FCG Business Planning

For more than 30 years FCG consultants have helped thousands of farm and rural businesses develop their business.  From the preparation of a straightforward partial budget to justifying changing a farming system to a capital budget involving millions of pounds for the purchase of a farm or estates and at every scale in between, FCG consultants have the experience and knowledge to help you with your business planning issues.  In today’s unpredictable conditions failing to plan is planning to fail, and that can be applied to just about any business decision. 

The withdrawal of the Basic Payment Scheme and the increasing emphasis on payments for environmental protection under the New Environmental Land Management scheme, FCG consultants can guide you through these new schemes.  New opportunities are arising for rural business to benefit from measures to protect and increase natural capital be these payments for Bio-diversity offsetting or carbon credits, FCG consultants can help you appraise the impact on your business.  Combing these new income streams with the increasing volatility of prices, the need for comprehensive business plans and budgets has never been greater.

Succession Planning

The latest data from DEFRA shows the ageing nature of the business proprietors and with ever-changing taxation and support regimes FCG consultants are ideally placed to help other professionals in preparing succession plans for the business. Plans that not only meet as many of the parties aims as possible but plans that ensure there is a future for the business or new business going forward.

Growing Your Business

FCG consultants understand that in planning a business that return on the capital is a critical component for all successful businesses and for long term success the ROC is critical in the accumulation of capital.  That does not prevent FCG consultants knowing that the generation of annual cash surplus is what drives business growth.

The preparation of detailed budgets starts with understanding both the aims and objectives of the business as well as the physical limitation of the business.  Setting out these assumptions to support the finances of the business plan is a key component of the business plans prepared by our consultants.

Annual Budgets

FCG consultants are experienced at preparing annual budgets that clearly set out the financial requirements of the business, not only in the immediate short term but plans that set out the financial requirements in the longer term.  We use a range of bespoke software to help us prepare budgets from an annual cashflow to multiyear investment appraisals.

FCG consultants understand the needs of banks and other funding agencies and will prepare plans that set out the parameters and needs of the business.

Capital Grants   

For more than 25 years FCG consultants have been preparing plans and budgets for clients to help them in applications for capital grants.  To date the grants obtained run into millions of pounds and the businesses that have benefited range from start-up tenancies to schemes involving millions of pounds of investment in new business and farm diversification projects. 

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