Sheffield
Sheffield is where we work from.
We work with businesses across the UK, and prefer face-to-face where we can. Sheffield puts the rest of the country an afternoon away, and local clients walking distance.
Why here
Four things Sheffield does for the work.
Face-to-face, when it helps.
Local clients get the free assessment as a morning visit, not a Zoom. You can read a business faster across a kitchen table.
Central enough for anywhere.
The station is ten minutes from the desk. Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, London: most of the country is an afternoon away when the work wants a room.
A town of small independents.
Sheffield is mostly makers, services, charities, trades. We advise inside an ecosystem we actually live in, which saves a lot of explaining how small businesses work.
The Peaks, ten minutes out.
Good thinking weather, most days. And walking workshops for clients who'd rather chew a problem over on the moors than across a table.
Sheffield, they say, is the biggest village in England.
Our desk is in Sheffield. On a Tuesday there's usually tea on, a window onto a quiet street, and a whiteboard with someone else's problem on it. We work with businesses all over the UK, but we love the local work. A morning at your desk is a bus ride for us, which means we can show up for half an hour and be useful rather than blocking out a day and billing travel. We like becoming someone you bump into at the farmer's market.
The Peak District starts a ten-minute drive from here. Moors, woods, dry-stone walls, whatever weather the sky's got that day. It's where the work gets thought about when the screen stops helping, and a lot of why we stay. For clients who'd rather not spend another afternoon in a meeting room, we'll run a walking workshop: a morning on the moors with the problem in hand, lunch at a pub after. Ideas tend to land better uphill.
Often the honest answer is still no, or not yet. Sometimes it's yes, and we help keep it small.
Start with an assessment. Or come for a walk.
The assessment is the easiest way in: short, written, honest, and it works from anywhere in the UK. If you're local and you'd rather meet first, we'll find an hour. The Peaks are right there if the weather holds.