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Woods Squared add scholarship winner to their growing team
Woods Squared host 3rd Annual Summer BBQ & Quiz
A big thank you to everyone that joined us at our 3rd Annual Summer BBQ & Quiz event and to let those that couldn’t make it know what they missed!
We have uploaded the photos from the night to our Facebook page so please feel free to take a look by clicking here
You helped us raise a fantastic £550 for our chosen charity on the evening so a big thank you to everyone for your support.
A big congratulations has to go to the winning team that was made up of Alison & Dave Beech, Craig Kennedy, Tim Matthews and Jen Lucas who are all pictured below receiving their trophy from our very own Mrs Wirral Galaxy 2011 Samantha Ratcliffe.
We are all really proud of Sam’s achievement and we are all rooting for her when she competes in the National event next year. Between now and then Sam is actively looking to help promote local businesses and so if you hear of anyone that may be moving office or promoting something that they do please let Sam know by e-mail on sam@woods-squared.co.uk as she would love to be able to help them out if she can.
To support Claire House Sam has organised a Fundraising Funday to take place from 11am on Saturday 3 September 2011 at Zsa Zsa Children’s Boutique, 60 Bebington Road, New Ferry, CH62 5BH – if you have young children and you’d like to bring them along please contact Sam for more information on her e-mail above. Alternatively if you would like to just buy a raffle ticket for the prize draw taking place on the day these are available at £3 each or two for £5. The prizes in the raffle include:
- 1 Years Gym Membership at Titans Gym in Birkenhead
- Liverpool Signed Picture & Tour of the Stadium and Museum for 4 people
- Fruit Basket from Fresh Naturally in New Ferry
- Pamper Package from Pauls Beautique in New Ferry
- Photo Shoot & Print from Blue Thumb Photography
- Plus many more
It would be great if you could help support Sam so that she can raise as much money as possible for Claire House.
Woods Squared win the 2010 AVN Firm of the Year award
Woods Squared Limited win another award
The Woods Squared team were delighted to win their second award of 2008 – 2020’s Most Innovative Sole Practitioner.
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The Woods Squared team being presented with their award by Jack Charlton OBE |
The award was presented to Woods Squared by Jack Charlton OBE at the 10th Annual 2020 Conference at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry on Thursday 16 October 2008.
The award celebrates success and acheivement across the accounting profession with particular emphasis on innovation and creativity.
2020 is the largest voluntary membership organisation in the UK with over 1,200 firms ranging from national firms through to sole practitioners and is specifically designed to encourage accountancy firms to develop into marketing, adding value and management techniques to maximise profitability in the long term.
Woods Squared Limited have been shortlisted for 4 more awards
The Woods Squared team have been named finalists in the 2008 Startups Awards sponsored by Barclays in the ‘Team of the Year’ category. This means the team are also in with a chance of winning the ‘Business of the Year’ title and a cheque for £5,000. The winners are announced at a champagne reception in London on 30 October 2008.
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 Limited won the Wirral Investment Network’s Business Start of the Year Award at a black tie gala dinner on Friday 6 June 2008.
The team from Woods Squared were joined by some of their clients and contacts at the event which was held in a marquee in the grounds of Birkenhead Boys School in Oxton.
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.
Woods Squared Limited have been shortlisted for the Wirral Investment Network’s (WiN) Business Start of the Year.
This is the first year of these awards with 10 categories in total. There were 26 entries in this category and Woods Squared have made it to the final 3.
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!
On Thursday 14 February 2008 Client Manager Lisa McNally became Lisa Taylor.
The wedding took place in a beautiful park called Cypress Grove in Florida. Tracy and Alan, along with a few other close friends and family were there to share the happy occasion with Lisa and Wayne.
Please click here for photographs. Lisa will gladly show you some more if you wish!
The Entrepreneur Club … your chance to become more successful and profitable!
Imagine how much more successful your business would be if 25 of the region’s leading entrepreneurs gave up their time to help you to drive it forward. More...
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:
- Meet and network with many of the region’s most successful entrepreneurs
- Learn their success secrets – and use them to make your business more successful
- Discover practical solutions to business problems
- Build up an encyclopaedia of practical business growth tools and resources, and
- 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.
We are holding a FREE seminar with leading business author Richard Parkes Cordock on Thursday 1 November 2007 at Craxton Wood Hotel.
The event starts at 10.00am, with tea, coffee and pastries being served from 9.30am and lunch will be provided at 1.00pm, followed by the opportunity to network. More...
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.
For full terms and conditions please click here.
For a location map click here.
In response to recent events we have now formally launched our Identity Fraud Healthcheck service.
For a fixed fee of £300 (plus VAT) this new service will help you make sure that you do not become a victim. More...
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.
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