{"id":494865,"date":"2026-02-23T21:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494865\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T21:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:19:11","slug":"norfolk-wills-and-estate-planning-expanding-to-new-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494865\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk WIlls and Estate Planning expanding to new offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  It was founded during the pandemic and is growing across the county at a time when many businesses are struggling.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I think our affordability and accessibility have allowed us to grow,&#8221; said Ross Ratcliffe, who founded the business and employs his brother and other family members.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We started out in the middle of Covid I was just hoping to make a living then, but it&#8217;s gone really well and we&#8217;ve managed to expand quickly.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Mr Ratcliffe outside one of his offices (Image: Ross Ratcliffe)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I was on six-month contracts working for a consortium prior to the pandemic, and when it came, the work dried up.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;So I thought to myself, it&#8217;s time to do something for yourself. Thankfully, it&#8217;s worked out really well.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Ratcliffe&#8217;s Dereham business will be moving to Quebec Street in the town. He is also looking to open workspaces in both Norwich and Acle in the near future.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I&#8217;m very proud of how much we have been able to expand the business and how many families we have been able to serve,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was founded during the pandemic and is growing across the county at a time when many businesses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-494865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}