Alan Patient & Co are Chartered Accountants who provide Financial Clarity Management and Compliance services to the Education Sector.  Their expert team have a thorough understanding of the challenges within this changing environment and have the experience needed to support School leaders, Chief Financial Officers and Business Managers to help make the money go further and give them peace of mind. They recently exhibited at the School and Academy Show 2019, which took place over two days in April and was held at the London Excel. Their stand, was filled with their wonderful moving display and competitions. In addition, they had their balloon lady on their stand meaning that many visitors were walking around with balloon bracelets, wings and wands.

On 26th April a briefing talk was given at the Chamber breakfast meeting on the importance of businesses incorporating  more environmentally positive practices in their businesses. Regardless of size every business should be thinking about how they can improve their environmentally sustainable credentials.  This is becoming a critical success factor and key to the long term survival of business in the future. If nothing else the introduction of a number of government initiatives are increasingly impacting every business. Some of the new legislation introduced recently includes the sugar tax to tackle obesity and ensure that businesses are not profiting from people’s misery. The Clean Air Act, Water Reduction Act both of which have been introduced so that companies reduce their impact on our environmental resources. Businesses who sell products with high sugar content have begun to add healthier alternatives to their range to save on cost. Whilst manufacturers of high sugar products have been forced to reduce the amount of sugar in their ingredients to less than 10% to avoid falling into the sugar tax bracket. The 5p tax on plastic bags has led to a change in consumer behaviour around buying habits. There has also been a recent ban […]