltd
01543 256551/07949 780024
www.javelinmarketing.co.uk

Is your company Boxing Clever?

Why not tap into a great mixture of global marketing and sales experience with an equal balance of creative flare? 

Box Clever Marketing has over 22 years experience and offer more than just the average creative agency ensuring a clear business and marketing strategy back up any creative communication, advertising or campaign. We are also down to earth and quick on our feet helping you deliver and execute a proactive marketing plan to grow your business. Check out our website www.boxclevermarketing.com to learn how we could become a seamless part of your marketing team.

Whether you need help on PR, company literature, advertising or web design, we can help. For more information please contact Justin on 01789 264436 or via email on justin@boxclevermarketing.com

BOX CLEVER MARKETING
13 John Street, Stratford upon Avon CV37 6UB
Tel: 01789 264436

Elite are a Access Accounting Specialist Centre and Sage Business Partner. We help you implement systems without risk to your business. We make the complex simple and ensure you get a substantial return on your investment

We provide Consultancy covering Accounting, Payroll, CRM, CIS, Manufacturing Software, Business Intelligence and e-Business solutions.
We also operate a Professional Partner program for Accountants, business consultants or advisors to help educate them about developments in the IT sector.

ELITE BUSINESS SERVICES LTD
55 Barker Butts Lane, Coventry CV6 1DU
Tel: 024 7660 1167
tahir@business-solutions.co.uk

JOHN GARNER BOOKKEEPING SERVICES offers a computerised book keeping for small businesses whether limited company, partnership or sole trader.

A flexible service tailored to your specific needs

JOHN GARNER BOOKKEEPING SERVICES
PO Box 11385, Henley-in-Arden B95 5XR
T/F: 01564 795041 M: 07966 244591
john@yourbookkeeping.co.uk
www.yourbookkeeping.co.uk

ECCO has extensive experience coaching both individuals and teams. Working primarily with Chief Execs, Partners & Company Directors, we specialise in Business Development, Leadership and Performance coaching.

What will you do when you find out your competitors are using “executive coaching” to impact their bottom line?

Executive Coaching Company
Phone: 01789 459146
Email info@exec-coaching.co.uk
Website: www.exec-coaching.co.uk

Sarah Duchart became a freelance human resource consultant nearly 3 years ago after gaining 10 years generalist experience in HR, Training, and Health & Safety. The primary, and most enjoyable objective has always been to help employers develop creative solutions within the ever increasing pressures of employment legislation. Primary features include the implementation of much needed policies, procedures, handbooks and contracts. In addition, project work is also undertaken with clients to tackle topical areas such as staff retention problems, absence management, and the affects of poor performance. Sarah also provides in-house and open courses in human resource management. Aimed toward either line managers, senior managers, or the managing director, this is an informative way of offering an insight into the need to carefully manage people issues at work!

HR Response
Woodgate House, Moor Lane, Coleorton, Leicestershire LE67 8FP
Tel. (01530) 837292 Mobile 07801 855470

Email sarah@hrresponse.co.uk

COLIN WALKEY COMMUNICATIONS LTD. Colin Walkey, a former Board member of Land Rover Group, provides a cost-effective service to companies by raising awareness of their achievements, products and services to their customers and potential customers by placing articles in the national, regional, and technical Press.He also offers a full range of other public relations services including communications advice and strategy, employee communications, product launches, newsletter production, and speech writing.

Clients range from multi-national corporations to local companies in a wide variety of business sectors.

Leadership Management International (LMI) is a worldwide organisation, founded in 1966.

We develop people to deliver increased business performance results. Our international proven process and methodology guarantees return on investment by focusing on pre-determined real business goals, which enables people to act and behave more effectively as leaders, managers and individuals.

Leadership Management International
35 Eden Road Solihull B92 9DT
Tel: 07947 217648
Email: clivemason@ukonline.co.uk

FOCUSSED PERSONNEL SOLUTIONS exists to help you to make the most of the people in your business. This includes reviewing your people management processes such as recruitment and dispute resolution to ensure that they demonstrate best practice and also training managers in people management skills to ensure that the processes work effectively.

FOCUSSED PERSONNEL SOLUTIONS
The Old School House, Westwood Heath Road, Coventry, CV4 8GP
Email c_fell@email.com
Tel 07979 755534

X10D Limited is an IT services company specialising in Internet Security solutions. We help businesses keep use of the Internet safe and legal for their employees. In addition X10D has extensive experience in network design and remote systems support, we help businesses make the most of their IT, and make their network a reliable place in which to run important business software.

