About Haworths
Every business needs ambition to succeed.
At Haworths, our ambition is not to be the biggest chartered accountancy firm, but to be the region’s best.
Whether we’re working with a successful owner-managed business or with big corporate players, our focus remains the same - to offer tailored, expert advice, excellent service and value for money.
Our services include everything you’d expect from a quality firm of chartered accountants but, thanks to our client-oriented approach, we also deliver additional value. We ensure that we understand your business holistically so that we can offer joined-up services and introduce you to useful contacts that can support your commercial strategy.
Haworths is proud to be a member of the Charter Group, a national network of high quality, independent accountancy firms. The organisation undertakes an annual quality review of our work as a condition of our membership, reinforcing our commitment to delivering the highest standards of service and people development.
Haworths Chartered Accountants is a trading name of Haworths Ltd. Registered Office: The Old Tannery, Eastgate, Accrington, Lancashire, BB5 6PW.
Registered in England and Wales No.5062509. Haworths Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Haworths Holdings Ltd.
Registered to carry on audit work in the UK and Ireland and regulated for a range of investment business activities by the Institute of Chartered Accountants
PI Insurance : Travelers Insurance Company Ltd, Exchequer Court, 33 St Mary Axe, London, EC3A 8AG. Telephone 020 3207 6000.
At Haworths, we combine the wide-ranging capabilities and experience of an established accountancy firm, with personal service and a hands on senior team.
Many of our in-house experts have come to Haworths from national firms and are clearly focused on adding value to client relationships with a proactive approach to identifying cost savings and commercial opportunities.
Our team looks beyond the traditional chartered accountant’s role and help our clients to grow and manage their businesses with the help of a network of professional contacts, including law firms, funding bodies, financial advisers, marketing consultancies and local authorities.
Haworths Directors Mark Schofield and Paul Spencer take running their business seriously, and as a Director led firm are active every single hour of the day working closely with client projects and in the business making it grow and prosper.
“We are an SME ourselves, so we know what it is like at first hand to run a busy growing business, taking time out of the day to day ‘operations’ and spending time developing plans to drive the business forward, and more importantly making them happen, is a skill we have learned over the years.” says Paul Spencer. “We have modelled our business to be as lean and efficient as possible and to view what we do how we do it from our client’s perspective. Would it be good enough for us? Is a question we ask ourselves with all the services we provide.”
Mark adds “Haworths business has been modelled to provide what our clients ask us for, and have over the years, come to expect from us: Quite simply to be really good at what we do, but not to charge the earth. We have city practice capability and staff, and an intuitive business perspective but at a regional pricing structure that represents true value for money. Our business has surrounded itself with really great professionals, many recruited from city centre firms who prefer to work in a smaller practice where the potential for them, and their development are greater, and where there is an opportunity to get really involved with clients and make a difference to North West based businesses.”
Additionally, over the years the Directors have developed a network of highly skilled contacts all of who operate in the region, so know and understand the local business environment: Specialists from banking, business restructuring, business development consultancies, insolvency, corporate finance, grant funding, legal professionals and HR. “Key to our relationship with our client here is knowing when our expertise is lacking, and when to refer in a specialist, from our network. We match our client’s requirements with the appropriate contact ensuring that they will provide sound and practical advice at the best value for money.” Adds Mark.
Independent paper merchant, Rosefox has been a successful family-run business for 32 years and it has relied on Haworths for help and advice on all financial matters since managing director, Gale Spibey established the company more than three decades ago!
Explains Gale: “I started the company with a business partner and built it from a standing start. From the outset, we relied on Haworths for help with our accounts, wages, tax liability and any financial matters relating to the business.
“After 32 years, Haworths’ service is just as efficient and proactive as ever and, because we have worked with them for so long, they know our business inside out, putting them in an excellent position to advise us.”
