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This exclusive nationwide role will provide the firm with direct access to all professional darts players on a one to one basis. We will be providing accounting and taxation advice to players in this highly prominent and fast growing sport. Adrian says “ We are absolutely thrilled to have been given the opportunity to present ourselves to the PDPA members at this most exciting time for darts. TV coverage is growing rapidly and all players need advice to help them maximise their position.

In the Photo.. (L-R) Alan Warriner-Little (CEO), Peter Manley (Chairman), Jonathan Martin (Business Manager) and Adrian Grainger

Fish & Chips ‘Fryday’ is One Year Old!

The Rainbow Breast Reconstruction Group Walk 2012

Hagley Golf & Country Club

We are delighted to be sponsoring the 10th Hole at our long established client Hagley Golf and Country Club.We are proud to have acted for this prestigious venue for 30 years and look forward to seeing them go from strength to strength

Rachel Fellows ACCA joins the Practice

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Rachel Fellows as our new Audit Manager.

Rachel qualified in 2001 and has worked in that capacity for 2 local firms as well as serving as a specialist tax manager for a firm of Accountants, working predominantly with Sporting and Entertainment personalities.

We wish her every success with the practice and are confident that she will help us grow in 2012 and beyond.

Rachel Clarke is made a Partner

We are absolutely delighted to announce that Rachel Clarke has been made a partner here at Griffiths & Pegg.
On behalf of the whole team at the firm, can we wish her great success in her new role!

Rachel joined Griffiths and Pegg in 1985 after attending King Edward VI College in Stourbridge. After initially qualifying as an AAT, she continued her training with the firm and became ACCA qualified in 1998.
Her main role with the firm has always been accounting, taxation and audit for small and medium sized companies. She will be extending this role in a partner capacity with the help of a new senior qualified ACCA assistant who starts on 1st February.

2011 Quiz

We would like to thank everyone who organised or attended the evening and here’s to another succesful event next year! The £7,500 raised on the night was fantastic and a tribute to all those who attended. We were a 60 team sell out with 6 weeks to go, which was simply unbelievable. Thank you!

Results

1st Crib Team 213 2nd George Green Dream Team 209 3rd Waldrons A Team 207 4th Belle Vue Brains 196 5th Chapmans Electrical 192

6th 6th Best of Stourbridge 191 6th Griffiths & Pegg 1 191 6th Griffiths & Pegg 2 191 9th Wilkes Tranter 189 10th Allied Irish Bank 188

We would also like to give credit to the other teams that joined in. You all did well and better luck next year! For more information on the quiz and all the pictures click here.

Phil M Jones Award for Sales Excellence – 2011

Adrian was delighted to accept an award for sales excellence at the June Summit Event, hosted by Phil M Jones.

Phil is an award winning sales trainer and leads a wide variety of business owners to new levels as part of his Reaching New Heights programme. Please visit www.philmjones.com for more details.

The House of Lords – 2011

Dawn and Adrian were very honoured to represent the firm again at the Annual Breast Cancer Campaign Fundraisers’ Evening at The House of Lords.

The event was organised to thank the many corporate and personal fundraisers that support this fantastic charity. Griffiths & Pegg are well known to the employees of the charity, and they asked us to thank you all for helping us to raise £50,000 over the last 10 years, for this charity and for LFBC

Adrian and Dawn

The Awards

Dawn, Adrian and Diana Moran

Rainbow Breast Cancer Reconstruction Group Walk

Adrian and family raised £700, thanks to our generous clients and contacts, by taking part in the annual sponsored walk on 26th April.

We are delighted to support this most worthy local charity

Jocelyn Arch

After 20+ year’s loyal service, Jocelyn is finally hanging up her payroll boots and looking forward to a long retirement!

We all wish her well and look forward to still seeing her regularly in the future. Her place has been taken by Linda Pitt, who is already enjoying being part of the team – Welcome Linda!

Fish & Chips Fryday

Our first monthly networking event, in association with Griffin & King, took place on 8th April. 40 attendees enjoyed a lunchtime feast and a prosperous networking opportunity at Hagley Golf and Country Club.

We look forward to seeing you at the next one ! Remember…..the 2nd Friday of the month is Fryday!

New Website Launched!

A big thank you to Aim Internet for the new look website.
We are looking forward to using it to keep everyone up-to-date with all the latest Griffiths & Pegg news and views.

2010 Quiz

We would like to thank everyone who organised or attended the evening and here’s to another succesful event next year! The £7,800 raised on the night (a record!) was fantastic and a tribute to all those who attended. We were a 60 team sell out with 8 weeks to go, which was simply unbelievable. Thank you!

Results

1st Belle Vue Brains 205 2nd George Green Dream Team 203 3rd Waldrons A Team 203 4th Unattached 199 5th Wilkes Tranter 196

6th Randy Marathon 195 7th Higgs and Sons 194 8th FBC Manby Bowdler 192 9th Bohemian Blues 192 10th Poppleton and Appleby 190

We would also like to give credit to the other teams that joined in. You all did well and better luck next year! For more information on the quiz and all the pictures click here.

World Cup Runners Up!

