Merrycon is a boutique supplier of Business Continuity products and services, based in Kendal, on the edge of the English Lake District.

Experience - Merrycon brings to its clients a significant depth and breadth of Business Continuity experience spanning both large and small organisations across a wide variety of sectors.

Mel Gosling, the founder and Managing Director of Merrycon, is Merrycon’s principal Business Continuity consultant. Mel is a Member of the Business Continuity Institute, and has many years of experience in Business Continuity, IT, and Project Management.

Associate consultants work with Merrycon to provide clients with additional and specialist expertise and resource to meet individual requirements.

Practicality & Pragmatism - Merrycon will bring a refreshing degree of practicality & pragmatism to your Business Continuity work, ensuring that your organisation implements solutions appropriate to its needs and resources.

Price & Complexity - Merrycon’s approach will enable your organisation to introduce an effective Business Continuity Programme quickly, easily, and at an affordable price.

Fixed Price - Merrycon provides consultancy services on a fixed price basis - not time and materials. You will always know exactly what you will be paying and what you will be getting.

Merrycon supplies Business Continuity products and services to organisations in all sectors from the small to the very large, and specialises in providing cost effective solutions that are tailored to the needs of individual clients.

Business Continuity is a management discipline that provides a framework for an organisation to build resilience, providing the capability for an effective response to events that might threaten it.

Merrycon’s approach to Business Continuity recognises that business continuity planning is a key element of the discipline, and has as its priority the development and deployment of an effective Business Continuity Plan for situations that may never occur. The aim of the Business Continuity Plan is to ensure that an organisation’s critical functions continue to operate during a crisis, and that the remainder are recovered in a controlled manner

The time, complexity, and cost of introducing Business Continuity and developing a Business Continuity Plan are all too often seen as disproportionate to the benefit. To overcome these obstacles, Merrycon has developed a package of structured consultancy and software aimed at enabling organisations to introduce the discipline and deploy an effective Business Continuity Plan quickly, easily, and at an affordable price.

Consistency with the Business Continuity Institute’s guide to Business Continuity Management (the BCI’s Good Practice Guidelines), which defines BCM as a phased and iterative process, and with the recently published British Standard (BS 25999), is at the heart of the Business Continuity products and services provided by Merrycon.