
Charities
Why haysmacintyre?
haysmacintyre’s award winning Charities team is one of the largest in the country. haysmacintyre is auditor to more of the top 5,000 charities than any other UK Accountancy firm (Charity Financials' league table; current) and advise over 800 charities which represent 40% of our firm’s annual fees. This experience has helped us to develop a thorough and in-depth knowledge of the business issues, risks and challenges charities face and how we can best support you.
Our team is made up of charity specialists who are enthusiastic, friendly and knowledgeable. We have made a conscious decision to operate from a single office as we feel that this concentration in one location allows us to deliver a proactive, comprehensive and cost-effective service to clients.
Year round support
Our partner-led service means you’ll have a dedicated partner who will work closely with you to understand your needs and goals and provide practical solutions. Part of our ethos as an organisation is to be accessible to our clients whenever they need support.
Sharing our expertise
As charity specialists, we produce regular updates and briefings, including our popular Charity and Not for Profit eNews, as well as various benchmarking reports and more in depth articles. We also regularly run training and topical seminars for charities, which provide trustees and staff the opportunity to meet and network with others in similar organisations or facing similar challenges. Our team of specialist charity partners also speak at our Trustee Training programme, run in partnership with Farrer & Co and Cazenove.
Our team are encouraged to volunteer as trustees and governors at charities, to gain an understanding of the ‘client’s perspective’, as well as supporting charities with their professional skills. This means that many of our staff have first-hand experience of being on a trustee board, which helps them to better understand their clients’ challenges.
Our work in the charity sector is very important to us and we support the activities of Charity Finance Group (CFG), Civil Society, National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) and other sector bodies.
As part of our 2020/21 CSR programme we are working in partnership with the staff-elected ‘charity partner’, Central London Samaritans. Our fundraising efforts, which include a wide variety of activities from firmwide exercise challenges to wellbeing weeks and social events, aim to raise over £40,000 for the charity.
Our services
Our team has wide range of specialist expertise.
Our services include:
- Audit and assurance
- Company Secretarial
- Internal audit and internal controls reviews
- Tax compliance and advisory
- VAT
- Gift Aid
- Employment taxes and PAYE health checks
- Governance and risk
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Investment strategy and management reviews
- Treasury management