Support for Innovative Businesses Lunchtime Talk

Is your business innovative? Do you pay people to solve problems?

If so, there is plenty of support available to help it prosper.

Did you know:

a wide range of funding and business support options are available to innovative businesses that want to grow?

you could save £26 in tax for every £100 spent innovating via Research & Development tax relief?

the extent to which intellectual property can make a commercial difference to your business?

that if you make profits derived from a patented invention they can attract a corporate tax rate of just 10% (nearly half the normal rate)?

that high quality management accounts information can help you better understand your business; and that by utilising cloud accounting software like Xero can transform the way your accounting information is managed?

and that innovative businesses with a track record of innovating and protecting their intellectual property are more successful, have stronger balance sheets and are better able to attract external investors’?

Shorts’ Innovation Taxes Group (ITG), Withers & Rogers and FCS Associates are pleased to invite you to lunch and a talk to hear how the above areas can benefit innovative businesses and how you can access them:

Date: Thursday 24th November 2016

Time: From 12:00pm, talk followed by lunch and networking

Location: Dunston Innovation Centre | Dunston Road | Chesterfield | S41 8NG

Speakers and topics covered will include:

Scott Burkinshaw, The Head of the Shorts Innovation Taxes Group (ITG)

A Chartered Tax Adviser, Scott focuses on providing progressive corporate and personal tax advice. By understanding the objectives of businesses and their owners, Scott is able to draw on his extensive experience to advise on the most tax efficient ways to achieve their short and long term aims.

Prior to joining Shorts, Scott was RSM Tenon’s head of Corporate Tax for Yorkshire, and was a member of their Research and Development tax relief and international tax teams. He also has significant experience of advising on business disposals and acquisitions.

Tim Baum-Dixon, Senior Accounts Manager at Shorts

A Chartered Accountant, Tim specialises in assisting business to get the most from their management information, accounting systems and processes. He specialises in helping to providing high quality management information for business of all sizes and works closely with owners and managers to assist them to run their business more effectively and profitably using this information. Tim has experience of working with a variety of accounting packages and management information tools, including Xero, Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Sage amongst others. Tim has over 10 years’ experience working with businesses of all sizes. Prior to joining Shorts earlier this year, he was Head of Business Development & Client Services at Ikara Business Solutions and has also worked in the Business Advisory division of Grant Thornton in Leeds, specialising in Corporate Recovery, where he gained both advisory and operational experience of working with distressed businesses and lenders.

Rosie Hardy, Senior Patent Attorney at Withers & Rogers

Rosie is a European and UK Patent Attorney at Withers & Rogers LLP. As a member of the Engineering team, her practice spans the fields of physics, engineering and electronics. Within these fields, she has expertise securing patent protection for electromechanical devices, clean technology, power generation, automotive and rail parts, oil and gas exploration, medical apparatus and consumer products.

In addition to drafting and prosecuting patent applications, Rosie specialises in strategically managing and enforcing patent rights for clients, as well as opposing and avoiding infringement of third party patent rights. Rosie works with a range of clients including multi-national corporations, SMEs, universities and overseas clients. She enjoys working closely with a number of companies to help them develop effective intellectual property portfolios, blending her technical expertise and commercial savvy.

Rachel Fletcher, Managing Director at FCS Associates

a specialist bid writing consultancy specialising in helping companies apply for government grants and tender for public sector contracts. Rachel has extensive experience in supporting businesses to successfully bid for grants and tenders and has supported many organisations to secure funding for R&D, capital expansion and charity and social enterprise development. Previous to FCS Rachel was MD of Beta Technology, a European funding R&D consultancy.

As spaces are limited and these events are well attended we would respectfully request that professionals in practice do not book places at this event.