Areas we cover
Accountancy Across South East London
Our office is at 131 Verdant Lane in Catford, SE6. We work with businesses and individuals across the surrounding area, and each part of it tends to bring us a different kind of question. Here's where we work, and what we most often help with in each place.
Which page should you read?
If you know roughly what you need help with, this is the quicker way in. Each line points at the page that goes into it properly.
- Takings come in all day and the paperwork never catches up — bookkeeping and VAT in Lewisham
- You invoice clients under your own name, or through a company you own outright — freelancers in Hither Green and Lee
- You are on PAYE and a tax bill has turned up anyway — personal tax in Forest Hill and Honor Oak
- Someone is about to go on the payroll for the first time — payroll in Sydenham and Penge
- You let out a property, on your own or with someone else — landlords in Brockley and Ladywell
- Tax is being deducted before your invoices are paid — CIS and trades in Bellingham and Downham
- A yearly set of accounts is no longer enough to run on — monthly figures in Bromley
- You are forming a company, or have just formed one — new companies in Greenwich and Deptford
Which postcodes does this cover?
Our own postcode is SE6. These are the postcode districts the eight pages above between them cover, with the places inside each one:
If your district is on that list, the nearest page to you is the one it sits next to. If it is not, nothing above changes for you except that we have not written your page yet.
Does it matter how far you are from the office?
Not to the work. Records come to us digitally, bookkeeping and VAT run in cloud software you can log into yourself, and questions get answered by email or on a call. Nothing about the service changes because of your postcode, and nothing about it depends on you dropping paperwork in.
What the office does affect is how well we know the ground you are standing on. Being in Catford means the high streets, the industrial units and the rental market we are talking about are the ones outside the window, not an abstraction. That is the reason these pages are written by area at all.
Taking someone on runs the same way wherever they are: a short call to understand the business, a quote usually the same day, then professional clearance with your previous accountant and HMRC agent authorisation handled at our end. The three steps are set out on the home page, and our address and opening hours are on the contact page.
Questions about the areas we cover
No. Every service is available everywhere. Each page leads with the thing that part of South East London asks about most often, because that is usually what brought you to it, but annual accounts, Self Assessment, bookkeeping, VAT and payroll are all on the table wherever you are. The full list is on our services page.
Whichever one matches what you need, rather than either address. These pages are organised around questions, not catchment areas, so a landlord living in Greenwich is better off reading the Brockley and Ladywell page. If two look relevant, read both and mention both when you get in touch.
Because we have only written eight so far, and they start with the areas closest to the office. It is not a limit on who we act for. If you are elsewhere in London, or outside it, get in touch and we will quote on the same basis as anyone else.
If none of the eight is quite you, start from what we actually do instead, compare the three packages, and then tell us what you need.