6: Administrative & Professional Support
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We do not give a blanket recommendation for all our members, but advise prospective customers and clients to rely upon their judgement
and exercise due diligence in forming their own trusted relationships with our members.
Where our members have undertaken our Social Responsibility Training you will see the ESTA Logo next to their name.
and exercise due diligence in forming their own trusted relationships with our members.
Where our members have undertaken our Social Responsibility Training you will see the ESTA Logo next to their name.
Blend Accountants: Chartered Accountants & Business Advisors
Have the business you always dreamed of. With more profit, more time and a lot less stress. At Blend, we’re not your traditional accountants. We care about YOU. We care about YOUR business.
Caterfly
We support leaders and coaches of smarter working implementations or company-wide transformations.
CommEnt CIC
Supporting sustainable development by working with individuals, groups and organisations to develop community-based enterprises.
Connect With Compassion
"We offer courses where participants can explore how to establish a quality of compassionate and respectful connection.
Halton Mill Business Hub
Offering an environment in which small businesses, social enterprises, community organisations, artists, craftspeople and freelancers can flourish.
Harry Armistead Coaching
One road, one life, many opportunities to get it right. I have made it my mission to help as many people as I can to lead a better, richer, happier and more wholesome life – no matter what has come before or where a person may be right now.
Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS)
A global hub of inquiry, teaching, and dialogue on enabling the transition to more fair and sustainable societies.
Lancaster and Morecambe College Business Centre
Our conference facilities are located just off the M6 Motorway in Lancaster. From a half day company meeting to full day conferences, our Lancaster Business and Conference Facilities can meet all your needs.
Organic Campaigns
Do you want to run powerful and compelling email lobbying campaigns? Our iparl email campaigning service helps you do this. Broadening your campaigning and fundraising reach.
Sales Marvel
Affordable Sales Expertise for SMEs. Our hybrid model of 1-2-1 coaching combined with expert sales content online means that Affordable sales expertise is now available to owners of “micro-businesses” and SMEs too.
SDG Changemakers
Making Sustainability Profitable: What we do: Make sustainability profitable: Customers, employees, investors and stakeholders want businesses to be socially, environmentally and financially sustainable. Businesses know their long-term profitability depends on it. Innovate using the SDGs: The drivers of innovation and economic development are also the drivers of a zero-carbon and sustainable future. Work with the Global Goals: The UN's 17 Global Goals, are the world's strategy for sustainability. We use the Goals to support innovation and economic development.
Simon Grant
My interests are developing from e-portfolio technology and InLOC, towards technology to support people's development into the collaborative or sharing economy. I find satisfaction from bringing rich, complex and novel ideas from myself and others together, for practical applications.
Social Ballance
Social Balance Consultancy works with social enterprises and other third sector organisations, enabling them to be more effective in fulfilling their values, social aims and business objectives. Services offered include:
The Marketing Power Hour
Do you want to use the power of your brand to create a better world? Customers are increasingly making buying decisions based on what brands are saying and doing in the social impact space. The Marketing Power Hour is leading the charge by helping businesses embed purpose throughout their organisations with a fresh, authentic approach. Empowering organisations to be brave, creative and innovative, The Marketing Power Hour is a unique marketing and communications partner that thinks outside the box to help your organisation develop and grow.
The Open Source Guild
The open source guild is a mechanism that enables freelance workers and micro-businesses with shared values to collaborate and benefit from a larger network. It has been developed by Justin Larner as part of his PhD research at Lancaster University.
The Shared Value Business
The Shared Value Business offers over two decades experience in helping organisations adapt to changing operating environments. We partner with our clients from start to finish, focusing on their needs to create bespoke solutions to benefit performance, reputation and turnover.
The Small Green Consultancy
Organisational development as if people mattered. The Small Green Consultancy offers creative solutions to social and environmental businesses and organisations to help them reach their potential (rather than simply ‘grow’) whilst operating within an ethical framework.
Thriving Planet CIC
Lets make a thriving planet
"What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now?’ And if you’re not working on that, why aren't you?” Aaron Swartz
Turn2us
Turn2us is a national charity providing practical help to people who are struggling financially.
UK Business Academy
Looking for one-on-one coaching help? Coaching is NEVER an expense. It's one of the smartest investments any small business owner will ever make when it comes to building a successful business.
Have the business you always dreamed of. With more profit, more time and a lot less stress. At Blend, we’re not your traditional accountants. We care about YOU. We care about YOUR business.
