Cripps is thrilled to announce that Callum Benson, a paralegal apprentice within the firm, has been named the BPP Apprentice of the Year (Level 4-5). This prestigious award recognises exceptional apprentices who demonstrate outstanding achievements over the past year.

More than 160 specialists in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM) attended the world-leading Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) `Future Directions in HEMS’ conference, which took place on Thursday 13 June at Holiday Inn, Gatwick, attracting renowned UK and international speakers.

Nearly 700 people, including local businesses, took to the streets of Horsham in a sea of orange on Saturday night, (8 June) to raise money for their local hospice as part of St Catherine’s Hospice’s Midnight Walk.

Join Let's Go! Net Zero at the stunning Aldingbourne Country Centre on 25 June for a celebration of sustainable business and to hear how it’s done. There'll be a panel of ground-breaking speakers, a delicious, locally-sourced lunch and refreshments, and plenty of opportunity for networking with fellow businesses.

This event – exclusively for construction professionals in West Sussex – will give you a solid foundation in how the industry is shaping up to meet the challenge of becoming net zero and help keep you ahead of the curve.

Accountants and business advisers Kreston Reeves are delighted to announce their HR Business Partner Chelsea Crouch has been shortlisted as a finalist in the British HR Awards 2024 / Rising Star of the Year category.

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Leading Sussex law firm Mayo Wynne Baxter has welcomed specialist Court of Protection solicitor Farhana Fayaz to its private client team.

Kreston Reeves has been shortlisted for four South East Business Insider Dealmaker Awards.

A recent UK survey by Shelter has reported over 300,000 people as homeless. Bristol-based charity called BillyChip has been formed to support the homeless nationally.

In a highly competitive category, Kingsway Care emerged victorious, clinching the prestigious title of Employer of the Year at the annual Sussex Business Awards gala evening. The win celebrates Kingsway Care's outstanding commitment to employee engagement, recognition, wellbeing, and professional development.

Brilliant Businesses Podcast Ep. 103 - Mike Monk, Brighton and Hove Business Show. - YouTube   Mike Monk from the Brighton and Hove Business Show talks to Matt Freeman about his business journey, and the success he's enjoying from his business shows with the announcement of his new Gatwick show, and chats with Nick Bryant from Brilliant Businesses about their collaboration on the NEW Tunbridge Wells Business Show.   Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/3EK2bQG   This Podcast will also be available on: iTunes: https://apple.co/2UJYIvo Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2UMzNau Google: https://bit.ly/33TBhUQ Amazon: https://amzn.to/3njO0Mf Buzzsprout: https://bit.ly/39rpk9I

What a year it has been for Sian! Rising star 2023, Promotion to Partner, South East Young Lawyer of the Year and now ranked as Next Generation Partner 2024 for Corporate M&A by the Legal 500. Sian Webber is certainly making her mark!    As we’ve said before, Sian’s achievements this year have been amazing. She has shown herself to be not only an excellent corporate lawyer, working on many of our most significant and complex transactions, but also a spearhead for driving change at PDT where she is an elected member of the Firm’s management steering group ‘the HUB’.Managing Partner, James Clewlow commented “I never get tired of praising the wonderful people who make such a valuable contribution to our firm. Sian’s achievements have been fantastic, and we are really lucky that she is part of the team. Modest, caring, thoughtful, intelligent tenacious, kind… basically everything you look for in a lawyer. Well done Sian and thank you for all your hard work and commitment to PDT.”   Testimonials on The Legal 500 rankings describe Sian as “very friendly, and yet extremely professional" and “very hard-working, efficient and committed to achieving the best possible client outcome.”As well as Sian's success, both Noel Ruddy and Rebecca Glazebrook achieved ranking as a Leading Individual for another year due to their high-quality work, and the corporate team were ranked as a Leading firm for their M&A practice and were described as “professional, knowledgeable and exceptionally pleasant team” with a “strong commercial practice with sensible and pragmatic advice”.This is a significant achievement and a great reward for their diligence and dedication over the last year. Well done to all the team.You can view more details on the ranking and read the practice area recommendation in more detail on the Legal 500 website

Last year we celebrated our position as a top legal firm, but as James always says, “there’s more to come” and with the 2024 Chambers rankings there certainly was!   In today's Chambers 2024 launch we are ranked as a leading firm in 5 specialist areas, Corporate/M&A: £5 million and above, Litigation, Real Estate, Restructuring/Insolvency and for the first time this year for our Banking & Finance practice. We also received a record 9 top legal professional rankings: James Clewlow‘s light shone bright as he ranked for both Healthcare: Corporate/Commercial and Real Estate     Dawn Shadwell‘s light shone bright as she ranked for her Banking & Finance and Restructuring/Insolvency practice     And William Angas's and Ian Lindley‘s lights shone bright for their Restructuring/Insolvency practice       Thank you to all our fantastic clients who provided feedback to Chambers and Partners.You can view more details on the ranking and read the practice area recommendation in more detail on the Chambers website.  

