Woods Squared have also been shortlisted in the ‘Most Innovative Sole Practitioner’ category in the 2020 Innovation Awards. The winners will be announced and presented with their award by Jack Charlton OBE at the Annual 2020 Conference in Coventry on 16 October 2008.

Woods Squared have also been named finalists in the ‘2008/9 AVN National Accountancy Firm Of The Year’ awards. The winning firm, who will be selected by other AVN member firms, will receive an engraved trophy and £5,000 to spend on a celebration or reward for the whole team. The winners will be announced at the AVN Conference on 7 October 2008.

Woods Squared are very proud to have won this award and would like to say a very big thank you to all of their clients and contacts for their support.

They would also like to say congratulations to all of the other businesses who won an award and a massive thanks to the organisers of the event for a fantastic evening.

The panel of judges are looking for businesses that have developed in terms of growth, economic prosperity and job creation, making a significant positive impact upon the local economy.

The winner will be revealed at a black tie gala dinner on Friday 6 June 2008.

We will update this news section with the results, so come back to see if we were the lucky winners!

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Imagine how much easier and quicker it would be to solve problems and capitalise on opportunities if you could tap into the experience and expertise of over 3000 other business leaders and professionals across the UK.

And imagine how much more profitable your business would be if you were supported in all of this by some of the world’s leading business thinkers and writers.

Well, now at last you can do all of this and much, much more.

Let us explain.

As members of the Added Value Network we are launching a completely new type of executive forum for business leaders like you. Called the Entrepreneur Club, it makes it possible for you to:

1. Meet and network with many of the region’s most successful entrepreneurs
2. Learn their success secrets – and use them to make your business more successful
3. Discover practical solutions to business problems
4. Build up an encyclopaedia of practical business growth tools and resources, and
5. Create an action plan for building your business profitably

The Entrepreneur Club has been launched following our hugely successful seminar in November last year where feedback to the event included:

“I think today revealed to me some of the things I need to do to improve both my short and long term situation, thanks for being one of the catalysts that will help bring those changes about” and

“I just wanted to express my thanks to you and your team for the invitation to your successful seminar this morning. Once again I have been impressed by the professionalism and innovation of your firm” and

“Thanks for the event, was really informative and very useful not to mention an excellent opportunity to meet with some good business contacts” and

“thank you for arranging this, very interesting!” and

“thanks for an excellent morning - well informative”

The Entrepreneur Club is a self-help group for forward thinking business leaders. So, rather than bringing in expensive outside business gurus, the Entrepreneur Club makes the most of the best consultants in the world for your business....YOU, and other business leaders just like you.

People like you and us who really understand what business is about. People like you and us who have faced and overcome every challenge in the book. People like you and us who get results and make things happen.

And, most importantly, people who are willing to get together for two hours every month to share ideas and insights to help each other become even more successful. (Don’t worry, though, you’ll never have to do anything uncomfortable like making a speech – since that’s not how the forum works).

Facilitated by our team of business coaches, who use their experience and insights to kick-start proceedings, each Entrepreneur Club workshop will address the issues that you tell us are most important to the success of your business.

And if you ever need more help you’ll be able to tap into the experience and expertise of thousands of other members in our sister forums across the UK Members that already include, for example, former UK Entrepreneur Of The Year Steve Pipe - who’s business was named by Cranfield Business School in February 2001 as one of the hundred most visionary organisations in the UK – and who’s book 101 ways to make more profits is on sale in 14 languages across the world.

It all starts at 7:30am on Thursday 31 January 2008 at the Craxton Wood Hotel, Ledsham (for a location map click here) with tea, coffee and pastries with the Entrepreneur Club starting at 8:00am – and it will finish by 10.00am so that you can still do a full day in the office. Tickets for individual Entrepreneur Club meetings are usually £50 plus VAT.

BUT we are so convinced that you will find the launch meeting a hugely valuable and enjoyable use of your time that places for the launch event will be FREE. So if you would like to book your FREE place, please e-mail info@woods-squared.co.uk by Friday 25 January 2008 with your name, business name and contact details – places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis so please reply early so you won’t miss out.

We really hope you can join us.

PS. To get the forum off to a flying start we’re offering to carry out a free preliminary benchmarking report for each business that joins our Entrepreneur Club on Thursday 31 January 2008.

Richard is the author of two best selling business books – Business Upgrade and Millionaire Upgrade and the creator of the international best selling Millionaire MBA Business Mentoring Programme.

Richard has spent the last 5 years meeting with, interviewing and decoding the mindset and business growth strategies of some of the UK’s most successful and profitable business leaders like Duncan Bannatyne and Simon Woodroffe from Dragons’ Den and Sir Tom Hunter, Scotland’s richest entrepreneur. In his speech on 1 November he will share with you the core methods and principles he has taken away from his extensive research. For more information, check out Richard’s website at www.millionairemba.com .

I’m delighted to say that Richard has agreed to provide a copy of Week 1 of his best selling Millionaire MBA programme (worth £49.95) as a FREE gift to the first 100 people to register for our event . All attendees will also be entered into a FREE prize draw for a chance to win the full 8 Week MBA programme (worth £299) with 4 runners-up receiving a signed copy of Millionaire Upgrade.

After Richard’s speech we will be giving a presentation titled ‘Discover how to add £2 million to your bank account’. In this presentation we will share with you a case study of how a company with a low turnover and marginal profit added £2 million to their bank account by making a few simple changes with the help of their accountant.

To reseve your place please e-mail us at info@woods-squared.co.uk or call us on 0151 649 8456 by Friday 26 October 2007.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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Specifically you will get:

• A detailed "Protecting yourself against identify fraud " report

• A one to one meeting to discuss the recommendations in that report

• A personalised action plan setting out everything you need to do to protect yourself

• Unlimited phone support for 12 months on any concerns or questions you have related to identity fraud

• Immediate help to make sure that you protect yourself from the possible consequences of the 25 million sets of data lost by HMRC

Alternatively, if you would prefer to deal with ID fraud yourself we will be happy to supply you with a free guide and a list of companies that provide identity theft fraud insurance.

In our opinion, however, doing nothing is not an option. 

As you know, 25 million people are now at risk of ID fraud following the loss of those two CDs by HMRC. Even before this, though, ID fraud had been increasing at an alarming rate - and is now believed to affect 100,000 Britons and cost £1.7 billion a year.

What’s more, it takes the average person 467 days to realise that they are a victim - by which time the damage done can be enormous.

When your ID is stolen it can obviously cause major problems for you, including money being taken from your bank account, money borrowed in your name or goods being bought on credit in your name and illegal acts committed in your name – which could leave you with a criminal record. Some people have even been arrested and thrown into cells when trying to enter a country because their ID had previously been stolen by a criminal or terrorist!

Perhaps less obviously, but equally importantly, if your ID is stolen it can also cause major problems for other people too.  For example, your ID can be used by terrorists to get into the country and finance their activities, or by drug dealers to smuggle drugs and launder the proceeds.

And yet some simple precautions can greatly reduce the risks. 

So, whether you want to adopt a DIY approach, or would like us to support you, we believe that this is an issue you cannot afford to ignore.

Please contact us by sending an e-mail to info@woods-squared.co.uk and tell us which of those two routes you want to follow i.e. (a) the DIY approach (in which case we will send you a free guide) or (b) you want us to support you via our Identity Fraud Healthcheck service.

Either way, as you can see, we are committed to ensuring that you do not become a victim.