Month: December 2025

Social Care Mindset

Working with business owners in the Social Care Sector it is clear that so many are stuck in a mindset. They require the Local Authority and NHS approval to attract clients.

The adjustments to the procurement process for 2026 have some surprises in store. A recent Pre-market Engagement event with one of the local authorities dropped the bombshell – all providers must have a CQC rating of “Good” or better.

The CQC First Inspection backlog runs to the thousands, note the post by Homecare Association. The problem will get worse.

Three Simple Steps

Once registration is achieved a Care provider can build the market confidence with three actions:

  1. Prequalification using SSIP accreditation for Health and Safety
  2. Complete PAS91 compliance
  3. Social Value Accreditation

All available for Health and Social Care Providers, the investment creates clear rewards and generates market confidence. We recommend using service providers like PQS (Prequalification Scheme [SSIP])

Quality Assurance Accreditation

Tailored ISO 9001 accreditation is limited and costly but worth the investment. The assessment process is designed to capture both Good Practice and Key development needs.

When small businesses look to punch above their weight the primary tool is demonstrating the quality of the service.

Social Media

The growth of online Brokerages has created a second marketplace and here you are looking at paying for referrals.

How do you beat the Brokers? simply put work harder at the online profile and footprint. Therefore, use AI tools to ensure that your prospective clients are engaged quickly, that they can speak to the right person.

Consequently, Facebook; Instagram; Bluesky; Community Directories and local advertising online create opportunities.

Additionally, use feedback sites and request testimonials that automatically link to Trust Pilot and similar services. Use Online Forms to feed the local reference sites where your business is listed.

Exploit Website Potential

Therefore this year I have offered all clients web traffic analysis. The majority found this interesting as they paid maintenance services and SEO only to find the unique visits generated each week were low.

Also the website design is just the same as everyone else, take a look, same photographs, AI generated text and links that didn’t help them to inspire anyone to call.

Looking at my website you will say “you can’t talk” however, my website isn’t designed to encourage a large number of enquires. The blog is all that is focused on as all services and support are bespoke, designed and then tailored to your needs. We make ourselves redundant.

So act over the holiday period launch these actions:

  • Analyse the website
  • Check your credit score as a business
  • List the accreditation that would give you confidence
  • Design a marketing plan
  • Action plan for the second week in January

If you need assistance in completing any of these tasks or want this done independently then contact us or subscribe to the blog.

Prepare your business for 2026 and secure a positive approach to market growth and development

Be The Difference

In the early 1990s I was told “Be the Difference”. One person can change everything! Social Justice is achievable and equity is possible.

The people who shouted the most about the skills I had to create change gained a reputation, financial security and prospered. Pointing the team I worked with at so many projects.

My role was strategic fund raiser. Success followed easily and the money for projects began to flow, first thousands, then millions and hundreds of millions.

We weren’t the best, there are so many worked from the 1940s to today in this field who are now in need of that support.

Why? Because we forgot that the “Poor”, disadvantaged and ordinary have to remain with us if society is to get rich.

The Moral

Don’t forget about your personal future. Plan for a period of financial restriction. Life is about understanding that the rule of unintended consequences. It affects us all. Life gets in the way and time flies.

The Impact

Past triumphs don’t count, no one rewards you for what you did 10 or 20 years ago. People define you by what you do now. Society is ungrateful. People assume they have rights and its another persons responsibility to ensure them.

Here is a simple example, the DWP Jobcentre appraisal is you can not work and you need to receive Universal Credit. However, PIP is not accessible because a person on the end of the telephone decides you’re OK. The Assessor tells you it is not their decision but the truth is the information they provide forms the basis of a judgement call.

Put enough layers of decision making in place and everything can be excused as someone else should have picked it up.

The systemic failure of society is based on failure – failure to apply the “Golden Rule”. There’s no need for global poverty, but when the rich have revenue sources from exploiting others it prolongs poverty.

Solution

Surprisingly its not focus on what you need or want, its be content, understand that Governments come and go, they affect and effect very little and change nothing. So we need a new style of government.

One that can’t be corrupted. One that offers the essentials to all and guarantees education, food and shelter.

