Small Business Consultancy Practice

Experience Counts

Rural Business Services was formed in 1997 by Lucinda Stokes borne out of her experiences running the office, sales and accounts as a Director of a highly successful Wiltshire firm of Specialist Wine merchants through a massive period of growth and development in the 1980’s and early 1990’s.

Lucinda’s ability to grasp the overall picture of business and link all the vital elements from finance to sales, from customer relations to staff morale has led to the development of RBS which became a limited company in January 2003.

For any business to succeed it has to operate as a “whole” with all the parts pulling in the same direction, so often not the case, and so often holding back potentially successful development opportunites. In particular, small to medium-sized operations, whether they be sole traders or limited companies, often there lacks balanced dynamism within the core of the company i.e. a business may have developed where the key person has developed a product or role without someone to control the financial aspects.

The product has taken off, the key person has no time to keep ahead of the ever increasing amount of paper and financial records, therefore, never knowing quite where they are or what they need to go forward. Sometimes over-looking the most obvious person to take on that role within their team or sometimes needing to add additional members to the team to take it forward. Rural Business Services can asses your needs, structure a way forward and work with you to help you achieve your goals and objectives

It may be that you are looking for a Finance Director (or the equivalent) but cannot afford one full time. Lucinda’s knowledge and experience at Board level can be invaluable to the development of any business and at a cost you can afford without having to take on another full time, costly member of staff. If you would like to discuss your own business issues and ideas, look no further, contact Lucinda today to see if Rural Business Services can help you fulfil the real potential of your business.


	Tel: 01985 844017 enquiries@ruralaffairs.co.uk PO Box 4396 - Warminster - BA12 2AG Company number : 4588298 VAT number : 742 4294 35