Accountants and business advisors Beever and Struthers expand not-for-profit portfolio with Origin Housing Group win

Accountants and business advisors Beever and Struthers have been appointed by Origin Housing Group to provide internal audit work.

Origin Housing provides essential affordable housing, and care and support services in north London and Hertfordshire, with the aim of improving communities and the lives of its customers. Its recent schemes include 164 one and two-bed affordable apartments for key workers as part of Vicarage Road, the home of Watford FC.

Origin – headed by chief executive Karen Wilson and chairman Colin Sherriff – appointed Beever and Struthers following a competitive tender to ensure that its audit meets housing association best practice and adds value to the organisation.

This is the latest client win for the specialist not-for-profit division at Beever and Struthers headed by partner Maria Hallows.

Nick Stevens, London office partner of Beever and Struthers, said: “We have more than 100 housing associations/clients and I’m confident that Origin will benefit from the vast experience of the Beever and Struthers’ not-for-profit team.”

Chris Trebilcock, Director of Finance & ICS of Origin said, “The maintenance of strong internal controls is vital to Origin and thus we are delighted to have appointed Beever and Struthers and look forward with confidence to receiving the input of Nick Stevens and his team.”

For more information please visit www.beeverstruthers.co.uk or call 0161 832 4901.

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For further information please contact – Anna Asamoah, account executive, SKV Communications on 0161 838 7770 or e-mail anna.asamoah@skvcommunications.co.uk

Notes to editors:

Beever and Struthers was founded in 1898.  The firm has a strong reputation built on a long-established tradition of providing high quality accountancy services to the business community.

The firm is now ranked amongst the top independent accountancy practices and has 26 partners and over 160 employees spanning three offices in Manchester, Blackburn and London.

The practice has a significant not for profit, charity and social housing strength and ranks in the top five providers of audit and assurance services to the social housing sector in the UK.

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