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Josh Babarinde OBE
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Josh is an award-winning Forbes 30 Under 30 social entrepreneur, having founded Cracked It, the social enterprise tech repair service supporting ex-offenders away from crime and into employment. Cracked It was named Social Enterprise of the Year in 2018 and in 2019.
Now, Josh advises social enterprises on how to maximise their trading and their impact, as well as supporting social entrepreneurs to develop their leadership skills. In 2020, Josh was awarded an OBE for services to criminal justice, social enterprise and the economy in the Queens Birthday Honours. Born and bred in Eastbourne, Josh also serves as an Eastbourne Borough Councillor, having been elected in 2021. |
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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, Leon has a wealth of experience in the hospitality industry working with pubs, restaurants and hotels.
Services include preparing Business Plans, business review, and advice about how to develop and improve your business profitability through structured financial controls, marketing and sales procedures. |
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Martyn Billing
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 www.ascensioncider.co.uk |
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Martin Crawford Jones
Crawford Jones Associates 
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Martin is an interior design consultant for business. He works with start-ups and SMEs that need to make a statement about what they do when welcoming customers or clients into their premises.
He uses his design discipline to ensure efficiency of space, promote productivity and encourage long-term profitability. During his interior design career, Martin has also been Design Counsellor for Sussex Enterprise and Design Mentor with the Princes Trust. |
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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. |
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Bryan Duggan
Ex-PWC 
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Formerly of Price Waterhouse Cooper, Bryan has created and run training courses in:
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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 |
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Jim Fletcher
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 |
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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 |
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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 7000 Trees Ecologically-minded creative production company offering a range of audio, visual, design, and project support services www.7000trees.com |
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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 |
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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.
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Karen Kay
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 |
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Liz Kelly
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 |
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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 |
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Mina O'Brien
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 |
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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 |
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Emma Pearce
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 |
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Vanessa Peters
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
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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 |
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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 |
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Clare Westbrey-Tong
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 a member of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), Society for Education & Training and Henley Centre for Coaching. As well as delivering leadership training and coaching leaders and managers she is a freelance Project Manager and skilled in bid writing. With strong communication and research skills, Clare enjoys supporting leaders and managers to empower their teams through emotionally intelligent leadership. |
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