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our mentors have over 350 years business experience

We offer free 1-2-1 mentoring with our specialist consultants.  Click here if you would like to book a session. 
Leon Banks
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A highly experienced Business Advisor and Coach offering in depth assistance and review for both start-up businesses and SMEs. Services include preparing Business Plans, business review, and advice to where to develop and improve business profitability through structure financial controls, marketing and sales procedures.

Expertise: 
  • Business vision and strategy
  • Business planning
  • Financial and cash management (budgets, forecasts, cash flows, key performance indicators)
  • Marketing improvement
  • Sales improvement
  • Leadership and Management
  • Team Building and Team Performance
  • Time Management
  • Preparation for loan applications and investment
  • Exit Strategies and Planning

Martyn Billing
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Calibre Marketing
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A dynamic marketer who, having enjoyed success in senior marketing positions with a number of blue chip and market-leading companies, now owns and manages a successful marketing and communications agency, Calibre Marketing.
​Martyn also helps his son run a cider business, Ascension Cider.

www.calibremarketing.co.uk
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www.ascensioncider.co.uk
Expertise: 
  • Development of marketing and communication ideas and initiatives
  • Preparation of business and strategic marketing plans
  • Search / Online, Direct and Media Marketing advice and activities
  • New product and service development and launch
  • Business development and key-account sales management
  • Development, briefing and implementation of promotional activities and marketing materials
  • Establishment and implementation of PR programmes and campaigns
  • Prioritisation of marketing and business development activities and actions

Chris
​Dowling
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Chris Dowling has a lifetime of experience owning and running a family business and SME.  In his business career he has dealt with most of the challenges and opportunities that face all business owners. He has 'been there and done it’ as an adviser and mentor. 
Chris provides a service to both established businesses that want to grow and start-ups that are setting up and need help in their critical early stages. 
Expertise: 
  • Writing business plans
  • Budgeting, costs and cash flow
  • Strategy and development
  • Sales and marketing
  • Access to finance and funding
  • Mentoring support
  • Customer service

Bryan Duggan
Ex-PWC
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 Formerly of Price Waterhouse Cooper, Bryan has created and run training courses in:
  • Commercial Law
  • Mini MBA Business Strategy
  • Effective Writing
  • Presentation Skills
  • Management and Personal Skills
  • Bank Lending
  • Understanding Finance
  • Corporate Turnaround (with the London Business School)
  • Currently Senior Consultant with ArcBlue Global
Bryan has mentored with The Prince’s Trust, Nat-West Accelerator, PRIME and LEAP.
Expertise: 
  • Finance and accounts
  • Commercial law
  • Business strategy
  • Marketing and advertising
  • Sales
  • Writing skills
  • Motivation
  • Management skills and planning
  • Risk management

Esther Egerton
The Confidence Coach
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 Esther is a Confidence Coach with over 20 years’ experience in training and recruitment.  The Confidence Box offers one to one training for individuals and groups on how to speak comfortably in front of an audience; ace that all important sales pitch or job interview and work more effectively leading a team.

www.theconfidencebox.com
Expertise: 
  • Presentation training.  Speak with greater confidence in front of groups & audiences
  • Help you develop self-confidence and communication skills
  • Vocal coaching 
  • Useful techniques for a clear compelling pitch
  • Master how to control nerves during pressurized situations
  • Use gesture and body language effectively
  • Learn essential Interview skills
  • Mentoring

Jim Fletcher
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Fletcher Business Solutions
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Jim Fletcher is a successful accounting and business professional with 40 years’ commercial experience and an outstanding record of strategy & business planning, developing leaders and helping firms grow & surpass sales, marketing & profitability goals.
Havng run a major manufacturing and 
exporting business, Jim is a committed team member and inspirational leader; he believes in creating the environment to allow people to succeed by sharing common goals.

