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With over 25 years of experience in recruitment and business, I’m passionate about helping small business owners and entrepreneurs build confidence and achieve sustainable success. I work closely with people who are starting out or growing their small business (up to 15 employees), offering tailored mentoring, guidance, and genuine support. My role is to listen, guide, challenge, and connect you with the right people so you can focus on what you do best — running your business. Together, we’ll create clarity, direction, and momentum to help your business thrive.

SME Finance Support Ltd provides practical, hands-on financial support to growing businesses that need more structure and control without committing to a full-time hire. Acting as an interim Financial Controller, I work closely with business owners to understand how their finance function is operating and where improvements can be made.

A big part of what I do is a “Finance MOT” — reviewing processes, controls, and reporting to make sure everything is accurate, efficient, and giving you the information you actually need to run your business. Alongside this, I take a detailed look at the P&L to identify areas where costs can be reduced or better managed. Often there are simple opportunities to save money or improve margins that have just gone unnoticed.

The focus is always on making finance clearer, more reliable, and more useful — helping you make better decisions and ultimately improve profitability.

Norman Ferguson has over 15 years of experience as the Managing Director and owner of Scotland's top-quality Great Guns Marketing and Norman Ferguson Marketing.
Clients include major utilities, manufacturing, software, IT, renewables and training

Director of The HR Dept South Glasgow, Katie is passionate about helping local SMEs with any people problems and can provide a comprehensive and responsive HR service.

Having worked in a range of industries from entrepreneurial start-ups, manufacturing, retail & customer service and corporate financial services , Katie is able to provide a dedicated, in-depth HR service, while remaining commercially focused on what will work well for the business.

So, without the luxury of an in-house HR professional, you can rest assured that the needs of your business will be fully met.

Katie has over 20 years of generalist HR experience, advising on and managing people issues. She is a Chartered Member of the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development). Katie is also training to become an accredited Executive Coach.

Katie can support you with all HR issues including:

HR and employment law advice line
Employment contract and handbooks
Recruitment and selection
Absence management
Restructure and redundancy support
Learning, Training and Development
Performance management
Disciplinary and grievance issues
TUPE transfers
Employee benefits
Settlement agreements
Executive Coaching

Katie thrives on getting business leaders a better return on their salary/wage investment together with helping businesses who need help with improving staff retention, particularly people who are key to the success of the business, and also improving employee engagement.

The HR Dept South Glasgow guarantee:

Services that are adaptable and cost-effective, helping you to get the most from your staff, without spending money where you don’t have to; leaving you with more time to focus on your core business;
Advice and support which is provided locally so you’re never talking to a stranger in a call centre;
Unique bespoke solutions led by your company culture and business goals. Solutions arrived at by taking the time to understand you, your business, and your people, which are legally compliant and offer ongoing local support as and when needed.
So, whether you require:

A free HR health check including a review of your contracts of employment and handbook;
A telephone advice service (which also covers you with comprehensive tribunal insurance) to deal with HR issues as they arise;
Or a one-off project such as recruitment, disciplinary and grievance, absence management, redundancy handling; leadership coaching; or training and development.
Contact The HR Dept South Glasgow on 0141 441 3081 and we’ll arrange a free, no obligation discussion on the support that the HR Dept can offer your business to keep you legal, up to date and save you time, money and give you peace of mind.

TrustFord Glasgow is part of TrustFord, the UK’s largest Ford-owned dealer group, with over 60 sites across the UK and the Channel Islands. Being Ford owned means TrustFord operates directly with the backing, standards, and expertise of the Ford Motor Company.

Over the past 18 months, TrustFord has expanded into Scotland, with Glasgow playing an important role in that growth. As part of this expansion, TrustFord Glasgow is keen to root itself firmly within the local business community, building strong, long-term relationships across the area.

Our site supports both private and business customers with new and used Ford cars, commercial vehicles and vans, fleet and business solutions, Motability, as well as servicing inc mobile servicing, repairs and MOTs for any make or model.

TrustFord Glasgow’s focus is on delivering a professional, customer-focused service while becoming a trusted partner for local businesses across the region.