The Bromsgrove office of West Midlands and Worcestershire-based accountants and business advisers Jerroms has merged with GCN Accounting Services Limited (GCN) based in Dudley. Effective from Monday 1 August 2022, the newly merged business will trade as Jerroms GCN and will relocate to new offices in Halesowen.
This strategic move will see the Jerroms Bromsgrove office almost double in size, bringing the total complement of staff to 40. New offices have been secured on Mucklow Office Park on Mucklow Hill to accommodate the newly expanded team and it is anticipated the business will relocate in mid-August.
Hawkins Hatton and George Green advised on the merger, which forms part of Jerroms’ continued expansion strategy and comes just months after the addition of specialist corporate tax advisers Jerroms Miller to the wider Jerroms Group.
The new strategic location provides the opportunity for the business to widen the depth and breadth of its reach in the key areas of accountancy, business advice, personal and corporate tax planning, corporate finance, financial planning, residential mortgages, and access to commercial finance.
Jerroms Director, Richard Horton said: “GCN are a like-minded business and a great cultural fit for us. Bringing the two practices together not only enables us to broaden our services to businesses in the region, but also to better meet the needs of our existing clients. Our staff and clients are central to what we do, so we are delighted to welcome our new colleagues from GCN and see this move as an essential part in the future investment of the business and our team.”
Gary New, Founding Director of GCN, said: “This is an exciting and significant merger for both firms and we are looking forward to joining the Jerroms team. Our shared core values will allow us to strengthen our expertise, develop our specialist services, create greater opportunities and, ultimately, provide exceptional business support and advice to our clients.”
Despite the beating sun, 65 cyclists took part and raised a huge £1,385 for Ronald McDonald House Charities UK to ensure the Charity can keep providing free accommodation to families with a sick baby or poorly child in hospital.
Ronald McDonald House Charities UK Corporate Fundraiser Caroline Sinclair said, “I would like to say a huge thank you to Ridge for raising such a fantastic amount of money to help support families with a child in hospital. This money will help so many families to have somewhere free, clean and comfortable to stay at a very anxious time. Our Houses, including the 62 bedroom facility at Oxford’s John Radcliffe hospital are vitally important and it would not be possible to keep the doors open without wonderful supporters like Ridge.”
COVID brought a stop to doing things like this, however on Saturday 10 September myself and five friends are setting out to fundraise again for Dorothy House Hospice Care by undertaking the Amigos Walk around the Isle of Portland in Dorset.
In the last five years three of us on the walk will have had experience of cancer, my friend above, another who has recently undergone chemo treatment and my own cancer operation in 2020 and so we have decided to walk the Isle to raise funds for this valuable local charity.
We are attending to stop at Portland Bill Lighthouse at which point the Singing Taxman well do a couple of numbers if he has enough puff left 
If you would like to donate – however small or large it all goes to helping the great service that this charity gives to the local area – then you can do so at www,justgiving.com/fundraising/Amigos-06 or if you prefer to donate in some other form then email me at paulgosling59@gmail.com
