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Looking for finance for your 2016 plan?

If you’ve been following our blog you will know that we’ve been encouraging you recently to get working on your business plan for 2016. And for many SMEs, getting visionary around the business plan also means needing to find creative ways of raising cash in order to fund the grand ideas. […]

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Our Top Tips for Advent

Here we are during Advent 2015, counting down to Christmas. Advent is about planning, preparing, expectation. Taken from the Latin word adventus -meaning ‘coming.’ So. What’s in store for your business in 2016? How you going to end 2015 on a high – and ready to storm into 2016? We’ll […]

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Join Our Club!

Listen up, SMEs in Yorkshire. Time for a very exciting announcement from us. We are launching our 2016 Serenwood Business Club in a few weeks. We’ve listened carefully to the feedback we’ve collected from SMEs in the last 12 months. We know that you are tired of paying huge legal fees. […]

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Have you felt like this about your legal bills?

We love this video by Pasha Law in the US (credit: www.pashalaw.com) Come and talk to us at Serenwood and see how we can save you money on the commercial advice you need for your business. hello@serenwood.co.uk

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Brand Yorkshire 2015

Team Serenwood had a fantastic time at the Brand Yorkshire show in October. Big thank you to Richard Norman and Mona Alani for another well-organised and useful event for our region. Our main reason for taking a stall this year was to get face to face time with businesses in the region – […]

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Guest Blog – Sarah Shay of Shayping

Good morning all you wonderful people. Are you creating an amazing day? Welcome to the first in our series of guest blogs where we will be introducing you to interesting and inspiring people doing business in Yorkshire. First up is one of our good friends Sarah Shay of Shayping. Find out how […]

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Why Thomas Edison was a terrible fisherman

I heard a great story today about Thomas Edison which I wanted to share with all you busy business owners out there. Thomas Edison was a genius scientist who is credited with inventing the phonograph, the electric light bulb and the motion picture camera. But, he was a terrible fisherman. He […]

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Serenwood in Sicklinghall

    Team Serenwood has been quiet on the blogging front and the social media world recently. But that’s because we’ve been extremely busy in the real world. We’ve moved into our new offices in beautiful Sicklinghall, near Harrogate. We’re at Carlshead Business Centre and it’s a fabulous location which […]

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7 of the most common, everyday contracts for SMEs

We’ve been out and about a lot recently, meeting new people around Yorkshire. We often get told “you don’t look like lawyers!” and then the next question is usually “what exactly is it that you do, then?” It’s a hard question to answer quickly (darn you, elevator pitch!) because we offer […]

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Buy Yorkshire Conference 2015 – converting Yorkshire business to hands-on legal advice

We had lots of fun at the Buy Yorkshire Conference held in Leeds this week. It’s the biggest B2B event north of London and the organisers (Yorkshire Mafia) did a fab job. It was an ideal opportunity to meet and connect with hundreds of small businesses in the Yorkshire region. […]