X10D Limited
7 Church Green East
Redditch
B98 8BP

E-mail: chris.barnett@plexus-computers.com

Crimson offer new build completed properties from around the UK with sizeable discounts, which reduces the need to find large deposits to fund buy to let property deals. The fundamental benefit of this is that you gain instant equity in your property of around 15% - 20% from day one, without having to rely on an increase in the property market.

We offer a full turnkey service which includes:- Researching the area, - Sourcing the property, - Negotiating the discount, - Liaising with the mortgage broker, - Appointing a specialist solicitor, - Furnishing the property, - Appointing the letting agent.

If you would like to know more about our service, please call us.

Crimson Investment Properties
3 The Glasshouse
Windsor Street
Leamington Spa
CV32 5EA
Tel: 01926 431088
Email: info@crimsoninvestments.co.uk
Website: www.crimsoninvestments.co.uk

Coulson Executive Resourcing provides professional, flexible and cost effective solutions to organisations’ recruitment needs.

Our market is the recruitment of positions from middle management through to Board level, including both Executive and Non-Executive directors We operate throughout the UK, working with organisations across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.  Our experience - over 11 years - covers a wide range of functions and sectors with particular expertise at director and head of function level. Our values guide all aspects of our business. We are acknowledged for our professionalism, honesty and integrity and for the quality and thoroughness of our approach.

Margaret Coulson. Managing Director:
Coulson Executive Resourcing
PO Box 11173, Henley in Arden B95 6WR
Tel: 0870 609 4138

Email: info@coulsonexec.co.uk
Web: www.coulsonexec.co.uk

At Impact Coaching, we pride ourselves that our focus is always on you and your goals. Our coaching programmes are designed to develop & promote your potential. All you need is the desire and the commitment and you can:

Our coaching is grounded on proven NLP techniques, experience and common-sense plus the firm conviction that everyone has the capacity to change and improve.

It's a step into unknown territory for most people to work with a coach. Discover what you might achieve with a coach. Contact us for an initial exploratory meeting at no cost and with no further commitment.

Impact Coaching
Tel: 07906 174601
email: info@impact-coaching.co.uk
Web. www.impact-coach

Business coaching and mentoring enables growing businesses to achieve their goals and their full potential. Breaking Frontiers offers support, from a guiding hand to a non-executive director (without the formality). In 2004 clients grew in excess of 25%.
The results:-

A Clear Direction - More Focus – Better Profits

Breaking Frontiers
Tel: 01926 450090
Comber House, 2 Union Road, Leamington Spa, CV32 5LT
email: service@breakingfrontiers.com
Web: www.breakingfrontiers.com

After growing up in Rugby and reading Philosophy at Nottingham, Phil started in Financial services in 1993 and is now an Independent Financial Adviser in Solihull (4 advisers there - 60 years experience). Phil specialises in investments and IHT planning - from arranging isas, to portfolios for businesses and trusts.

Adrian Smith & Partners
9 Elm Court Meriden Business Park Coventry CV5 9RG

Tel: 01676 521111
Email: phil@aspl.co.uk
Web: www.aspl.co.uk

Barclays recognises that businesses in Coventry and Warwickshire need to feel that their bank is a source of partnership and support for their future plans. Barclays is just that and we provide innovative ways of financing as well as acting as a gateway to new contacts and business opportunities.Business banking with Barclays in the new millennium is one typified by relationship management with the local team aiming to provide a level of service and expertise geared to individual customers’ needs and aspirations. By developing close working relationships and an understanding of the business challenges that customers face, our desire is to offer solutions and practical support through good times and bad.

From those thinking of starting up in business through to the very largest, Barclays is on hand to offer the right balance of business banking support."

Barclays Business Banking
PO Box 1500, Leicester, LE19 1RP
Email: richard.fray@barclayscorporate.com
Web: www.barclays.co.uk/business/

Chris Barfield’s role for Lloyds TSB is to help businesses switch over their financial and banking needs, by: listening to their present & future aims, business & personal, - understanding their issues in some depth, - exploring options on how we can work together for their continuing success.

LLOYDS TSB
22 Bridge Street. Stratford upon Avon, CV37 6AG
Email: Chris.Barfield@lloydstsb.co.uk
Web: www.success4business.com

Liquidity: “An institution is said to have liquidity if it can easily meet its needs for cash either because it has cash on hand or can otherwise raise or borrow cash.”

Undoubtedly the concept of ensuring businesses have Liquidity is of relevance to all. Liquidity Limited is independent of bureaucratic organizations. It has been created with the aim of assisting Midlands based businesses.

Firstly, we provide tailored comprehensive credit control enabling clients to reduce overheads, generate cash and concentrate on their core business. We also offer invoice finance with swift, localised decision making and low client to relationship manager ratio compared with the industry average. We provide funding solutions as negotiated and on time.

