We are proud to be working with EuansGuide.com

Euan's Guide features disabled access reviews from disabled people and their friends and families.
As Euan MacDonald, founder of Euan's Guide puts it:


"The goal of Euan's Guide is to provide a friendly, honest & empowering alternative to hours of web searching and phone calls and most importantly remove the ‘fear of the unknown’ when visiting a venue for the first time."

 They have already made a great progress and have recently been endorsed by the world famous physicist, Professor Stephen Hawking.

If you are a person with disabilities or have friends and families who may benefit from using their website, please do spread the word and help them gather more reviews.

We are proud sponsors of the Hutchison Vale Under 16s Team

We are proud to announce that Bolland & Burke are now sponsors of the Hutchie Vale Under 16s Team. Hutchison Vale is one of Edinburgh's most successful amateur clubs and runs a number of teams from toddlers through to a new Seniors outfit Lothian Thistle.

It is amazing the number of kids who go on from Hutchie to senior teams.The club has previously trained some great players including Lee Griffiths, Steven Whittaker, Gary Caldwell, Kevin Thomson, Kenny Miller, Derek Riordan and many more...

The Under 16s team is coached by the club leader, Tam Smith and have made a great start to the new season. Click Here to see the team fixtures and find details on their upcoming matches.

Starpic Solution

Our friends at Starpic offer a wide range of great services at affordable prices.

 

While having a website may seem like an unnecessary cost if you're not a prolific internet user yourself, a recent survey showed around 70% of the UK's population now has access to an internet connection - that's a big business opportunity you'll be missing out on if you don't have a web presence.

 Starpic can help your business journey, from start to success.

- Website design

- Social Media Strategy

- Customised stationary  

 -Business support

The first meeting is always free!

Give it a try! Only £150: 2 page website+ 1 year hosting+ domain name

Starpic LTD

Hays Business Centre

4 Hay Avenue

Edinburgh

EH16 4AQ

0131 258 4278

office@starpic.co.uk

The Laughing Stock

Once again, it is the festival time, late nights, great shows and a buzzing Edinburgh. If you are going to the old town to enjoy the festival ambiance, we can recommend a great place to grab a bite.

The Laughing Stock, our clients, serves the best of British street food at the Underbelly in Bristo Square during the festival time.  Go and see them, you won't be disappointed.

Bill McLaren Foundation Celeb Am 2013

One of our clients is Lindsay Lawson, Bill McLaren's granddaughter and event coordinator at Bill McLaren Foundation.

The foundation was set up to raise funds to support the development of Rugby and its values. We should like to make you aware of one of their upcoming events, the Celeb Am Golf Tournament at Hawick Golf Club on Friday 9 August (entry details below).

 

Broomhouse Health Strategy Group

The Broomhouse Health Strategy Group is a community led health project that was set up in 1993 by a group of local volunteers. The aim is to enable the residents of Broomhouse, Sighthill and Parkhead, recognised as low income areas in SW Edinburgh, to have easy access to fresh fruit and vegetables. It has since remained a small local charity, run by 29 volunteers, supported by three part time workers and one sessional worker.

They run a Fruit & Veg Co-op, have Free Cookery Classes and provide a Drop-in Health Service among all the other organised events and activities. You can find all about them in their own words, by checking out their website.

We were appointed as accountants for the Health Strategy Group in 2011 and are full of admiration for the work they do for the people of Broomhouse and surrounding areas. On a recent visit, we were delighted by the colourful paintings all around their co-op shop and thought we should share some of their story with you. 

After being awarded over 250 litres of paint from Dulux, the Broomhouse Health Strategy Group commissioned an artist to draw up designs for painting over 450m2 of surface area around their community shop! The practical work took place over three weeks and was carried out by around 60 local residents and business volunteers contributing over 200 hours!

 It’s an amazing example of community empowerment – the local community came together to make it happen. The result is not just a colourful facelift, but also an increase in social connections within the community, with some very proud active local volunteers and a local community that has had its self- esteem significantly raised.

Learn Guitar this summer with Ged Brockie

Welcome to Bolland & Burke C.A.'s blog.

So what is the need for a small firm of accountants to have a blog?

Before you assume that we just have too much free time, let us explain why we think this is a good idea.

Most of our clients are small owner-managed businesses and we feel somewhat responsible for promoting them and helping them grow.

In the past we have often sent out emails promoting events hosted by our clients and where possible, we have referred our clients to one another for specific services/products. This blog is set up to do the same thing but to reach a larger audience - to promote our clients' businesses/charitable activities and to let our readers know about interesting upcoming events. We would also try to regularly post tax and accounting tips to keep our readers up to date with some of the topics that are most relevant to small businesses.

If you are a client and would like to post anything on this blog, please get in touch.

If you would like to receive our updates by e-mail, you can easily submit your email address on the right hand side of this blog. Please also like our Facebook Page.

We hope you like it :)