In September 2006, at a chance meeting at Ewanrigg, Garath Nash and Anne Sowerby told me of the services that CMS offered, that was a turning point within our organisation. With Anne’s boundless energy and knowledge she helped us gain a grant of £7000 for marketing and advice on how to re-brand ourselves, and we had business plan training with Janice Parker, which helped us focus on which way we needed to go in order to grow successfully.
Anne subsequently helped us to follow the plan, since then we have moved to premises just off Maryport High Street .We even won an award for our growth (that being 150% overall) We set up the Junior savers and now have 4 successful schools running . In September 2006 we had a membership of 140 Adults - in July 2009, we now have 385 Adults and 116 Junior members totalling 510, with a large percentage active. This has by far exceeded our predicted growth set out within our business plan.
CMS enabled us to realise our strengths, and business development and encouraged us to our goal of being self sustainable.
Justine Lewis
Development and Marketing Officer
Tags: CMS, Growing your Business
