Herald - Issue 421

v THE HERALD - Your Community Magazine v 31st March 2022 • The HERALD • Page 59 LJM Bookkeeping Services I provide a range of accounting and business services to individuals, partnerships, charities and small businesses. I am licenced through the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers for the following services. Bookkeeping, Computerised Accounting Software, Final Year End Accounts, Payroll Management, CIS, VAT, Self Assessment Tax for Individuals and Construction Industry Scheme, Statutory Accounts for Small Businesses including Corporation Tax and related submissions, Holiday cover can also be provided for, hourly rates charged. Please contact Lynda McIntyre Email:  ljmbookkeepingservices@gmail.com Telephone: 07774 790543 ASK A PROFESSIONAL Understanding the Needs of the Elderly CGM Solicitors are pleased to announce that Private Client Solicitors Vanessa Fielding and Lindsay Taylor have successfully completed their Solicitors for the Elderly Older Client Care in Practice Award to be re-accredited as Full Accredited Members. is highly specialised quali cation gives members an in depth understanding of older clients, their key issues and how best to support and advise them. Solicitors for the Elderly (SFE) was set up in 1996 and set out to be a specialist group of lawyers to support and make a di erence to older and vulnerable people. Now a national organisation they provide their members with expert training and best practice in this increasingly complex area of law. Members must be fully qualified, regulated and insured solicitors, barristers or chartered legal executives and who spend at least 50% of their time working with older and vulnerable clients. Head of the Private Client Department Vanessa Fielding was very pleased to receive her award, saying : “I was very pleased to be re-accredited. Private client work has become more complex since I first qualified and covers a wide range of work including Wills, Powers of Attorney, Probate and administration of estates, trusts, tax planning, asset protection, care advice and applications in the Court of Protection. As we live longer the instances of degenerative diseases and loss of mental capacity are on the increase making our specialist training so important. Lindsay and I are delighted to have access to the resources of SFE to support our work.” CGM Managing Director Caroline Stennett was delighted with the news: “This further demonstrates this firm’s commitment to high quality Private Client work carried out by a strong and specialist team.” For your conveyancing and Private Client needs you can contact CGM Solicitors on: 023 8084 2765 for an appointment. Business Volunteers Encouraged to Help Solent Schools Develop Pupils’ Work Skills The Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is encouraging business professionals to volunteer as Enterprise Advisers, which help local schools and colleges link with businesses and inspire young people to develop the skills employers need. Working in partnership with e Careers & Enterprise Company, which manages the national network, the Solent LEP is recruiting Enterprise Advisers to work at a strategic level with the educational institutions’ senior management teams. e voluntary role will focus on evaluating the existing careers and enterprisework takingplace at individual sites, and on developing activity plans to ensure that the best local provision can be accessed to prepare their students for future careers. Full training is given and support provided to the Enterprise Advisers during their work. To nd out more about the Solent LEP Enterprise Adviser role and how to volunteer, visit: www.solentlep.org . uk/careers-and-skills-hub/become-an - enterprise-adviser