Business in East Anglia

Based in Bishop’s Stortford, we are a small team providing independent, tailored corporate finance services to our clients in East Anglia. At Forward, we help owners and managers of businesses to plan for and achieve their goals. Whether that is a business sale, structuring and completing a management buy-out or making a strategic acquisition, we are committed to delivering success for our clients. We are with you from the start to completion, ensuring your transaction is properly planned and efficiently executed. Planning, thinking and moving you FORWARD. Please visit us at www.forwardcf.co.uk How can we help? We focus only on transactions, helping business...

The firm: Thompson Smith and Puxon can trace its roots back to 1879 and has since grown to be one of the leading law firms in Essex, with 12 partners, some 70 employees, and offices in Colchester and Clacton. It offers a range of legal advice to businesses and individual clients. Its specialist practice areas, with accredited lawyers and attentive support staff, ensure clients receive the most professional and practical advice available.   Business services team: TSP looks after the business issues that matter to its clients whether they are large or small. The corporate and commercial team includes a number of...

The Pitt Building is an impressive historic conference venue in Cambridge city centre. They offer 8 rooms for hire, including the majestic Oriel Room. The venue is perfect for meetings, away days and conferences, and is only a two minute walk from the river and King’s Parade. Standing on the old main site for Cambridge University Press, The Pitt Building have been providing a dedicated events service for over 15 years. They can provide a variety of catering, from sandwich lunches through to hot fork buffets and canape receptions. Please visit www.pittbuilding.org for further information.

Sackers started as a traditional scrap merchant in the 1920’s. In today’s offering we’ve expanded to commercial waste disposal solutions and skip hire. With more and more pressure on businesses to take ownership of their environmental impact, we are offering a free waste audit to Suffolk businesses to identify where they can improve efficiencies, improve recycling ability, reduce carbon footprint and reduce vehicle movement. More often than not we can reduce costs too and we aim to reduce vehicle disturbance on your premises and ensure as much is recycled as possible.  Our own business goal is to recycle over 90% of what...

At Larking Gowen, we’re here for the long term. Whether you’re a large organisation or an individual, we take the time to get to know you, your business and your goals. We forge long-term relationships, often through generations of families, so we’ll deliver timely advice whenever you or your business needs it. We'll work with you as your business grows, helping you make the right decisions along the way. Our values are about service and commitment, both to our clients and our people. We build strong, dedicated teams that share knowledge and expertise for the benefit of all our clients, delivering a friendly one-to-one...

Ingleton Wood is one of the leading multi-disciplinary property and construction consultancies in the East of England. An award-winning Practice, that provides architecture, building surveying, civil and structural engineering, building services engineering, project management, quantity surveying, planning, interior design, CDM and health & safety and sustainability services. What we do Working across both the public and private sector, Ingleton Wood deliver functional, high quality building solutions where the work is tailored to meet our clients’ individual needs and aspirations. With offices in London, Colchester, Cambridge, Norwich and Billericay, we cover the entire Eastern region and beyond, delivering projects in a number of...

Since its launch 12 years ago, Penn Commercial has grown to become one of the most respected commercial property agents in the east of England. The team of six, which is based in Fox's Marina, offers a wide ranging and award winning service to clients in a variety of sectors. The team is made up of negotiators, property managers and administrators and supported by consultants providing additional specialist services. Managing director, Vanessa Penn, said: "One of our key strengths is that we have a finger on the pulse of what is going on locally. We know where the demand is and how to...

Intellectual Property Protection, Advice & Strategy Our patent and trade mark attorneys provide practical, commercially-focused advice to businesses across the UK, Europe and worldwide. Services Patent Applications  Trade Mark Registration Design Registration IP Searches & Watching IP Renewals IP Oppositions & Litigation IP Advice & Strategy IP Portfolio Management IP Valuations IP Due Diligence For more information on how we can help please call 01206 571187 or email mail@sandersons.co.uk www.sandersons.co.uk What our clients think “They are absolutely superb – they have done a great job for us. They are responsive and know what they are doing. I don’t hesitate in putting anything into their hands. Their pricing...

Genesis is a leading PR and marketing agency providing award winning consultancy and tactical delivery for today’s digital world. We are the 2018/19 and 2019/20 Outstanding PR Consultancy of the Year for Anglia, Thames and Chiltern Region, also winning Gold for Outstanding Corporate and Business Campaign. We were also recognised for two national titles at the 2019 CIPR Excellence awards. What makes us special Our team, because we care deeply about giving the best advice and expert tactical delivery! Our focus is our clients – listening and understanding their challenges, and providing insightful and trustworthy strategic advice and strategic direction to their marketing...

