Tim Godfrey
Corporate and Business Services Partner
What sets Tim apart?
Tim specialises in advising Owner Managed Businesses and also heads up Healthcare for the wider firm. Tim enjoys working closely with his clients and believes communication is the key to a long-term relationship.
Regular contact and up to date, relevant and reliable financial information is key to helping clients develop and pursue their strategic goals.
As Head of Healthcare he has considerable experience in the Care Home Sector and advises owners across the country. From buying and selling to refinancing, Tim provides pro-active commercial advice.
Tim is also known for his expertise in the Fishing Sector and looks after a large number of commercial marine fishing clients, wholesale fish merchants and related fish processing businesses.
Tim is also well known in the Leisure and Tourism sector and is the chairman of the English Riviera Tourism company.
Tim's service expertise
Corporate and Business Services
- Working with clients to help them develop and achieve their business goals whilst ensuring the day to day compliance and tax advice is delivered in a pro-active manner
Tim's sector expertise
Healthcare
- Advising single and multi-site care home clients across a wide geographic area. Assisting with commercial and tax structuring, funding and financial reporting including the use of technology
Marine
- Advising clients who catch, buy or process fish across the wider South West. From buying, selling or operating fishing vessels to clients processing fish/crab and selling to the global market
Leisure and Tourism
- Advising clients in the sector with a bias towards larger hotels or hotel groups, holiday parks and visitor attractions. As chair of the English Riviera Tourism Company Tim keeps up to date with all the trends and uses this inform discussions with his clients
In conjunction with Torbay Quality Care Forum the Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust commissioned a report into the local care home market. The aim of this report being specifically to identify the market costs within care homes as a benchmark for ongoing discussions regarding local authority fee levels. Tim and his team worked with over 100 local care homes to collate the data and presented a report setting out the underlying costs which provided an important basis for the joint working between care home owners and public sector commissioners. Tim’s knowledge of the care home sector was instrumental in this joint appointment.
John Bryant, Head of Integration and Development
