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I am advising Assembly Members that I have set up a Micro\-Business Task and Finish Group, under the Chairmanship of Robert Lloyd\-Griffiths, Director Wales, Institute of Directors. 


The purpose of the Task and Finish group is to provide me with advice and recommendations on the development and implementation of a Micro\-Business Strategy for Wales.  For the purpose of this review and strategy development micro\-businesses are defined as those that employ between one and nine persons.


The role of the Task and Finish Group is to:


* Identify evidence for micro\-business support in Wales drawing on evidence, best practice and evaluations available;
* Identify and establish benchmarks;
* Identify cost effective options for Government delivery and support for micro\-businesses;
* Provide strategic direction to the work of developing a Strategy;
* Provide guidance on the future role of the Regional Centre Service; and
* Promote the Strategy to the business sector.


The aims and objectives are:


* To develop a Micro\-Business Strategy for Wales;
* To understand the needs and requirements of micro\-businesses;
* To understand how we can help create the conditions for micro\-businesses to operate;
* To define where active public intervention is required for providing micro businesses with the support necessary to assist growth and sustainability;
* To review the support for micro\-businesses including the Regional Centre Service and consider cost effective options for future Government supported delivery;
* To define how the Welsh Government and stakeholders can develop the micro\-business sector in Wales;
* To provide guidance and expertise in the drafting of the Strategy; and
* Develop a set of criteria to monitor and evaluation framework for the Strategy.


I am delighted that Robert Lloyd Griffiths has agreed to Chair this key Task and Finish Group.  Robert brings a wealth of experience from a long career in marketing and communications as director at Wales law firm Leo Abse \& Cohen and with marketing agency Golley Slater and more recently as Director Wales, Institute of Directors.


The full membership of the Task and Finish Group is set out below.


As part of its deliberations the Group will hear and gather evidence from key individuals and organisations.  Much of this work will take place during autumn.  The Micro\-Business Task and Finish Group starts work this month.  I anticipate receiving the Group’s draft report before the end of December 2011\.


### Task and Finish Group Membership


### Chair


#### Robert Lloyd Griffiths, Director – Wales, Institute of Directors


Robert Lloyd Griffiths was born in Cardiff in 1965 and has been the Institute of Directors Wales director for just over 2 years. Before that he spent six years as marketing and communications director at Wales law firm Leo Abse \& Cohen and spent more than 15 years with communications and marketing agency Golley Slater. He has a degree in banking and finance from UWIST (University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology) – now Cardiff Business School, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and has lectured in marketing communications for the Diploma in Marketing. He is a professional advisor with a number of organisations offering strategic advice and support. He is active in several charitable organisations. He is also the Wales Autism Employment Ambassador raising awareness of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the workplace.


### Members


#### Sue Balsom, Francis Balsom Associates


Sue Balsom is founder and Managing Director of her own successful, bilingual Communications, Design and Publishing business founded in 1989\.  A former teacher, university careers adviser and journalist, she lives in Aberystwyth and has learnt Welsh.


Sue was a member of the TV\-AM regional board until 1992 and Vice\-Chair of the BBC’s Broadcasting Council for Wales 1996\-2002\. From 2003 to 2010 she represented Wales on the Content Board of the UK media \+ telecommunications regulator OFCOM.


She has also served on the Board of Welsh Development Agency, Finance Wales and chaired the Prince’s Trust Cymru where she raised several million to support the Trust's business start up programme for disadvantaged youngsters in Wales.


Sue is a Trustee at the Centre for Alternative Technology, a board member of Artes Mundi the international art prize and non executive director of the community interest Cambrian Mountains company. 


#### Jacquie Williams, SCS Aftercare


SCS Aftercare is a specialist provider of the service, maintenance, refurbishment and replacement of smoke ventilation systems.  Their portfolio of clients includes Morrisons Supermarkets, IKEA, Mitie, GE, Debenhams, colleges, Property Management Companies and numerous Residents Associations. Jacquie Williams is the owner and MD of the business. 


This year (2011\) the business has been recognised as a Fast Growth 50 business due to a turnover increase of 80% over the last 3 years from £240,000 to £505,000, growth this year is predicted to be a further 30% increase on last year.  Outside of the business she is the founder of Welsh Women Walking a group that encourages women to hill walk for Wellbeing.


