Rural Business Support

Andy Stone's Courier Service is based in Southampton and serves all areas of Britain. He and his drivers will collect anywhere in the country when the final destination is in the Southern Region of Britain. **PLEASE NOTE: A Yorkshire-Based Office is coming soon to provide greater service in the Northern Region of the country.

24/7 will pick up Anywhere at Anytime with Same Day Delivery Service.

Note: Delivery Capacity extends to a Full Pallet x 4 Feet in Height.

**Countryside Connection members will receive a 10% Discount from Andy on any delivery if you mention that you are a member when you telephone. Contact Andy at 077839 18891 or email him: admin@247despatch.co.uk to discuss your specific needs.

Bespoke herb gardens and potagers.....making gardens beautiful & productive

My love affair with herbs and vegetable plots began at my grandfather’s side picking mint, popping peas and lifting Pembrokeshire potatoes for the Sunday lunch. I have long been a passionate organic gardener and more recently have taken this a step further by embracing the principles of permaculture and biodynamics in an attempt to make my gardens truly sustainable. Having spent the last twenty years cultivating even the most unpromising spaces on roofs, balconies, backyards and school playgrounds and providing plants for friends and acquaintances I decided to set up Country Gate Gardens to give everyone a taste of the good life.

We are a family business based in the medieval market town of Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire. Whether you fancy a potager or herb garden of country house proportions or a humble windowbox allotment for your flat, we design and build productive plots for any space. We’ll even provide ongoing maintenance and refill your baskets and pots if you require. We have plenty of experience of working with schools and nurseries on their gardens and latterly have been developing workplace allotments for stressed out executives. We can also work with community groups who are setting up communal growing spaces.

Please access our blog at  www.countrygategardens.co.uk  for details of what’s happening on our own plot and for information on our ongoing projects.

To chat to Cally about your requirements or book an appointment call 01225 869344 (evenings) or 07913 595749 (during the day) or email cally@countrygate.co.uk

My web business has been running since 1995, and has many customers from all parts of the UK. I receive many requests for "first" web sites, for both new and existing businesses, and provide fair and impartial advice on all web-related matters, to fully support your web presence. I also offer improvements to existing sites to try to help improve search engine positioning.

I specialise in building and maintaining web sites for UK small to medium-sized businesses (often home-based ones), with a particular emphasis on clear, uncomplicated design and with every effort made to ensure a good natural search engine positioning over time. The portfolio of completed work includes many hospitality and food-related sites. My services include hosting of the web site and email.

Website promotion and other marketing ideas are all part of the services I offer to my clients. One of the biggest challenges facing any web site owner is that of keeping the site fresh and keeping people's interest. Over time, site popularity on search engines will wane if you don't change it from time to time. I offer maintenance services tailored to meet your requirements or I can install and support content management solutions like ‘Contribute’ so you can make alterations yourself.

Registering, hosting, and maintaining your site's domain names for you are other available options - this includes not just the formal registration process, but finding a suitable name, setting it up correctly to serve your web site and email, setting domain-related ISP spam filters or (for a small extra fee) the more advanced Spamcop junk mail solution, and acting as Administrative Contact to deal with all the "paperwork" from Nominet or ICANN regarding ownership details.

To get started on a site we just need a brief email or phone conversation to discuss ideas and price, Once you have sent your material over, most sites are up and running within a month.

Please fill out the contact form on the site and I will respond as soon as possible. If you prefer, call me to discuss your particular needs or we can arrange to meet in person. We can be reached at: 01934 743469 or 0845 658 4320 . 

Formed in 1997 Naughty Mutt Ltd, based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, offers our diverse range of customers a complete range of print services.

Our graphic design and print work is guaranteed to complement and enhance your business. From business stationery through to brochures and books, encompassing banners and exhibition graphics along the way and with a photographer on-hand, quality images are always available from stock or to order.

Where clients commission work across more than one medium - for instance, business stationery and a printed brochure to accompany a website - we work with sister company, Pink Digital Ltd to ensure that these tie-in to maximise marketing opportunities.

Naughty Mutt has a wide range of resources at its disposal, this means we can fit into any stage of a project to deliver the missing segment. We work with a range clients including: craftspeople and artists; small rural businesses; hospitality and catering businesses; PR and Marketing companies; local government; advertising agencies; software companies; Internet Service Providers and training providers.

Mission: We will add value to our client's business through a combination of elegant design and robust technologies. We aim to deliver what is required in the most effective manner giving our best value and advice and looking at the long-term needs of our customers.

Some satisfied clients say:
The reaction [to the brochure] has been very positive . . . we are really pleased, thanks for your help. Karen Martin, Martins Dried Flowers
 
I'm absolutely delighted with the fabulous service I receive. The work needs to be turned round quickly and this is always done.
Gary Webber, The Property Law Website

Carla Boulton of Naughty Mutt Ltd says - "I also have a personal site at www.carlaboulton.co.uk and a blog at www.naughty-mutt.blogspot.com which is a mix of personal and business, I am very professional about my work so sometimes the personal is not as rich as it might be if I did not run a business!"