&lt;p&gt;I help businesses bid for and win new work! I provide consultancy support for bids, government grants and charity funding applications. Bidding of any kind&amp;nbsp;can be complicated, overwhelming and difficult. I make it easy for my clients by providing tailored support to meet their&amp;nbsp;individual needs. From bid writing to solution design to bid reviews, I can support you through the whole bid / grant lifecycle. I&amp;nbsp;also offer training to help businesses understand bidding, including upskilling existing staff to develop winning submissions. I help organisations create libraries of content they can use for business development and I train pitch teams to deliver their best.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

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Helen Rayfield > Finance > Standard service > Bid Writing

Helen Rayfield

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Working with key stakeholders to develop winning bid responses

I am a highly experienced bid professional, with over 14 years’ experience across central and local government bidding, charity and government grant funding. I have extensive experience across the full bid lifecycle, from solution design and storyboarding to producing original content for written responses to reviewing, proofing, editing and sign off. My strong communication skills mean I excel at working with teams to transform their knowledge and expertise into winning responses.&nbsp;My sector experience includes care and justice, construction, people services, hard and soft FM, security, healthcare and education. I also have significant experience completing successful charity/grant funding applications. I hold an MBA from the Open University and am a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management.

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Wizz is the founder of WIZZ&CO, a luxury brand and retail consultancy born from her passion for sourcing and building innovative brands, combined with that of developing unique consumer experiences.

As Head of Beauty at Selfridges and Director of Cowshed Beauty and Soho Home, fifteen years in the industry have provided experience across brands at all stages of their development. It is the cross-pollination of ideas between startups and large corporates that fuels her knowledge of business growth.

<During her time at Selfridges, she doubled the capacity and turnover of the Birmingham beauty hall (Selfridge’s fastest ever return of capital expenditure). From her collaborations with brands such as Facegym and Charlotte Tilbury, through to those with large corporates including Estee Lauder Corporation and L’Oreal, she has created world-class experiences. An example is ‘The Beauty Project’, the largest annual marketing and sales initiative ever executed. It ‘broke the department store mould’ by marrying commerciality with thought leadership to deliver a unique campaign.

At Soho House, Wizz developed the distribution strategy for the new ‘Soho Home’ range which launched with Mr Porter, Liberty, John Lewis and Anthropologie. In Beauty, she developed Cowshed in the USA by launching with Ulta. Wizz specialises in identifying growth opportunities via customer engagement and current trends. Her focus is to increase profitability through all customer touch-points, developing commercial, marketing and distribution strategies.

AT WIZZ&CO, WE PROVIDE:
Proven solutions to stand out in a crowded marketplace
Clarity on how to rapidly scale when you’re gaining traction
Recovery plans when you are losing market share
Out of the box ideas to reach new audiences

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The world of business is changing and Sara Osterholzer is leading the charge. She believes there’s a different way to do business that positively impacts people and the planet while still being profitable and is demystifying what that looks like to support business owners create sustainable businesses, for themselves and the world. 
 
Sara is an experienced entrepreneur, most recently the co-founder of The Good Business Club, and a mentor to the next generation of leaders looking to redesign the world of business, for good. When she’s not banging the drum for purpose-led business, you can find her touring around on her motorbike or breaking the taboo around mental health. 

Sara offers 1-2-1 advice or mentoring sessions, hosts a number of practical workshops, and recently launched The Good Business Roadmap - a course that will leave you feeling confident, clear, and ridiculously productive, ready to launch your purpose-driven business into the world in 11-weeks.

For the purpose-led, good business founders and freelancers

The world of business is changing. There’s a different way to do business that positively impacts people and the planet while still being profitable. This is a group for members who are aligned with this way of thinking to share challenges, ask for support, and learn together.

I am a specialist in financial decision-making.
I help people make better financial decisions - business and personal.
Finance is complex. Our own mindset adds to the complexity. Both factors - knowledge of finance and our thinking - affect how we make decisions and how we respond to the results.
I&apos;m a chartered accountant and consultant, with over 30 years experience across the City &amp; industry, commercial &amp; not-for-profit, large &amp; small. With this background I can laser in on what&apos;s most relevant for a given client, in a given scenario.
As a coach and mentor, I&apos;ve helped clients develop more effective mindsets around money &amp; wealth for over ten years.
I&apos;m also a non-executive director of Renaisi Ltd, a social enterprise helping the long-term unemployed into work.

Price your Pitch, Profitably

Getting the right price for your products or services is an art.

If you:

- feel like you&apos;re pitching in the dark,

- can&apos;t charge what &quot;you&apos;re worth&quot;,

- spend ages putting together quotes and can&apos;t understand why your conversion rate is low,

- provide great value to your clients but they just don&apos;t see the value.

Book a free discovery call to find out how I can help you clarify the value of your product or service, and learn new skills to communicate value

I am an experienced strategic leader and professional tender, bid writer and fundraiser with experience in Trusts and Foundations, Corporate Sponsors, Major Donors, online fundraising, fundraising events and challenges. I have successfully worked with public, private and third sector organisations to deliver winning content and documentation and acquire six and seven figure contracts and grant funding. I have experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams in both the private and charity sector, developing and implementing corporate strategies, business planning, managing large scale projects and managing multi-million pound budgets. As a business development professional I am highly skilled in all stages of the sales process. I am a skilled and astute networker, passionate about making connections and gaining great satisfaction from making referrals and introductions.
I am also a Potentiality and Empowerment Coach helping individuals, businesses and communities reach and realise their potential.

Clare Roberts-Molloy

I am an experienced strategic leader and professional tender, bid writer and fundraiser with experience in Trusts and Foundations, Corporate Sponsors, Major Donors, online fundraising, fundraising events and challenges. I have successfully worked with public, private and third sector organisations to deliver winning content and documentation and acquire six and seven figure contracts and grant funding. I have experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams in both the private and charit