Patrick qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1992 and as a Chartered Tax Adviser in 1994. Since qualifying he has worked for small and large firms and has also lived in housing co-ops and been part of a team setting up a workers co-op running an organic whole food shop, and recently was instrumental in setting up another social enterprise including raising finance through community share offers. He worked for Slade and Cooper from 2003 to 2017, a firm of accountants and auditors specialising in the charity sector, in which he was a principle from 2016.

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Adrian qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2009 within a small independent firm in Manchester, remaining with them post qualifying his experience covered audit, statutory accounts, management accounts and tax.  More recently working as an audit manager for Beever and Struthers he has increased his knowledge of the third sector working with clients in the third sector including charities, not for profits and Academies 

In 2017 he set up his own business and has joined Third Sector Accountants to continue his work with clients within the third sector.

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Stephen is a qualified management accountant with over 25 years of post-qualification experience.
He has spent most of his career with the Post Office, where he has held a range of senior leadership posts in the national head office covering liquidity management, risk and insurance, financial reporting, investment appraisal, cost accounting, budget management, management reporting, and financial control. More recently he has turned to the charity sector where he has been the chief finance officer for The Vegan Society. Stephen has also run in partnership with his wife a small business retailing ethically sourced grocery. He is keen to use his experience to help third sector organisations.

After studying business and personnel at Manchester Metropolitan University, Anthea forged a 10 year career in commercial finance. In 2007, she left the corporate world to work for social enterprise and the greater good, and has since worked as a finance manager for high a profile workers co-op and other community interest companies and charities. She is an experienced management accountant with a range of skills including Quickbooks, Sage and Xero. Anthea also takes an unnatural interest in charity VAT issues. Anthea is part-qualified and will now complete her training with the new firm.

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Zig was part of the core team involved in setting up Leeds Bread Co-operative. He developed the business plan and rasied the required funding. Since then he has been the finance worker for the co-operative, dealing with Gnucash, Quickbooks Online, VAT and payroll. He is now intending to embark on training leading to a professional accountancy qualification.

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Originally from Germany, Ingrid has lived and worked in the UK in a range of roles and industries for over 40 years usually ending up in management and/or dealing with the finances. Since making her home in Manchester she has taught accounting for 12 years at an FE college and during that time started to work with smaller charities and businesses ‘getting things in order’ with the focus on producing year end accounts and regular management accounts for trustees and directors. She brings a lot of practical experience at a range of levels – and patience!

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Having first worked as an accounting technician for a chartered accountancy practice in Dorset, Simon has worked in a co-operative setting since the early nineties, as an accountant and also as a business adviser. He has a wealth of practical experience having worked with social enterprises, charities and a wide range of small businesses. He was a founding member of Co-opportunity, a worker co-op based in Bristol, and has recently moved to Third Sector Accountancy to take advantage of the training and other benefits of a larger, and growing qualified practice. He lives in Stroud and works mainly from home, and is looking forward to offering the services of Third Sector Accountancy to new and existing clients in London and the southwest.

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Dr Philip Boast is a qualified bookkeeper (ICB) and mathematician, who has pursued a career as musician, music tutor and mature research student. He has also been contracted as bookkeeper / finance worker for various campaign and research organisations and social enterprises, as well as a charity and social housing cooperative. He is currently employed with Third Sector Accountancy as a trainee accountant.