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North East Young Chartered Accountants' Group

Supporting young chartered accountants

NCASS Annual Ball 2019

The NCASS Annual Ball is back, book now to avoid disappointment!

Our annual student dinner celebrating our successes in the region. Join us for a welcome drink, dinner and entertainment on what promises to be an amazing evening!

Event information

After the successes of last year’s dinner, attracting nearly 300 trainees and newly qualified members, we have chosen to remain at the Biscuit Factory for another year.

On arrival you will be handed a welcome drink and given a chance to mingle before being invited down to take your seats for a three-course dinner.

After dinner entertainment will be provided, including a DJ who will allow you to dance the night away into the early hours!

Each year during the dinner, raffle tickets are sold for prizes donated by a number of organisations. This year we will be supporting our chosen charity, The People’s Kitchen. Raffle tickets can be purchased with either cash or card (for the first time!) and will be priced at £5 per strip of tickets.

As in previous years, the dinner is open to students and newly-qualified members, along with your firm’s selected representatives.

Dress code: Black tie and ball gowns

Programme

18:45 – Guest arrival and welcome drinks

19:30 – Take seats for dinner

00:30 – Bar closes

01:00 – Event ends

Menu

Please note that unless stated, menu items are not gluten free or vegan, but both options are available for all courses, guests should note all dietary requirements and we will fulfil where possible.

Starters

Leek & potato soup & crusty roll (V)

Parma Ham, rocket & parmesan salad

Mains

Braised beef chuck, creamed potato, spring vegetables & smoked bacon gravy

Grilled rosemary polenta cake, roasted peppers, caramelised shallots & thyme infused oil (V)

Desserts

Dark chocolate mousse, honeycomb & confit orange

Cost
Rate Cost
Price £40.00 + VAT
Booking deadline

The deadline for all ticket purchases and menu choices is Friday 22 February 2019.

Other important information

How your data will be used
Please note, by booking onto this event your Personal Data will be shared with a third party event organiser and the chosen venue. Your data will be shared securely and only used for the purposes of this event. You may be contacted by the event organiser, the committee or the venue prior to the event. For more information about our data protection policy please go to icaew.com/dataprotection.

Photographs
Photographs will be taken on the night .These images will be used by the NCASS committee to share news about their event, and to publicise future events. Images may be used in press releases, social media including Facebook Pages. If you would prefer not to be photographed, please contact Richard Tiffany (E: [email protected]).

If you would like to see your images, or would like us to delete them, please email Richard Tiffany at any time.

Taxis
To avoid waiting outside after the event has ended, the pre-booking of taxis is highly recommended given that the venue is slightly out of the city centre.

Charity

During the evening we will be supporting The People’s Kitchen which provides a safety-net and a vital lifeline of friendship, food and clothing for the most disadvantaged in our society, the homeless and the vulnerable.

Our vision is to play a unique role in the City’s efforts to meet the needs of homeless and vulnerable people.

We have been supporting those who need our help in Newcastle for three decades.

Established thanks to one woman’s determination, our organisation has grown enormously from its humble beginnings under the railway arches at Dean Street, but our philosophy remains the same. We continue to offer clothes, food, warm surroundings, and a warm welcome to anyone that needs our help.

Find out more at peopleskitchen.co.uk

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NEYCAG: Women in Finance

Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day.

To celebrate International Women’s day NEYCAG will be hosting an event with inspirational speakers to talk about their careers in the profession and how they have used the ACA to make the most of the opportunities available to them.

Event information

We will also hear from the IoD North East Chair on building your confidence in the work place.

Cost
Rate Cost
ICAEW Member No Charge
Student No Charge

Please note: This event is open to younger members up to 10 year qualified and students.

