Charity finance can be challenging to manage and complex to understand. At Bolster Community we engaged with Tony as our outsourced lead and haven’t looked back. Our board, CEO & staff team have absolute transparency access and confidence in our finance function and process. Having Tony & his staff on our team has been an absolute game changer for Bolster.
Tony Clarke provides financial services of the highest possible quality that include: guidance on financial policies and procedures; audit preparation; payroll; banking services; budgets for funding applications; and excellent monthly reports for projects and core. Support is always a phone call away and response times are excellent. Advice is always practical and reflects current sectoral and financial policies. All of this is available at fees that are very manageable for community and voluntary organizations of all sizes. Strongly recommended.
Tony Clarke has become a key relationship at HFNI enabling increased efficiencies in getting payments out quicker to our grantees and supporting the virtualisation of the entire payment cycle. Furthermore, the close relationship provided has enabled clearer and more strategic financial reporting helping the HFNI achieve its longer-term goals.
Tony and his team have revolutionised our finance function here at Relate NI to great effect. Improved planning, administration and reporting of the organisation’s finance operations have allowed us to not only manage our finances better over the last year, but also to respond quickly to relevant opportunities. All of this has been achieved while reducing the overall cost of finance operations — a real success for the organisation
“Care and support” are not two words you usually use to describe an Accountant but that is what Tony Clarke has in abundance.
Sustainability is always an issue for a community group like us and 5 years ago, just at a time when things were particularly difficult for us, Tony and his team came onboard. He set up new financial systems that respected our ethos but still ensured we continued to grow and thrive through the last few years, and his knowledge and skills were essential during the early stages of the pandemic. His expertise in everything from furlough to funding support ensured we have survived basically unscathed with Tony only at the end of the phone anytime.
Women in Business NI have worked with Tony for 5 years, he has been instrumental in ensuring our financial reporting works for us and is updated and improved as we grow.
Tony ensures that we keep all our financial systems and processes right up to date and has led on policy implementation and reviews. He is the consummate professional with amazing levels of efficiency.
Tony has provided finance training, support, and guidance to Start360’s Board and Senior Leadership Team for the last few years. He brings a fresh, no-nonsense, professional approach to his work. Tony’s skills include clarity, expedience, active listening, and incisive questioning. These he uses to get to the kernel of matters extremely quickly. Just as importantly, Tony communicates agreed plans of action coherently and concisely. He has a deep understanding of our sector and clearly loves finance. This shines through in all that he does.
Tony Clarke has been working with us [CDHN] for the last 5 years and during this time he has completely transformed our finances. With his guidance and the support of his team, our processes have been transformed and our staff have been engaged and trained to support these. Tony has a real knack for making finance easy to understand and he can pitch information at the right level depending on who he is engaging with. Not only is he excellent at ensuring robust financial procedures, he also ensures the team and Management Board on funding and other investment opportunities
Clarke & Co have provided accountancy and payroll services to Caring Breaks for 10 years. Tony is very approachable and his ability to translate complex financial information and make it easy for staff and trustees to understand is excellent
