Partner Article

2,400% expansion for uni graduate

A Northumbria University graduate who set up a business a year ago is celebrating expanding her company by a staggering 2,400% and has ambitious plans to further develop its services. Occupational psychologist Kelly Mowbray established Neuro Partners, to provide support to people with neurological conditions, learning disabilities and brain injury.

Starting in 2006 with just three staff and the aim to make specialist services more available to patients on their discharge from hospital, it has expanded its ranks to include 72 rehabilitation support workers. This growth has enabled Neuro Partners to deliver support and intervention co-ordinated by psychology teams as well as physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and specialist nursing professionals.

Roger Candy, business partnerships manager from Enterprise Campus, who helped Kelly get started, said: “Kelly has a very focused strategic vision for the business and the growth in staff and demand for the services of Neuro Partners suggest its services are exactly what the market requires.” Neuro Partners has expanded from its original market of the North East to deliver rehabilitation services to a region of the Scottish borders, across to Cumbria and down to Yorkshire. It is now working on development projects in the Midlands and has been approached by organisations located in the South.

Kelly Mowbray, director of Neuro Partners, said: “I met with the Enterprise Campus team to discuss how to take the business forward as well as how we should undertake marketing. They also were able to give us advice and guidance on funding, premises and grants that may be available to us. Due to this support, Neuro Partners has grown from strength to strength. “We will continue to link in with Enterprise Campus when setting up our satellite offices, which are likely to be in Cumbria and Teesside during 2008.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .