The LOYALS Business Mentor Programme - your accountant and your growth team in one place.
An exclusive programme available free for every LOYALS Accountants client. Two paths designed around the size and stage of your business: marketing-led growth for companies winning more direct customers, and tender-led growth for established SMEs targeting public sector contracts. Both paths share the same philosophy - assess, plan, execute together - with full visibility of your finances at every step.
The Business Mentor Programme, in a minute.
A quick word from our team on how the programme helps you grow, whether that is winning more local customers or landing public sector contracts.
Once you are a LOYALS accounting client, joining is free. We assess where your business is, then point you at the right growth path. Book a call to get started.
Read the transcript
Are you doing good work, but stuck at the same level for years? You are great at what you do. Your clients love you. But you are capped, same volume of jobs, same kind of work, same revenue ceiling. You have thought about advertising. You have thought about going for bigger contracts. The whole thing feels overwhelming, expensive, and figuring it out alone takes time you have not got.
Our Business Mentor Programme is built for exactly this. Once you are a LOYALS accounting client, we sit down with you and assess where your business is right now. Then we point you at the right growth path. Need more local clients? Our marketing team builds and runs targeted Facebook and Instagram campaigns that bring leads to your door. Ready for bigger contracts? Our tendering specialists help you win public sector work, government departments, NHS trusts and local authorities. Mentor access comes with being a client. The specialist services are charged when you use them, and you pay a fraction of what hiring those people directly would cost.
Your competitors are not waiting. Most of them do not even know this exists. Book a call at loyals.uk and we will show you what your business could look like in twelve months.
One programme. Two paths. Three stages.
Whichever path fits your business, the philosophy is identical: assess where you really stand, build a strategic plan that uses your finances as the starting point, then deliver continuous service alongside your accounting. Everything synchronised, everything in one place.
Assess
Honest diagnostic of where your business actually is - financial capacity, delivery readiness, market fit, structural gaps.
Plan
A specific strategy built around what your numbers can support. Clear go-no-go decisions, no vanity work.
Execute
Continuous service delivered alongside your accounting - campaigns, bids, oversight, with monthly review built in.
Which growth path fits your business?
Click the path that matches your stage. The right one depends on your turnover, what you sell, and where new customers come from.
Growing Companies - marketing-led growth
Built for sole traders, tradespeople, small businesses and SMEs winning customers directly. We pick the right marketing channels, run the campaigns, and measure what works.
- Turnover typically below £2 million
- Selling to consumers or small businesses direct
- Want more leads, more enquiries, more jobs booked
- Channels: Meta & Insta ads, Google Ads, LinkedIn, email
Established Companies - tender-led growth
For proven businesses with delivery capability ready to access UK public sector contracts. We connect you to an experienced procurement specialist with deep buyer-side experience.
- Turnover typically £2 million to £10 million
- Strong existing delivery in your sector
- Ready to compete for £100K+ public sector contracts
- Services: Viability Audit, TenderRadar, Bid Support
Three forces, working in sync.
Most marketing agencies don't know your finances. Most accountants don't run growth campaigns. Most procurement specialists don't see your books. We do all three - which means our advice is always anchored to what your business can actually afford and absorb.
Your LOYALS Accounts
We see your real numbers. We know what you can afford and when timing is right.
Mentor Programme
Strategic oversight by Kris and the LOYALS team - connects finances to growth decisions.
Specialist Network
Marketing channel experts and an experienced public sector procurement specialist.
Marketing-led growth for businesses that win customers directly.
If your business sells to consumers or directly to small businesses, growth comes from being in front of more of the right people more often. This path identifies which channels actually work for your sector, runs the campaigns, and measures the results - with monthly review tied to your financial picture so we always know whether the marketing spend is paying off.
How Path 1 works - step by step
From first call to campaign results, with monthly optimisation built in.
Path 1 services & pricing
Joining the programme is free for LOYALS clients. The first 30-minute intake call with Kris is free. Beyond that, you pay only for the services you choose.
Marketing Growth Diagnostic
Honest review of your business, target customer, current marketing footprint, and channel fit. You receive a written strategy plan recommending which channels (and at what budget) make sense for your specific situation. No commitment to use us for the channel work afterwards.
LinkedIn Management
Weekly content posting, audience targeting and connection requests, weekly outreach messages to qualified prospects. Ideal for B2B services, consultancy, professional trades, and high-ticket service providers.
