Gradually grow the team to 7 people

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  • We ended the year getting ready to onboard our 7th team member in July 2025.
  • In FY24/25 Alex joined us as Senior Designer (Brand & Digital) and Simon Hoye came on board as Head of Technology.
  • 9 day fortnights, with option for 4 day weeks
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  • 60% work 9 day fortnights, 30% part-time hours, 10% standard working hours.
  • Improve and increase capability across team 
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  • Raising our emotional health levels through a leadership development program with Global Leadership Foundation.
  • Expanding output skills: Market research, Web design, content & copywriting, strategy & development and automation strategy.
  • Targeted and clear personal growth, if we are better our clients will be
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  • Continued with our personal goal setting questionnaires that ask the big questions of where we want to go and how we’ll get there. Also lots of accountability check-ins. 
  • Regular, honest check-ins about how we feel
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  • Stand ups, development sessions, watercooler chats, impact updates and more.
  • All staff spend 75%+ of their time on clients
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  • Spent 66% of our time on clients. 
  • Our forecasting/financials is based on 65%, but our target is obviously higher to give us a buffer. We are happy with 66%, but will continue to aim to increase this.
  • The 34% broken down into 23% operations, 8% business development, 3% learning. Slightly more on ops, less on learning & business development (Sales/Marketing) than FY24.
  • We spent less time on admin, impact reporting, marketing, formal training & recruitment, and more on client admin, team activities, onboarding and self-learning on projects.