Brexit is terminal for small businesses.

As a sole trader, having built a successful IT consultancy across Europe, it was with extreme sadness and deep contempt for the Conservative party, that I was forced to close my business. I’ve retained residency in Austria under the Article 50 withdrawal agreement and obtained an Austrian driving licence. It’s a fantastic place to live.

Offering consultancy to education ministries, universities, local authorities and individual schools was made impossible. Registering for permission to trade in 27 separate member states, engaging separate accountants, submitting 27 separate tax returns, loss of freedom of movement, Brexit conditions requiring seeking permission for each and every cross border self-employment, loss of automatic permission to travel with equipment (laptop, projector etc.), eye-watering mobile phone tariffs, unsustainable medical insurance from UK etc., loss of recognition of qualifications, all resulted in my spreadsheet – quite accurately – predicting costs exceeding income several thousand-fold. Before Brexit, I had everything designed to be able to press a button, except for occasional, essential meetings with clients (an essential element in growing and sustaining business growth) and invitations to lecture. One tax return sufficed.

All gone.

Christopher Davison B.A. Hons, ATC. 13th May 2022.

Project Consultancy

A current project undertaken by Chris Davison Consultants is to offer advice, support and management to an exciting Anglo-German collaboration.

Bracknell Forest in S.E. England and Leverkusen in North Rhein Westphalia have been twinned for over 45 years but it is only recently that young people in both communities have been taking part in an online, dual-language magazine joint venture entitled ‘Augenblink’.

Chris speaks German and supports high-level links with colleagues in education and the wider community in Germany and UK.

Visit the live website here…

A Good Website Works and Works…

Contact us by telephone or email to see how quickly a cost-effective website could be earning your business money.

Our offers include lots but especially your ideas, your graphic designs, page headers, sub-sections, your sales pitch and pictures. All this can cost as little as €130 (BREXIT £ prices call us). Our customers just love the care and attention we offer to help build a stunning website and help them cash in on the 24/7 advertising power of the web. It’s not just about the techie bits – we’re good at that – but actually just as cruicial, the whole concept of where your business wants to be and how we can help you get there. Your business could probably be doing so much more!

webdesign

Our up-front, sensitive advice is part of the deal. Please ask about the way we can help you focus on the future. A range of other services such as graphic design, accelerated search engine optimisation and authoring cunning marketing text are also available. We can advise – no commitment. Lets talk…

It pays to advertise 24/7. Call Chris Davison on the number below to chat through the possibilities.

The Birdbox Project

birdboxgrabManaged by Chris Davison Consultants on behalf of The South East Grid for Learning.

The BirdBox project brings together the best of online live video broadcasting over broadband with curriculum support to encourage teachers and their pupils to engage in learning about nature at first hand.

The SEGfL bird box project provides schools with an opportunity to share video and data streams collected from nesting boxes fitted with video cameras and other data gathering equipment. Schools across the UK and Europe are able to view nest box activity and share in interactive events. Details are to be found on the birdbox website which is added to daily during the nesting season.

Click here to visit the live site…

Chris Davison directed a short film highlighting the curriculum development that takes place during such an interactive project as BirdBox. Click here to visit the SEGfL BirdBox film…
BirdBox website design and technical management by ‘gooii’ Ltd.

New site, New era

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