For business owners
Your life's work,
in safe hands.
You spent decades building something real. The question is not just what it is worth, but what happens to it next. We built EverGrowth to be the answer we would have wanted ourselves.
Our promise
We partner with businesses to grow them. Nothing gets dismantled.
No owner wants to hand over their life's work and watch it disappear into someone else's brand, or see loyal people managed out within the year. That does not happen here.
The terms in plain English
What stays. What we add.
Everything that makes it yours
Your company name and reputation. Your team, on the terms they joined on. Your customers and the relationships behind them. The culture and standards you spent years setting. And your own role, shaped however you want the next chapter to look.
Everything that helps it grow
Capital for vehicles, equipment and people. Group shared services behind the business: finance, people, safety, IT, procurement and bid support, so the noise leaves and your people can focus on what they do best. Cross-selling into the wider group's client base. A leadership bench so the business never depends on one person again.
The process
From first call to completion, without the circus.
Handing over a business you built is a big decision and often an emotional one.
A conversation in confidence
You speak directly with a founder. We listen first: your story, your team, your numbers in broad strokes, and what you actually want for yourself and for the business. If we are not the right partner, we will say so and point you somewhere better.
Getting to know the business
A short exchange of information under NDA so we can value the business properly. We work around your diary and your need for discretion. Your staff and customers hear nothing until you decide they should.
A fair, clear offer
A written offer with the valuation, the structure and the timetable in plain English. We are flexible on structure: stepping back at completion, a staged handover or keeping a stake in the business as it grows. We do not reopen the price late unless diligence finds something we were not told.
Diligence with respect
Thorough, because our backers and lenders expect it, but proportionate and run to an agreed timetable.
Completion, then continuity
Completion payment on the day, then a careful first hundred days focused on stability: your people reassured, your customers looked after, and the improvements you never had time for finally getting done.
What we look for
Is your business a fit?
Facilities & building services
Cleaning, maintenance, M&E, compliance, waste, security and the trades that keep buildings running.
A real track record
Typically ten or more years of trading, with EBITDA of £1m or more sustained year after year.
Loyal, diverse customer base
Repeat clients and contracts, ideally with no single customer dominating the business.
We also look for a capable team, room to grow and an owner who cares where the business goes. Not sure you tick every box? Talk to us anyway. Some of the best businesses we have met would have ruled themselves out on paper.
Honest answers
The questions every owner asks.
If yours is not here, ask us directly. You will get a straight answer.
Ask us anything →They stay, with their employment terms protected through the transfer. We partner with businesses for their people as much as their contracts, and we aim for teams to grow after joining us, not shrink.
No. Your name and reputation are a large part of what we are investing in. Businesses in our group keep their identity and their relationships under their own brand.
Yes. EverGrowth began privately funded and is now backed by FourLeaf Capital, with senior debt from OakNorth, to support the businesses that join the group. Every offer we make sets out how it is funded.
Only if you want to. Owners can hand over after a transition, stay on for years or keep a stake. We shape the terms around your plans, and we are honest about what the business needs to succeed without you.
From first conversation to completion is typically three to six months, depending on the readiness of your information and how quickly you want to move. We agree the timetable up front and keep to it.
Not from us. Conversations are confidential from the first call, NDAs come as standard, and nothing reaches your staff, customers or competitors until you choose the moment.
“I have sat where you are sitting. I built a business, grew it and sold it. The partner mattered more than the number, and that is exactly the partner we set out to be.”
Ferdie Ahmed · Co-Founder
In confidence
Let's talk about what you've built.
A first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Speak directly with a founder, in confidence, whenever you are ready.
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