Programme
Time Session
18:00 Networking and buffet
18:30 Welcome and CABA update
18:40 Dr Yvonne Gale, NEL Fund Managers – How the ACA has helped her career to date
18:55 Dr Joanna Berry, Durham University – confidence building
19:10 Speaker TBC
19:20 Q&A
19:30 Close
Speakers

Yvonne Gale
NEL Fund Managers are an economic development impact investor committed to growing the North East economy by investing in growing local small businesses.
Yvonne is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and an Associate Member of the Institute of Economic Development. She holds a DBA, MBA, IOD Diploma in Company Direction and is an FCA approved person. Dr Gale’s area of research is investment decision making. She is also a member of the Advisory and Decision Committee for the UAE Ministry of Finance-backed, Mohammed bin Rashid AED 2 billion Innovation Fund.
Prior to joining NEL, she qualified as a Chartered Accountant with BDO Binder Hamlyn and has held senior management positions in several high growth businesses. She brings a wealth of experience of working with growing businesses.

Joanna Berry
Joanna was born and brought up in Hartlepool, NorthEast England. Her academic experience runs from her Oxford University law degree (1985) to her MBA and PhD from Newcastle University. Her MBA focused on the impact of broadband connectivity on the TV industry, and her PhD took this one step further, using her creation and management of a London-based record label as a lens through which to assess the impact of digital technologies on the music industry’s business models and value chains.
Joanna is Regional Chair for the Institute of Directors and Board member of the Social Acumen Community Trust, where she focuses on community businesses and social enterprise. She is Board member for the NorthEast LEP “ScaleUp NorthEast” programme, where she is advising companies across the NorthEast LEP geography and in most industrial sectors, to help them scale and succeed.
Her professional experience encompasses law (mostly company and contract, practiced in South Africa from 1985 to 1987) but also science, creativity and technology. Joanna has undertaken a variety of international business development roles in marketing, advertising and publishing. Roles include Manager of Europe and East Asia for the World Economic Forum and international PR manager for Mobil 1 Motorsport with McLaren.
Joanna has founded, bought and run a variety of digital and creative companies, and continues her personal and practical involvement with new venture start-ups. Her current research and teaching interests encompass innovation, entrepreneurship, big data, ageing and health and the digital/creative industries. She places a particular emphasis on supporting the ‘women in STEM’ agenda in a variety of ways. She works closely with the Assistant Dean of External Relations and undertakes a wide variety of public and media activities, writing regular columns for NorthEast business paper The Journal and presenting a variety of insight activities with regionally-based businesses including Kromek, Ford Aerospace, Aston Martin, Barbour and intu MetroCentre.

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Teesside Society 2017 Annual Dinner at Wynyard Hall

Teesside Chairs Emma and Angela - Northern Society of Chartered AccountantsEmma Read and Angela Foster, Co-Chairs of the Teesside Society of Chartered Accountants (TSCA), invite you and your clients, colleagues and friends to our Annual Dinner on Friday 24 November 2017 at Wynyard Hall from 18:45 until late.

Teesside Dinner - Northern Society of Chartered AccountantsLook forward to a special evening this November – you don’t have to be a Chartered Accountant to enjoy the evening with us – our dinner is open to all.

We would love for members to bring their colleagues, clients and guests to enjoy a memorable evening and a superb networking opportunity.

Our principal guest speaker this year will be Lembit Opik.

During the course of the evening we will hold a raffle to raise funds for MFC Foundation which has been kindly match funded by Barclays Business.

Teesside 2017 - Northern Society of Chartered AccountantsCost

Tickets are £41.67 + VAT

Online booking closes on Friday 10 November.

Speaker – Lembit Opik

Lembit-OpikBangor

Born in 1965 in Bangor, Northern Ireland to Estonian parents, Lembit Öpik is one of the most characterful and recognised politicians of his generation.

Newcastle upon Tyne

In 1988, after some dramatic years in student politics, Lembit joined American multi-national giant Procter & Gamble, where he worked in the advertising department on a number of household brands including Ariel and Fairy Liquid, rising to the role of Global Human Resources Training & Development Manager.

At the same time he pursued a parallel career in politics as a Liberal Democrat councillor in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Drinks-at-Teesside-Dinner - Northern Society of Chartered AccountantsMontgomeryshire

In 1997, Lembit was elected to Parliament as the MP for Montgomeryshire in Wales. Very quickly he began to be recognised as one of the more energetic and entertaining MPs in the country, with regular appearances on everything from Question Time to Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, and most of the major entertainment shows in between.