www.fletcherbusinesssolutions.com
Expertise: 
  • Accounting and finance
  • Strategicus, business and financial planning
  • Operational control
  • Logistic efficiencies
  • Sales and marketing
  • Management and leadership

Lisa Hallewell
Lisa Hallewell Design
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Lisa Hallewell set up her design business in 1999 to offer an affordable and flexible graphic design service to businesses across London and the South East.
Lisa offers a complete service on a one-to-one basis.  Whether you are looking to develop company branding, produce brochures, design websites or marketing material, Lisa can help.


www.lisadesign.co.uk
Expertise: 
  • Graphic design
  • Corporate identity design
  • Logo design & branding


Daniel Hignell-Tully
7000 Trees
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Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully is a film-maker, composer and founder of 7000 Trees, a production company. 7000 Trees has provided videos, compositions, articles, digital support and graphic design for a wide range of organisations, including local art studios, international software companies, upcoming musicians, and online educators. With a background in education, 7000 Trees also provides tuition and workshops across the arts, with a particular focus on ethical and ecologically-aware projects.

Distant Animals Experimental sound-art, text-art, video-art and rabbit-themed performance practice
​www.distantanimals.com
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7000 Trees Ecologically-minded creative production company offering a range of audio, visual, design, and project support services
www.7000trees.com
Expertise: ​
  • Providing creative audio-visual promotional support for artists, charities and small businesses
  • ​Tuition across the arts, with a particular focus on ethical and ecologically-aware projects

Carol Hill
C Hill Consultancy
A qualified solicitor with over 12 years’ legal experience and 20 years' business experience.
Carol has undertaken a variety of business roles including, risk management, procurement and recruitment.  She specialises in general commercial law, procurement law and construction law – Not your typical lawyer!

www.chillconsultancy.co.uk
Expertise: 
  • Legal advice
  • Contract drafting
  • Contract negotiations
  • General in-house counsel
  • Legal training

Natalie James
​Retail
Having studied at Central St Martins College of Art and Design and the London College of Fashion, Natalie now runs her own haberdashery shop in East Sussex. Natalie has 20 years’ experience in retail and can pass on her knowledge to anybody entering the world of retail.

Expertise: 
  • Supply chain management – source and develop key and potential suppliers
  • Product sourcing, developing and range building
  • Interpreting seasonal trends, 'must haves' and customer profiling 
  • Critical path management.
  • Business development.
  • Negotiating with suppliers 
  • Planning and strategy
  • Reviewing and reacting sales information
  • Managing a team

Karen Kay
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Fountain Digital
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Fountain Digital is a Digital Marketing Agency based in Eastbourne. Working with start-up, small and medium sized businesses, Fountain Digital provide a comprehensive suite of digital marketing services including web design, SEO (search engine optimisation) and social media services. We create digital excellence for you and your business!

www.fountaindigital.co.uk
Expertise: 
  • Digital marketing audits
  • SEO training
  • Planning and implementing successful SEO campaigns for businesses from an array of sectors
  • Identifying and understanding your ideal customer
  • Improving search engine rankings for websites on a local and national level
  • Effective content creation
  • Optimising content for SEO
  • Setting up and optimising Google My Business listings

Liz Kelly
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ECK Bookkeeping
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ECK specialise in providing a full bookkeeping service to sole traders, small and medium businesses with a personal touch.
ECK use cloud-based software such as Xero, Freeagent and Quickbooks, desktop accounting packages or spreadsheet-based software.​
Liz is an AAT licensed accountant and experienced bookkeeper as well as being Xero certified.

www.eckbookkeeping.co.uk
Expertise: 
  • Cash flow forecasting
  • Profit and loss
  • Advice on accounting packages
  • Bookkeeping

Serena May
The HR Dept
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The HR Dept Eastbourne provides a comprehensive outsourced HR service for small to medium sized businesses.
The H R Department understands that your workforce is your most valuable resource and that you will need help to attend to your ongoing and ever-changing HR responsibilities.
 
