News and insights
Led by Chisom Eyesan, Jill Brennan and Liz Thomas, the BCMS Community Support team is engaged with a variety of organisations, both local to us here in Newbury, Berkshire, nationally, and even across continents! In our first financial year as an employee-owned business, this team has already allocated and distributed a fund to multiple good causes.
BCMS volunteers helped our neighbour at Kingsclere Park, Living Paintings, move thousands of books into temporary storage and back into a refurbished library.
Once a client – now a colleague! We’re delighted to announce that entrepreneur and business mentor Jonathan Barker has joined BCMS as Business Development Director, to focus on supporting clients and our network of partners.
Business owners from the South-West and beyond gathered to the stylish Aston Martin dealership in Bristol for an exclusive invitation-only networking event, co-hosted by BCMS, Freeths and Rathbones, and assisted by Business Leader
Back in 2019, we launched The BCMS Volunteer Day, an opportunity to get involved in supporting the community and assisting with charity groups that we hold close to our hearts.
BCMS is now majority owned by its employees, under an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) model. The majority shareholding has been acquired from the founders of the business, on behalf of its employees.
Late June saw the launch of new series of special invitation-only events for business owners and advisors. We’re calling this ‘The BCMS Supper Club’, and the first session was held very much on home turf at The Vineyard, a luxury hotel and spa in Stockcross, near Newbury – just a few miles from our Kingsclere headquarters
It’s not unusual for BCMS to provide exclusive, expert insight into the Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) market for other third-party organisations. In the past few years, we’ve been approached to assist a number of trade bodies with their member events programmes.
BCMS has a long history of supporting charitable causes, so when we heard about the amazing initiatives run by refugee crisis organisation Care4Calais, we decided as a business to offer some hands-on assistance.
As part of our new website launch, we have revamped our video resources section, to make it easier for business owners to access online advice, insights and case studies from our previous transactions.
BCMS CEO Jonathan Dunn writes: The past 12 months have been the most challenging on record, as the pandemic has not just impacted heavily on the way we all do business, but the way we live our lives.
UK corporate finance specialist BCMS has launched a new brand, as the Newbury-based sell-side advisor looks to better reflect its range of services for business owners in 2021.