Our Services

MRE Unlocking Enterprise is the expert support organisation for community enterprise.

MRE Unlocking Enterprise (MRE) is a community interest company offering businesses across all sectors support, advice, development and practical services in starting, running and building their business.

We have a happy and diverse team who bring a vast range of skills and experience; we enjoy working with each other and love helping our clients to make their organisations work more effectively.  All of our team have wide business experience and, working across England, the range of our work and our observation of how others work brings a rich resource to our clients.

The MRE team:

  • Are a source of expert enterprise knowledge and experience to organisations across all sectors
  • Provide high quality enterprise advice and support at every stage of the business process
  • Provide consultancy support to public, private and third sector organisations for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating specific projects and programmes
  • Provide training, coaching and mentoring to ethical and charitable organisations, micro and small businesses and to individuals to the highest standards
  • Offer ‘back-room’ services to assist with the day-to-day running of social businesses
  • Provide initial consultations and mentoring sessions to many small organisations on a pro-bono basis
  • Take a collaborative approach, that involves working closely with clients and their management and staff teams towards shared objectives
  • Act as a voice of ethical, social and community organisations at a national and local level.

We offer enterprise training, mentoring, coaching, infrastructure support, personal and organisational development and a whole lot more.

What we do

For start-up organisations – including sole traders

  • An initial diagnostic assessment of your business
  • Start-up support ranging from assistance with business planning, access to finance and accounting expertise and infrastructure and constitution setting to coaching, training and mentoring
  • Sign-posting to other sources of help and information where appropriate
  • Continued support and practical help as your business grows – just a call away.

For up-and-running businesses

  • Diagnostic audit of current position – including recommendations for where you go from here
  • Referral to specialist support from financial and legal services to HR consultancy
  • In-business support ranging from leadership and management training and coaching, governance setting and Trustee recruitment to organisational change and development assistance and interim management
  • Help with policy and procedure development including job descriptions and data protection
  • Networking and contact-building support
  • On-going support to monitor progress against objectives – at every stage of your business.

For small and voluntary organisations

  • Back-office help with book-keeping, payroll, financial reporting and management information 

For individuals

  • Help and support in developing and launching an in-house mentoring programme, or specific mentoring/mentee opportunities
  • Nationally accredited training for organisational mentors and support personnel
  • Training courses – from managing volunteers to researching your position in the market.

For individuals and organisations

  • Help and support in developing and launching an in-house mentoring programme, or specific mentoring/mentee opportunities
  • Nationally accredited training for organisational mentors and support personnel
  • Training courses – from managing volunteers to researching your position in the market.

Be-spoke business consultancy

Help with individual issues and needs across your business – on an ongoing basis or as one-off projects

How you benefit

MRE Unlocking Enterprise services offer ethical enterprises and individuals across the Midlands cost-effective solutions to important issues.

As well as getting much-needed help and support our clients also benefit from:-

  • An increased knowledge base to help their business succeed
  • Support in learning new skills and applying them
  • Empowerment to proceed with their business plans – or the confidence to decide not to
  • Personal and professional development
  • A stronger infrastructure for their organisation
  • A wealth of new ideas, techniques and methodologies
  • Growth and sustainability across the business
  • Robust policies and procedures
  • A ‘critical friend’ who will challenge and motivate them whilst offering support and guidance.