#### Janet Jones, Federation of Small Business


Janet Jones is the Welsh Chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses.  With some 10,000 members, the FSB is Wales’ largest business organisation drawing its membership from every sector of the Welsh economy.  The FSB exists to promote and protect the interests of all who own and/or operate their own business.  

Janet is married and helps run the family farming business along with her husband and two of her three sons.  She has been an active member of the FSB since 1998 and is in her fifth year as Welsh Chair. She has represented and spoken at the Welsh Party Political Conferences and much of her time is spent promoting the needs of SMEs and ensuring the voice of business is heard.


#### Robert Chapman, Robert Chapman and Company


With twenty six years post qualification experience as a Chartered Surveyor, initially Robert worked as a Land Agent for Smith\-Woolley, Strutt \& Parker, The Severn Trent Water Authority, Powys County Council and The National Trust.  Over the last twenty one years he has immersed himself in the commercial property arena working for the WDA (Welsh Development Agency), Grimley International (now GVA Grimley) and Stephenson \& Alexander before establishing his own niche practice 10 years ago.


#### Peter Denton, Williams Denton Cyf


After training as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Leicester, he worked in practice for several years and was admitted to the Chartered Institute of Taxation in 1980\.  He then spent two years lecturing at Caer Rhun Hall, North Wales. He joined H Cecil Williams in Bangor on 1 October 1983\.  Since then the practice has opened a second office in Llandudno and has grown to include 5 Directors and 31 staff between the two offices.  He was honoured to be appointed the first president of ACCA North Wales and has served on the ACCA Wales steering committee for 6 years.  Last year he was elected As Wales Representative on the International Assembly of ACCA and has joined the ACCA small practitioners panel.  He has recently been co\-opted onto the ICAEW International Auditing Standards Implementation Panel.


#### Allan Lloyd, Treasure, Mumbles


Allan Lloyd is the owner of Treasure, a family owned small specialist department store specialising in unusual merchandise. The store was an original idea of the present owners Allan and Pat Lloyd in 1969\. Both were comprehensive school teachers but wanted a greater challenge.  

Treasure is now in its 41st year of non stop trading by developing retail merchandise for the discerning including a self serve restaurant whose excellent reputation for good quality foods prepared and cooked on the premises attracts customers from a wide area.


Allan is also a Board member/shareholder of Cadwaladers Ice Cream, is MD of Camedee Properties Limited; and manages a 50 strong Suckler Herd of Pedigree Welsh Black Cattle on the Gower Coast. 


#### David Russ, South Wales Chamber of Commerce


David Russ has spent the last 14 years as the dynamic Managing Director of the Newport and Gwent Chamber of Commerce Enterprise and Industry, the parent company of the South Wales Chamber of Commerce and the Centre for Business, and over 25 years of business support in Wales. David has been extremely successful in identifying Market and Human Resource opportunities to meet customer needs, operating at board and senior level within multi–national and indigenous businesses.


David represented Wales Enterprise on the Entrepreneurship Action Steering Group and was the author of the Business Birth Rate Strategy and Entrepreneurship in Growth Business.  David has considerable experience in developing entrepreneurs and the development of programmes to ensure their long\-term survival.


Previous roles include Business Development Director for the West of England Development Agency and 10 years with the Welsh Development Agency as International Director and Regional Director.







Translation:


 
Rwy’n hysbysu Aelodau’r Cynulliad fy mod wedi sefydlu Grŵp Gorchwyl a Gorffen Microfusnesau o dan gadeiryddiaeth Robert Lloyd\-Griffiths, Cyfarwyddwr Cymru, Sefydliad y Cyfarwyddwyr. 


Diben y Grŵp Gorchwyl a Gorffen yw rhoi cyngor ac argymhellion i mi ar ddatblygu a rhoi ar waith Strategaeth Microfusnesau Cymru. At ddiben yr adolygiad hwn a datblygu’r strategaeth, caiff microfusnesau’u diffinio fel rhai sy’n cyflogi rhwng un a naw o bobl.


