Gold Quality Mark for Access Accounting
Press Release - Monday, June 25, 2007
Business and accounting software house, Access Accounting, has been awarded a Gold Payroll Giving Quality Mark for its outstanding commitment to, and success with, the payroll giving scheme promoted by Workplace Giving UK. The mark is awarded to employers that achieve 10 per cent employee participation in the scheme.
Pip Trowles, product manager at Access Accounting, set up the scheme for the company. She commented, “Payroll giving is a simple and tax efficient way for our staff to give to the cause of their choice, as donations are automatically deducted from their gross pay. It also took very little time to set up – just a couple of forms and that was it.
“As a company we’re involved in a number of fundraising activities so the scheme was a natural extension to the charity and community initiatives already in place. The success of payroll giving at Access is testament to the continuing generosity of our staff.”
Access Accounting’s main fundraising activity is through its Charity of the Year scheme, having raised more than £26,600 since it first started in 2000; the good cause for 2007 is Stepping Stones, based at the Wilson Marriage Community Centre in Colchester. The software developer has also supported Stratford St Mary Primary School by sponsoring a number of initiatives including its Christmas card competition, enabling it to reap 100 per cent of the proceeds from the sale of the cards for school funds.
For more information on Access Accounting please telephone 0845 3453300 or visit www.access-accounts.com. For more information on payroll giving visit www.workplacegiving-uk.com
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Notes to Editors:
Access Accounting is the UK’s leading business software house serving the mid-market. Its solutions have been chosen by over 13,000 UK companies - helping them to achieve business success.
A subsidiary of Access Technology Group Ltd, Access Accounting was the first UK vendor to recognise the potential of Windows and create a mid-range accounting platform based on this technology. Today it offers four scalable, web-enabled systems including its flagship solution, Access Dimensions. The company also offers Access Payroll, a combined payroll/personnel suite, which is fully compliant with the latest CIS regulations.
Access Accounting is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a member of the Business Application Software Developers Association (BASDA). It has also received accreditation from major authorities including the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and the HM Revenue & Customs’ rigorous Payroll Standards Scheme. In 2007, the company won ’Financial Software Provider of the Year’ in the Real FD/CBI FDs’ Excellence Awards and ’Mid-range accounting Software Provider of the Year’ in the Sift Media Business Software Satisfaction Awards – both voted for by customers.
Media information:
Helen Carpenter
Head of Group PR
Access Accounting Ltd
T: 01206 322575 / 07833 936311
F: 01206 322956
E: helen.carpenter@access-accounts.com
W: www.access-accounts.com
Workplace Giving UK is the UK’s leading Professional Fundraising Organisation promoting Payroll Giving in the workplace and recruited donors worth £1.3m to charity in 2006.
Payroll Giving was first launched on 5 April 1987. In its first full year, the scheme raised £1,034,695 for charities and in the tax year 2005/6 it raised £84,740,956. In 1987/8 the number of employees donating through Payroll Giving was 60,629; in 2005/6 more than 600,000 took part.
The Payroll Giving Quality Mark was launched in 2006 and recognises and rewards organisations for making Payroll Giving available to their staff. Bronze, Silver and Gold accreditations are attainable for organisations that achieve minimum staff participation rates and employer support in Payroll Giving.
Media information:
Helen Carpenter
Head of Group PR
Access Accounting Ltd
T: 01206 322575 / 07833 936311
F: 01206 322956
E: helen.carpenter@access-accounts.com
W: www.access-accounts.com
For more information about Workplace Giving UK / Payroll Giving Quality Mark:
Rachel Corcoran / Linda Cohen
01242 269170 ext 253 / 255
E: rachel.corcoran@redsignal.co.uk / linda.cohen@redsignal.co.uk
W: www.workplacegiving-uk.com
