OUR SUPPORT TO CHARITIES

HPH has considerable and specific knowledge and experience in the charity sector. All our services to Charities have two fundamental aims at heart.

• To provide reassurance to trustees (or governors, council or committee members) that their financial management responsibilities as charity trustees are being fulfilled.
• To ensure that all our services are geared to adding value for the charity, so that every £1 of charity money obtains maximum benefit.

To do this we are structured to provide a high proportion of senior manager and partner time bringing their substantial knowledge of other charities to add to their close insight of their clients. Continuity of staff and partners has always been a major feature of our service.

Our size and structure enables us to offer a more personal service than the larger firms yet provide a much wider access to specialist skills and facilities than many smaller firms.

Our charities' team is multi-disciplinary and includes taxation, accounting and IT specialists as well as auditors who spend a significant proportion of their time advising charities, professional bodies, and other 'not for profit' organisations. This ensures that our expertise and experience is concentrated and built upon in order that our clients receive the best possible advice and service.

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OUR SERVICES AND EXPERIENCE

We can draw from our wide and in depth experience of supporting a range of charity clients across the whole sector in terms of size and object, to provide all the financial and management services a charity may need.

Examples would include:

Financial Reporting. With our involvement in the development of the Charity SORP we are well placed to advise on the presentation of accounts.

Auditing and Examining. Providing reassurance to trustees and at the same time constructive, commercial advice to charity management.

Restructuring. Assisting through a consultative, collaborative and sensitive approach to produce a revised strategy and organisation structure.

Information Systems. Conducting feasibility studies, managing the tender and selection process and the implementation stage of fund-raising and membership systems as well as financial management computer systems.

Management. Management of the day to day operations of an organisation or managing change in an organisation before handing over to a new management operation.

Taxation. Advising on marketing tax benefits in fund-raising campaigns, using trading subsidiaries and advising on the taxation of employee benefits and part-time employees.

VAT. The 'simple' tax that has become so complicated and expensive for charities. The opportunities provided by property planning, partial exemption methods and charity reliefs.

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