Existing Questions & Answers

Liverpool Chamber's stable of experts are drawn from our members. Between them they cover a wide spectrum of industry sectors. If you have a question you think could be answered by one of our experts, simply submit it and we'll post an answer right here.

Our experts cover the following sectors:

Accountancy
Corporate Finance
Corporate Social Responsibility
Credit Management & Cash Collection
Health
HR
Insurance
Marine Technologies
Office Planning / Design
IT / Telecoms
Legal
Strategic Planning
Surveyors
Transport & Travel

Accountancy


Woods Squared

Award Winning Chartered Certified Accountants and Business Growth Specialists. Woods Squared help business owners measure and improve the numbers that matter within their business.

We work closely with clients to help them grow and to achieve their business and personal goals in the following areas:

• Business Planning
• Business Consultancy Services
• Tax Planning Advice
• Systemisation

Corporate Finance


Vanguard Corporate Finance

Vanguard applies Corporate Finance and Accounting skills, together with years of commercial experience to help clients build more valuable businesses. We work alongside each client to address growing pains, funding requirements, profit improvement challenges, acquisition opportunities and when they are ready, to realise value for their hard work through sale or planned succession

Corporate Social Responsibility


Coethica

Coethica improves profitability through organisational efficiencies and building reputation by balancing your environmental and social impacts with commercial objectives.

Credit Management & Cash Collections

Credit Management Group

Jenny Esau, a member of the Institute of Credit management has been in credit management for nearly 20 years working for a medium sized company in the construction industry then several national and global corporate businesses in manufacturing and services. She set up the Credit Management Group UK five years ago. Since then she has provided expert Credit Management advice for clients across the country in many industries and professions, including national utilities, construction, recruitment, professional practices and many more.

OptimaRM

OptimaRM provides specialised outsourced credit management expertise, multi-lingual cash collection skills and a market leading IT solution for each element of the "Quote to Cash" cycle. With our proven approach and process OptimaRM guarantees to reduce the time your customers take to pay you, all from as little as £15 per live account per month.

Health


Medicash

We believe in a healthy business…Do you?

A not-for-profit organisation, we've made it our business to offer health cash plans covering eye care, dentistry, plus possibly the widest range of treatments from as little as £1.50 per week.

Whatever the size of your organisation, showing concern over the health and well-being of your employees is a well-proven way of demonstrating that you care. And at Medicash we can help you do just that.

HR


Ariadne Associates

Ariadne Associates provides a full range of professional Human Resource support services to the SME sector - particularly to companies without an "in-house" Personnel Manager.

Butterworth Spengler Insurance

Butterworth Spengler has traded in Liverpool since 1923. They are specialist commercial insurance brokers and act for some of the best known companies in Liverpool and the North West.

Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory

• estuary, coastal and shelf sea circulation & ecosystem dynamics
• wind-wave dynamics & sediment transport
• global sea level and geodetic oceanography
• marine technology & operational oceanography
  

Heatons Stationery

IT / Telecoms


Datacare Solutions

Since 1998 DCS has been involved in consultancy, design, installation and commissioning of IT Solutions. Throughout its history DCS has acquired a very wide range of experience and offers innovative hardware and software solutions to complex and varied problems.


Greystone Telecom

Greystone Telecom provide all aspects of communications from the install of equipment to the monthly billing of calls and rentals on both fixed and mobile services. We are ISO 9001 registered and proud to be part of the 'Investor in People' scheme. We cover all areas of comms these being calls, rentals, mobiles, Broad Band, leased lines, Telephone systems, NGN's (08 numbers) various software applications and more.

IPNW

Experienced providers of telecommunications systems including networks, equipment and VOIP

Multisolutions

It's like having your very own IT department, on tap to solve your problems as they happen, together with the strategy and advice you need to grow your business. With IT as an ally not an enemy.

And all this without the cost of employing anyone.You pay just a fraction of the cost of employing a techie. And it's a budget-friendly monthly fee without a contract to tie you in for a year or more at a time.

DLA Piper


Shipley Solicitors

Shipley Solicitors is a solicitors practice with a fast-growing reputation for delivering a highly efficient and professional legal service. This service is delivered in a refreshingly unorthodox fashion compared to the long-standing traditions of a solicitors practice.

Shipley Solicitors is a conscientious and caring organisation which strives to protect the interests of their clients. With genuine added value. Without the bull. Their mission is simply to deliver the best possible service within B2B law to like-minded driven clients in a straight forward effective manner.

Strategic Planning


Business Doctors

The Business Doctors specialise in strategic planning and implementation for SME's, providing friendly, practical, down to earth support, focusing businesses for growth and increased profitability.

Surveyors


Formby Surveys Ltd

FSL is a professional measurement company with nearly 20 years experience in providing high precision measurement to their wide variety of clients which include architects, developers, engineers and property management professionals encompassing both the private and public sector.

The company is at the cutting edge of technology and provides a wide variety of services covering all areas of measurement including land and measured building surveys, area referencing, GPS surveys, volumetrics, laser scanning and utility surveys.

Transport and Travel

Ogilvie Fleet

Ogilvie Fleet supply contract hire, leasing and fleet management solutions for fleets of up to 250 vehicles - from cars up to 3.5 tonne vans.

Whilst one of the UK's Top 30 leasing companies, we're also family owned and provide a truly personal, flexible and tailored service. Every client has a named Area Sales Manager and Customer Service Professional to look after your every Fleet need.

We don't operate a call centre. We don't keep you waiting for an answer. And we don't treat you as just another number!

This approach has helped us become one of the UK's fastest growing contract hire specialists with offices in Stirling, Sheffield and Birmingham.

Our product portfolio includes:

• Fleet Management
• Contract Hire
• Finance Lease
• Contract Purchase
• Outsourcing Solutions
• Daily Rental and Short Term Hire
• Accident Management
• Driver Licence Checking

Contact Andy Dalton - North West Area Manager
Mob:- 07753 420363
Home Office:- 0151 342 2654
andy.dalton@ogilvie.co.uk

Swiftsure

Swiftsure luxury chauffeur service can provide silver s class and e class saloons a long with executive silver viano's which are long wheelbase mpv's. swiftsure provides services to the business, entertainment, sporting community along with private clients and offer long or short term fixed contracts.