Leading Sussex law firm Mayo Wynne Baxter has reported 12% revenue growth in the last financial year – six times the growth it had experienced in the four years previous - taking the firm’s turnover to more than £12.7m. Mayo Wynne Baxter, which became part of legal and professional service group Ampa in May 2022, has seen rapid organic expansion as well as growth through its merger with historic firm Lawson Lewis Blakers, in February 2023. In the last financial year, the firm has welcomed seven lateral hires, extended its footprint across Sussex and welcomed 36 people through its merger. Mayo Wynne Baxter also promoted 17 people across its legal and support teams, created 16 new jobs, and achieved B-Corporation status. Not looking to slow down, the Sussex firm has started the new financial year strong after announcing a merger with Pure Employment Law; adding four experts and a new Chichester hub to its growing patch. The firm also announced more than a dozen legal roles in the Chichester area, to support the new hub’s transformation into a full-service offering. Dean Orgill, chief executive partner at Mayo Wynne Baxter, said: “Our growth has been steady over the past four years, but since joining the Ampa group we’ve been able to turbo-charge our expansion by attracting top talent, accessing a wider pool of business support experts and offering enhanced career development and training for our teams. “While we’re keen to keep up the momentum, we’re also mindful about ensuring our growth is sustainable and that we retain our positive culture and approach to law.   “Like all sectors, we’ve gone through rapid change and experienced turbulence in the market, but we’re so proud of how far we have come, how embedded we are in the community and how we are able to offer a high-quality service and attractive proposition for our people.”   Mayo Wynne Baxter continues to be open to conversations with ambitious, like-minded legal brands and lateral hires to join the Sussex-based firm.   For more information please visit: https://www.mayowynnebaxter.co.uk/

Martin Searle Solicitors are pleased to announce that once again, both their Employment Law and Community Care Law teams are ranked as a “Leading Firm” in the 2024 Legal 500 listings. Their Employment Team have been included in the “Leading Firm” rankings for eleven years running. The Legal 500 makes special mention of their campaigning work around disability, pregnancy and maternity discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace. This year, Fiona Martin, Director and Head of Employment Law is listed as a “Leading Individual”, with client testimonials praising her “immense compassion and a personal conviction that the client’s right must be vindicated even when the opposition is fierce. “ Laura Donnelly is  listed as a “Rising Star”, with clients describing her as “a Swiss watchmaker, placing each element exactly” Clients also praise Christine Gannon and describe how she “guided me with compassion through an acutely difficult process … I will always be grateful for her honesty, kindness and legal ability”. The Legal 500 also acknowledges the work the Employment team carry out with local charities and non-profit organisations, noting their “excellent accessible employment law information to help charities and other local community organisations run themselves with best practice and compliance at the forefront of their employment practices … sound sensible advice and a pleasure to work with”. The Community Care Law team are praised by the Legal 500 for their expert advice representing individuals and families against decisions made by health service providers, and their proven track record of Court of Protection work. The team is described as “influencers in change and a go-to for comment on any new developments.” They describe them as “professional, prompt and highly efficient”. Cate Searle, Director and Head of Community Care Law is described as “unashamedly the market leader and go-to person for complex funding cases”, whilst Paula Jones is praised as “extremely knowledgeable in the Care Act as well as the complexities of deputyship work”. Clare English is named as a “Rising Star” for the second year running, and the Legal 500 praises her in the area of Community Care work. Fiona Martin, Director and Head of Employment Law, says “We are very proud of our teams and their achievements and are pleased to see that our hard work has been acknowledged once again by the Legal 500. We are a purpose-driven business and strive to achieve the best results for our clients. We are delighted that our team’s compassion and campaigning work has been recognised as this is vital to making a real difference in our community. “

The Legal 500 2024 has ranked PDT Solicitors as a Leading UK Firm in 10 practice areas: Banking & Finance, Commercial Real Estate, Corporate & Commercial, Debt Recovery, Insolvency & Corporate Recovery, Commercial Dispute Resolution, Property Litigation, Public Sector, Employment and Asset Based Lending.     In addition to this acknowledgement of the success we have had as a firm this year, we are also proud that two of our brightest Partner level talent, Sian Webber (Corporate Partner) and Holly Goacher (Real Estate and Healthcare Partner) have been recognised as Next Generation Partners. This is a significant achievement, and great reward for their diligence and dedication to their clients and sectors over the last year. For the 4th year running, Noel Ruddy, our Head of Corporate, had been singled out as a leading individual  in both corporate and commercial and asset based lending.Rebecca Glazebrook was highlighted as a leading individual for the second time this year and Laura McMaster was recognised as a rising star for her Employment work.James Clewlow, Dawn Shadwell, William Angas, Ian Lindley, Sian Webber, Jane Bowden, Craig Burton, Chehraz Fox, Oliver Parsons, Gail Morris, Ben Ashworth, Justin McConville, Ruth Clinton, Gina Hope, Victoria Jackson, Tiffany Anderson and Mark Gugenheim have all been singled out as recommended and/or key lawyers in their fields.      Managing Partner, James Clewlow commented “In so many ways this has been a “cracking year”. Year-end record turnover, fantastic instructions from an ever-increasing client base, continued success in industry awards including our innovative “Future Leaders Programme” and now a set of Legal 500 rankings that surpass all previous years. We couldn’t be happier. As I keep saying there is lots more to come…” The Legal 500 is an independent guide and firms and individuals are recommended purely on merit following interviews by the Legal 500 team with clients and professionals who work with practices. The Legal 500 Series is widely acknowledged as the world’s largest legal referral guide.These rankings reflect PDT Solicitors' strong commercial approach and its ability to deal with complex transactions, consistently attracting high quality, high value work. You can view more details on the ranking and read the practice area recommendations in more detail on the Legal 500 website.