Rôl y Grŵp Gorchwyl a Gorffen yw:


* Nodi’r dystiolaeth ar gyfer cymorth microfusnesau yng Nghymru, gan ddefnyddio y dystiolaeth, yr arferion gorau a’r gwerthusiadau sydd ar gael;
* Nodi a sefydlu meincnodau;
* Nodi opsiynau effeithiol o ran cost ar gyfer darpariaeth a chymorth y Llywodraeth ar gyfer microfusnesau;
* Rhoi cyfeiriad strategol i’r gwaith o ddatblygu Strategaeth;
* Rhoi arweiniad ar rôl Gwasanaeth y Ganolfan Ranbarthol yn y dyfodol;
* Hyrwyddo’r Strategaeth i’r sector busnes.


Dyma’r nodau a’r amcanion:


* Datblygu Strategaeth Microfusnesau Cymru;
* Deall anghenion a gofynion microfusnesau;
* Deall sut gallwn ni helpu i greu’r amgylchiadau gorau ar microfusnesau;
* Diffinio lle mae angen ymyrraeth gyhoeddus weithredol ar gyfer rhoi’r cymorth angenrheidiol i ficrofusnesau i helpu twf a chynaliadwyedd;
* Adolygu’r cymorth ar gyfer microfusnesau, gan gynnwys Gwasanaeth y Ganolfan Ranbarthol ac ystyried opsiynau effeithiol o ran cost ar gyfer darpariaeth â chymorth y Llywodraeth yn y dyfodol;
* Diffinio sut gall Llywodraeth Cymru a rhanddeiliaid ddatblygu’r sector microfusnesau yng Nghymru;
* Rhoi arweiniad ac arbenigedd wrth ddrafftio’r Strategaeth;
* Datblygu set o feini prawf i fonitro a gwerthuso fframwaith y Strategaeth.


Rwyf wrth fy modd bod Robert Lloyd Griffiths wedi cytuno i gadeirio’r Grŵp Gorchwyl a Gorffen allweddol hwn. Mae Robert yn cynnig cyfoeth o brofiad gyrfa hir mewn marchnata a chyfathrebu fel cyfarwyddwr y cwmni cyfreithiol Leo Abse \& Cohen a’r asiantaeth farchnata Golley Slater, ac yn fwy diweddar fel Cyfarwyddwr Cymru yn Sefydliad y Cyfarwyddwyr.


Gweler aelodaeth lawn y Grŵp Gorchwyl a Gorffen isod.


Fel rhan o’i ystyriaethau, bydd y Grŵp yn casglu ac yn gwrando ar dystiolaeth gan unigolion a chyrff allweddol. Bydd llawer o’r gwaith hwn yn digwydd yn yr hydref. Bydd y Grŵp Gorchwyl a Gorffen Microfusnesau’n dechrau ar ei waith y mis hwn. Rwy’n disgwyl derbyn adroddiad drafft y Grŵp cyn diwedd mis Rhagfyr 2011\.


### Aelodaeth y Grŵp Gorchwyl a Gorffen


### Cadeirydd


#### Robert Lloyd Griffiths, Cyfarwyddwr Cymru, Sefydliad y Cyfarwyddwyr


Ganed Robert Lloyd Griffiths yng Nghaerdydd ym 1965 ac mae wedi bod yn Gyfarwyddwr Cymru yn Sefydliad y Cyfarwyddwyr ers ychydig dros ddwy flynedd. Cyn hynny bu’n gweithio am chwe blynedd fel cyfarwyddwr marchnata a chyfathrebu yng nghwmni cyfreithiol Leo Abse \& Cohen ac am fwy na 15 mlynedd gyda’r asiantaeth gyfathrebu a marchnata Golley Slater. Mae ganddo radd mewn bancio a chyllid o UWIST (Sefydliad Gwyddoniaeth a Thechnoleg Prifysgol Cymru), sef Ysgol Fusnes Caerdydd bellach, mae’n Gymrodor y Sefydliad Marchnata Siartredig ac mae wedi darlithio mewn cyfathrebu marchnata ar gyfer y Diploma mewn Marchnata. Mae’n ymgynghorydd proffesiynol gyda nifer o sefydliadau, gan roi cyngor a chymorth strategol. Mae’n weithgar gyda nifer o elusennau. Mae hefyd yn Llysgennad Cyflogaeth Awtistiaeth Cymru i godi ymwybyddiaeth am Anhwylder ar y Sbectrwm Awtistig yn y gweithle.


