Scunthorpe Rugby Club is a rugby union team based in Scunthorpe and they run six senior sides, a ladies team, a colts and under 18s team and a full set of junior teams. As you may know, Aaron Henning, Praesumo Partner is a Scunthorpe lad and really values clubs such as Scunthorpe with their grassroots values and fantastic coaching.

It’s been three months since Praesumo announced St George’s Crypt as their charity of the year for 2018. St George’s Crypt is a Leeds-based charity that works with homeless and vulnerable adults providing immediate care and support, food and accommodation. In doing this, they run a recovery programme, engagement activities and skills training in order

UK sex toy and lingerie retailer Lovehoney has sold a majority stake to Swiss Private Equity firm, Telemos Capital. Founded in Bath 16 years ago by Richard Longhurst and Neal Slateford, market-leading e-commerce retailer Lovehoney focuses on women and couples and bring in revenues of £100m from a range of international operations. Selling a mix

Private Equity firm and Praesumo client, NorthEdge Capital has supported the MBO of a Yorkshire-based engineering tooling supplier Cutwel Limited. Cutwel, based in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, are specialists in supplying the engineering industry with precision cutting tools and machine accessories in the UK and Ireland. With plans to scale its sales team with investment in

Having nominated St George’s Crypt as charity of the year, Aaron Henning, Praesumo Partner, has teamed up with his friend, John Penn to take on the huge challenge of the Rat Race Coast to Coast to boost the funds raised for the charity. Aaron and John have known each other for over 20 years and

It’s been a busy a few weeks here at Praesumo! We have recently supported the appointment of Paul Martin as Non-Executive Director with Salvalco. This is a truly game changing business and we are happy we’ve been able to support the Foresight team in making such an exciting investment. We’d like to wish the Foresight

Following the Prime Minister’s recommendation, Her Majesty The Queen has awarded Specac with the Queen’s Award for International Trade. Kent-based Specac Ltd. design and manufacture accessories for spectrometres used in science and industry and has been in business since 1971. Supplying sample-analysis accessories, high-specification equipment using mirrors and crystal materials to direct infrared light, they

As we all know, the success of any business is directly related to the people working within it. And Praseumo is no different. In recent years, we’ve seen a growth in both our organisation and industry and whilst it is great, it has meant change. Change in the way we work, how we work and

Following Connection Capital’s investment in HEL, Praesumo are pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Dixey as Chairman at HEL. We’d like to congratulate Andrew, Jasbir, Luke and wider the Connection Capital and HEL teams on getting this deal done and wish them all the best for the future. For more information and the full

Once again, the demand and desire for businesses dealing with payment services is proved popular for private equity firms as Small World Financial Services was bought by Equistone, a buyout house, for a reported £80m. FPE Capital and MMC Ventures, private equity houses, both sold their stake to Equistone and the deal generated three times the