SN Bookkeeping find the perfect base for expansion

When, seven years ago, Szymon Niestryjewski and  Izabela Jutrzenka Trzebiatowskai set up SN Bookkeeping they already possessed most of the attributes needed to make a business succeed.

Talent. Drive. A passionate work-ethic. A gap-in-the-market idea.

They had all those - the idea being that of translating notoriously complex self-assessment tax forms (hard enough to fathom in your first language) for members of the Polish community.

Szymon and Izabela had done that informally for some years when they decided to formalise the arrangement.  The response to an ad they placed on a Polish website, allied to the high volume of word-of-mouth recommendations, suggested that there was more than sufficient demand to support a business.

All they needed was an office. A base to work from.

So they moved into Eliot Park Innovation Centre in Nuneaton - and haven't regretted it for a moment.

They will leave it at some point. But only because, due in large part to the support of the centre and its staff, they will have outgrown it.

"The business is expanding," said Szymon. " We are on the list for a bigger space here and we want to keep expanding until perhaps we need to leave Eliot Park, but it has been the perfect base for us.

"It is ideal with good car-parking and easy access, excellent communications close to a town centre and all the facilities we need.

"The people are really friendly and helpful which is important because it means there is a really good atmosphere around the place."

SN Bookkeeping initially consisted of just Szymon and Izabela but the workforce is now four-strong and they would like to take on an apprentice.

And that positive atmosphere at Eliot Park is a great asset to people dealing with the pressures of  running a small business with the inevitable stresses, deadlines and long, gruelling hours.     

"Many people finish work at 5pm," said Izabela. "We usually clock off at about 9pm or 10pm. We sit down at the start of each month and pick which weekend we will try to have off!

"But we came to England because it offers such opportunities. We want to retire in ten years time and Eliot Park has been perfect for us, giving us everything we need to make our business grow."