Charlotte is an experienced Business Adviser, having worked for D2N2 Growth Hub, providing impartial advice and practical support to SMEs across Nottinghamshire and the Creative Quarter in Nottingham, helping creative and digital start-ups to grow. In addition, she has spent the last two years assisting business owners to steer a course through the pandemic.

Charlotte has over twenty years of experience in marketing and product development and is Chartered Institute of Marketing accredited.  She spent the first part of her career working as a product manager for a multinational giftware manufacturer, delivering new brands and product ranges for high street chains, major supermarkets, and independent retailers.  Charlotte has also worked in business-to-business services and the public sector.

Charlotte specialises in start-up and SME support and can advise on a range of business matters, including business planning, sales, and marketing, and accessing grants and funding.

An experienced Business Coach and Mentor. David has extensive experience working with a variety of SME’s to assist them with meeting their aims and aspirations. Adopts a friendly, flexible, and bespoke approach to ensure that their aims and objectives are met. As well as successfully assisting businesses to obtain grant funding he coaches and mentors High Growth Businesses and mentors individual Senior Executives.

Is well versed in all aspects of Business finance having spent the majority of his career working for a major high street bank, both as a Senior Corporate Manager and latterly as a Regional Director. A successful leader and manager he also has significant experience as a non-executive director of several larger organisations.

Has many years’ experience in recruitment, selection and career management. Qualified in Saville and Holdsworth psychometric testing as well as assessment centre design.

Julie is an experienced Business Adviser who prior to joining NBV spent 35 years in Banking, predominately in business banking supporting businesses.

She has a wealth of knowledge and experience which she uses to support both start-ups and established businesses to develop and grow. Her expertise is assisting businesses with their business and financial planning and helping them recognise their financial needs to help them be successful and grow.

Julie offers a relaxed critical friend approach to provide honest and realistic support to encourage business owners to take the next steps. She prides herself on her natural investigative and probing approach to really understand the business owner and their dreams and aspirations so that she can offer tailored and bespoke mentoring advice and support.

Beryl has worked as a Business Adviser and Trainer for NBV since 2013, and currently delivers Starting in Business, Business Planning, Marketing and Social Media workshops for NBV.

She has worked in marketing for over 25 years, both in a corporate environment and in her own business, Ridgeway Marketing. She mentors and trains businesses in the use of digital marketing techniques such as blogging, social media and Mailchimp email marketing. She also shows them how to combine digital marketing with traditional marketing such as networking, events, and PR.

Beryl has an MA in Marketing, the Chartered Institute of Marketing Diploma in Marketing and is a SFEDI accredited business mentor.