Saffery Champness

Background
Saffery Champness is one of the UK’s top 20 accountancy practices and a leading provider of audit, accountancy, tax and advisory services to charities and other not for profit organisations. We have 55 partners and over 400 staff working in ten offices around the UK and Channel Islands. We have offices in Bournemouth, Bristol, Edinburgh, Guernsey, Harrogate, High Wycombe, Inverness, London, Manchester and Peterborough.

Our Charities Focus
Our charities clients span all sizes and categories and include many household name organisations. As well as compliance and reporting services, charitable organisations sometimes require a high degree of support and involvement from advisers who are familiar with the types of issues they face. Areas where we can be of assistance include:

• Audit
• Budgets and forecasts
• Dealing with the Charity Commission
• Governance
• HR Consultancy
• Incorporation
• Internal controls and internal audit
• Investment and financial advice
• IT Consultancy
• Mergers
• Outsourced support
• PAYE and National Insurance
• Risk management
• SORP
• Tax-effective giving
• Trading
• Training
• VAT

Our Not for Profit Team
Our national team is led by John Shuffrey and comprises experts in audit and accounting, direct tax and VAT, drawn from all of our offices to ensure we share best practice and provide the most practical and consistent service possible. Areas of particular expertise include grant making charities, heritage charities, hospices, childrens’ charities, independent schools, livery companies, professional institutes and clubs and associations.

We produce our Charities Briefing newsletter and other specialist publications several times a year, which cover a wide range of issues of particular interest to charities, and also run regular seminars for charities on the financial and tax issues that may affect them.

We are also distinguished by having a specialist VAT team who are wholly dedicated to advising not for profit organisations, with an enviable track record of recovering monies from HM Revenue & Customs on behalf of clients, and which has played a leading role in many of the most significant VAT developments in this sector.

Contact details
If you would like further information on the services we offer, please contact:

• John Shuffrey (Head of Not for Profit Group) on 020 7841 4147

• Russell Moore (Not for Profit VAT Partner) 020 7841 4255

• your nearest Saffery Champness office.