Finance and Accountancy
We provide expert guidance to help boards, trustees, and senior leadership teams navigate their financial responsibilities while fostering a healthy, resilient organisational culture.
In the creative sector, financial health is about ensuring your organisation has the stability and the foresight to support ambitious artistic visions while managing the unique risks inherent in public-funded or donor-led work.
Financial Strategy and Sustainability
We help you move beyond year-to-year survival by developing multi-year financial models. Our focus is on diversifying income streams and building healthy reserves to protect your organisation against funding volatility and sector-wide shifts.
Change Management
Whether you are scaling up, restructuring, or navigating a merger, we provide the financial oversight needed for smooth transitions. We help you realign your resources, systems, and financial processes to ensure they remain fit for purpose as your organisational goals evolve.
Financial Management and Control
We assist in implementing robust internal controls and reporting systems. From drafting ‘Financial Regulations’ to optimising your month-end reporting, we ensure your leadership has the accurate, real-time data needed for confident, informed decision-making.
Additional Specialist Services
Our wider expertise in the cultural and creative industries includes:
- Grant Management and Compliance: Specialist advice on managing restricted funds, ensuring grant income is tracked and reported in strict accordance with funder requirements (such as Arts Council England or the National Lottery Heritage Fund).
- Budgeting and Forecasting: Collaborative sessions that align artistic aspirations with financial reality, providing realistic cash-flow forecasting to manage the unique ‘peaks and troughs’ of project-based work.
- Tax and VAT for the Arts: Guidance on sector-specific issues, including Museums and Galleries Exhibition Tax Relief (MGETR), Theatre Tax Relief, and the complexities of VAT for charitable organisations.
- Audit Readiness: Preparing your team for the annual audit process to ensure records are transparent, reconciliations are accurate, and year-end accounts are compliant with the Charity SORP or FRS 102.