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About us

Armstrong Watson

Helping clients achieve prosperity, a secure future and peace of mind.

Our Culture

Who we are

We’ve been supporting, advising and protecting clients across the North of England and Scotland for over 155 years, providing a full range of specialist services and financial advice including accountancy, cloud accounting, audit, tax, payroll, corporate finance, financial planning, wealth management, outsourced finance function, client technology and corporate restructuring, recovery and insolvency.

With regional offices from Glasgow to Leeds and Newcastle to Manchester, we’re focused enough to provide a truly tailored service and large and experienced enough to work alongside any size of business.

We are committed to providing our clients with the highest standards of professional service. This does not just mean meeting needs and expectations but delivering outstanding customer experience and positioning them at the heart of everything we do.

We want Armstrong Watson to be a great place to work and to be the best accountancy and financial advisory firm to do business with. We do this by building trust and loyalty, through long-term relationships based on mutual respect and understanding, with our core values, behaviours and strategic imperatives providing the foundations that drive successful client relationships and ensuring we deliver consistent quality of experience.

our advice to you

Our advice process and promise to you ...

We’re here to work with you on the performance of your business, understanding every part of the operation, your people, processes, current status and forecasted plans. Our role is to share in your vision, to work with you as you progress towards identified goals, and to support and guide you towards finding key areas of opportunity, efficiency and growth.

ICAEW Chartered Accountants
Association of Practicing Accountants
MSI Global Alliance
Investors in People Gold
CBI Member
Institute of Customer Service
Cyber Essentials Certified
Happy to talk Flexible Working

What our clients say

We’re here to work with you on the performance of your business, understanding every part of the operation, your people, processes, current status and forecasted plans. Our role is to share in your vision, to work with you as you progress towards identified goals, and to support and guide you towards finding key areas of opportunity, efficiency and growth.

How we help others

We celebrate the individuality of our staff and the wide range of charities they choose to support, as well as the vast array of activities they undertake to fundraise for their chosen cause.

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Doing business responsibly

We are dedicated to minimising the environmental impact of our business. As part of our congoing commitment to this, we concentrate on the five areas where our business has the greatest impact upon our environmental: transport, waste, paper, water and energy. Below are some of the ways in which we are reducing our environmental impact.

Transport

Our colleagues are encouraged to car share, use public transport, manage their diaries to reduce travel and utilise digital platforms such as MS Teams for meetings . We also offer hybrid and electric cars as part of our company vehicle scheme.

Waste

Our commitment is to reduce, reuse and recycle. Each office recycles paper and card, toners, light bulbs, batteries, cans, plastic and glass. Old office and IT equipment is reused elsewhere in the business or donated to charities.

Paper

We aim for a paper free office culture where possible, reducing letters and paper correspondence where possible. Where paperwork is required, we use 100% recycled paper for printing, copying and letters.

All paper that is shredded is recycled. We strive to use recycled materials in our marketing publications.

Colleagues are encouraged to make use of electronic communications in the form of email and scanning and fully utilise the company intranet where possible.

Energy

We have taken significant steps in improving our carbon foot print at our head office, James Watson House in Carlisle. This has 89 solar panels and 4 dedicated electric charging points for visitors and staff.

We have added solar panels to our existing office in Hexham to improve carbon footprint.

Our office in Newcastle is designed with sustainability at it’s core and has an EPC A energy efficiency rating as well as a BREEAM rating of excellent.

We actively monitor our other office facilities to look for opportunities to improve our carbon footprint.

Water

Water hippos have been installed across the company which save one litre of water per toilet flush. Regular checks are done across each office to monitor for leaks. Dishwashers, hand dryers and other water saving, more energy efficient appliances have been installed where possible.