‘The show had to go on’

In 2010, Lembit lost his seat in one of the most surprising results of the General Election. Despite this blow, 5 hours later he kept his promise to appear on the election special edition of Have I Got News for You in what was regarded as one of the strongest performances for any politician on the show. As Lembit said ‘I lost my seat, not my resolve. The show had to go on.’

TSCA - Northern Society of Chartered AccountantsSince then, contrary to expectations, Lembit has continued to increase his profile and in 2010 appeared on the blockbusting reality show I’m a Celebrity – get me out of here!

In August 2016 Lembit performed in the comedy Rocking Your Vote in which he played himself. The play was on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

In November 2017 Lembit will be able to add entertaining to his many feats! Don’t miss it!

In support of MFC Foundation


MFC Foundation works across Teesside, delivering sport, health, education and inclusion projects that raise aspirations and change lives amongst the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in local communities.

MFC-Foundation-logoMFC Foundation was set up by Steve Gibson in 1996 as the independent charitable arm of Middlesbrough FC. Though it uses the official ‘Boro’ brand to engage with various members of the community, MFC Foundation exists as a separate entity from the football club.

‘Our mission is simple, by harnessing the passion and power of the Football Club brand, we work to raise aspirations and improve the life chances of young people and adults across Teesside.

We work in some of the most disadvantaged areas of Teesside, engaging with those who are hard to reach through the delivery of inspiring sport, education, health and inclusion projects.’

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Spirited Networking – professional networking event with spirit

Spirited Networking – connecting communities across the professions and Gin Festival evening.

Spirited Networking - Northern Society of Chartered Accountants ICAEWA great way to network with solicitors, bankers, accountants, surveyors, architects, insurance & independent financial advisers and other business professionals.

We introduce Spirited Networking as a new way of meeting colleagues and taking part in a social gathering with a festival feel.

Gin tasting and sampling from the leading gins across the region. Festival food and live music. Masterclass sessions to learn the secrets of the distillers, perfect serves and how to make classic cocktails.

Professional networking in an unique environment – connecting communities across the professions.
Spirited-Networking-2-Northern Society of Chartered Accountants ICAEWCost

Ticket price £20 (inc VAT) to include a drink on arrival and food voucher.

How to book

You can book your tickets online via the dedicated Spirited Networking website spiritednetworking.co.uk

Spirited-Networking-5-Northern Society of Chartered Accountants ICAEWOn Arrival

We will take your tickets and give you a glass (either hi-ball or balloon, and a drinks guide), which explains which gins and other drinks are available at the event. You will also get your meal ticket. And you are off….

There will be a reception drink for you on arrival. One of our premium gin partners will offer a gin and tonic or a gin cocktail just to get you started.

At Spirited Networking there will be a wide range of sampling from distillers who have come to showcase their own drinks, or brands who represent gins from across the world.

They will provide you with small samples, and tasting of the gins they have brought, and will inform you about the gins.

Many of the gins will be offered ‘neat’ so you can taste them at full strength, and then you can add mixers and garnishes to taste them as a perfect serve. These samples are small and not full measures and are offered to give you a ‘taste’ or ‘sample’ of the full products.

A full range of Fever Tree tonics are available throughout the event.

Spirited-Networking-3-Northern Society of Chartered Accountants ICAEWFood and Drink

You will be given a meal ticket on arrival and we have a fantastic street food area at the festival which will be serving meals throughout the event.

They will offer you some of the finest Indian Street food with options, including a vegetarian option and also a gluten free/allergy free offering to cater for all requirements.

Just use your meal ticket to get your food which is included in the price of your entry.

Drinks vouchers are available for £5 each and after you have sampled the great gins we have to offer, we have a dedicated gin bar with over 80 additional gins and spirits to try.

If you are not a huge fan of gin, do not worry as we also serve beers, lagers, cider, prosecco, wine and other cocktails, so there is a spirit for everyone.

Spirited-Networking-4-Northern Society of Chartered Accountants ICAEWEntertainment and Networking

Our event is designed to give you a great informal networking opportunity, but also provide some live entertainment and an experience you will remember.

At Spirited Networking we will have live music with 2 sessions from one of the North East’s leading live entertainers. We will also be running informative, entertaining and engaging sessions from some of our gin partners, with cocktail making, using garnishes and perfect serves with all sessions being explained by real experts.