LIQUIDITY LIMITED
First Floor, 111 Edmund Street, Birmingham, B3 2HJ
Telephone: 0121 212 1112
Email:cbarry@liquidity.uk.com
Web: wwwliquidity.uk.com

Flex FD can fill that gap most SME owners will recognise at certain stages of their company's development when they need the input of an experienced finance professional but on an ad-hoc rather than a permanent basis.

Flex FD provide a value-added, commercially aware and ongoing service which empathises with the needs of the owner-managed business.

Flex FD can also assist in turnaround or phoenix situations.

So, if you need to improve cashflow, identify and monitor KPIs, raise finance or just have 'someone to talk to', try Flex FD - a flexible financial direction resource to help YOU grow YOUR business.

Flex FD
23 Arley Road, Solihull, B91 1NJ
Tel: 0121 681 0989
Email - peter-cunliffe@flexfd.co.uk
Web - www.flexfd.co.uk

Peak Performance Partnership (PPP) is a training and development company, offering tailor made training solutions for a variety of businesses. Founded eight years ago in Edinburgh, PPP engages six partners with over 150 years of training experience, and provides services throughout Scotland, North East and North West England, and more recently, the Midlands.

Training includes a variety of programmes for front line operatives through to Senior Management. (A list of which can be seen on the web site) PPP also has extensive experience in appraisal/assessment and personal development programmes for companies, providing initial education across the workforce, guidance and methodology to Managers, who are key to the success of the process moving forward. Assistance in Team building, Recruitment selection, Mentoring and Coaching, are also some of the services highlighted.

Peak Performance Partnership
131 Cubbington Road, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV32 7AP
Tel: 01926 770965
Email - info@peakperformancepartnership.co.uk
Web - www.peakperformancepartnership.co.uk

Gamma Consulting offers support, advice and practical assistance to owner-directors of independent businesses. Specialist services include business strategy development for profitable growth, and business process improvement for cost reduction and enhanced customer service. We undertake ad hoc projects or long term support programmes. An initial consultation is offered free and without obligation.

Gamma Consulting Ltd
5 Greaves Close, Warwick, CV34 6LU
Tel: 0845 458 6654
Email: info@gammaconsulting.co.uk
Website: www.gammaconsulting.co.uk

Leadline is an independent call centre based in Worcester.

Leadline provide expertise in database cleansing, customer satisfaction surveys and call centre services.  Leadline have developed an automated database cleansing process that validates names and addresses and can identify changes in circumstances for both business and consumer files.  Take advantage of Leadline’s free audit report for an analysis of your own company databases.

Leadline Services
54 New Street, Worcester, WR1 2OL
Phone: 08703 899399
Email: ccross@leadline.co.uk
Website: www.leadline.co.uk

Corporate Commercial Risk Management Detective Investigations Agency.
We are a pro-active, professional company, providing the highest quality investigations. We are specialists in surveillance and producing legally admissible evidence for court and tribunals, including acting as professional witnesses.

Our services cover all commercial, corporate and governmental work, including:

Theft & Fraud - Fraudulent Claims - False Absenteeism - Breach of Contract
Intellectual Property - Secondary Employment - Discrimination & Harassment

Our team consists of 14 former Police Detectives, and 16 former Special Forces Officers. We have fully mobile surveillance teams using cars and motorcycles. We are technically self supportive, using the latest covert recording devices, to gather evidence. We also act as consultants on areas of business security.

Expert Investigations
Elouise House, Little Pittern, Kineton, Warwickshire, CV35 OLU
Phone: 0800 169 4368, we operate nationwide, 24 hrs a day.
Email: davidkearns@expert-investigations.co.uk
Website: www.expert-investigations.co.uk

Richard Suthons Associates is a successful, experienced and totally independent marketing training and consultancy practise. It devises, produces and delivers marketing training courses and has delivered, since 1994, over 400 courses, for 3,200+ managers from 70+ countries, from 50 leading businesses and organisations, both in the UK and Internationally.

It also undertakes marketing and management consultancy projects - with a strong focus on profitably developing branded consumer goods – from international multi-nationals to SME’s.

Contact Richard Suthons, Managing Consultant, for more details

Richard Suthons Associates
Aeron House, Honington, Shipston-on-Stour, Warks, CV36 5AA
Direct dial: 01608 662301

Email: richard@rsatraining.co.uk
Website: www.rsatraining.co.uk

Needham & James is committed to providing effective legal solutions for commercial and private clients. We offer advice in the areas of: banking; commercial property; company commercial; dispute resolution; employment; family; social housing and private client. We also give advice on a whole range of other specialist services.

