The last year has proven to be a difficult time for the restaurant trade, with a number of popular high profile chains closing down and disappearing from our high streets. Recent research into the scale of the “casual dining crunch’…
Cornwall Business Awards - The Public Vote By Andrew James Wowzers, hot on the heels of the reveal of the finalists for the Cornwall Business Awards 2019 I have been notified that the Public Vote for the Business of the…
Located on the eastern side of Sutton Harbour and facing Plymouth’s historic Elizabethan Barbican quarter, is our client the National Marine Aquarium (NMA), the largest aquarium in the UK. It is home to over 4000 marine animals and sees 280,000…
This week, we hosted Glenn Caplin from the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership as they continued their consultation process on the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Local Industrial Strategy. As I blogged last week, this was a…
On Saturday 12 October, the Culture Secretary announced the launch of a new £250m fund to support the culture and creative sector with soundbite “"Creative and cultural institutions are at the heart of our communities. The Cultural Investment Fund is…
PKF Francis Clark’s Energy & Infrastructure corporate finance team is delighted to announce that it has successfully advised the shareholders of Eden Geothermal Limited (EGL) on the £16.8 million financing required to drill the first well for their pioneering geothermal…
More than 100 team members at regional chartered accountancy and business advisers, PKF Francis Clark have run 5K this year, as part of their centenary celebrations. In doing so, they have also raised money for a number of local charities…
As a proud Cornishman working for a firm who are fully engaged with the local business community, I am genuinely proud that next week we are hosting one of the events at which the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local…
This morning, my colleagues hosted a breakfast seminar on the topic of “Valuation in the context of the business (company) life-cycle”. As an onlooker, I enjoyed this event. I liked the format of presentations, with each presenter speaking on their…
With recent negative media headlines and the rise of artificial intelligence in the industry, Mike Lea (Managing Partner of our Bristol office) looks at the importance of human interaction and how it's becoming ever more important for accountancy firms to…
