Back-office services

Creative Leicestershire’s clients are small businesses and individual practitioners. We know that many have used the kinds of support services which help you to manage the business effectively so you can get on with being creative. That would include accountants, lawyers, photographers, ‘virtual assistants’ and the like. This page aims to provide a location where people who supply those kinds of services, and have an expertise or interest in creative enterprise, can be found by our users.

If you are a creative enterprise and have used services you would be prepared to recommend to others, please click here to let us have their contacts.

If you provide these kinds of services, and would like your contacts to be included on this page, please click here.

Scroll down for information about back-office services who have been recommended by Creative Leicestershire users.

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The Ideal Marketing Company

Contact name: Alastair Campbell

Address: 92 Coventry Road, Market Harborough LE16 9DA

Telephone: 01858 445543

Fax: 0871 221 4870

Email: info@idealmarketingcompany.com

Website: www.idealmarketingcompany.com

The Ideal Marketing Company has been helping large and small companies with their marketing and PR since 2003. If you are looking for ways to improve the sales and marketing performance of your business, why not claim you free 1 hour marketing consultation with Alastair and discover how you could introduce some proven low cost marketing ideas into your business?

Services

Marketing and market research

PR and communications

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Your Financial Business Support

Contact name: Ed Hart

Address: 62 Whitemoor Road, Kenilworth CV8 2BP

Telephone: 07913 895798

Email: edhart@yourfbs.co.uk

Website: www.yourfbs.co.uk

I’m a freelance Finance Director, and a Corporate Finance Coach. I particularly enjoy working with businesses that are led by vision and passion, and with leaders who have a desire to get things done and make things happen. I am known for my plain speaking approach to finance, and ensure that even the least financially minded person understands the numbers.

As a freelance corporate finance coach, I have earned a reputation as an innovative and strategic thinker, and an excellent communicator. I am not your traditional accountant!

Services

Accounting and finance

Business planning and budgeting

Grant applications and fundraising

Project Management

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Message Merchants

Contact name: Gemma Pittham

Address; 3 Barrow Road, Sileby, Leicestershire LE12 7LW

Telephone: 01509 815026

Fax: 01509815427

Email: gemma@thephoenixpartners.com

Website: www.messagemerchants.com

We offer cost effective PR and marketing packages to suit your businesses needs. We have worked with blue chip companies fro seven years gaining experience adn a reputation for on time and on budget performance. We have taken from this and developed packages to suit the SME's locally.

Everyone has a story to tell - we can tell yours to your local media, trade press and directly to your customers reading material.

To find out how we can help you, give us a call.

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The Phoenix Partners

Contact name: Joanne Fahey

Address: 3 Barrow Road, Sileby, Leicestershire LE12 7LW

Telephone: 01509815026

Fax: 01509 815427

Email: joanne@thephoenixpartners.com

Website: www.thephoenixpartners.com

We are a fully integrated marketing communications agency - in short we enable our clients to tell their story. This can to be to their market place, industry sector or to their internal stakeholders.

We use a variety of media: Live Events, PR adn Marketing, Experiential Marketing, Video and Film, Photography and Animation as well as Incentive adn Motivational Campaigns.

Everything we produce is relevant, memorable and measurable - give us a call to see how we can help your business!

Services

Event Management

Marketing and Market research

PR and communications

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R&R VA Services

Contact name: Rebekah Harriman

Address: 153 Leicester Road, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire LE12 7DB

Telephone: 0844 3579150

Email: info@rrva.co.uk

Website: www.rrva.co.uk

Hate doing Admin? Loathe making business calls? Need help with your PR from someone who understands your business? Let me help! R&R VA Services offers administrative and business support services to the creative industries. We offer the services listed below but are able to tailor our what we offer to what your business needs, so please get in touch if you have a specific task in mind!

R&R VA Services is run by Rebekah Harriman, who has over 8 years of expereince working in and with creative industries in varying administrative roles. My training is in Fine art, to Masters level with Art and Design in the European Context, and is still an occasional practitioner. I moved onto administration as I realised just how transferable my skills were, particularly with time management and seeing creative ways to resolve business problems. I have worked with design consultancys, web designers and a performance company amongst other clients on both an ongoing or as when fashion.

Services

Accounting and finance

Business planning and budgeting

Event Management

Grant applications and fundraising

Marketing and Market research

PR and communications

Project Management

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Helen Taverner Project and Event Management

Contact name: Helen Taverner

Address: 45 Cranmer Street, Leicester LE3 0QB

Telephone: 0116 224 9700

Email: helen@projects-events.co.uk

Website: www.projects-events.co.uk

I offer a range of business management services for the creative sector, including:

Project Management

•from initial concept, planning, development through to launch, implementation and evaluation

Marketing and Event Management

•launch events, conferences, fairs, training and staff development events

•campaign planning and execution, profile raising, re-branding

Business Development

•consultation work and stakeholder analysis

•identifying and developing contacts or new network forums, relationship development

Project Evaluation and Market Research

•evaluation against targets, objectives and milestones, stakeholder analysis

•focus groups, market research, competitor analysis, mystery shopper research.

I have worked with a wide-range of organisations across the creative sector including Find Your Talent; Big Difference Company (Leicester Comedy Festival); The Mighty Creatives; Spark Children's Arts Festival; The Richard Attenborough Centre, Foot In Hand Dance Company and Foundation for Community Dance.

Services

Event Management

Marketing and Market research

Project Management

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Freeman & Co

Chartered Certified Accountants & Business Advisers

At Freeman & Co. we pride ourselves on providing a professional one-to-one service. We believe the client comes first, and we strive in every respect to meet our clients needs and expectations. We specialise in supporting both small and medium sized businesses, including sole traders, partnerships and limited companies located in the Leicestershire and Rutland area.

Business name: Freeman & Co. Chartered Certified Accountants

Contact name: Jonathan Freeman

Address: 96 Main Street, Fleckney, Leicestershire LE8 8AN

Telephone: 0116 2402240

Fax: 0116 2402240

Email: enquiries@freemanco.net

Website: www.freemanco.net

Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

Services

Accounting and finance

Business planning and budgeting

Grant applications and fundraising