And finally there will be the chance to relax and meet your peers in a great setting.

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TSCA Netwalking

Join TSCA for a 5 mile ‘walk whilst you talk’ in our first Netwalking event.

Netwalking - NorthernHopefully the late British Summer will be kind to us, as we enjoy the views from the Osmotherly/Swainby circular walk, whilst conserving enough energy to relax and network with fellow ICAEW members, and let’s not forget the option of a cold beverage after we finish the route.

Join TSCA members, friends and family for a social walk followed by some refreshments.

Walkers should wear/bring appropriate clothing (cool / warm / waterproof) it is British summertime so anything could happen.

We also intend, for those walkers who are interested, to have a drink together after the walk at the Black Horse, Swainby. If you would like to stay on for some food please book a table directly with the Black Horse itself on +44 (0) 1642 700 436 and indicate when you are booking that you are with the accountants walking group.

Registration is from 16:00 for the walk to start at 16:15.

Cost

The event is free to attend but pre-booking is requried to secure your place.

Bookings close 12 September 2017
Event enquiries
Contact: Jerome Bury

    01642 660 300
    [email protected]

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Northern Society Business and Awards Dinner with Steph McGovern

Northern Society Business and Awards Dinner ICAEWNorthern Society of Chartered Accountants Business and Awards Dinner will be on Friday 13 October 2017.

Northern Society of Chartered AccountantsJoin Karen Muir, President of Northern Society of Chartered Accountants, fellow Northern Society members and their guests for an inspiring talk by our keynote speaker Steph McGovern.

Our Business and Awards Dinner will be held on Friday 13 October 2017 in the Banqueting Hall, Civic Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne from 6.45pm until late to allow for informal networking after the meal.

Our principal guest speakers this year will be BBC Business and BBC Breakfast journalist Steph McGovern and ICAEW President Nick Parker.

During the course of the evening we will raise funds in support of the Butterwick Hospice (registered charity number 1044816). Butterwick.org.uk

Why you should attend

Northern Society of Chartered Accountants

  • meet fellow ICAEW members, their guests and ICAEW staff – it’s a great chance to network
  • meet ACA students and celebrate their exam successes and achievements
  • Order of Merit, Presidents Awards and ICAEW BASE Mentor of the year will be announced
  • we will raise funds in support of The Butterwick Hospice. All monies raised will be match funded by Barclays Business

Recognition awards will be presented to:

Northern Society of Chartered Accountants

Further information on all of the Northern Society Awards can be found at norsca.co.uk/awards.

 

Dress Code: Black Tie/Posh frocks

Follow us on Twitter for more about the dinner @NorSCADinner twitter.com/norscadinner

 
Special message for sole practitioners and members in business:

Again we will be hosting tables exclusively for Members in Practice and Members in Business allowing the opportunity to be seated with fellow chartered accountants.

If you think that this would be applicable to you then please contact Joanne Lucking [email protected] to discuss this further.

Programme
Time Planned event
18:45 Drinks reception
19:30 Guests take their seats
Dinner
Awards Ceremony
Charity balloon pop
Keynote speaker
Followed by networking
01:30 Carriages

Speakers Nick Parker and Steph McGovern

nick-parker-northern-society-of-chartered-accountants-icaewNick Parker, ICAEW President

We are delighted to announce that we will be joined by Nick Parker, ICAEW President who will speak at the dinner.

Nick Parker is President of ICAEW, and he is a tax partner with RSM UK. He has had a wide portfolio of clients including professional partnerships and UK subsidiaries of overseas parent companies, but he has mainly specialised in the SME sector.

During his time on Council he has chaired a variety of committees including the Members Board, the Committee of Council and the Audit Committee. He was Chairman of Council for three years.

During his career, Nick has lived in Hampshire and has worked in London, Edinburgh, Southampton and Basingstoke. He is married with two grown up sons, one who is an equine surgeon and the other who is an equine yard manager.

