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Emma Rawson is Director of Public Policy at the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT), leading their tax technical and professional standards work. Her focus is on emerging tax policy, and she works closely with HMRC and the Treasury. She also strongly believes in sharing her knowledge about and love of tax with others. Whether that’s members of the accounting and tax profession through articles and talks, or the general public through media work and school visits.

Emma has a main focus on business and employment taxes, and frequently contributes articles on topical tax issues to leading tax and accountancy publications. She has presented talks and webinars around the country, as well as appearing on BBC Radio 5Live and BBC News to discuss tax issues and providing oral evidence to committees of both the House of Lords and House of Commons.

Emma is a member of the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) and Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW).

Did you know that 900 million people use LinkedIn, but only 1% actually create any content? Ashley Leads has been training people on LinkedIn since 2018, and he's helping them to get business from LinkedIn with his 30 years of sales experience.

Ashley is also able to simplify the complexities of social media to help people do more than just have a pretty profile.

With his motivational energy, you cannot help to be inspired and start loving LinkedIn.

He has also written his first book, 101 Ideas for LinkedIn - Content Made Easy, to help people do more on this incredible platform.

He’ll be talking at our next event about the real value of LinkedIn and why we need to have a profile and more importantly what we need to do. He’ll share some top tips so if you are a user of LinkedIn make sure that you have it on your phone because he has some great networking tricks to show you.

Kim Searle is a dynamic Mindset Coach dedicated to helping individuals achieve emotional calm and mental balance. Passionate about personal growth, she empowers clients to overcome stress and anxiety, unlocking their full potential. Since COVID-19, awareness around well-being has grown, yet many remain unsure of its impact. Kim demystifies this by highlighting how our inner self shapes success and resilience. She believes habits, thoughts, and emotions hold hidden keys to growth and fulfilment. Her mission: to help clients reconnect with their true selves.

After initially working in a range of bookkeeping and accounting roles, Lucy took up a role in a team administering the £17 billion pension fund of one of the Top 3 UK banks. Later moving on to a project working with an international partner to scope a new pensions administration system. This work drew on expertise in:

• Workflow Management
• Process mapping
• Systems design
• Test design and implementation
• Interpretation of scheme rules and legislation

After a career break, Lucy went into practice as a bookkeeper, growing and developing a successful bookkeeping practice that she then sold. Whilst in practice as a bookkeeper, Lucy developed and implemented policy and processes to ensure that the business was compliant with all legislative requirements, including Anti Money Laundering legislation.

Having successfully sold the business, Lucy worked for one of the supervisory bodies supporting members to meet their legislative obligations and satisfy professional standards. In this role Lucy provided training, worked to raise awareness, and provided advice to a wide variety of members – alongside overseeing the mandatory penalty regime and developing an independent appeals process.

Lucy provides professional advice focusing on the following areas:
AML
Policy Development
Training
Workflow Analysis
Business Processes

Natasha is a passionate bookkeeper with a deep love for helping others. Her journey in this field began when started a modern apprenticeship right back in 1997. Since then, she's been on a mission to learn, evolve and to help others. She believes in supporting others and these principles guide every aspect of her work. She's a firm advocate for always helping others and strives to make a positive impact in the bookkeeping community and beyond.

Samantha formed SJCM Accountancy in 2019 having spent over 13 years employed in practice.

As an AAT licensed accountant, she is now focusing on helping small business owners have a better understanding of their numbers, be ahead of compliance and perform at their best.

Samantha uses technology as much of that as the next ‘modern’ accountant, but also aims to bring back the personal touch to accountancy and really show her clients that she cares, not just about their finances but about them as people.