Pictured: (Front) Cath Gilliver - chief executive - SIFA
Fireside (l-r behind) Simon Atkins - Clement Keys, Roger Browning -
Trustee - SIFA Fireside, Carol Fox - Operations Manager - SIFA
Fireside
Chartered accountant Clement Keys is helping a not for profit
client develop its services as it relocates to a new base in
Digbeth.
Clement Keys provides a range of specialist accounting and audit
services to SIFA Fireside, a charity which works with socially
excluded and disadvantaged people.
"SIFA Fireside does some very important work in the community,
addressing a wide range of issues such as alcohol and drug misuse
and homelessness as it helps people to achieve their short and long
term aims," says Simon Atkins, head of the charities,
not-for-profit and pensions team.
"Our role is to help the charity maximise its resources by
implementing a robust accounting system that will not only meet the
mandatory requirements in terms of charity reporting, but will also
help SIFA Fireside to maximise its resources, including the
important grants it has secured to expand its services."
SIFA Fireside has moved from two separate sites in Birmingham to
a former warehouse in Allcock Street, Digbeth, which has been
redeveloped thanks to a £400,000 capital grant from the
Social Enterprise Investment Fund. Now, all staff and
volunteers operate from the same site and all services provided by
SIFA Fireside are available under one roof.
Cath Gilliver, chief executive of SIFA Fireside, commented: "Our
relocation signals a new phase in the development of SIFA Fireside,
as we work to expand the scope and quality of the services we offer
to meet increasing needs, so it's good to know we can call on
Clement Keys for advice and take advantage of its extensive
experience in the not-for-profit sector."
SIFA Fireside has secured £240,000 over two years from the
Big Lottery's 'Reaching Communities' Fund, which will enable it to
deliver the Change4Life health and well-being programme and expand
its current health-related services. It is also benefiting from a
£40,000 grant, which will mean it can continue its Irish
Resettlement Project for a further year, and has been awarded
£45,500 by the Skills Funding Agency to run a seven-month
'Learning for Health' project.