History
Hazel Watt – Managing Director of Bridgehouse Business Consultants Ltd, founded the business after a high profile career in Sales and Marketing. Her vision is to provide a ‘one-stop-shop’, catering for each business as an individual, providing cost effective, competitive, innovative and dynamic business solutions.
The business has a 15 year proven track record working hand on hand with local business helping them achieve the success they deserve.
Our Work
We have the expertise and the knowledge to offer support and advice helping your business through the good times as well as the more challenging .Our client base is diverse, and our approach is individual, businesses do not come pre packed, neither do we, our philosophy is to work hand in hand with the client understanding their market and providing tailor made business solutions to solve problems and create opportunities.
What we deliver
Our services and products speak for themselves with many satisfied customers, who we go on to work with over and over again. Our client retention is second to none and all our clients become part of the ‘Bridgehouse family’, who we nurture, develop and advise helping them grow to reach their full potential.
If your are considering starting your own business, before you do, give us a call, we are experts in offering advice to pre start up businesses and companies, who have had little or no expereince in this area previously.
We can advise you on how to access government funding and grants, which can subsidise your business start up costs up to 70% as well as organising preferential banking facilities, tax and Inland Revenue issues, vat registration and basic book keeping.
Other services you will find invaluable are how to set up your company, organising your company structure, business and financial planning, and developing your business product and processes.
Before you start trading it is essential to have a marketing strategy, which identifies your plan of action, in other words, what is your business, what do you do, who are you’re customers and how are you going to tell them about your product?
At Bridgehouse we have developed a unique approach to helping businesses from pre start right through to successful trading;
Here are some comments from business which have become successful working with Bridgehouse providing Intensive Start Up Support
Vicki Hood from Fabulets:
Just thought id drop you a quick message to say we just done our end of year accounts and we done better than originally thought.
I could not have got started without your help and just wanted to say thanks…again!!
Garry Brown from Your Printing Supplies:
Bridgehouse were instrumental in securing funding for my business, when I was unable to secur funding from my bank.They were able to source and successfully apply for on my behalf funding from Entrust, Business Link and North Tyneside Council.
Without their help I would not be trading today, they had faith in my business from the start and they delivered everything they said they would.
Chevron Autohire
We have worked successfully with Bridgehouse throughout our first year trading, they have been invaluable in offering advice and support through all aspects of the business. When you have no previous experience in running your own business, its impossible to foresee all the challenges ahead.
Bridgehouse were able to provide this essential service for us and have undoubtedly been instrumental in guiding us through the ups and downs of our first year, we could not have done it without them.
Congratulations to Chevron Autohire, who have recently secured substantial funding through the new Government Enterprise Finance Guarentee Scheme.
Bridgehouse have been instrumental in helping them secure this funding, which is the first sucessful application through HSBC in this area.
If you’re business needs funding and you are unable to provide securities to you’re bank to satisfy their loan critiria then this fund could well be for you.
The Loan Enterprise Guarantee Scheme is operated by all the high street banks and is supported by the government, who guarentee up to 75% of the loan, which means the loan is unsecured to you.
If you want to know more about the scheme or want to know how to apply then give us a call.