"Your Business Is Our Business"
OUR APPROACH
"Your Business Is Our Business"
We are passionate about helping your business be better today and for tomorrow, building relationships for the long-term.
"Whatever size your business is, and whatever stage it is at, our approach to working with you remains the same"
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Nicola Grobety | Director
DOWN TO EARTH
Our aim is to make running your business as easy as possible. We speak plainly and simply to help you understand your business better.
HONEST
We pride ourselves on our honest opinions built from real world experience to help you make better decisions.
POSITIVE
We believe there is always a solution.We pride ourselves on working tirelessly to find the right one for you.
FLEXIBLE
One size does not fit all, every business is unique and we tailor our solutions to meet your specific needs.
We keep our promises and act with integrity, respect and trust, keeping up to date with all the latest regulations, so you don’t have to.
Meet The Longwood Team
We are proud to be building a team of not just experts, but a team of good people. We've all worked closely for a number of years and bring together a wealth of real world experience having worked in various size companies in different capacities.
When working with Longwood, you will receive a warm welcome, great response times and a passion to work closely with you to find a solution that works for you and your business.
Nicola Grobety | Director
I am passionate about helping businesses with their accounting and have spent the last 4 years supporting Small and Medium-size businesses to grow by providing all things accounting.
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Whether that's tidying up a messy set of books, putting manual bookkeeping onto digital software platforms, reconciling complex accounts, management accounting or statutory accounts, my all-round experience in industry and practice, over 25 years means I can help with all of these areas.
​​My partnership and solution-based approach means that I will work with you to find the best way to support you, whilst providing technical information in a non-jargon way.
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​​I am an ACCA Qualified Accountant with an AAT practicing licence. I am also a QuickBooks Pro advisor and Xero Partner
Sally Williams | HR Specialist
I am CIPD qualified, with an extensive background in HR, Recruitment and Management. I bring a wealth of experience to Longwood in helping our clients to manage end-to-end recruitment processes, providing HR Guidance and consultancy.
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I love to collaborate with business owners, working hard to gain trust and build relationships with both employers and employees. Working with you, I will bring a fresh pair of eyes and a different perspective to get the best outcome for you.
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With a strong focus on Diversity and Inclusion, I am qualified as a Springboard® Trainer, and have delivered workshops to over 200 women (UK & Internationally) giving them the confidence to grow both personally and professionally to achieve their potential with amazing results.
Beverley York | Business Support
I am part of the Business Support Team at Longwood, bringing varied experience from a broad range of industry sectors. Amongst my many skills are Bookkeeping, Quickbooks Online Accounting, and internal auditing for quality systems such as ISO9001.
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I have been supporting Longwood and associated companies for over 5 years now and love the fact that my workload varies from week to week.
My week can range from organising hotels and travel to keeping bookkeeping up to date for our clients, whilst also providing all of our internal admin support.
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I enjoy working with the Longwood team but also getting to know and understand our customers.
Nicola Bentley | Qualified Accountant
Nicola joined Longwood as a Qualified Accountant and in addition to being able to complete a mean set of Statutory accounts, she also is excellent at helping customers sort out accounting that might have gone a little astray!
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Nicola has extensive experience with QuickBooks and Xero and can regularly be found helping out a customer who has given up all hope of ever getting their books on track.
Nicola met and worked with our Director, Nicola Grobety at BDO LLP and her problem solving skills have always been a great asset.
Emma Crang | Accounts Assistant
Emma works for Longwood as a book-keeper and all round accounts assistant.
With a strong background and extensive experience using all manner of accounting software, Emma brings a dedicated bookkeeping focus to the accounting team, keeping in touch regularly with our customers.
If you are working with Emma, you can expect to have regular friendly contact and gentle reminders to send us the information needed to keep on top of your records.
Sara Sargeant | Accounts Assistant
Sara works for Longwood as an Accounts Assistant and has quickly become our guru when it comes to bookkeeping processes, CIS, VAT and Payroll.
Alongside her AAT Accounting qualification, Sara has over 14 years of extensive experience within accounting in various industries.
Sara is very diligent and organised with a great sense of humour, and she loves the colour green!
Gemma Smart | Business Support
Gemma is a Business Support Assistant at Longwood with vast administration & organisation experience within several global companies.
Alongside her CIPD qualification, Gemma has spent many years in the HR Learning & Development environment, including supporting apprentices within the UK apprenticeship scheme.
Gemma has a passion to deliver high quality customer service and is very organised. She has a great sense of humour and loves kitchen or car karaoke!
Vikki Wheatcroft | Accounts Assistant
Vikki works for Longwood as a bookkeeper and all-round accounts assistant.
With an AAT qualification Vikki has been in the accounts industry for over 30 years and used a variety of accounting packages. Vikki is flexible, knowledgeable, and always happy to help.
Marie Stoner | Associate
We work closely with Marie Stoner from ‘Free My Thoughts’ which is a Business Coaching Practice.
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Marie collaborates with founders, CEOS, leadership teams and employees on creating and implementing concrete business solutions, helping to enrich your company through strategizing, growing a happier team and a successful business.
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The coaching process supports creative change, cultivating expertise and talent with strategic purpose and intention, supporting the business to thrive.
The coaching process offers powerful insight and tools to help your company evolve, supporting teams or individual employees with decision making, problem solving, being more dynamic and feeling more fulfilment.
Together, through exploration you will build business acumen, find heightened awareness, take action, and achieve outcomes. Marie will help you to create and implement goals and action plans that provide tangible results.
A resilient team enables ‘freedom of thought,’ which provides clarity on design, vision, and progression to the next steps. To get in touch with Marie, please contact her directly here Contact (freemythoughts.co.uk)
Rashne Everington | Associate
Rashne has over 10 years’ experience as a non-exclusive, independent consultant providing support to small businesses and start-ups for:
Staff Wellness; Specialties are management of stress and anxiety and all matters menopausal.
Quality Management; 20 years’ experience as Quality Manager for multiple companies and as a qualified lead auditor and has helped companies gain an ISO qualification from scratch.
HR infrastructure: I have experience in writing staff handbooks, codes of ethics, and other important HR documents.
