Start, Scale, Sucess
Are you looking at setting up a business or have an existing business in Solihull
Enterprise & Growth is Solihull’s comprehensive Pre-Start and Business support Programme, a dynamic initiative designed to empower aspiring entrepreneurs and guide them through every crucial step of their business journey.
Enterprise & Growth is Solihull’s comprehensive Pre-Start and Business support Programme, a dynamic initiative designed to empower aspiring entrepreneurs and guide them through every crucial step of their business journey. At RSCL, we understand that the foundation of a successful business lies in proper planning, strategic thinking, and innovative approaches. With our expertly crafted program, we offer a supportive environment, expert guidance, and practical tools that transform your business idea into a thriving reality.
Building Your Business Foundations Workshop
Designed for prestart client, the journey begins with a thorough needs assessment to understand your unique requirements. Following this, you'll engage in a peer-to-peer session called Building your Business Foundations. In this supportive environment, you'll delve into the essential elements of business, tailored to meet your specific needs. Through 3 hours of intensive support, you'll craft a comprehensive needs assessment and a business plan canvas, setting the stage for your entrepreneurial venture.
This workshop is delivered in person and online
One to one Support session
Growth: Supporting Your Business at Every Stage
Whether you're preparing to launch a new venture or have already started trading, our Growth support is designed to help you build strong foundations, overcome challenges, and achieve your business ambitions. We provide personalised support focused on the areas most critical to your success, helping you move from idea to implementation and from survival to sustainable growth.
Sessions include:
Business and Marketing Strategy
Develop a clear vision for your business and create practical plans to achieve your goals. Whether you're validating a new business idea, refining your value proposition, attracting your first customers, or exploring opportunities to enter new markets, we'll help you build a strategy that supports long-term success.
Innovating to Succeed
Innovation isn't just for established businesses. From developing new products and services to improving processes and embracing new technologies, we'll help you identify opportunities to innovate and adapt your business to meet changing customer needs and market demands.
Managing Growth and Change
Every business faces periods of change. Whether you're launching your business, taking on your first customers, recruiting employees, increasing productivity, or preparing for expansion, we'll help you navigate challenges, manage change effectively, and create a roadmap for growth.
Business Planning and Foundations
Strong businesses are built on strong foundations. We'll help you understand the key requirements for starting and running a successful business, including registrations, licences, compliance, financial planning, and governance. Whether you're creating your first business plan or reviewing an existing strategy, we'll ensure you have the tools and knowledge needed to make informed decisions.
Flexible Support Tailored to Your Needs
We understand that every business journey is different. That's why our support is tailored to your individual circumstances, goals, and stage of development. As your needs evolve, we'll work with you to review progress, refine action plans, and identify new opportunities to help you move forward with confidence.
Join Us on Your Business Journey
Whether you're taking your first steps into entrepreneurship or looking to strengthen and grow an existing business, we're here to help. With expert guidance, practical resources, and personalised support, we'll help you turn your ambitions into achievable goals and build a business that is ready for the future.
Introducing our Detailed Cash Flow Forecast – a comprehensive financial planning tool designed to help you understand, monitor and manage the flow of money through your business.
Building on the principles of our Simple Cash Flow Forecast, this detailed Excel-based template allows you to break down your expected income and expenditure into individual categories, giving you a much clearer picture of your business's financial position throughout the year.
Whether you're preparing to launch, in your first year of trading, or looking to strengthen your financial planning, this tool can help you make informed decisions and identify potential cash-flow challenges before they arise.
Key Features
1. Detailed Sales and Income Forecasting
Record and monitor your expected sales and income on a monthly basis.
Break down different sources of sales and income.
Distinguish between cash and credit sales.
Track loans, investment, grants and other sources of funding.
Build a realistic picture of expected income throughout the year.
2. Detailed Operating Costs
Plan for the day-to-day costs involved in running your business, with dedicated sections for key expenditure areas including:
Wages and staffing costs
Utilities and premises costs
IT, software and subscriptions
Motor and travel expenses
Marketing and promotional activity
Accountancy and legal fees
Loan repayments and interest
Capital expenditure and business assets
This level of detail makes it easier to understand where your money is being spent and identify areas where costs could be managed more effectively.
3. Monthly Cash Flow Visibility
Track your expected cash position month by month, helping you to:
Monitor money coming into and going out of the business.
Identify periods of strong or weak cash flow.
Anticipate potential cash shortages.
Plan ahead for significant expenditure.
Understand how financial decisions may affect your available cash.
4. Supporting Financial Worksheets
The template includes dedicated worksheets to help you build your forecast in greater detail, including Sales, Wages, Utilities, IT, Motor & Travel, Marketing, Accountancy & Legal, Loan Repayments and Capital Expenditure.
These supporting schedules feed into the main cash-flow forecast, helping to create a more comprehensive and structured financial picture.
5. Profit and Loss Overview
Use the supporting Profit & Loss section alongside your cash-flow forecast to gain a broader understanding of your business's financial performance.
This allows you to consider not only your cash position, but also sales, direct costs, fixed costs and other key financial information when assessing the performance and sustainability of your business.
6. Financial Analysis
The accompanying financial analysis provides additional insight into your business performance, helping you consider areas such as:
Sales performance
Variable and fixed costs
Contribution margin
Cost percentages
Drawings and other financial commitments
Together, these insights can support better financial planning and more informed business decisions.
How to Get Started
1. Download the Template
Access our detailed, Excel-based Cash Flow Forecast and use it as a starting point for your financial planning.
2. Enter Your Business Information
Add your expected sales, income and expenditure into the relevant monthly sections. The supporting worksheets allow you to provide as much detail as necessary for your business.
3. Review Your Cash Position
Use the completed forecast to see how money is expected to move through your business over the coming months.
4. Plan and Make Informed Decisions
Use the information to identify potential challenges, plan for upcoming expenditure, manage costs and make informed decisions about the future of your business.
Plan Ahead with Confidence
Our Detailed Cash Flow Forecast is designed to give you greater visibility and control over your business finances. By taking the time to understand your expected income, expenditure and cash position, you can identify potential challenges early, plan ahead and build greater financial resilience.
Use it alongside your business plan to assess the viability of your business idea, support your financial planning and make confident, informed decisions as your business develops.