“Thank You, your services are really useful”
“The service provides support for groups who, as volunteers, may not be used to accounting but can now understand it due to great advice and training – Thanks!”
“Very friendly atmosphere and easy to understand”
“The service provided excellent support and advice. They put a lot of work in and we are very grateful to the CANNY service and CVS in general”
“Fantastic help could not have done it without your input – Thank You!”
“Extremely helpful, also to know that I can follow up more training as we progress in the management committee – thank you”
“this will be extremely useful to us, thank you! It’s great to know there’s someone here to help”
“the accounts package provided was simple, functional, understandable and very efficient”
“I was very impressed with the level of service available and the time spent explaining and going over things”
“the service was very helpful and offered clear advice”
“a very friendly and helpful service, the community accountant was brilliant at explaining everything to me”
“Very useful software package aimed at an understandable level”
“Really helpful – I am not worried now – thank you”
“I wish I had done it month ago”
“A template for suitable presentation of annual accounts has been provided which will be extremely useful in future years”
“Excellent many thanks”
“Very good service, good for myself doing one-to-one, I don’t function in groups very good. All positive!”
“The service has been efficient, flexible and responsive, all of which has been very helpful for a small but very busy charity with two part time staff”
“Our group has received a really fantastic service, we have been impressed by the flexibility of the service and there have been times when we have required advice at very short notice and this has always been forthcoming. The staff deliver this service very positively and are very patient in providing explanations when we don’t understand something fully, we feel very lucky to have such a professional support service”
“It has been a fantastic (accounts package) tool which has been implemented within our setting. It was well produced and taught”
“Very good training. Explained simply without making you feel stupid, even if they are things you already know”
“Accounts package & training provided was excellent. Easy to understand, even if you have little knowledge of accounts and/or/computer packages. I know I will probably need further training but am confident this will be provided”
“I was given a lot of helpful advice on how I should be carrying out basic accountancy tasks within my organisation and I was put at ease to ask questions at any time”
“this is a very worthwhile service which has been much needed”
“this is a very useful service, especially for a charity organisation like ours where committee members have various levels of knowledge”
“Excellent help and very amenable person. A voluntary group needs expert advice like this to keep us going forward. Thank god the advice was free, as like many new voluntary groups our funds are very low”
“I think it is an excellent service”
“Seems to be the answer for any treasurer of a small organisation raising funds but needing to keep the right side of legislation”
“It was helpful to learn what services were on offer and that we could save money on producing year end accounts”
“The service I received was very useful in terms of one-to-one to give a better understanding of money matters”
“Very simple and effective to use and very clear and concise training”
“Very helpful service. Sympathetically presented”
“I found the service to be of great help, extremely reliable and useful”
“I would like the service to reach organisations like ourselves with activity > £100k but with low levels of competence. Our needs are not so different”
“I was impressed by the patient, professional, friendly approach to the initial meeting and by the unhurried way it was conducted. I am confident that a satisfactory working relationship has been established”
“Really useful for small charities to have access to such a high calibre of financial knowledge and expertise”
“Excellent”
“Invaluable – especially to small groups or new treasurers”
“the service was excellent and clearly presented. Very helpful”
“Very informative session, well prepared, that has saved me days of research”
“Good to have one-to-one training in quiet environment with all my questions answered”
“Having a background of financial management the straightforward accounts (package) shown were excellent for small charity accounting”
“It is always interesting to go back over basics and learn how things change, you always learn something”
“I was grateful that the service provided was not just to provide our year end accounts but to provide advice on how to make the day to day book keeping an easier task”
“the session was presented clearly and explained well”
“it was excellent, very helpful particularly as we had previously used a firm of accountants who has left jobs unfinished and we needed to ensure that everything the charity did in terms of accounts and compliance was correct”
“thank you very much your help was much appreciated”
“extremely helpful support in a vital area of our responsibilities”
“lots of useful information and signposting”
“really useful and helpful session”
“I found the session very useful and felt very comfortable however detailed the questions I needed to ask”
“excellent, clear and supportive”