Adrian & Chris attended the ‘Leonard Curtis Table Football World Cup’ at the end of May. They fought off the challenge of 30 other teams, but were beaten 6:5 in the final – as they were presenting in Paraguay, it was a fine achievement!

Steve Bull is seen presenting the Runner’s Up Trophy to the team!

New LFBC Website

Ladies Fighting Breast Cancer have launched a brand new website. Please go to www.ladiesfightingbreastcancer.org.uk for full details.

CSCM IT Solutions

Griffiths & Pegg are pleased to announce CSCM IT solutions as their new IT Partner, as of April 2010.

CSCM were established in 1994 and are currently based in Oldbury providing total IT Support & Services to Businesses across the UK.

We have known CSCM for some time and both parties are looking forward to establishing a prosperous and long term Business relationship.

Go to www.cscm.co.uk for further information….

AJT Equipment USA Inc

Adrian was delighted to assist AJT Equipment again at their Savannah, Georgia offices at the beginning of March. This progressive company is going from strength to strength both here and across the pond. Constructive meetings were held with both the company and their advisers, enabling the USA Inc to be ideally placed to reap the rewards of the UK company’s bold and positive expansion in 2008.

In the photo: Adrian, William Westbrook (USA Inc), Joe Roberts (consultant),
Peter Gordon (UK Ltd) and Tao Harris (USA Inc)

Stourbridge V Chippenham

We were delighted to sponsor the Glassboys on 6th February and they even managed to make our day by winning a tight tussle 1:0….see www.stourbridgefc.com for details about the football team and their expanding Business Club, which we joined recently.

We presented the Man of the Match award to Jamie Oliver (honestly !), who gave a real “Pukka” performance ! We also gave Stourbridge manager Gary Hackett a memento to thank him for the brilliant work he is doing on a limited budget.

2009 Quiz

We are delighted to announce that we raised £6,500 at our Annual Breast Cancer Quiz on Monday 9^th November. This brings our grand total to £42,200 over the nine years. Many thanks again to everyone who supported the event.

Breast Cancer Campaign on YouTube

Please have a look at their new video presentation on YouTube via the following link http://www.youtube.com/user/bccampaign

LFBC on YouTube

Please have a look at their new video presentation on YouTube via the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_3uy4k5Lmw

WISE Exhibition

We exhibited at the Women in Sandwell Enterprises event at The Public in West Bromwich on 21st September. It was an excellent networking and business generation day for ourselves, the 40+ exhibiters and 500+ attendees.

Brain Tumour UK

We would like to thank our clients and business contacts for their kind donations of in excess of £1,000, to The Family Fun Day at Stourbridge Rugby Club on Saturday 1st August. The event has been organised to raise much needed funds for Brain Tumour UK, in memory of our client Neil Gordon, who died in 2007. Your brilliant support is greatly appreciated.

David Turberfield

We are sad to report the death of David Turberfield, a partner in Griffiths & Pegg in the late 1960s/ early 1970s, on 15th June 2009. He was one of only 8 partners in our 61 year history.

The House of Lords

Brian and Adrian were very honoured recently to attend the Annual Breast Cancer Campaign Fundraisers’ Evening at The House of Lords.

The event was organised to thank the many corporate and personal fundraisers that support this fantastic charity. Griffiths & Pegg were well known to the employees of the charity, and they asked us to thank you all for helping us to raise £35,700 over the last 8 years, for this charity and for LFBC.

Brian and Adrian

Diana Moran, Liz Monks (BCC), and Adrian

Adrian,Pamela Goldberg (BCC), and Brian

2008 Breast Cancer Quiz

“We are extremely grateful for the fantastic amount of support we have received from Griffiths and Pegg over the last eight years and would like to congratulate them on the level of success they have achieved with their annual quiz night. To date, they have managed to raise a grand total of £17,850 for Breast Cancer Campaign, all of which will help the charity get a step closer to achieving its mission of beating breast cancer by funding innovative world-class research”- Alison Walker, Breast Cancer Campaign’s Corporate Partnerships Executive

Dorrie Griffiths

We are very sad to report the passing of Dorrie Griffiths on 29th September 2008. She was the widow of our founder Fred Griffiths, and since his death 20 years ago, always remained a close friend of the practice.

AJT Equipment go Stateside

We are extremely pleased to announce that our client AJT Equipment Limited, via its holding company Gordon Holdings Limited, have purchased Roberts Testing Equipment and Roberts Calibration of Savannah, Georgia, USA. After lengthy negotiations and meetings in Savannah between AJT Equipment, ourselves, Roberts Testing Equipment and their professional advisers, a deal was struck that will enable AJT Equipment to expand their worldwide operations.

On behalf of all of us at Griffiths & Pegg, can we wish all concerned great success with this most exciting venture.

Welcome Steven

We are pleased to announce the arrival of Steven Barber to our growing ranks. Steven is a part qualified ACCA student and has joined us to widen his accounting and taxation experience. We look forward to his development within the practice and his continued exam success.

Bully Pops In

Following our recent success at the Annual Promise Dreams/ Lloyds TSB quiz, Steve Bull popped in to see us to present us with a signed shirt from Italia 1990, which we bought at the auction on the night. We are pleased to support this worthy charity, which raises money for terminally ill children to experience their dreams.