www.hrdept.co.uk/offices/eastbourne
Expertise: 
  • HR & employment law
  • Recruitment
  • Absence management
  • Performance management
  • Disciplinary & grievance
  • TUPE transfers
  • Auto enrolment
  • Redundancy programmes

Mina O'Brien
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Ditzy Media
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After years of supporting local businesses whilst working for East Sussex County Council, in July 2014 Mina decided to build her own business. 
Focusing on her passion for helping people, she began her Social Media marketing consultancy - Ditzy Media -  to help local businesses, charities and community organisations get to grips with their digital communications. 
 
www.ditzymedia.com
Expertise: 
  • Setting up or enhancing your social media profiles
  • Setting up social media management tools
  • Creating a social media calendar for your business
  • Creating posts & content
  • Photo and video content
  • Copy writing
  • Analytic reports 
  • 1-2-1 training
  • Reputation management

Simon Palmer
Greenway Business Consulting
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Simon qualified as an accountant in practice, then spent 27 years with GE Capital around the world in various Finance and Treasury roles. He now uses those skills to help small businesses identify a strategy and build realistic plans to meet goals and solve problems. He also believes in being candid.
 
​www.greenwaybusinessconsulting.co.uk
Expertise: 
  • Business strategy and planning

Mark Peacock
Pricing Coach
Mark Peacock is the Pricing Coach, the creator of the GROWMORE model – a phased approach to improving your pricing and unlocking the full potential of your business. 
​Marl's profitable pricing strategy and tactics for small businesses make him a highly sought-after business coach.
 
www.markpeacock.co.uk
Expertise: 
  • Understanding your costs
  • Product design strategies
  • Advanced pricing strategies
  • The psychology of pricing
  • How your customers make buying decisions
  • Segmenting your market by “willingness to pay”
  • Clarify your unique selling points
  • Marketing your process to get the best response

Emma Pearce 
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Pearce Marketing
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Emma is an experienced marketer.  She set up Pearce Marketing in 2008 to help SMEs, from all sectors, to be confident and successful in delivering cost-effective, targeted and measurable marketing.  Emma has been working in commercial marketing positions since 1994, including jobs with large corporates such as IBM, as well as regional companies.
Her career has taken her to London, overseas and back to her home county of Sussex. 
​Emma has a degree in marketing and a Chartered Institute of Marketing diploma. 

www.pearcemarketing.co.uk
Expertise: 
  • Customer Research - focus groups, customer interviews and online surveys
  • Marketing Audit
  • Marketing Strategy and Practical Action Planning
  • Outsourced Marketing - traditional and digital marketing support including:
  • Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
  • Social Media Advertising
  • Email Marketing
  • Website Projects
  • Blogging
  • Direct Mail
  • Exhibitions
  • Marketing Training - social media, social media advertising, Mailchimp, SEO
  • GDPR Marketing Consultancy

Vanessa Peters​
Vanessa Peters is an experienced business coach, mentor and change consultant.  She helps business owners develop ideas and then implement the strategy and planning needed to turn those ideas into a successful business. 
Her passion is working with pre-start and start-up businesses to help them avoid the pitfalls that cause many of them to fail.  Vanessa acts as a critical friend to challenge and shape thinking and as a sounding board to give business owners the time and space to develop their thinking in a supportive, professional environment. 
​Vanessa firmly believes that it is more important to seek independent, professional business advice rather than talk it through with a mate in the pub. 
She is also skilled at advising how to network and present small businesses to best effect. 
Expertise: 
  • Business development
  • Business planning
  • Service delivery
  • Staff recruitment and development
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Succession planning
  • Performance improvement and management
  • Reputation management
  • Crisis management
  • Internal and external communications
  • Change management

Melanie Richardson
Swindells Chartered Accountants
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Swindells have over 90 years of experience working with start-ups. They know what you’re facing – long hours, sleepless nights and piles of to do lists. 
Swindells have been there and are here to help, not only as financial advisors but to lend an ear when you need it. 
They know the financial side of business is new to some and they aim to educate you so that you learn as you grow.

