Living Ventures
Management Services
Living Ventures
Management Services
With over 30 years experience in building hospitality brands from concept stage to multi site roll outs, Living Ventures Management Services has the experience to help your business grow.
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Provide specialist bookkeeping or full management accounting services tailor-made to your business.
Provide advice to support and guide the growth and development strategy of your business.
Provide general business advice in all disciplines including; procurement, marketing to human resources, estate management and IT.
Provide support from experienced hospitality professionals, ensuring industry-focused business solutions.
Jeremy began his career in hotel operations before moving into senior management and co-founding Life Restaurants in 1996, with his business partner the late Tim Bacon, which evolved into Living Ventures - the group behind brands like The Alchemist, New World Trading Company/The Botanist, Gusto Italian and Australasia. From 1999 to 2024, he held key leadership roles, in Marketing, Property, Finance and as CEO driving growth and successful exits of ventures worth £1m-£55m. In 2025, he founded LV Management Services to apply over 30 years of experience in scaling hospitality businesses.
Andy is a qualified accountant who served as Finance Director at Living Ventures from 2007 to 2019, helping drive the growth, launch, sale, and restructuring of multiple hospitality brands. Alongside financial oversight and stakeholder reporting, he also led the IT function, implementing systems to support operational efficiency. His commercial insight and cross-functional leadership were key during a period of rapid expansion and change.
Helen is a Chartered Accountant (ACA, 2018) who began her hospitality career with Living Ventures at Gusto Restaurants, later taking on the role of Financial Controller at LV Brands during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now Finance Director at LVMS, she oversees accounting operations and strategic forecasting, with expertise in financial reporting, cost control, and planning in the hospitality sector.
Living Ventures is 31 years in the making.
Our adventures in business start in 1993...
Restaurant and Bar
Deansgate, Manchester
American Diner
Salford Quays, Manchester
Mediterranean Restaurant and Bar
JW Johnson's & Starvin' Marvin'sSold to Celebrated Restaurants Ltd
Life RestaurantsSet up by Tim Bacon, Jeremy Roberts, and Dave Hinds
Sold to Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries PLC
Life CaféOpens in Liverpool and Manchester
Tim Bacon and Jeremy Roberts set up Living Ventures
The Living RoomBrand is created and launched in Deansgate, Manchester
Sold to Whitbread PLC
Concept developed and opens in Leeds
The Sunday Times Top 100 names LV the fastest growing company in hospitality
Prohibition BarSold to Ultimate Leisure plc for £2.75m
Est Est EstLiving Ventures acquire Est Est Est
TRGTake 40% stake in Living Room
Ultimate Leisure pays £28m to acquire the 13-strong The Living Room estate
GustoEst Est Est is re-branded to Gusto Restaurant and Bar
Tim Bacon and Jeremy Roberts set up Living Ventures Management for the development of new brands.
Living Ventures ManagementAcquire 5 Heathcote sites and convert to Gusto and Blackhouse sites
The AlchemistConcept is created and launched in Spinningfields, Manchester
Opens in Manchester
NWTCNew World Trading Company is created; the first pub, The Oast House, opens in November 2011 in Manchester. First Botanist Alderley Edge is acquired
LV comes 28th in The Sunday Times Top 100 Companies to Work For survey
LV comes 9th in The Sunday Times Top 100 Companies to Work For survey
NWTCHill Capital and LDC invests £2.7m in NWTC
Palatine Private Equity takes a 65% stake in Gusto
Palatine Private Equity invests £12m in The Alchemist for 60% stake
Graphite Capital acquires NWTC for £55m
Opens in Manchester
Sold and Living Ventures Management Services launched.
The Tim Bacon Foundation is a Registered Charity (No. 1173108) and was established in Tim's name to recognise his achievements, continue his legacy and to echo his legendary spirit of generosity.
Tim was always vibrant, forever inspiring and generous of mind and spirit. The businesses he led and worked in changed the face of Manchester's restaurant scene and he left his unique mark on friends, employees and customers alike.
Following his passing in April 2016, the Foundation was formed by his friend and business partner Jeremy Roberts to ensure that Tim's inspiring journey was not forgotten and the example he set as he lived well with cancer, is celebrated.
Whether your business is at start-up stage or has been trading for a while and is ready for the next step, Living Ventures can help you achieve your growth ambitions.
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