In his spare time he likes to undertake adventures – he trekked to the base camp of Everest, trekked in Patagonia, sailed from Sydney to Cape Town across the Southern Ocean as part of the Global Challenge Yacht race and most recently attempted to climb Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest mountain in the Western hemisphere. He also held a private pilot’s licence which has lapsed.

steph-mcgovern-keynote-speaker-at-northern-society-of-chartered-accountants-icaewGuest speaker Steph McGovern

We are delighted to announce that our guest speaker this year will be BBC Breakfast’s business journalist Steph McGovern.

For over a decade Steph McGovern has reported on business and finance from around the world; from international summits to small business success stories. She is an established part of the BBC Breakfast team, covering business developments daily, and also regularly taking to the sofa as main co-host.

During the financial crash Steph was the lead producer of financial news, working with then Business Editor Robert Peston at the forefront of the award-winning coverage of the credit crunch and banking crisis. She soon began broadcasting herself, and Steph has presented on 5Live, Radio 4 and on the Chris Evans show on Radio 2.

Steph’s Breakfast duties include meeting first-hand those on Britain’s business frontline. Speaking to factory workers and FTSE 100 CEOs, Steph’s mission is to uncover and explain what’s going on in the real economy.

Taking business away from news coverage Steph launched her own children’s TV show looking for the next generation of entrepreneurs, Pocket Money Pitch on CBBC. She is also the co-host of a new BBC One prime time show Shop Well For Less.

Off-screen Steph is also involved in BBC community projects such as BBC Outreach and BBC School Report. She is also a mentor for young people in her native Teesside and regularly runs workshops for schoolchildren around the North East. A former champion Irish dancer and still keeps her foot in, often attending international competitions, where she helps to coach dancers

Ticket cost and information
Ticket category Cost
Early-bird price per person (ends 31 August 2017) £65 inc VAT
Standard price per person £75 inc VAT
ICAEW members under the age of 35 £45 inc VAT
ICAEW students £45 inc VAT
Retired ICAEW members £45 inc VAT
Sole Practitioners and Business Members £55 inc VAT

If you are an ICAEW member under the age of 35 or a retired member or either a Sole Practitioner or Business Member please call the events booking team to receive the discounted prices.

Sponsorship opportunities

Sponsorship opportunities are available for your organisation. For further information and to discuss sponsorship opportunities please contact Joanne Lucking [email protected] 0191 300 0532.


In support of Butterwick Hospice Care

During the course of the evening we will raise funds for the Butterwick Hospices.

Butterwick Hospice Care aims to improve the quality of life for those who have a progressive life limiting illness and those close to them and to offer positive support for every challenge they may encounter during their illness and to see death as part of life’s journey.

Butterwick Hospices offer better quality of life through pain and symptom control, soothing and beneficial therapies, helpful family support and ongoing bereavement counselling.

Butterwick Hospice in Stockton has been caring for the communities in the Borough of Stockton on Tees for over 30 years. The Hospice offers a wide range of supportive day services for people suffering life limiting illnesses and offers care and support to patients families. Butterwick Hospice, Stockton also offers 10 In-patient beds. The Hospice expertise is freely available to those living in Stockton, Billingham, Yarm, Norton and Eaglescliffe and surrounding villages.

Butterwick Hospice at Bishop Auckland provides many services to communities around the Durham Dales and Sedgefield areas including day services, palliative home care, outreach day hospices and services to people suffering from progressive neurological illnesses.

Butterwick House Childrens Hospice offers a very warm welcome to babies, children, teenagers, young adults and their families. Most of the children and young people who come to Butterwick House need round the clock care – 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  Some children and young adults come for the day, many come for a short break either by themselves or with their family

Registered Charity: Number 1044816. You can read more about their work at butterwick.org.uk

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Women in Finance

Three times as many female members take career breaks compared to males. This can result in disengagement with the profession and loss of talent from the sector. Gender diversity in the workplace is fundamental to business success. Research has shown that companies with more women in leadership positions are more profitable and more efficient.

On Thursday 17 November, the North East Young Chartered Accountants Group (NEYCAG), in partnership with Nigel Wright and PwC, are hosting a Women in Finance Seminar.

The event aims to provide an “off the record” and informal opportunity for female members of the North East Young Chartered Accountants Group (NEYCAG) to hear about the experiences of senior female finance professionals.