At Barclays Wealth Management, we work with wealthy individuals in the Eastern region to create tailored solutions for each stage of their lives. We offer a personal and proactive approach to managing clients’ wealth and take the time to get to know and understand their ambitions in order to help them achieve their financial goals. Our range of services cover banking and credit, investments, wealth advisory, portfolio management, financing and lifestyle solutions that are tailored to our clients’ individual financial objectives. With a broad range of local clients – from entrepreneurs to Lottery winners – our wealth and investment management...

Begbies Traynor is the UK’s leading business rescue and recovery specialist, with a national network of offices that deliver unrivalled levels of expertise in the areas of insolvency, liquidation, receivership and administration, as well as corporate restructuring and recovery. The firm’s Cambridge office was set up in 2009 and is lead by partner Louise Baxter, who has nearly30 years’ experience. Why choose Begbies Traynor? Our experts are ideally placed to advise on any type or scale of financial problem and to support individual directors through what can be exceptionally tough decision-making processes. If you or your business is looking for guidance on...

Birketts is a top 100 UK law firm with offices in Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich and Norwich.  Our lawyers deliver expert legal advice combined with a high quality and personalised service.  Our clients trust us to achieve a solution that is right for them however difficult or challenging the circumstances.  That trust has been earned over time and sets the standard upon which our reputation is based. Alongside our core business areas of corporate and commercial, commercial property, commercial and personal litigation and private client law, we have leading solicitors in specialist areas of the law such as shipping and transportation,...

Greene & Greene is a long established firm of solicitors based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and is recognised by independent legal directories as one of the best law firms in East Anglia. The firm advises individuals and businesses based all over the UK and has been growing steadily year on year since the 1990s. Many clients, who were previously using firms in London, have transferred their business to Greene & Greene after realising the improved cost efficiency and personal service on offer. Many existing clients have remained loyal to the firm over several decades, which is testament...

Established in 1951, Rapleys is a property & planning consultancy offering comprehensive professional and agency services, on a personal and value added basis. We work across the UK, with offices located in Cambridge, Huntingdon, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, London and Manchester. Our national office network is strategically located to deliver a service based on local and regional knowledge but with a national understanding and focus of the wider commercial property market. We are highly active in the East Anglian region, managing the work from our Cambridge and London offices. We provide a fresh and different perspective to the commercial property and planning process...

Fenn Wright is East Anglia’s leading, independently owned partnership of chartered surveyors, commercial property experts and estate agents, employing over 150 people. Our surveyors and agents offer an unrivalled range of professional skills and local market knowledge, and we aim to provide industry-leading levels of service. We have a network of offices across Essex and Suffolk with great links to London and represent a wide spectrum of clients. Whether working with investors and developers, landlords and tenants, property companies, pension funds, business owners, private individuals or local authorities, we know the sector inside out and are on hand to help with all...

FJG is the Essex law firm with deep-rooted ethical values and cast-iron integrity, committed to providing expert legal advice and exceptional client service. FJG’s ethos is to work hard every day to make FJG the preferred choice for anyone requiring legal advice from a law firm with a conscience. Respected by clients and peers alike, FJG are committed to giving back to the locality in which we work, truly wanting to make a difference for you, your business and our shared communities. Together, our employees are driven by a desire to build a law firm for future generations where clients continue...

Meet Cambridge is the official conference and events bureau for venues at the University of Cambridge, the Colleges, hotels and other unique properties in and around the city. With a choice of over 50 spaces in and around Cambridge, from ancient Tudor College halls to contemporary lecture theatres, the Meet Cambridge portfolio has a venue for every type of event and budget, both in-person and hybrid. The service is free of charge, saves you time and there’s no obligation. With one quick enquiry the team at Meet Cambridge can check availability at all suitable venues for you. Versatile spaces There’s huge versatility, with many...

Based in Ipswich, Inform Direct is a creator of award-winning company secretarial software which helps both business owners and accountancy practices to meet statutory obligations for limited companies. The software currently supports compliance for more than 200,000 companies throughout the UK and is regularly reviewed and updated to meet emerging requirements. For business owners If you are an entrepreneur or director, Inform Direct makes it easy for you to manage statutory company records, including Companies House filings and updates. This means you no longer need to manually maintain paper records or struggle with complex, outdated software which gives you more time to focus...