Advice, funding and support to accelerate growth for your business
Oakwood empowers entrepreneurs with the confidence to grow their business by working collaboratively, with a focus on defining your growth strategy, funding and sustained support.
Oakwood brings together the three essential elements of any successful growth strategy:
Making Strategy Pay
With greater clarity comes confidence. ‘Making Strategy Pay’ is Oakwood’s unique means of working with you to focus on the areas of largest potential growth, developing a clear and compelling business proposition and defining the changes required to deliver your aspirations.
Funding Your Business
We fundamentally believe that a partnership approach gives ambitious businesses looking for advice and funding the best chance to achieve their dreams. Oakwood partners with The Ark to provide a route to substantial funding and funding advice. Together, we bring an unrivalled track record of delivering growth for businesses ready to move to the next level. Oakwood is frequently a cornerstone investor in this process.
Support
In today’s competitive business environment, it is increasingly challenging to differentiate your business from competitors. Day to day issues take up more and more of your time and it takes a wide range of skills to succeed than ever before. The Oakwood difference is that we do not just help develop a strategy, we help you actually translate it into practice.
Our work
Clients trust Oakwood because we combine years of hands-on experience with a fresh approach fit for a changing world. Read about the impact we’ve had for others here.
Tank Vision
BACKGROUND The company needed advice and support to achieve profitable growth and a stronger position in the market. HOW WE HELPED The Oakwood team worked collaboratively with Tank Vision to develop the growth strategy. This strategy focused on selecting the right growth areas, making the proposition more compelling, communicating this [...]
Soreen
Soreen had a reasonable turnover but a very low level of profitability for the size of company and such a well-known brand. The senior management team and investors wanted to create a compelling equity story so that the company would be worth considerably more at point of sale, consistent with [...]
SET For Business
Background SET were at a point where they wanted to create a step change in growth and were looking for a partner to help them achieve this. How we helped Oakwood worked collaboratively with the SET team to develop a growth strategy and an equity story for investors. The main [...]
Insight
Our understanding of the business climate is comprehensive. That’s because we are business people ourselves, steeped in the knowledge and experience of how to drive growth, whatever the sector.
Oakwood provide commercial insights – not just support. The Oakwood team really understood our business and were able to give options that translated to profitability and bottom-line growth
Oakwood helped us create a 5-year strategy to take our business up to $10 million from just over $1million, becoming a market leader. This strategy focused on making our proposition more compelling and how we would communicate and then deliver this to the end user. Oakwood have a wealth of experience and real-life examples which is a refreshing change from other businesses used in the past. I would not hesitate in recommending the Oakwood team
Establishing the right strategy often remains the key delta between business success and failure, particularly when you are evaluating new markets and targeting strategic growth. Partnering with Oakwood enabled us to prioritise and focus our efforts and to ensure the sustainability of our key goals. I have recommended Oakwood to several colleagues within my network as a first-class partner for strategic assessment and support.
Oakwood gave us an excellent insight into our capacity for growth, the sustainability of our business model, the opportunity for efficiency improvement and the capability of our management