Learn how to build a billion-pound business with practical lessons from Richard Harpin, founder of HomeServe, who grew the company to £4.1bn.
Learn how to build a billion-pound business with practical lessons from Richard Harpin, founder of HomeServe, who grew the company to £4.1bn.
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We’re a high-impact team of investors and operators. Our mission is to back the standout businesses of tomorrow: ambitious, customer-obsessed, and brand-led.
We go beyond capital. Our team brings real-world experience, strategic insight, and hands-on operational support to help founders unlock their potential. From sharpening strategy and building leadership teams to accelerating brand growth and operational scale, we focus on what moves the needle most.
Our core is minority growth equity – investing £5–£20 million in high-growth, profitable consumer businesses with clear product-market fit, scalable models, and momentum. Typical partners have £10m+ revenue, 30%+ annual growth, and £1m+ EBITDA. We also co-invest in majority deals alongside strategic partners in larger businesses with untapped growth potential, where our experience can make a meaningful difference.
We make three to four high-conviction investments each year. That means more time with each founder, more impact where it matters, and partnerships built on trust, pace, and alignment. We look for leaders who are ambitious, collaborative, data-led, and commercially sharp – people with vision, grit, and the drive to go further.
Since inception, we’ve built a portfolio of 14 exceptional businesses across categories including health and wellness, home and garden, apparel, food and drink, consumer services, and travel. Together, they’ve grown portfolio revenue from £0.1bn to £0.5bn, delivering an average CAGR of 34% and creating thousands of jobs.
With offices in London, Manchester, and Newcastle, our team of ten works side-by-side with founders to scale stronger, faster, and smarter – building brands that last and businesses that lead.
Less than 5% of UK CEOs and Founders scale their mid–sized business to greatness. We exist to change that.
Business Leader is a high-impact community for ambitious UK CEOs and founders who are serious about scale. Our mission is to grow the number of large, sustainable companies driving the UK economy by working with leaders of businesses starting at £3m in revenue.
We go beyond networking. At the heart of Business Leader are stage-based peer forums – small groups of up to 10 non-competing leaders at a similar stage of growth, led by an experienced coach who has been there. These forums meet eight times a year, with four additional one-to-one coaching sessions. Members also have access to a year-round calendar of masterclasses, live interviews with leading CEOs, and flagship summits. Everything is designed to help leaders sharpen strategy, strengthen leadership and achieve commercial progress.
The foundation for this is our proprietary 9 Steps to a Billion framework – a practical growth blueprint that shows you how to double, then double again. It underpins every forum, every coaching session and every event.
Members also gain exclusive access to Growth 500 – the UK’s largest analysis of the fastest-growing companies – plus weekly insights, the Business Leader magazine, and introductions to billion-pound founders and ambassadors who share what works in the real world.
If you are leading a growth-stage business and want to accelerate your progress, the best first step is to join a free Growth Workshop with me and other experienced founders, or to speak to our team about joining a forum. We only bring in members who are aligned in ambition and momentum – because the quality of the community is what makes it work.
Scaling a business is tough but you don’t have to do it alone. That’s why I host Growth Workshops: small, focused sessions designed to help ambitious founders break through barriers and unlock the next stage of growth.
In these workshops, I share the 9 Steps to a Billion – the exact framework I used to take HomeServe from a £50,000 start-up to a £4.1bn global company. You’ll meet other founders facing the same challenges, leaving with clear strategies and practical actions you can put to work immediately.
Eligibility: Growth Workshops are for CEOs and founders of businesses turning over £3m+ who are serious about scaling to the next level.
If that’s you, this is where your journey starts.
👉 Register your interest today and join me at a Growth Workshop.
The Enterprise Trust aims to inspire young individuals to become the entrepreneurs of the future.
Following Richard’s recognition as the EY UK Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008, he took the initiative to establish his own charity, The Enterprise Trust, with the aim of inspiring young individuals to become the entrepreneurs of the future. The Enterprise Trust engages in in-house research in collaboration with leading experts, contributing significantly to the entrepreneurial economy through crucial new research and innovative thinking. The ultimate goal is to provide insights that will inform future business expansion and foster economic growth in the UK.
The Enterprise Trust collaborates with existing thought leaders, active contributors, and influential figures in the entrepreneurial space, including The Entrepreneurs Network, Enterprise Nation, and industry advisers.