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Founded in 1960, Ellacotts employs nearly 100 people in its Banbury, Kettering, and London offices. It provides accounting services and business advice, with niche specialisms in areas that included agriculture, academies, and charities.
Trainee accountants make up almost 30% of its workforce. The firm is committed to their development and achievement of an accountancy qualification.
School leavers or graduates are recruited and enrolled on a development programme that is delivered by an accredited third-party provider, but underpinned internally with dedicated mentors, counsellors, and buddies.
Ellacotts looks after staff wellbeing by having a flexible working policy that allows people to work shorter or longer days when it suits them, providing they complete a full working week.
It runs weekly team catch-up meetings that start with social activities, so that colleagues can get to know each other, cementing relationships and supporting new starters.
To provide clarity on the organisational direction of the firm, its fortnightly newsletter, Good News Friday, contains updates from departments on their progression and new-business development, as well as feedback on clients, and best-practice hints and tips from teams.
Teamwork is one of Ellacotts’ company values; its business support team showed their commitment to that value when the company's receptionist was away and the stand-in went down with Covid. The team drew up a rota and covered the role between them.
My team is fun to work with
Themed festival, "CoachElla-cotts" was held in July 2023. It was an opportunity to celebrate company successes and bring the team together in a relaxed and unique way. It included music, massages, nature talks, a fire pit, wild cooking, whittling, Thai Chi, glitter stations, and many more amazing activities.
My manager cares about how satisfied I am in my job
Ellacotts uses the UK200Group Pathways programme, this is a modular, integrated, and developmental series of workshops. It aims to address the specific management, leadership, and business development skills which team members need as they progress along their respective career pathways.
My organisation encourages charitable activities
It selects a new charity each year through a company vote; this ensures it supports a cause that is close to its people’s hearts. This year, Banbury and Kettering Foodbanks were selected and company employees completed the WOLF Run and raised more than £3,000 for the charities.
My team is fun to work with
Themed festival, "CoachElla-cotts" was held in July 2023. It was an opportunity to celebrate company successes and bring the team together in a relaxed and unique way. It included music, massages, nature talks, a fire pit, wild cooking, whittling, Thai Chi, glitter stations, and many more amazing activities.
My manager cares about how satisfied I am in my job
Ellacotts uses the UK200Group Pathways programme, this is a modular, integrated, and developmental series of workshops. It aims to address the specific management, leadership, and business development skills which team members need as they progress along their respective career pathways.
My team is fun to work with
Themed festival, "CoachElla-cotts" was held in July 2023. It was an opportunity to celebrate company successes and bring the team together in a relaxed and unique way. It included music, massages, nature talks, a fire pit, wild cooking, whittling, Thai Chi, glitter stations, and many more amazing activities.
We are extremely proud to have been recognised as "One to Watch" in the 2021 Best Companies survey and hope to drive change across the organisation utilising the valuable feedback and insights our people have given us. Our purpose of Enabling Success is embodied within this survey as the feedback allow us to make the firm more successful as a whole by improving the engagement of our people who in turn deliver success to our clients.
David Stevens, Managing Partner
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