Following brief introductions from the speakers, there will be a talk show style discussion addressing a range of topics.

Programme

18:30 – Registration opens and refreshments will be served

19:00 – Women in Finance Forum

20:00 – Networking

21:30 Close

Costs

Women (age 35 and under) – Free

Speakers

Our speakers will include:

Yvonne Gale – Chief Executive, NEL Fund Managers

Jeanette Brown – Partner, Dodd & Co, Chartered Accountants

Lynne Hodgson – Finance Director, North East Ambulance Service

Alison Lander – Coutts & Co.

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Teesside Society 2016 Annual Dinner with HAYS Accountancy and Finance

Emma Read and Angela Foster, Co-chairs of the TSCA, invite you and your clients, colleagues and friends to our Annual Dinner on Friday 11 November 2016 at Wynyard Hall from 18:45 until late.

Look forward to a special evening this November – you don’t have to be a chartered accountant to enjoy the evening with us – our dinner is open to all. We would also love it if members bring their colleagues, clients and guests as well as their students and trainees to enjoy a memorable evening and a superb networking opportunity.

Our principal guest speaker this year will be John Parrott.

During the course of the evening we will hold a raffle to raise funds for our chosen charity.

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Northern Society Business and Awards Dinner with John Lloyd

Northern Society of Chartered Accountants

The Northern Society of Chartered Accountants Business and Awards Dinner will be on Friday 14 October 2016.

Northern Society of Chartered Accountants

David Arthur, President of Northern Society of Chartered Accountants invites you to join us at our Business and Awards Dinner

Join David Arthur, President of Northern Society of Chartered Accountants, fellow Northern Society members and their guests for an inspiring talk by our keynote speaker John Lloyd.

Our Business and Awards Dinner will be held on Friday 14 October 2016 in the Banqueting Hall, Civic Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne from 6.45pm until late to allow for informal networking after the meal.

Our principal guest speakers this year will be author and producer John Lloyd CBE and ICAEW President Hilary Lindsay.

During the course of the evening we will raise funds in support of The Percy Hedley Foundation.

Why you should attend

Northern Society of Chartered Accountants

  • meet fellow ICAEW members, their guests and ICAEW staff – it’s a great chance to network
  • meet ACA students and celebrate their exam successes and achievements
  • Order of Merit, Presidents Awards and ICAEW BASE Mentor of the year will be announced
  • we will raise funds in support of The Percy Hedley Foundation. All monies raised will be match funded by Barclays Business

Recognition awards will be presented to:

Northern Society of Chartered Accountants

Further information on all of the Northern Society Awards can be found at norsca.co.uk/awards.

 

Dress Code: Black Tie/Posh frocks

Follow us on Twitter for more about the dinner @NorSCADinner twitter.com/norscadinner

Special message for sole practitioners and members in business:

Again we will be hosting tables exclusively for Members in Practice and Members in Business allowing the opportunity to be seated with fellow chartered accountants.

If you think that this would be applicable to you then please contact Joanne Lucking [email protected] to discuss this further.

Programme
Time Planned event
18:45 Drinks reception
19:30 Guests take their seats
Dinner
Awards Ceremony
Charity balloon pop
Keynote speaker
Followed by networking
01:30 Carriages

Speakers Hilary Lindsay and John Lloyd

Hilary Lindsay, ICAEW President

We are delighted to announce that we will be joined by Hilary Lindsay, ICAEW President who will speak at the dinner.

ICAEW President Hilary Lindsay to speak at Northern Society of Chartered Accountants Business and Awards Dinner

ICAEW President Hilary Lindsay to speak at Northern Society of Chartered Accountants Business and Awards Dinner

Hilary is an award-winning lecturer on finance and managment for the Open University Business School.

She is passionate about personal development and recently completed doctoral research into the roles of continuing professional development and lifelong learning in the accountancy profession.

She has been a trustee at CABA, the Chartered Accountants’ Benevolent Association, for 7 years, is a board member at Axiom Housing Association, and has run several marathans for charity.

Guest speaker John Lloyd

We are delighted to announce that our guest speaker this year will be TV comedy writer and producer, John Lloyd CBE.