www.swindellsaccounting.co.uk
Expertise: 
  • Preparing cashflow and budget forecasts
  • Bookkeeping- implementing a system that works well for you and makes end of year accounting more efficient
  • Management accounts – allowing you to track your cashflow, profit and expenditure on a daily basis
  • Company secretarial – ensuring compliance with changing company legislation and filing deadlines
  • Credit management – cash flow is the life blood of any business and effective credit management is vital to support growth
  • Payroll – from supply of payslips to full service including filing of HMRC forms (P60s etc), holiday, sick and maternity pay management.

Fiona Smithson
FS Business Solutions
A qualified Accountant with extensive experience across a wide range of Industries. 
Offering a flexible and friendly approach to supporting start-up and established businesses in the South East Region. 
With over 25 years’ commercial business experience, Fiona is well placed to support your business and help you plan for success.
 
www.fsbusiness-solutions.co.uk
Expertise: 
  • Cashflow forecasting & budgeting
  • Strategic business planning
  • Management accounting
  • Business advising and analysis
  • Bookkeeping
  • Payroll​

Sue Stokell
Business Buddy
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Working independently with the small business sector for many years in an advisory capacity relating to business planning, business practice, marketing strategy, promotion and copywriting in addition to designing and delivering training programmes for various training organisations and local authorities.

www.businessbuddy.org.uk


Expertise: 
  • Understanding marketing 
  • Choosing the best promotional route for your market
  • Effective copywriting
  • Start-up business planning
  • Business plans to grow your business
  • Cash flow forecasting & finance for the financial novice
  • Supporting individuals to write successful funding bids

Rachel Stone

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Working with a values-driven approach, Rachel helps people become transformational business leaders at all levels. She believes in the power of coaching to bring about change, supporting people to develop and progress. Rachel enjoys coaching people so that they achieve their business goals. She has experience across a range of different business types and sectors.

Expertise: 
  • Leadership and management coaching
  • ​Personal development

Mark Vaesen
Tomango
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Is your brand image holding you back? Do you want your business to go up a level, but you're struggling to attract more of your ideal customers? Are you missing out to inferior competitors just because they’ve got a better image?
 
Mark founded Tomango in 2013 to help small businesses develop their brand to grow and be profitable. Tomango creates beautiful and hard-working brands, designs and builds high-end websites and delivers digital marketing strategies for its clients.

 
​www.tomango.co.uk

Expertise: 
  • Brand strategy
  • Brand identity creation
  • Digital Marketing strategy
  • Website design

Richard Williams
Sanzman Solutions
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Richard Williams has over 20 years’ experience as a programme director in financial services, delivering strategic change initiatives in a global environment.
He now specialises in helping SME businesses in reaching and exceeding their potential, with the benefit of his experience as a mentor and change consultant.

www.sanzmansolutions.com


Expertise: 
  • Strategy and business planning
  • Operation efficiency
  • Business development
  • Team and people development
  • Change and crisis management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Vendor selection and on-boarding
  • Programme and project management
  • Mentoring

Clare Westbrey-Tong
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​Serin Solutions
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A freelance trainer & coach, Clare has held a variety of different leadership positions including being part of a Senior Leadership Team in a large, multi sited college with 500 staff, £28m turnover and around 12,000 students.
She is passionate about good leadership and the benefits of coaching. 
Clare is an Associate Member of the Society for Education & Training) and a Freelance Project Manager skilled in Bid Writing, Training Delivery, Management, Organisational Development, and Coaching. Strong communication and research skills with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English Literature & Sociology from St Marys University College. 
Expertise: 
  • Leadership and management coaching and training
  • ​BID writing
  • Personal development 
  • Motivation
  • Personal branding
  • Organisational skills
  • ​Time management


​get in touch to choose the right consultant for you

info@edeal.org.uk
01323 641 144


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