Hollies Bookkeeping celebrates 10 years of being a limited company
We are celebrating here at the Hollies Bookkeeping Services in Shropshire – it’s been 10 years since we became a limited company!
Our director Julie Williams operated the company as a sole trader for nearly five years before becoming limited.
And we are also celebrating the fact that Claire Hudson has been with us for 10 years too!
Claire started with us as office administrator and more recently has moved into the role of office manager.
The Hollies Bookkeeping Services is now supporting around 250 clients. And there are still a few internationally-based UK companies on the books, working from Portugal and Ibiza.
Along the 15-year Hollies journey, the company has continued to expand. In 2013 it moved into its main office in Pontesbury and in 2016 it took on a meeting room/filing room with the final recent expansion coming in 2021 when the business also took on a downstairs office.
The team looks very different today too. Ten years ago, Julie had four members of staff, two bookkeepers, one part-time administrator and an apprentice.
Today there are 10 in the team – an office manager, an admin assistant and six bookkeepers all who work a variety of part-time hours.
And we can’t forget the canine members of the team, we have two dogs with us Lexi ‘works’ full-time and Maya is here part-time, but they are integral parts of the Hollies family.
Julie said: “Everything has changed in the last decade. From working on Sage desktop software using a server to keep the data to moving to cloud accounting, which is more efficient and safer for our clients.
“We’ve moved from actual paperwork to using receipt capture apps, from manually writing out proposals and contracts to using packages that link to our accounting software and a practice manager system to record timekeeping for invoicing instead of paper timesheets.
“I really appreciate all that Claire does supporting me and the Hollies family. We are looking forward to another 10 years together (at least)! I’d also like to say a huge thanks to all of our clients who have entrusted their bookkeeping to us each year.
“We strive to provide a friendly, professional and first-class service and we are proud that so many of our clients are longstanding clients and recommend us to other businesses,” she added.
Here’s to the next 10 years at the Hollies Bookkeeping Services. For any advice on bookkeeping or accounting, please contact us on 01743 790086, email info@holliesbookkeeping.co.uk or visit www.holliesbookkeeping.co.uk
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