Clement Keys
Chartered Accountants

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.