Starting Up in Business?

Davenports provides clients with highly relevant information to help start, set up and run a Business. Here you will find advice and services from accountancy to help you grow your business (visit the accountancy start up page), through to a website presence and business stationery, all directly available to the business community.

Find out why you should choose Davenports and then get in touch to get things started.

Best regards,
Davenport Startup Team.

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   Help with my accounts
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   Assistance starting up
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Transferring Business Accounts Between Banks

It’s easy to stay with the bank you chose when you started up in business - but switching your business account could help you get a better deal.

Increased competition between banks trying to attract small business customers, together with the development of telephone and Internet banking, means there’s a range of attractive packages available.

Moving your account should be more straightforward than before, with the agreement of many major clearing banks to make the process easier.

If you’ve had a business bank account for some time, are you sure you’re getting a good deal? If you’re not, how do you go about negotiating a better package with your bank or changing accounts?

Davenports provides clients with highly relevant information to help start, set up and run a Business. Here you will find advice and services from accountancy to help you grow your business (visit the accountancy start up page), through to a website presence and business stationery, all directly available to the business community.

Service Request

1. Your Name(required)
2. House Name or Number(required)
3. Post Code(required)
4. Contact Number(required)
5. Email(valid email required)
6. I Need...
7. Davenports to check my tax code for this year
   Help with my accounts
   A change of accountant
   Assistance starting up
   Help with the payroll
   Help with tax, CIS or VAT
   Help with getting money from my clients
   Some printing, such as business cards etc.
   Graphic design, like logos and branding
   A website fast for my business
   A website for my family tree
   
8. Any other comments
9. To receive your FREE key fob, tick this box

 

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Print & Design Starter Pack

Get your company recognised with a Print & Design starter pack from Davenports.

Like every business, Davenports was once a startup. And we realise that, for new companies, a huge marketing budget is generally out of the question.

That’s why Davenports have put together this very special pack to help get your business’ identity and marketing activities on their feet.

This high-value pack includes:

• Expert logo design
• 250 business cards
• 250 letterheads
• 250 compliment slips

We’re delighted to offer the entire pack for just £300 (+VAT) - that’s a saving of 20% compared to our regular price.

Click here to buy today !

This offer is available until 30/09/2009. UK-based businesses only.

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Un-Muddling and Fire-Fighting

Are your accounts in a state? Wish you could just make them disappear? Try our fire-fighting and un-muddling service! We’ll take the load off your hands. We take your paperwork in any state - even if it’s stuffed into bin bags!

Visit our fire-fighting and un-muddling page.

Davenports – Helping You Through The Economic Crisis

As the economic crisis starts to bite, often the first to feel it are the small businesses. However, there are many steps that can be taken in order to reduce the effects and to ensure that you come out the other end stronger and ready to take advantage of recovery. Davenports have a range of offerings that are designed to re-enforce all of the accepted advice on business survival. Here are our top tips and how we will address them for you.

Control expenditure

Every business has scope for reducing costs. You should be carrying out an audit of all of your expenditure and a good place to start is with your true costs of paper processing. Using Davenports all processing is electronic ensuring that postage and printing costs are reduced whilst also reducing your carbon footprint at the same time.

Collect debts with enthusiasm

Many small businesses find that payments to them are late and that valuable management time is taken up with chasing debts. Davenports can manage all of your debt problems leaving you free to develop new markets and position yourself for recovery.

Focus marketing

Too many businesses cut their marketing costs when times are hard. The surviving companies continue to market but focus their work so as to get the maximum return on their marketing investment. Disappearing from the radar is a sure fire way of people thinking you have gone. Davenports can assist you in keeping a strong presence in the marketplace through their web design services.

Maintain and improve quality

In difficult times the customer has to feel valued. You need to ensure that you are offering a level of service that reflects this. Paying your bills on time and processing in a professional manner all helps to convince people that you are a reputable business. Davenports accountancy services linked to debt management can ensure that you provide a quality service whilst also ensuring that you do not run into cashflow problems.

Don’t be complacent

You may feel that you have everything under control and that you have all the suppliers that you need. However, if you are finding things tight so may many of your suppliers. By choosing Davenports you not only have a supplier with a long track record of quality service delivery, you also minimise your dependence on suppliers by using one supplier for a number of services. Sensible businesses always have an alternative in these difficult times.

Be honest about your business

Burying your head in the sand about the true state of your business will do you no good and will probably lead to things getting worse. Davenports understand that it is difficult in today’s business world to be perfect at everything. We are realistic enough to accept the shortcomings of our clients and we are happy to work with them to resolve them. One of our favourite phrases with our clients is that we offer to ‘unmuddle things for them. So let us help you to face up to the challenges within your business.

Position yourself for recovery

In order to be best placed for recovery you need time to innovate and develop new markets. This is impossible to do if you spend all of your waking day fire-fighting and trying to survive to the next dawn. Davenports service offerings are designed to leave you free to be the innovator that you started out as before the economic situation started to bite.

We are not someone that wants to tell you what to do. We are an organisation that exists to work in partnership with you, releasing your potential to return to being a business owner, not a business slave. All of our offerings are designed to tackle the real problems facing you and businesses like you. They aim to ensure that we will be working together in the good times as well as the present ones.