Meta & Instagram Ad Campaign
Strategy, creative, audience targeting, copy, landing page review, launch and management for the campaign duration (typically 4-8 weeks). Ad spend paid by you direct to Meta. Best for consumer-facing trades, hospitality, food, e-commerce.
Google Ads Campaign
Keyword research, search ads, landing page optimisation, conversion tracking setup, full management for the campaign duration. Ad spend paid by you direct to Google. Best for high-intent service businesses where customers actively search.
Email Marketing Campaign
Audience segmentation, copywriting, design, sequence build, send and reporting. Ideal for re-engaging existing customers, launching new offers, or running seasonal pushes.
Multi-channel Campaigns
For businesses ready to combine LinkedIn, paid ads and email campaigns simultaneously, we build a coordinated plan with a single point of management. Pricing reflects the channel mix and is quoted after the Diagnostic.
What success looks like on Path 1
Three to six months in, you have a measurable, predictable inbound flow - leads from ads, enquiries from organic search, qualified prospects from LinkedIn, customers re-activated from email. We track every campaign against actual revenue in your accounts so you know exactly what each pound of marketing spend is producing.
Tender-led growth into UK public sector contracts.
For SMEs with proven delivery capability and turnover typically £2 million to £10 million ready to access the £300 billion UK public sector market. We coordinate with an experienced public sector procurement specialist whose buyer-side experience inside government departments means she knows exactly how bids get scored - and where capable businesses lose contracts they should have won.
Watch: how we help established SMEs win their share of the £300 billion UK public sector market, guided by a specialist who has scored bids from the buyer side.
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Did you know the UK government spends over three hundred billion pounds a year buying services from businesses? Construction, cleaning, catering, IT, security, healthcare, transport, education, your sector is in there somewhere. But most small businesses never see a penny of it. They do not know where to start, they chase the wrong tenders, or they put bids in without understanding what the buyer actually wants. So they lose, give up, and walk away from money that should be theirs.
Our Mentor Programme includes a structured tendering service led by people who spent over a decade inside government departments, sitting on evaluation panels, scoring bids, deciding which businesses won. That kind of insight you simply cannot get from the outside. We start with an audit, is public sector work the right fit for you? Then we help you meet the standards and accreditations you need. And when you are ready, we actively bid on your behalf. This is not a tender-alert newsletter. This is hands-on, strategic support.
One government contract can transform your business. We have seen it happen. Visit loyals.uk and ask about tendering. The first step is becoming an accounting client.
An experienced public sector procurement specialist
Over a decade of buyer-side procurement experience inside major UK government bodies. She has personally managed procurement processes from specification development to final contract award, sat on numerous evaluation panels, and made supplier-selection decisions on thousands of SME submissions - invaluable insight into what buyers actually look for, how scoring criteria are applied in practice, and the common pitfalls that knock capable businesses out of contracts they were well-suited to win.
How Path 2 works - with three possible outcomes
The Viability Audit produces one of three verdicts. Each leads to a different next step.
Path 2 services & pricing
All Path 2 engagements begin with the Viability Audit - a fixed-fee diagnostic that determines whether public sector contracts make commercial sense for your business before you invest in ongoing services.
Public Sector Viability Audit
Commercial Fit Assessment, Target Contract Band Identification, Capability Gap Analysis, Opportunity Sampling (3-5 live or recent contracts with go/no-go reasoning), and Go/No-Go Verdict - Proceed, Conditional, or Not Recommended. Delivered as a written report and 30-60 minute review call. No follow-on commitment required.
TenderRadar Core
Monthly tailored shortlist of relevant UK public sector contracts filtered against your supplier profile, with written go/no-go reasoning on each opportunity. Available to clients with a Proceed verdict. No long-term commitment beyond month-to-month.
TenderRadar Plus
Everything in Core plus competitor scoring on previous similar awards, framework positioning advice, quarterly strategic review calls, and priority support on clarification questions during live bids.
Bid Support
Full submission management on specific tenders you've decided to pursue - tender pack review, clarification handling, compliance against mandatory requirements, technical response writing with input from your delivery team. Available to active TenderRadar clients only.
Fractional Procurement
Experienced strategic procurement leadership without the cost of a full-time hire. Hands-on guidance on bid pipeline management, framework selection, and supplier relationship strategy. Pricing on application based on engagement scope.
