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New Affiliated Chambers & Associations
D&D Oriental Food Import Export International Services Ltd is an importer and exporter of a wide array of food and general care products from various countries for sale and distribution in the UK. The company has been in business since 2020 and distinguishes itself through competitive and timely services.
Address: Top floor, 80 Brighton road, Worthing , West Sussex, BN11 2EN
Website: https://www.dndorientalfood. com/
Telephone: 07449124350/07944 562810
Corinthian Benefits
We help hundreds of SMEs save costs and create bespoke company benefits and wellbeing programmes, across Pensions, Protection and Perks. Our one-to-one financial advice for each employee increases engagement, understanding and appreciation. We’ll meet you in person to understand your company, culture and what you want to achieve
Address: Longford House, 19 Mount Ephraim Rd, Tunbridge Wells TN1 1EN
Website: https://corinthianbenefits.co.uk/
Telephone: 02081896146
Cellnex UK
Cellnex is Europe and the UK’s largest and fastest-growing independent owner and operator of wireless telecoms infrastructure and is integral to the successful rollout of 5G. With the wireless infrastructure foundation that we deliver across rural and urban areas, Cellnex UK connects everyone, everywhere.
Address: Cellnex UK Head Office R+, 4th floor, 2 Blagrave Street, Reading, Berkshire,RG1 1AZ
Website: www.cellnextelecom.co.uk
Telephone: 020 4526 8553
Collier Pickard
Collier Pickard is a boutique provider of digital technologies for communication and relationship management. We have implemented over 400 CRM, sales automation, e-marketing, customer service and web solutions which automate the mechanics of customer and prospect handling. We help SMEs and divisions of global organisations achieve their strategic goals.
Address: The Old Calf House Chevening Road Sundridge Sevenoaks TN14 6AB Kent
Website: https://www.collierpickard.co.uk/
Telephone: 01959 560410
Corpay
Global businesses trust Corpay to power their international payments, execute plans to manage their currency risk and support their growth around the world. We aim to deliver unmatched service and expertise with respect to moving money globally. To learn more, contact our FX specialist Martin Boshell at martin.boshell@corpay.com or on 077 4862 1771
Address: 40 Strand 4th Floor London WC2N 5RW
Telephone: 077 4862 1771
Byzz +
Byzz+ is a full-service creative digital marketing agency that helps start-ups and small businesses who are finding their feet in business.
Website: byzzplus.com
Telephone: 0330 8181 888
Geo-Environmental Services Limited
Geo-Environmental Services Limited are geotechnical and environmental consultants and site investigation specialists, supplying deliverables that range from phase 1 desk studies and agricultural land assessments, through to on-site intrusive investigations, which are used to provide ground models for contaminated land assessments, as well as foundation, pavement, road and drainage designs.
Address: Unit 7, Danworth Farm, Cuckfield Rd, Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, BN6 9GL.
Website: http://www.gesl.net
Telephone: 01273 832972
Prophecy Marketing
Prophecy Marketing is not a traditional marketing agency, nor are we a digital marketing agency or even a social media agency – we are an agency to help companies deliver on performance through effective marketing activities designed to meet their specific business needs.
Address: Prophecy Marketing Ltd., Sussex Innovation Centre, 1sft Floor, Science Park Square, Brighton, BN1 9SB
Website: www.prophecy.marketing
Telephone: 01273 234687
PSC Global
PSC Global is a forward thinking, specialist gasket and kitting manufacturer that delivers value through supply chain solutions. Our passionate and talented team pride themselves on their collaborative approach, and our customer-focused mentality delivers reduced working capital, on time results and exceptional service.
Address: 15/16 Hazelwood Close Worthing West Sussex BN14 8NP
Website: www.psc.global
Telephone: +44 1903 207 101
Geo-Environmental Services Limited
The Cyber Resilience Centre for the SouthEast (SECRC) is a police-led, not-for-profit partnership between academia and business. We exist to help businesses in the region improve their cyber resilience with our FREE membership which, together with our monthly newsletter, provides easy-to-follow guidance, tools, and resources.
Address: 4 Quinton Parade, Coventry, CV3 5HW, UK
Website: www.secrc.co.uk
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It’s a phrase we often hear when we sit down with a potential new client that has responded to one of our adverts or editorials.
“It’s just what we do!” is another common response when we sit down and discuss projects with companies across a vast spectrum of industries but particularly engineering firms and manufacturers.
As we start 2022’s exhibition season, if your company is going to be exhibiting, just check to make sure that you are claiming the most rewarding tax relief for a UK company. If you are not claiming R&D Tax Relief, R&D Tax Credits or RDEC, then you might be missing out!
Why are you exhibiting? Have you got a new product? Have you made some further improvements to your existing product lines? Have you had to experiment and make iterative improvements to your products?
Yes, I know it’s just what you do, but companies like yours are also getting some very generous support from the government for that! Why aren’t you?
Just look at the exhibitions that are coming up where your company might be exhibiting and where we have been able to help companies with a relevant claim.
Packaging Innovations & EMPAC – we’ve been supporting a company with claims for their work on developing high-quality papers derived from Straw. More recently they’ve been working on a fully recyclable pad for soft fruit packaging that meets all of the requirements for Food Contact Materials. We’ve also prepared a claim for a company that designs cutting equipment for both industrial and agricultural uses, one of the projects we claimed for was to redesign a piece of equipment to accommodate a sacrificial blade. The original machine had a blade that had a significant life span, but was incredibly difficult to replace leading to significant down time, redesigning their equipment so that the blade could be removed quickly and more frequently with little fuss, had a significant impact and was the result of a technical innovation.
Making Pharma – we’ve been working with a specialist lab that supports the BioPharmaceutical Industry to experiment with pre-clinical activities such as assay development and testing samples, the assay development is the area most likely to be eligible, as the testing of samples is general routine in nature unless they have to design a completely new test.
Railtex and Infrarail – we’ve been working with a company developing a model to use solar power to power the railway network and another who is undertaking a variety of different projects across the railway network including projects to improve isolation and earthing of the overhead lines and the Installation of a First of a Kind Static Frequency Converter within Network Rail.
Intralogistex – we are just about to start work with a tech start-up that has developed location optimization software that can be accurate to 10cms, which is far greater accuracy than GPS, imagine how that could change your warehouse management, materials handling and picking and sorting activities.
All of these companies have one thing in common, they weren’t claiming R&D Tax Credits and now they are.
One of the best things about the legislation is that you can claim for your two previous financial years. This means that you are likely to be able to claim for most of the costs of developing the product, service or software that you are going to be exhibiting at these shows. But you’ll need to be quick you don’t want to “miss the boat”, the opportunity to claim expires on the second anniversary of your company’s accounting year end. So a 30 April 2020 year end can still make a claim up to 30 April 2022, but if the claim is submitted on 1 May 2022, it’s too late.
As you might have guessed, we are experts in R&D Tax Credits and their application. We’ll talk through your projects with you and help you to determine whether they represent an advance in Science or Technology. We’ll then tease some fundamental information from you and your team on the scientific and/or technological challenges that you faced during the development period and then we’ll work with your financial team to evaluate the money and time you have spent on developing the solution. Our 100% success rate and over £5m in tax refunds for our clients in 2021, shows that we know what we are talking about.
If you’d like to start your journey or find out more, we offer a free no-obligation discovery session, we’ll ask you some questions, listen and maybe ask one or two dumb follow up questions, then we’ll let you know whether we think there is a potential to claim and whether we can add value to the process. You can book a discover call at a time that suits you by following this link
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