Take responsibility for your own destiny

In difficult times it is easy to do nothing and blame everything from the Government to the problems with mortgages on the other side of the Atlantic. The trouble with that approach is that failure becomes a self fulfilling prophesy. Those businesses that use this time to strengthen the way they do business, position themselves for new markets and see the present situation as an opportunity for the future will be the ones to benefit. Davenports exists to help those that want to look for a way forward rather than those that want to adopt a blame philosophy.

Remember:

There are three types of people in this world –

• Those that make things happen
• Those that watch things happen
• Those that say ‘what the hell happened’.

If you want to be someone that makes things happen, please contact us.

Partnership and Self Employed Registrations

Davenports can now register you as self-employed, a sole trader or a partnership direct through their website.

Registration normally only take a matter of days, for more information on these services, please click on the links below:

• Self-employed registration
• Sole trader registration
• Partnership registration

To see how Davenports can benefit your business, contact us for a no obligation chat.

Prince’s Trust Testimonial

Simon Fulford - Regional Director

“Dear Jason & Davenports Staff: What a fantastic, informative and easy to use website offering professional services. We are proud to have given you that initial startup support and glad that even now we continue to work together - this time you supporting us to help even more young people into education, training and work.”

Helping SMEs through the Credit Crunch

The hardest job for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), particularly in the current economic climate, is managing their cash flow.

Davenports now offer an invoicing service to all their clients, allowing their clients to concentrate on bringing in the money, whilst Davenports focus on getting the invoices out.

The service is not as expensive as you might first have thought, for a small flat fee per invoice Davenports will raise the invoice and either post it out or email it direct to the client’s customer.  The fee also includes the invoice being entered directly into the client’s accounts, preventing the need for double entry and associated bookkeeping fees.

For more about Davenports services or how they can assist you during the credit crunch why not contact us today.

‘Davenport Recommends’ Corporate and Personal Services

During our business life, our firm has come across invaluable services to help us grow, as well as gain legal and corporate knowledge. We would like to share this information with you and help you to make the right choices in personal and business matters.

When using any of our services, not only do you become part of our company, you become part of the Davenport Family.

Davenports is very different from any other business that you may have dealt with before. Not only do we try to look after your accounting, web or print and design needs, if any of our current customers need your services, we will promote you within our Davenport Family.

For example, we have many tradespeople and other professionals who are clients of Davenports. And, if during discussion with you, we find that you’re in need of, for example, an electrician, a plumber or a courier, we are expertly placed to recommend the right service for you.

We would like to share those links with you in the hope that they may be helpful to your business.

View our Useful Links page for more information.

We have also created a set of simple forms that you can fill out that will put you in touch with legal and professional services that we have personally experienced and are proud to recommend. These include:

• Lloyds TSB business banking for Berkshire and Oxfordshire
• Lloyds TSB business banking in London
• Castle Leasing - vehicle hire
• Blake Lapthorn - legal services

As you would expect from Davenports, all these forms are encrypted for your security.

Take care, from The Davenport Directors and Team.

We Operate Across the UK!

Are you busy with deadlines and appointments? Never got time to sort out your day-to-day bookkeeping? Davenports are different from any other accountancy service throughout the UK.

We will arrange for a convenient time for a collection of your binbags or carrier bags full of documents, in whatever state. We will process the whole lot and get your accounts back in order.

How different is that?

You may ask how much this service costs. It’s all included in our bookkeeping charges! We do not charge extra for collection.

If you’re thinking about using Davenports, but are put off by the distance between your company and ours, don’t worry. We have clients from across the UK.

Because we use electronic communication, it doesn’t matter where you’re based. You can email us at any time, and our new Live Chat system means that you can get hold of us when you need us most.

Of course, if you fancy a good old chin wag, or to meet face to face, we’re always available.

We’re soon going to be adding a client area onto our website, which means that you’ll be able to download your important documents, and send documents to us electronically in an instant.

If you’re thinking of using Davenports, but are worried about the distance, take a look at some of these satisfied customers:

R. Wake - Bristol

“I came to use Davenports because I just love the dynamic way of their collection service. The whole process made me feel at ease. They arranged at time, date and told me the name of the driver collecting my bookkeeping, all this helped to gain my trust - I felt very reassured. Plus, they give me a courtesy call when the bookkeeping arrived safely at their processing centre. Once they received it, they followed up regularly to make sure that everything was understood. As a result, I’ve managed to get money back from HMRC that I didn’t even know I had!”

P. Johnston - Manchester

“My books were in a complete mess! I literally had sacks full of paper and documents in no order whatsoever. I literally thought I was at the breaking point and was going to lose my business. I sent a simple email to Davenports. One of the directors gave me a call within the hour and the relationship started from there. I’m now in complete control of my business. I have regular, monthly, management reports from Davenports, and I don’t have to worry about my accounts any more. And the best thing about it is that, with today’s technology, I can manage the whole process from the comfort of my armchair! Thank you Davenports, you’ve saved my business and I can sleep at night.”

View our customers from:

• Oxfordshire
• Buckinghamshire
• London
• Middlesex
• Birmingham
• Dorset

For more testimonials from our satisfied customers, please visit our testimonials page.

And most of all, check out our news page for regularly updated information, more products that could save you money and technology, which could save time.

Remember, we’re only an email (or Live Chat - at the top of the page) away, and that costs nothing!

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