• Advice and guidance for people looking to start a business;
• Advice on all aspects of starting a business including business planning and access to finance;
• Access to training & workshops, mentoring schemes for individuals and business start ups.

Key Areas of Expertise
Start-up, self employed, entrepreneur, business planning, market research, cash flow forecast, sale planning, new business, raising finance, sustainable business.

Background
PNE provide confidential advice, training courses and workshops, mentoring schemes, and access to funding advice for business start ups.

For over 40 years PNE has coached, mentored and taught North East businesses to help them to survive and grow. We do this through one to one sessions with owners and leaders, sessions with the businesses staff to help grow the team and support them through challenging times, and through the delivery of masterclasses on a range of topics including digitising services, HR, GDPR and compliance, financial management and much much more.

Shirley is a Senior Business Advisor at PNE with many years’ experience supporting business start-ups and established businesses across the region. She comes from a business background, her family having run a large business with 120 staff for 18 years. She has also worked in finance as a business manager for HSBC and Northern Rock.