What We Do
Managing Change, Finance
& Business Planning
Our Consultancy Constellations model enables tailored mentoring from a single expert or a bespoke team with the right mix of skills, to combine financial knowhow with creative, marketing and product knowhow. We’ve helped small enterprises in their start up planning and preparation of business plans & we have helped mature creative businesses to plan and implement an effective and profitable exit strategy.
Business planning is based on your business’s creative equity and unique mission, including sustainability. We can help to prepare a business plan, identify funding or develop a product, marketing & supply strategy.
Our triple bottom Line approach will ensure your sustainable sourcing strategy is costed and aligned with business growth, while your sustainability story enhances brand equity. (Find out more in our sustainability section)
Peter Allen and Daphne Kasambala support Finance and Retail planning.
Bespoke Mentoring Packages
We work with SME’s from sole traders & micro enterprise to well established businesses, B2B and B2C, and we will recommend a package according to your budget and needs.
Sustainable Business Support
We understand that sustainability and ethics are important and it can be a challenge to really know your supply chain. If you are beginning to outsource production, we’ll help you to manage CSR, even if your business is very small. We understand that a small business needs to make a profit even if you use very small scale manufacturing.
Market Access & Development
Our team has wide experience of research, design and implementation of international market access in Asia, Europe and Africa, partnering with trade bodies, government and NGO's in a variety of industry contexts around the broad sectoral umbrella of textiles, fibre, apparel and accessories
Research
Creative and Digital Economy in East Sussex:
In 2018 Wise Birds conducted research and produced this report for South East Business Boost, an ERDF initiative supporting SME's in the South East.
See the report here
Sustainability
Mapping Sustainability Within Your Business Plan
Sustainability, community & social awareness underpin Wise Birds Network’s approach to creative enterprise. We work with partners and clients who share our principles.
Sustainability mapping and systems can seem daunting for a small creative business with limited resources. Our experience in CSR, value chain mapping & fair trading with global companies, NGO’s and international supply chains, helps our clients (many of whom are SME’s and sole traders) to develop an authentic sustainability approach that fits their business scale without compromising creative DNA.
We have developed a Triple Bottom Line Plus approach to ensure that creative equity and sustainability inform the business model and growth ambitions, so that sustainable strategy contributes to the profit and market growth of the business - respecting the ethical & environmental profile of the product
Case Studies
Laura Lee Jewellery
“I worked with Wise Birds Network on a relaunch and growth strategy for my company. Together we developed a plan which covered brand architecture, PR and Marketing, production management and more, all within a robust financial framework in order to devise a clear path towards our longer term business objectives.
I have found them to be expert guides on this challenging journey and my team and I are looking forward to working with them on an ongoing basis in order to achieve our goals. “
Laura Lee
Cherchbi & Utility Archive Ltd
WBN worked on the valuation and sale of the Cherchbi accessories brand; we put together a package that considered brand values alongside other assets. When Adam launched the Utilty Archive collection, we helped him to build a business plan around a structured brand architecture and sustainable value chain.
“ My experience with the Wise Birds Network team has been excellent from start to finish, enjoyable, educational and always efficient. Most importantly their input was instrumental in executing the successful sale of the brand.
Highly recommended”
Adam Atkinson, Cherchbi and Utility Archive
Tallin Inkubaator
Wise Birds Network partners with Tallinn Creative Incubator to deliver workshops and individual coaching around themes including branding, sustainable manufacture and marketing. working with their micro business members in creative and artisanal sectors from babywear to chocolate.
“Wise Birds Network coaches were very professional– they made me think differently about the overall vision of the company and brand.
Hands on assignments gave me very good thinking material
Useful info with practical examples”
Tallinn Creative Incubator feedback