### Aelodau


#### Sue Balsom, Francis Balsom Associates


Sue Balsom yw sylfaenydd a Rheolwr Gyfarwyddwr ei busnes cyfathrebu, dylunio a chyhoeddi dwyieithog llwyddiannus ei hun, a sefydlwyd ym 1989\. Mae hi’n gyn athrawes, cynghorydd gyrfaoedd prifysgol a newyddiadurwraig, mae hi’n byw yn Aberystwyth ac mae wedi dysgu Cymraeg.


Roedd Sue yn aelod o fwrdd rhanbarthol TV\-AM tan 1992 ac yn Is\-gadeirydd Cyngor Darlledu Cymru y BBC rhwng 1996 a 2002\. Rhwng 2003 a 2010 bu’n cynrychioli Cymru ar Fwrdd Cynnwys OFCOM, rheoleiddiwr cyfryngau a thelathrebu y DU.


Mae hi hefyd wedi gwasanaethu Fwrdd Awdurdod Datblygu Cymru, Cyllid Cymru ac wedi cadeirio Ymddiriedolaeth Tywysog Cymru, gan godi miliynau i gefnogi rhaglen busnesau newydd yr Ymddiriedolaeth ar gyfer pobl ifanc dan anfantais yng Nghymru.


Sue yw un o ymddiriedolwyr Canolfan y Dechnoleg Amgen, aelod o fwrdd gwobr gelf ryngwladol Artes Mundi a chyfarwyddwr anweithredol cwmni buddiant cymunedol Mynyddoedd Cambria. 


#### Jacquie Williams, SCS Aftercare


Mae SCS Aftercare yn ddarparwr arbenigol ar gyfer gwasanaethu, cynnal a chadw, adfer ac ailosod systemau gwyntyllu mwg. Mae’i bortffolio cleientiaid yn cynnwys Archfarchnad Morrisons, IKEA, Mitie, GE, Debenhams, colegau, cwmnïau rheoli eiddo ac amryw gymdeithasau preswylwyr. Jacquie Williams yw perchennog a Rheolwr Gyfarwyddwr y busnes. 


Eleni (2011\) mae’r busnes wedi cael ei gydnabod fel busnes Twf Cyflym 50 yn sgil cynnydd o 80% mewn trosiant dros y 3 blynedd diwethaf o £240,000 i £505,000, ac mae disgwyl i’r twf eleni fod 30% yn fwy eto na’r llynedd. Y tu allan i’r busnes hi yw sylfaenydd Welsh Women Walking, grŵp sy’n annog menywod i ddringo bryniau er mwyn eu lles.


#### Janet Jones, y Ffederasiwn Busnesau Bach


Janet Jones yw Cadeirydd y Ffederasiwn Busnesau Bach yng Nghymru. Gydag oddeutu 10,000 o aelodau, y Ffederasiwn Busnesau Bach yw corff busnes mwyaf Cymru, gydag aelodau o bob sector yn economi Cymru. Diben y Ffederasiwn yw hyrwyddo a gwarchod buddiannau pawb sy’n berchen ar a/neu’n rhedeg eu busnes eu hunain.  

Mae Janet yn briod ac yn helpu i redeg busnes fferm y teulu gyda’i gŵr a dau o’u tri mab. Mae wedi bod yn aelod gweithgar o’r Ffederasiwn ers 1998 a dyma’i phumed blwyddyn yn Gadeirydd Cymru. Mae hi wedi annerch cynadleddau pleidiau Cymru ac mae’n treulio tipyn o’i hamser yn hyrwyddo anghenion SMEs a sicrhau bod llais busnesau’n cael ei glywed.


#### Robert Chapman, Robert Chapman and Company


Mae gan Robert chwe blynedd ar hugain o brofiad ers cymhwyso’n syrfëwr siartredig, ac mae wedi gweithio fel asiant tir ar gyfer Smith\-Woolley, Strutt \& Parker, Awdurdod Dŵr Hafren Trent, Cyngor Sir Powys a’r Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol. Dros yr un mlynedd ar hugain diwethaf mae wedi gweithio ym maes eiddo masnachol i’r WDA (Awdurdod Datblygu Cymru), Grimley International (GVA Grimley bellach) a Stephenson \& Alexander cyn sefydlu’i bractis arbenigol ei hun 10 mlynedd yn ôl.


