Smart Finance - Strengthen Your Financial Foundations | Lewes
About this Event
Hosted by: Chris Barnard,
👥 Ideal for: Sole traders, micro and small businesses looking to grow
📍 Format: In-person Workshop | Practical | Interactive | Peer Learning
📘 Description
Many small business owners don’t struggle because they lack customers - they struggle because they don’t have clear financial visibility or control. Understanding how money really flows through your business is key to making confident, informed decisions.
This practical workshop is designed to help business owners build clarity and confidence in their finances, focusing on real-world decision-making rather than accounting theory.
Led by award-winning accountant Chris Barnard, this session breaks down the key financial drivers behind your business - helping you understand how profit is generated, why cashflow can become a challenge, and how to stay in control as your business grows.
Through a mix of practical examples and interactive exercises, you’ll explore how to improve pricing, strengthen cashflow, and plan ahead for growth - so your business is not just busy, but financially sustainable.
🔍 What We’ll Cover:
💷 Understanding Profit, Pricing & Performance
How your business actually makes money, from revenue drivers and pricing strategy to understanding profit and margins
📊 Budgets, Cashflow & Financial Control
Why profitable businesses still run out of cash - and how to stay in control with simple budgeting and cashflow tools
🧾 Tax, Compliance & Growing Safely
Key tax considerations, VAT triggers and compliance milestones that growing businesses need to understand
📈 Making Better Financial Decisions
How to use your numbers to guide smarter decisions, not just report on the past
🛠️ Practical Tools & Real-World Examples
Simple frameworks and exercises to help you apply what you learn directly to your own business
✅ You’ll Leave With:
- A clearer understanding of how your business makes money
- More confidence in pricing, cashflow and financial decision-making
- Practical ideas to improve financial control and profitability
- Awareness of key tax and compliance considerations
- A simple financial approach you can apply immediately in your business
This workshop is part of the Stay Smart, Grow Strong business support programme, supporting sole traders, micro and small businesses across East Sussex to grow sustainably.
👉 Secure your free place today.
This programme is funded by HM Government, East Sussex County Council and the East Sussex Growth Hub. It is delivered by Freedom Works
Agenda
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM
Registration & Breakfast - tea, coffee and pastries
🕑: 09:20 AM - 09:30 AM
Introduction from East Sussex Growth Hub
🕑: 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Smart Finance Workshop - part 1
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Break & Refreshments
🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Smart Finance Workshop - part 2
🕑: 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
Close
Where is it happening?
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