Tailored Advisory & Manufacturing Programmes
Flexible engagement models designed around your operational stage. From early-stage kitchen scaling to high-volume manufacturing engineering, we solve bottlenecks and protect margins.
How We Deliver Our Support
We adapt our contractual relationship to whatever best serves your operational reality and cash flow.
Retained Advisory
An ongoing monthly relationship providing strategic mentoring, regular factory floor check-ins, senior executive sounding board support, and guidance on operational milestones as your business grows.
Project-Based Commissions
Targeted, fixed-scope engagements to tackle specific high-stakes objectives: new factory unit design and layout flow, natural shelf-life extension formulation, or preparing for SALSA accreditation audits.
One-Off Diagnostic Audits
An intensive 1-to-2 day factory walk-through and data audit to identify immediate zero-cost process improvements, resolve packaging bottlenecks, or rationalise unprofitable product lines.
Food & Drink Start Ups: Where to Start?
Starting your own food business is exciting, but navigating food safety regulations, equipment sourcing, and commercial premises can be daunting.
You have an exceptional product concept and surging interest from customers, but you are hitting the boundaries of what you can produce at home. You need reassurance that your products and processes are completely safe, legal, and scaled profitably.
Our 10 Core Startup Interventions:
Small & Medium Food Businesses
Owners of food businesses have so much to do. You never have time to focus on the future. We deliver the expertise of an operations director without the full-time overhead.
Commercial Strategy & Vision
We build dynamic, fundable business roadmaps rather than academic documents that sit on shelves. We conduct rigorous portfolio reviews to highlight high-margin growth avenues and decisively terminate unprofitable lines.
Technical Food Expertise
Overcoming technical barriers that restrict commercial expansion. We formulate natural shelf-life extension strategies without artificial additives, resolve microbiology hurdles, and build audit-ready SALSA/BRC systems.
Operations & Factory Debottlenecking
Supporting manufacturing setups operating under strained factory capacity. We map spatial floor layouts, streamline raw material ingress and finished goods dispatch, and coach supervisors to lead efficiently.
Change Management & Culture
Managing the operational friction inherent in rapid business growth. We update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), introduce annualised hours contracts, and clarify reporting lines so your team thrives.
Manufacturing Mastery Programme
More profit and less overwhelm. A structured 6-week online programme blending interactive workshops, video tutorials, diagnostic calculators, and peer accountability.
The 3-Step Curriculum Framework
1. Clarity on Future Goals & Strategy
Defining your target volumes, commercial positioning, and true capacity requirements to align factory operations with your life goals.
2. Operational Diagnostic Audit
An honest, data-driven review of your manufacturing line, batch economics, ingredient wastage, and staff task allocations.
3. Execution for Profitability
Deploying practical tools, visual management boards, and shift tweaks to immediately expand batch capacity and safeguard gross margin.
Includes 6 weekly live Zoom classes, downloadable calculation workbooks, SOP templates, and permanent access to course resources.
Funding Support for Small & Medium Businesses
As an independent appraisal panel member for Yorkshire growth funds, Jo Crebbin helps clients navigate regional grant schemes to defray consultancy and capital costs.
Manufacturing Growth Programme (MGP) — 35% Grant Funding
Offers 35% grant funding towards specialist manufacturing consultancy covering operations, new product development, capacity debottlenecking, and productivity enhancement.
Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP Growth Hubs)
Subsidised business diagnostics, growth vouchers, and expert support accessible through the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership and York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub.
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF)
Microfinance (£25k–£100k) and debt/equity funding up to £2M designed specifically for northern SMEs investing in premises expansion and manufacturing kit.
Find the Right Programme for Your Business
Book a free 30-minute discovery call with Jo Crebbin to evaluate which service or funding pathway matches your immediate operational goals.