Practical and approachable, our partner led teams will offer you a wealth of experience. We recognise that each business is unique; each client is individual. Our specialist lawyers take great care to understand your distinctive needs and to provide well-resourced solutions, uniquely tailored to your requirements.

Needham & James,
Bridgeway, Stratford upon Avon CV37 6YY
Tel: 0845 6308833  Fax: 0845 6308844

Needham & James, 1 Waterloo Street, Birmingham B2 5PG
Tel: 0121 644 4400 Fax: 0121 633 4450
www.needhamandjames.com

With over 25 years professional experience, we provide a personalised service to small businesses and their proprietors on a flexible basis inside and outside standard office hours, covering commercial and domestic property, trade/professional problems, disputes and credit control, and general advice/support from us who as a small firm of solicitors understand the small business. Contact David or Val Leigh-Hunt.

David Leigh-Hunt Solicitors
1 Satchwell Walk, Royal Priors, Leamington Spa, CV32 4QE
Tel: 01926 427400 Fax: 01926 335133
E mail: info@davidleigh-hunt-solicitors.co.uk

AnsonsLLP is a progressive law firm with a rich heritage, providing a comprehensive range of legal services to business and private clients through out the West Midlands. We aspire to be the first choice for all our clients. Our services are based on a high level of partner involvement, extensive business and commercial experience and strong technical expertise. We provide the following services to provide business and personal solutions to your every day needs:

Agriculture	Commercial Property	Corporate
Dispute Resolution	Employment	Environmental and Planning
Estate Planning	Family	Insolvency
Residential Conveyancing	Tax

ANSONS LLP
SOLICITORS
St Mary's Chambers, 5 Breadmarket Street, Lichfield, WS13 6LQ
Direct dial: 01543 267190   Fax: 01543 250942
E mail: kmajevadia@ansonsllp.com

AUDITEL is a unique and innovative consultancy group focused on helping companies to improve their profitability. Through independent advice Auditel is able to benchmark your costs to the best in each sector and advise how to achieve savings of (typically) 10% - 50%, ensuring you are receiving best value from you communications, energy and utility service providers. Our no-win, no-fee pay structure means organisations have nothing to lose and everything to gain by employing our services.

Auditel
34 Cherry Lane, Hampton Magna, Warwick CV35 8SP
Tel: 01926 401996
Email: alan.ford@auditel.net

Strategic Planning Solutions helps business owner/managers formulate their aims through Strategic Planning and achieve their objectives through a series of bite-size 'target and implementation' steps.  As Business Mentors we assist owner/managers address the key business challenges of Money, Time and People.  We help you shape and manage your future.

Strategic Planning Solutions
The Hollies, Church Langton, Market Harborough, LE16 7SY
Telephone: 01858 545885 martyn.fray@strategicplanningsolutions.co.uk

PKF is one of the UK's leading firms of accountants and business advisors, which specialises in advising the management of developing private and public businesses. Our West Midlands office offers a full range of services including:-

Assurance - Business Advisory - Corporate Finance - Taxation - Forensic
Corporate Recovery and Insolvency.

PKF
45 Great Charles Street, Birmingham B3 2LX
Telephone: 0121 212 2222 Fax 0121 212 2300
Email info.birmingham@uk.pkf.com Website: www.pkf.co.uk

Advanced Driver Services Ltd are a driver training company, providing bespoke defensive/advanced training/assessment for the company driver, with services focused on satisfying the requirements of the HSE directive on Managing Occupational Road Risk (MORR). Our consultancy division looks to ensures clients engage in best practices of fleet management.

Advanced Driver Services Ltd
11 Morgrove Avenue, Knowle, Solihull, B93 9QL
DDI : 01564 775010  Mobile : 07836 230776

Monk Marketing Partnership are suppliers of the full range of Business Gifts & Corporate Merchandise. We provide a local service in the Birmingham & Warwickshire area with a vast selection of items to suit all budgets, together with advice on how to include promotional merchandise in your marketing mix. We taking your brand the extra mile.

Monk Marketing Partnership
49 Oxford Street, Stirchley, Birmingham, B30 2LH
Phone: 0121 246 3483

BRI Business Recovery and Insolvency is an independent company of insolvency practitioners committed to finding the right solutions for businesses and individuals in financial difficulty. The BRI directors have a collective experience of more than 50 years, with a range of skills and knowledge that enables us to focus on the differing needs of customers and react quickly to changes in a fast moving marketplace. With more than 19 years trading from our headquarters in Northampton, over 10 years in Milton Keynes and over 5 years in Banbury. Our latest office opened in Coventry this year.

BRI Business Recovery and Insolvency
3 The Quadrant, Coventry, CV1 2DY
Tel: 02476 634884