LOYALS Coordination
We manage the relationship end-to-end. Single point of contact, financial evidence prepared on demand for tender submissions, accountant references in lender-format, no need to brief separate accountants and procurement specialists yourself.
What success looks like on Path 2
Within 12 months you have a clear public sector pipeline - between 4 and 12 actively-tracked opportunities at any time, with a structured cadence of bid submissions on the right contracts. Your win rate climbs as we learn which buyers and contract types best fit your delivery model. You stop wasting time on bids you'd never have won and start landing recurring revenue on contracts that match your capability.
Three forces reshaping how UK SMEs grow in 2025/26.
If your growth strategy was built before 2024, it's working in a different market. Three shifts have made strategic alignment between your finances and your growth activity more important than ever.
Procurement Act 2023
£300B+The Procurement Act 2023 (effective February 2025) reshapes how UK public bodies buy. SMEs are explicitly favoured under the new transparency and SME participation rules - but only if you know how to position. The buyer-side experience our partner specialist brings becomes more valuable, not less, under the new regime.
AI & Marketing Costs Rising
+38%Average UK paid-ad costs across Meta and Google have risen sharply since 2023, while AI-generated content has flooded organic search. SMEs running undifferentiated campaigns are seeing diminishing returns. The strategic channel-fit work pre-campaign is now decisive - generic spend doesn't convert anymore.
Cash Flow Under Pressure
£X to spendUK SME cash flow has tightened materially since 2024 - interest rate cycle, PAYE changes, NI reform. Marketing spend without finance-aligned timing is the fastest way to over-extend. Synchronising growth activity with bookkeeping data is now a survival discipline, not a nice-to-have.
Six things business owners ask us about the programme.
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What "free for clients" means
The programme itself costs nothing to join.
Tap or hoverWhat's free vs. paid
- Joining the programme: £0
- 30-min intake call with Kris: £0
- Path-fit assessment: £0
- Specific services: paid as listed
- No upsell, no surprise charges
Why finances drive strategy
Marketing without finance context is gambling.
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- Trailing 90-day cash position
- Margin profile by service line
- Customer acquisition cost benchmark
- Realistic ad-spend tolerance
- Bid eligibility on financial thresholds
Path 1 channel decisions
The four channels we choose between.
Tap or hoverChannel logic
- LinkedIn: B2B services, high-ticket
- Google Ads: high-intent search demand
- Meta/Insta: consumer trades, hospitality
- Email: re-activation, existing list
- Multi-channel for larger SMEs
What's in the Viability Audit
Five components plus a verdict.
Tap or hoverAudit deliverables
- Commercial Fit Assessment
- Target Contract Band Identification
- Capability Gap Analysis
- Opportunity Sampling (3-5 live)
- Go / No-Go Verdict
How TenderRadar finds tenders
Filtered intelligence, not generic alerts.
Tap or hoverThe filtering process
- Continuous market monitoring
- Filter against your supplier profile
- Written go/no-go reasoning each one
- Sized to your delivery capacity
- No fishing - only realistic targets
Realistic timelines
Growth doesn't happen in 30 days.
Tap or hoverWhat to expect
- LinkedIn: 6-12 weeks first inbound
- Paid ads: 2-4 weeks first measurable
- Email: immediate response data
- Tender pipeline: 3-9 months first win
- Compounding gains beyond 6 months
Meet Kris Nick.
The Mentor Programme exists because generalist accountants and standalone marketing agencies can't do what LOYALS does - combine financial oversight with growth execution under one roof. Kris is your dedicated account manager and single point of contact for both your accounting work and your growth activity. You don't repeat your story between providers, you don't pay for duplicate consultancy, and every recommendation is anchored to numbers the LOYALS team already sees. The programme runs because your accountant should be the most useful person in your business - not the most invisible.
Book a free 15-min call →Ready to grow with someone who actually sees your numbers?
Free for LOYALS clients to join. Free 30-minute intake call with Kris to work out which path fits. Paid services begin only when you're ready and only on what makes sense for your business. No long lock-ins on the entry stages - try the diagnostic, take the strategy plan, decide what's next on your terms.
Frequently asked questions.
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Your accountant should grow your business with you.
The LOYALS Business Mentor Programme exists because your accountant has the most useful data in your business - your real numbers, your cash position, your margin reality. Combining that with the right growth execution is the difference between hopeful spending and predictable expansion. Free for clients. Two paths. One account manager. Book your intake call below.
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