PETERBOROUGH Business readers have been offered free tickets to the Grow Your Business Forum on January 21, 2010.

The event, which is organised by Peterborough accountant GreenStones, will be themed “Getting ready for the recovery”. Former UK entrepreneur and author Steve Pipe will be a guest speaker at forum, to be held at the Peterborough Holiday Inn West.

The first five readers of this article to telephone GreenStones MD Simon Chaplin will receive complimentary tickets to the event, worth £50 each.

Mr Chaplin said, “The conference will show local entrepreneurs how to get ready for the recovery by using use a new type of performance measurement and improvement approach to increase profits, improve cashflow, and make your business more valuable and significantly reduce your tax bills. We will also work through a case study showing how one small business got an extra £2.3 million so local business leaders can see exactly how to use the ideas during the recovery.

“It really is a privilege to have Steve Pipe present at our event. I have seen Steve speak passionately about helping UK owner managed business to become the best that they can be and have always come away with ideas on how I can improve GreenStones.

“Delegates will also receive a preliminary diagnostic review to help them identify some of the key opportunities available to them and their businesses. That review will calculate how much extra cash they might be able to add to their bank accounts and it will give them an initial action plan for making it all happen.”

The telephone number to call to claim one of the five free tickets being offered by GreenStones is 0845 466 7000.