Opportunity
Why Choose Us
A genuinely experienced team behind you
With a legacy stretching back to our family-run beginnings in the 1960s, there’s very little we haven’t encountered, both in delivering high-quality accountancy services and in running a successful, growing business. When you join us, that experience becomes yours to draw on. You’ll have specialists to turn to, answers when you need them, and a partner that has already solved most of the problems you’re likely to face.
From day one, you’ll trade under a name businesses already recognise and trust, giving you a credibility that would take years to establish alone. We treat every client as more than a number, and we treat our partners exactly the same way.
All of which requires professional and cost-effective accounting they can count on.
A depth of services few independents can match
Perhaps the single biggest advantage of partnering with us is the sheer breadth of what you can put in front of your clients. As an independent, the services you can offer are limited by the specialists you can afford to employ.
As our partner, you have our specialist teams behind you, so you can offer a comprehensive range from day one: bookkeeping, payroll, VAT and year-end accounts; corporation tax, self-assessment and tax planning; management accounts, R&D tax credits and statutory audit; through to outsourced CFO and FD services, company formation and secretarial work, and financial services such as wealth management, will planning and inheritance tax.
It means you can win and keep the kind of clients who would otherwise outgrow a smaller practice, and become the single, trusted provider for everything they need, without carrying the cost of the specialists who deliver it.
An established network, not a standing start
It’s worth being clear about something, because it genuinely sets us apart from most franchise opportunities you’ll come across. For many years, long before we offered a single franchise, we grew Affinity Associates by acquiring established accountancy practices and bringing them into our network: identifying good local firms, doing the deal, and helping them go on to thrive under the Affinity Associates name.
That means we already know how to integrate, support and work alongside people running their own practices, successfully and independently, in towns right across the UK. Helping capable owners grow under our banner isn’t a theory we’re about to test on you, it’s how we’ve built this business for years. You’re becoming part of an established network, with the experience of more than a dozen offices, and the people who run them, already there to draw on.
No expensive high street premises
While we’d still recommend having somewhere professional to meet your clients, there’s no need for costly high street premises, and no need to hire and house a large team of your own.
The specialist support is already in place across our network, so you can keep your overheads low and your margins healthy while still offering clients the full range of services.