Posts By: DaniH

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How Can Being Charitable Benefit Your Business?

by DaniH • 16 July 2024
How can being charitable benefit your business? At Dartcell, we believe wholeheartedly in using our platform and our resources to support causes that are close to our hearts. For example, we recently helped Year 12 students from Hockerill Anglo-European College travel to Zimbabwe to take part in a rugby tournament and community engagement initiative organised [...]

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The Tag Rugby Trust Runs Successful 2024 Zimbabwe Tour For Year 12 Students

by DaniH • 13 June 2024
The Tag Rugby Trust runs successful 2024 Zimbabwe tour for Year 12 students If you have been keeping a keen eye on our LinkedIn page, you will have seen that Dartcell recently sponsored a trip for Year 12 students organised by the Tag Rugby Trust. The Tag Rugby Trust (TRT) aims to motivate, educate and [...]

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Are You a Financially Savvy Entrepreneur?

by DaniH • 13 June 2024
Are you a financially savvy entrepreneur? Many people survive perfectly well without developing in-depth insights into their company’s finances. But they do just that: ‘survive’. If you’re serious about growing your venture in a profitable, sustainable way, you need to get your head around some of the core practices involved in managing your company’s books [...]

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Common Fundraising Methods For Growing Businesses: Part Two

by DaniH • 10 May 2024
Common fundraising methods for growing businesses: part two In part one of this series, we discussed the range of finance options that are available to company owners who want to raise cash fast, including secured and unsecured loans, peer-to-peer finance, invoice finance, trade finance, and leasing and hire purchasing. While all these methods offer their [...]

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Common Fundraising Methods For Growing Businesses: Part One

by DaniH • 12 April 2024
Common fundraising methods for growing businesses: part one At Dartcell, we regularly help companies source and secure the corporate funding they need to meet their growth goals. With support from our fundraising expert, Rich Olsen at Pegasus Funding, we introduce our clients to finance vehicles to facilitate their short- and long-term aims, whether that’s to [...]

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The Value of Hiring a Finance Director to Support Your Retail Business

by DaniH • 7 March 2024
The value of hiring a finance director to support your retail business Every company will benefit from expert advice from an experienced finance director. However, those within the retail space often rely on the kind of financial clarity and strategic direction that an FD can bring into the mix, because their industry is not only [...]

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How To Overhaul Your Business Plan

by DaniH • 16 February 2024
How to overhaul your business plan At some point in your company’s lifecycle, you will realise that you need to adjust your business plan to guide your firm into its next chapter. Generally speaking, there are two reasons why you might want to redo your business plan. What worked for you previously is no longer [...]

Get To Know Our Founder, Russell Pope FCA

by DaniH • 24 January 2024
Get to know our founder, Russell Pope FCA After a decades-long stint in the corporate realm, Russell Pope eventually called his ‘big company’ career quits to carve out his own path as a fractional finance director. We sat down with Russell to discuss what brought him into the finance industry, how his previous experiences have [...]

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Growing Your Business With Limited Cash Resources

by DaniH • 14 December 2023
Growing your business with limited cash resources As business owners, we all have big plans. But sometimes our dreams aren’t made possible by our current financial reality. The bottom line is, if you don’t have a lot of money to invest in growing your business, you’ll need to get creative with your cash. Here are [...]

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How To Navigate The Investment Process

by DaniH • 8 November 2023
How to navigate the investment process There may come a time when your company will need external investment to break through its own financial ceiling and enter a new chapter. As outsourced finance directors, we have many years’ experience in helping business owners find the right investors for their project, and navigate common hurdles that [...]