Northern Society of Chartered Accountants

TV comedy writer John Lloyd CBE to speak at Northern Society of Chartered Accountants Business and Awards Dinner

John is an English television producer and writer best known for his work on such comedy television programmes as Not the Nine O’Clock News, Spitting Image, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Blackadder and QI.

He is currently the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Museum of Curiosity, a spin-off of QI.

He worked as a radio producer at the BBC between 1974 and 1978 and created The News Quiz, The News Huddlines, To The Manor Born (with Peter Spence) and Quote… Unquote (with Nigel Rees). He wrote Hordes of the Things (as J. H. W. Lloyd) with Andrew Marshall, co-authored two episodes of Doctor Snuggles with Douglas Adams, and went on to co-write the fifth and sixth episodes of the first radio series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with Adams (Douglas Adams wrote all the previous and subsequent episodes solo, as well as the television adaptation – though Lloyd was involved in the TV series as associate producer). He also produced The Burkiss Way.

John then worked as a TV producer at both the BBC and ITV 1979–1989, where he created Not the Nine O’Clock News (with Sean Hardie) and Spitting Image (with Peter Fluck and Roger Law). He also produced all four Blackadder series.

He was originally to have been the host of BBC topical news quiz Have I Got News For You, with the programme initially intended to be called John Lloyd’s Newsround. A pilot episode of the show was recorded under this name in mid-1990, with John hosting alongside team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton. He subsequently decided to pull out of hosting the programme full-time and the pilot episode was never broadcast. John was replaced by Angus Deayton as host and the show was renamed Have I Got News for You in time for its debut on BBC2 later that year.

John was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting.

Ticket cost and information
Ticket category Cost
Early bird price per person (ends 31 August 2016) £65 inc VAT
Standard price per person £75 inc VAT
ICAEW members under the age of 35 £45 inc VAT
ICAEW students £45 inc VAT
Retired ICAEW members £45 inc VAT
Sole Practitioners and Business Members £55 inc VAT

If you are an ICAEW member under the age of 35 or either a Sole Practitioner or Business Member please call the events booking team to receive the discounted prices.

Sponsorship opportunities

Sponsorship opportunities are available for your organisation. For further information and to discuss sponsorship opportunities please contact Joanne Lucking [email protected] 0191 300 0532.


In support of The Percy Hedley Foundation

Percy Hedley logoDuring the course of the evening we will raise funds for The Percy Hedley Foundation

The Percy Hedley Foundation provides a wide range of high quality, specialist and personalised care and education support to disabled people and their families. It meets the needs of disabled people with cerebral palsy, communication impairments, sensory impairments and complex learning, social care and therapeutic needs.

The Foundation offers a wide range of services to children, young people and adults. Our education services include Hedley’s Percy Hedley School, Hedley’s Northern Counties School, Hedley’s College and residential and respite care for all ages.

Adult services include residential services and an ever increasing variety of day care services.

We also run a hugely successful Employability Project which has just received additional funding from the Big Lottery to continue its work with employers over the next three years.

The Sports Academy offers a wide range of disability sports catering for all ages and its facilities are used not only by many local disabled groups but also for regional and national events.

To make all of this happen we have a dedicated team of fundraisers, who work all year round to raise money that goes directly to provide these vital services, specialist equipment and facilities in the North East that simply wouldn’t exist without your continued support.

Registered Charity: Number 515943. You can read more about their work at percyhedley.org.uk

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NEYCAG Pre-drinks reception at Northern Society Business & Awards Dinner

Northern Society of Chartered AccountantsJoin us for our NEYCAG drinks reception at the Northern Society of Chartered Accountants Business and Awards Dinner.

Take the opportunity to network with other NEYCAG members attending the NorSCA Dinner.

We are delighted that Nigel Wright will be supporting us in hosting a pre-drinks reception at the NorSCA Dinner.

For catering purposes, please book your place for the NEYCAG pre-drinks reception in advance following the booking button below.

Dinner tickets

Need to book your dinner tickets to attend also? You can do that too!

For full details of the Northern Society Business and Awards Dinner please see norsca.co.uk/dinner

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