Accountants, business, and wealth advisers Kreston Reeves is today celebrating winning two awards at the annual Kreston Global Awards.   Accounts and Outsourcing Senior Manager Emily Baldwin has won the Spirit of Kreston Award with Kreston Reeves also winning a prestigious Top Referrer award.   The annual Kreston Global Awards are the culmination of Kreston Week which brings together 25,000 people from 160 independent accountancy firms across 115 countries.   The Spirit of Kreston Award was given to Emily Baldwin for her efforts in delivering part of Kreston Global’s strategic pillars and in driving forward the Kreston Futures Emerging Talent Committee, a key worldwide initiative that allows the network to understand and respond to the network’s expectations and needs across generations.   In giving the award, the judges recognised Emily’s commitment to bridging the gap between generations by encouraging a greater number of junior colleagues to get involved in the Kreston network, and for her mentoring and leadership of this talented group of Managers.   As recipient of the award, Emily said: “The Kreston Global network is a terrific resource for those building their careers within Kreston member firms and I am thrilled to play a role in actively encouraging the next generation of accountancy firm leaders around the world. It is an honour to have this recognised.”   At the same time, Kreston Reeves was also awarded the Top Referrer Award, having referred almost 200 client assignments to other Kreston Global member firms around the world.   As recipient of the award, James Reed-Sperrin, Corporate Finance Partner, Kreston Reeves, said: “I am delighted to receive this award on behalf of Kreston Reeves which recognises our firm’s contribution to the Kreston network’s success with our clients. Our Kreston membership enables us to meet our clients' global ambitions and support them across multiple territories, giving us the ability to go the extra mile whenever and wherever needed.”   Andrew Griggs, Senior Partner, Kreston Reeves, said: “We are delighted to receive these awards recognising the increasing global work undertaken by our clients throughout the Kreston Global network and celebrating the success of the talent within our firm. The success in these awards celebrates two key areas of growth for the firm. Firstly, the firm’s investment in its people to grow and develop a sustainable firm for future generations of people and clients. Secondly, the growing amount of overseas work undertaken by our clients as well as our ability also to provide businesses and individuals with a high standard of global advice.   “Our participation in this vibrant network supplies a wide range of benefits for our clients who increasingly have or want to develop activities outside of the UK. This is possible not only from the extensive geographical coverage Kreston offers, enabling it to provide cohesive solutions to clients’ needs both nationally and globally – but also by ensuring our systems are in line with the fast-moving developments in quality and best practice.”

We are delighted to be able to share the exciting news with you that UK Growth Coach has just won the Best SME Management Consultancy in Sussex at the Management Consulting Awards run by Wealth & Finance International! The award is a real testament to not only the hard work and quality of the business coaching we provide, but the results and real-world impact our clients experience. Where the marketplace is flooded with big-business coaching concepts that aren't always fully relevant in an SME setting, our unique models (all developed by our own team) are a refreshing change. Our approach to coaching is based on concepts we've developed ourselves after years as business owners and coaches to more than 250 business clients.   Here are just some of the client results that helped us achieve this accolade:   Reduced one business owners working week from 80hrs to 45hr and enabled them to go on their first family holiday for five years. significantly bolstered a construction company's secured future work and cash security, from 4 weeks to 9 months. enabled a business owner to expedite the sale of their business, achieving a higher market price than initially anticipated. increased another company's year-on-year turnover by 35% empowered one firm to create six new jobs.   We don't just look at or focus on the business results, but also on the beneficial impacts to the lives of the company owners, their teams and the wider business society. By improving business results, we enhance the lives of business owners, employees, supply chains, and the community overall. SMEs who work with us deliver economic benefits to the communities they serve through job and wealth creation, as well as other contributions.   Why not take advantage of a complementary business review with one of our coaches, where together we will: Assess your business' current progression status. Explore your aspirations for the future and current barriers. Discuss ideas, opportunities, and make relevant suggestions. Consider how actions, support and education can make change happen.   Sound interesting? Give us a call on 01444 440500, or book directly here: https://calendly.com/timrylatt. You can also check out our website for more information: https://tr.growthcoach.co.uk/