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NEW with Umbrella and CIS Max - Save up to 38% on Cinema Tickets!

Friday Payments and discount shopping vouchers are just some of the great perks of going Max.

You can now save up to 38% on cinema tickets with our new e-vouchers. Simply login to your rewards account, place your order and you will instantly receive an email with a voucher code to exchange at the cinema.  

Simply search ‘Cinema’ to start saving on your cinema tickets!

Our Umbrella and CIS Max packages include this fantastic benefit and will save you hundreds of pounds a year shopping in-store or online. You will get over 2000 vouchers, cashback offers and insurance products from some of the biggest high street brands including supermarkets. These discounts are not available to the public, you will just need to log into your secure account to shop and save. If you are already registered simply login here.

 

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On the 5th July our Operations Director, Neil Armitage, will be attending the Strategic FreeAgent Partnership Meeting up at FreeAgent Headquarters up in Edinburgh.  

We’ve attended every partner summit so far and taken part in the self-employed tax summit.

Our partnership with FreeAgent is important to us as a practice as it’s the leading cloud platform for contractor accountancy which means we can be part of steering the direction FreeAgent travels so that we can provide even greater levels of service and portal usability to clients. We will report back after the meeting on developments that will affect our clients.

Umbrella Accountants will be attending at Accountex 2017!

Accountex combines a world-class conference and exhibition dedicated to Accountancy Professionals. Umbrella Accountants are despatching Ricky Patidar to catch up on all the latest technology at the exhibition at the Excel Centre in London

Exhibiting at the show will be Cloud Accounting specialists such as FreeAgent, Sage, Receipt Bank, Expensify and Xero. We’re always looking to discover how cutting edge cloud-based platforms can make a difference to our clients – the more automation available and the more accurate the information the more time our contractors can spend away from their accounts. 

Winner of the 'Customer Services Survey' Chocolate Hamper
marketing | 6 March 2017
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Thank you to all our customers who participated in our customer services survey. Your feedback is important to us and will be used to make continuous improvements to our service.

All the participants were put in a hat and we are delighted to announce that Sarah is the winner of the chocolate hamper.

"I was really surprised and pleased when I heard I'd won the hamper. I think as a quality profession customer feedback is really important and it's nice to see that it's acted upon with Umbrella.co.uk. Thank you for all the help and support you provide." Sarah C

FreeAgent on the Go
marketing | 20 January 2017
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FreeAgent continues to update its mobile app to bring the functionality more in line with the browser edition.

December brought some new features to the Mobile App, many of which may be of use to our clients;

The ever-popular Tax Timeline has been included within the App with the option to turn on notifications. This can help you to make sure you don’t miss any important VAT or Corporation Tax payments. Umbrella Accountants will continue to confirm how much is due and when but it acts as a good aide memoire in today’s busy work environment.

Back to school: Four new skills contractors can learn for free

It’s September again. The days are getting colder and the nights are drawing in.

For parents, it’s also the time of year for new school uniforms because the long summer break is coming to an end and the kids are heading back to school.

Now, with an explosion in the availability of free online courses on everything from cookery to investing in stocks and shares, learning new skills isn’t just for children anymore.

If you want to increase your earning power and run your contracting business more effectively, pick a course below and get learning.

Umbrella.co.uk celebrating national freelancers day 2017

Today is all about recognising the hard work and dedication that goes into operating as a freelance worker, and helping those workers be fully aware of how to manage their business as effectively and smoothly as possible.

Have you tried the FreeAgent Mobile App?
marketing | 28 April 2017
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If you’ve tried it before and not got on with it or never installed it then now is a great time to pick it up for your smartphone and see the powerful list of features that you can control from a simple touchscreen.

With banking, tax notifications, time tracking and a slick new interface all added over the last two years since it’s launch the mobile app really does cram a lot of functionality into the App.

Congratulations to Stacey Moses who wins Umbrella.co.uk employee of the month

“Congratulations to our Contracts Manager Stacey Moses who has won Umbrella.co.uk’s Employee of the Month for February. Stacey consistently goes above and beyond, volunteering to take on new tasks enthusiastically. Stacey has proactively grown her knowledge and gained experience of several functions of the business over the past two years. Well done Stacey” – Peter Langham, Customer Services Director

Ways contractors can combat rising VED and fuel prices in H1 2017

The dawn of the New Year took on a somewhat bum note for business drivers and other motorists thanks to a double whammy of cost increases to swallow, with a headline from the BBC1 reporting that ‘fuel prices hit 18-month high after OPEC production cuts’ and ITV News stating ‘drivers face most expensive petrol prices in two years’. The 24% jump in the price of oil seen from mid-November to the end of December contributed to petrol and diesel prices increasing by over 3p per litre during the festive month.

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