Better days are coming – however, all things that work for the benefit of society today are futile. We will always have the poor with us, the homeless, those deprived of an education.

Find your way – I read the Bible and look at the best life can offer now and although for all the years spent trying to fix society my family have little to show for it, we have a real hope for the future.

Small Business economics

For Small Business owners the prediction for 2026 is quite bleak. An investment poor macro economic profile depresses the headline rate of economic growth.

However, this is an opportunity for business owners. Growth is over emphasised in business because sustainability and durability are key.

We work with those “we know, like and trust”, therefore, it is the opportunity to get to know your market and potential customers.

Health and Social Care

We’re told the health and social care system is failing. That’s not accurate. Demand out strips the structure to respond. Yet the market place is deluged with small providers who do a great job.

The problem? Simple, the Public rely on the Local Authority and Government, NHS and established Health Care sector to shop for them. This creates problems.

We don’t send others to shop for very personal services, choose where we do our weekly grocery shopping or buy petrol. Yet we rely on people who don’t know us to find the care provider.

Remedy! Care providers get known in your community, be there first, one off support. For example, this month thousands are down with a particularly difficult strain of influenza. Ask what support could you provide? Many care providers shop for their clients, is this a one off service you can introduce?

For example, in Liverpool, Birmingham, Essex, Nottingham, Leicestershire you have access to top care providers like:

All local care providers and working in their respective communities.

Therefore, Look for opportunities to be seen. Use social media and offer support. Don’t hide your business.

Trading Through Recession

The global reality is that market growth now depends on reducing globalisation, breaking up international companies and starting to operate within national boundaries.

However, the multinationals who move most of the money out of economies control Governments.

A radical solution is turn the income tap off. Require all businesses to operate under the same rules.

Faceless multinationals are at a disadvantage, they exploit convenience, price is rarely a factor because Wish, Alibaba and Temu compete on price but it is delivery times that let them down

Consolidation creates growth

Learn from the natural world, plants have seasons for growth, eventually everything stops growing but still functions.

Want to establish a market position that naturally develops in your community then contact us

Learn from the great surviving enterprises, who grow in favourable seasons, consolidate and trim to ensure continuation of trading. Business owners are not at the mercy of the marketplace they can drive it.

Stay Visible; Stay Local; Stay relevant!

Consequently, we see this as the time for real development. Create a plan, start by calling us.

Presumption

There is assumption and presumption, note the difference:

An Everyday Affliction

Authority presents information as truth, big companies and advertisers do this and the majority never raise any questions about the veracity of any statement. They take things at face value.

The reality is that little truth is written or spoken. For example requesting credit when the borrower knows they will never be able to pay. Or the public lender who is borrowing from a future source of money they haven’t yet received.

Corruption and dishonesty permeate all parts of life and business.

Neither a Borrower or a Lender Be

Having always developed businesses with zero access to borrowing, no loans, nor overdraughts has meant that every opportunity opens and closes without doing damage to others.

There is good sense in operating within the means of the business. In the early 1990’s I joined a firm based on a lie, deception, that there was at least enough money in the bank to get through the first years operation. It became the money didn’t exist.

30 people lost their jobs because I took things at face value. It never happened again.

The clear message

Expect to be deceived, learn the language of those who promise what they can’t and often have no intention of delivering.

Business Independence relies on those Six honest serving men:

I keep six honest serving-men
   (They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When 
   And How and Where and Who.

I send them over land and sea,
   I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
   I give them all a rest.

These are our tools for checking the veracity of others therefore, we all need to use them. The economy tanks because of macro policy adjustment small business collapses because of micro decisions.

Taking things at face value leads to disappointment therefore, aggressively challenge all news sources, hence checking for yourself. There’s nothing that substitutes

Need to know how to use the tools Contact Us

Update

The media are now telling everyone what a mistake the British People made, it doesn’t matter. Those who provide the information others make decision with are culpable.

Consequently, Its time to settle and graft, small business faces the micro end of the economy. Therefore without small business big business can’t function because we are the supply chain. Skip the media and politics and focus on the business.

Success and victory in the mountains.