#### Peter Denton, Williams Denton Cyf


Ar ôl hyfforddi’n gyfrifydd siartredig gyda PricewaterhouseCoopers yng Nghaerlŷr, gweithiodd mewn practis am nifer o flynyddoedd a chafodd ei dderbyn i’r Sefydliad Trethu Siartredig ym 1980\. Yna treuliodd ddwy flynedd yn darlithio yn Neuadd Caer Rhun yn y Gogledd. Ymunodd â H Cecil Williams ym Mangor ar 1 Hydref 1983\. Ers hynny mae’r practis wedi agor ail swyddfa yn Llandudno, gan dyfu i fod â 5 cyfarwyddwr a 31 aelod o staff rhwng y ddwy swyddfa. Cafodd ei anrhydeddu’n llywydd cyntaf ar ACCA Gogledd Cymru ac mae wedi gwasanaethu ar bwyllgor llywio ACCA Cymru ers 6 blynedd. Y llynedd cafodd ei ethol yn gynrychiolydd Cymru yng Nghynulliad Rhyngwladol ACCA ac mae wedi ymuno â phanel ymarferwyr bach ACCA. Yn ddiweddar cafodd ei gyfethol ar Banel Gweithredu Safonau Archwilio Rhyngwladol ICAEW.


#### Allan Lloyd, Treasure, y Mwmbwls


Allan Lloyd yw perchennog Treasure, siop adrannol arbenigol fach deuluol sy’n gwerthu nwyddau anarferol. Ffrwyth dychymyg y perchnogion presennol Allan a Pat Lloyd ym 1969 yw’r siop. Roedd y ddau yn athrawon mewn ysgol gyfun ond yn chwilio am fwy o her.  

   

Mae Treasure bellach wedi bod yn masnachu ers 41 o flynyddoedd drwy ddatblygu nwyddau arbenigol, gan gynnwys bwyty hunanwasanaeth sydd ag enw rhagorol am fwyd o safon uchel sy’n cael ei baratoi a’i goginio ar y safle i gwsmeriaid sy’n cael eu denu o ardal eang.


Mae Allan hefyd yn aelod o fwrdd/cyfranddaliwr Hufen Iâ Cadwaladers, yn Rheolwr Gyfarwyddwr Camedee Properties Limited ac yn gofalu am fuches sugno o 50 o wartheg du pedigri Cymreig ar Benrhyn Gŵyr. 


#### David Russ, Siambr Fasnach De Cymru


Mae David Russ wedi treulio’r 14 blynedd diwethaf yn Rheolwr Gyfarwyddwr deinamig ar Siambr Fasnach, Menter a Diwydiant Casnewydd a Gwent, rhiant gwmni Siambr Fasnach De Cymru a’r Ganolfan Fusnes, a thros 25 mlynedd yn rhoi cymorth busnes yng Nghymru. Mae David wedi bod yn hynod lwyddiannus yn dod o hyd i gyfleoedd adnoddau dynol a’r farchnad i fodloni anghenion cwsmeriaid, gan weithredu ar lefel bwrdd ac uwch mewn busnesau rhyngwladol a chynhenid.


Bu David yn cynrychioli Menter Cymru yn y Grŵp Llywio Gweithredu Entrepreneuriaeth ac ef oedd awdur y Strategaeth Cyfradd Geni Busnesau ac Entrepreneuriaeth mewn Busnesau Twf. Mae gan David brofiad sylweddol o ddatblygu entrepreneuriaid a datblygu rhaglenni i sicrhau eu bod yn goroesi yn yr hirdymor.


Mae ei rolau blaenorol yn cynnwys Cyfarwyddwr Datblygu Busnes Awdurdod Datblygu Gorllewin Lloegr a 10 mlynedd yn Gyfarwyddwr Rhyngwladol a Chyfarwyddwr Rhanbarthol gydag Awdurdod Datblygu Cymru.