Caterfly
We support leaders and coaches of smarter working implementations or company-wide transformations.
CommEnt CIC
Supporting sustainable development by working with individuals, groups and organisations to develop community-based enterprises.
Connect With Compassion
"We offer courses where participants can explore how to establish a quality of compassionate and respectful connection.
Halton Mill Business Hub
Offering an environment in which small businesses, social enterprises, community organisations, artists, craftspeople and freelancers can flourish.
Harry Armistead Coaching
One road, one life, many opportunities to get it right. I have made it my mission to help as many people as I can to lead a better, richer, happier and more wholesome life – no matter what has come before or where a person may be right now.
Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS)
A global hub of inquiry, teaching, and dialogue on enabling the transition to more fair and sustainable societies.
Lancaster and Morecambe College Business Centre
Our conference facilities are located just off the M6 Motorway in Lancaster. From a half day company meeting to full day conferences, our Lancaster Business and Conference Facilities can meet all your needs.
Organic Campaigns
Do you want to run powerful and compelling email lobbying campaigns? Our iparl email campaigning service helps you do this. Broadening your campaigning and fundraising reach.
Sales Marvel
Affordable Sales Expertise for SMEs. Our hybrid model of 1-2-1 coaching combined with expert sales content online means that Affordable sales expertise is now available to owners of “micro-businesses” and SMEs too.
SDG Changemakers
Making Sustainability Profitable: What we do: Make sustainability profitable: Customers, employees, investors and stakeholders want businesses to be socially, environmentally and financially sustainable. Businesses know their long-term profitability depends on it. Innovate using the SDGs: The drivers of innovation and economic development are also the drivers of a zero-carbon and sustainable future. Work with the Global Goals: The UN's 17 Global Goals, are the world's strategy for sustainability. We use the Goals to support innovation and economic development.
Simon Grant
My interests are developing from e-portfolio technology and InLOC, towards technology to support people's development into the collaborative or sharing economy. I find satisfaction from bringing rich, complex and novel ideas from myself and others together, for practical applications.
Social Ballance
Social Balance Consultancy works with social enterprises and other third sector organisations, enabling them to be more effective in fulfilling their values, social aims and business objectives. Services offered include:
The Marketing Power Hour
Do you want to use the power of your brand to create a better world? Customers are increasingly making buying decisions based on what brands are saying and doing in the social impact space. The Marketing Power Hour is leading the charge by helping businesses embed purpose throughout their organisations with a fresh, authentic approach. Empowering organisations to be brave, creative and innovative, The Marketing Power Hour is a unique marketing and communications partner that thinks outside the box to help your organisation develop and grow.
The Open Source Guild
The open source guild is a mechanism that enables freelance workers and micro-businesses with shared values to collaborate and benefit from a larger network. It has been developed by Justin Larner as part of his PhD research at Lancaster University.
The Shared Value Business
The Shared Value Business offers over two decades experience in helping organisations adapt to changing operating environments. We partner with our clients from start to finish, focusing on their needs to create bespoke solutions to benefit performance, reputation and turnover.
The Small Green Consultancy
Organisational development as if people mattered. The Small Green Consultancy offers creative solutions to social and environmental businesses and organisations to help them reach their potential (rather than simply ‘grow’) whilst operating within an ethical framework.
Thriving Planet CIC
Lets make a thriving planet
"What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now?’ And if you’re not working on that, why aren't you?” Aaron Swartz
Turn2us
Turn2us is a national charity providing practical help to people who are struggling financially.
UK Business Academy
Looking for one-on-one coaching help? Coaching is NEVER an expense. It's one of the smartest investments any small business owner will ever make when it comes to building a successful business.
ESTA works to a 20 Sector Model, which is a modified version of the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) System, to include things that the SIC doesnt yet consider directly such as biosphere restoration, personal development and growth, and the circular economy. The 20 Sector Model also makes the sectors more outcome focussed, moving away from the blind idea of supporting GDP growth (at any cost) and more towards working within the context of a collaborative framework that helps us all reach the goal of a more sustainable and balanced future.
This is more in keeping with our primary goal of building thriving local communites that help everyone reach theri full capacity as human beings whilst helping us live within the carrying capacity of the Planet.
This is more in keeping with our primary goal of building thriving local communites that help everyone reach theri full capacity as human beings whilst helping us live within the carrying capacity of the Planet.
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