Be Ready for Business, free for a limited time
The government's Be Ready campaign is written for households. This is the business version, and for a limited time the ninety-minute Guided Session is free to a small number of North East firms. In exchange, I ask for a testimonial once you have used it.
Claim a free slot
Tell me a little about the firm and I will be in touch to arrange it. There are only a few slots.
What it is
A ninety-minute session, on-site or remote. We work through the ten resilience checks on the free guide, on your kit, and write down what is actually true for your business. If the till or the email stops tomorrow morning, the answers are on one sheet of paper instead of in someone's head.
Why it is free
The Be Ready campaign covers the household. There is no business version of the guidance, because the campaign's business page does not exist. So the firm's version is being written here, with real businesses rather than hypotheticals. A handful of local firms at no cost, in return for honest feedback and, if the session earns it, a testimonial I can quote. That is the whole trade. When the slots are gone, the session goes back to its usual fee.
What you get
The ten checks completed for your firm, on one page. That page is what you take away and file.
Your firm's cadence: the first 4 hours, the first 24 hours and the first week, written for your kit, your stock and your staff.
A short session record: what we checked, what we found, what we fixed in the room and what we could not.
The three things to do next, each with an owner and a date.
A backup restore to run yourself after the session, so you know it works rather than hoping it would.
Who this is for
Firms in the North East: a shop, a trade, a small practice, or the office of a bigger operation where the decisions still sit with one or two people. Anyone whose takings stop the moment the till or the email does.
What I ask in return
Feedback, honestly given, and a short testimonial if the session was worth your time. No obligation to buy anything afterwards.
The wider resilience work
This session is one rung. The free guide, the framework behind it and the rest of the ladder are on the Be ready page.
See the resilience work