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Baker Tilly Charities and Education Group
2 Bloomsbury Street
London
WC1B 3ST
Tel: 020 7413 5100
Fax: 020 7413 5101
Our firm
Baker Tilly has recently been ranked as the country’s number one provider of audit services to charities, in the latest charities guide from CaritasData. Our 280 partners and 2,000 staff operate from over 30 UK locations, and provide our clients with a personal local service assisted by experts within our national Charities and Education Group. Our world-wide network, Baker Tilly International, enables us to support all our clients, including UK registered charities activities, wherever they operate.
Our Charities and Education Group
The charities sector is an important part of our business and the Charities and Education Group was established over ten years ago to focus on the sectors specific requirements. Our clients benefit from our sector focus as they receive local delivery of services by our team of over 100 partners and managers, and have seamless access to the Group's full time specialists.
Our partners and managers work with clients to understand their needs. They are focused on delivering a reliable and cost effective service that will add value to clients. Our advice is tailored to individual clients' needs so that they receive the right advice, at the right time - first time.
Solutions
Through our knowledge and expertise in the charity sector we have developed systems to identify generic issues ranging from corporate governance to accounting compliance, proactively assisting our clients to prepare for the future.
Examples of our responses to current sector issues include:
· Charity Commission concerns about effective governance – Governance healthcheck toolkit to provide client with a cost-effective way of benchmarking themselves against best practice
· Sector focus on ‘impact reporting’ – An IT based strategic planning tool to assist charities in strategic target setting
· Charities concerns about meeting Trustee Act 2000 duty of care in investment management – An investment management performance review service established by our in-house independent financial advisory team to focus on benchmarked investment performance, administration, service and professional charges
· Assessing the adequacy of risk management processes initiated as a requirement of the Charities SORP – A risk management questionnaire and checklist to consider the effectiveness of the charity’s risk management approach
· Charity Commission encouragement for charities to be effective in their operations – Published a checklist of Hallmarks of an effective charity to facilitate easy comparison with recommended practice.
Further Information
For further information about our services to the sector contact Sudhir Singh on 020 7413 5100