With its sixth birthday rapidly approaching, Heritage Accountancy, still retains the energy and enthusiasm of a young business with ambitious plans to grow despite an amicable parting of ways with one of its founding partners.

The award winning practice (2012 and 2013 Tynedale Business Awards ‘Best Professional Business Provider’ and 2013 North East Accountancy Awards ‘Independent Firm of the Year Runner Up’) has gone from strength to strength, over the past half dozen years, building an impressive client list that now includes individuals, small & medium sized businesses and charities from right across the region.

Business partners Jill Keeler and Lorna Copple put their success down to a mix of smart forward thinking financial management combined with a refreshingly relaxed and friendly personal service.

The recent decision by a fellow business partner to run the Bellingham office alone has done nothing to dampen their ambitions for the thriving Prudhoe-based business and the Heritage team remains confident and ambitious for what they believe is a winning service formula.

Long-term client Sheryl Hogg, Director of Expert Fire Solutions in Durham confirms the added value that Heritage offers her business: “Heritage Accountancy have been there for us from our very first day in business.

In our first year they gave us so much help & support, way beyond what we expected.

The Sage training with Jill was invaluable and she’s always on hand to answer any query I have. I’ve found the whole team, friendly and professional.”

Client Services Director, Jill Keeler explains, “Our main aim is to invest time with our clients getting to know them, their business and ultimately their aims. This process creates a great professional relationship from which we can identify their needs and how we can support them.”

She continues, “We can do as little or as much as our clients want with a no pressure attitude.

"We don’t believe that ‘one size can fit all’ so we maintain a flexible approach and a menu of services that enable us to offer exactly the right balance of support for both clients who only need minimal amounts of assistance and clients who take advantage of one of our comprehensive business development programmes empowering them to optimise their financial management.”

With the emergence of new internet based developments in financial management, such as online Cloud-based accountancy systems and the rapidly emerging mobile networking technologies, Heritage prides itself on enhancing solid traditional accounting with the very latest technologies.

For Jill and Lorna smart valueadding financial management is all about ensuring that accounting becomes an investment rather than a cost. Making sure that behind the scenes ‘the numbers keep working hard’ and helping a business to grow.