Flexible and scalable accounting services for the creative industry, from Vanilla Accounting

As accountants for the creative industry, our team of Chartered Accountants deliver a range of comprehensive financial and accountancy services tailored to the needs of your business.

Here’s how we can help:

  • Outsourced accountants for creative agencies: let our team of experts take care of your bookkeeping and accountancy services. With 30 years combined industry experience, we can assist you with all aspects of accounting, planning, and financial management.
  • Business development and growth consulting: increase your market share and achieve your growth ambitions with our bespoke consultancy services, helping you make the best use of your resources and market position to maximise value.
  • Personalised tax advice: we offer dependable tax planning and financial advice for creative business owners, directors, artists, and independent creatives, helping ensure compliance while maximising your profitability.
  • Management accounting: our insightful management accounting service helps drive informed and effective strategic decisions.
  • Payroll: we can take on your agency payroll admin for you, ensuring accurate and timely payments for your employees, and keeping on top of your reporting and tax liabilities with HMRC.

Why work with Vanilla Accounting?

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Businesses in the creative industry face various unique challenges, including expense tracking and income irregularity. To be able to support you, it’s important that your accounting partner understands your industry and tailors their services to support your success. As specialist accountants for the creative industries, at Vanilla we support our customers to strengthen their cash flow management, project profitability, and long-term business growth.

Your financial management and reporting obligations are in safe hands with our team of experienced Chartered Accountants, allowing you to focus on your art while ensuring the sustainability of your business.

Benefits of working with us:

  • Transparent prices– our fees are fixed over a 12-month period to give you budget predictability and transparency.
  • Unlimited meetings and calls– our fees include unlimited meetings and calls with your accountant by phone, Zoom, Teams, or face-to-face, giving you a choice of how to communicate with us.
  • Adaptable hybrid accountancy service– our approach to accounting is tailored to the needs of your business and industry, integrating face-to-face and phone-based accounting with cutting-edge cloud accounting for maximum flexibility and effectiveness.
  • Tax assessment and evaluation– take advantage of our tax efficiency analysis to improve your financial performance and optimise your tax liabilities.
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How Our Business Growth Consultants Can Eradicate Your Organisation’s Pain Points

Our business growth consultants play a crucial role in eradicating SMEs’ common pain points by providing valuable insights, strategies, and expertise that can help them to thrive, even in challenging economic circumstances.

Support Your Business To Grow

Business growth consultants are designed to help SMEs to achieve sustainable growth. Our experienced consultants will:

  Analyse the current state of your business using a detailed gap analysis.

  Identify areas for improvement to enhance your business’s efficiency and productivity.

  Develop tailored growth strategies that are ambitious yet achievable.


By leveraging the expertise of our business growth consultants, your SME can overcome some of the most common obstacles, optimise its operations, and unlock growth potential.

Find out more

Get in touch with Vanilla Accounting today to find out more about our affordably priced outsourced accounting, advisory services, and bookkeeping services for SME businesses and professionals in the creative industry. With an in-depth understanding of the needs and challenges faced by the creative sector, we can help you optimise your expenditure and tax liabilities, and make growth decisions based on sound financial data.

Call us today to find out more on 0115 647 4506, or click here to send us a message.

We Are Vanilla Accounting

Professionals who work wonders

What do you call someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing? You are right, an accountant. Well, it’s an old joke and perhaps, it isn’t entirely untrue. Accountants have a reputation for being boring and cynical. We want to change this perception.

We are Chartered Accountants who create value. Our clients have learnt that we are not emotionless automatons who crunch numbers and talk about amortisation, budgeting and cash flows.

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Phill Edwards
Phill Edwards
Managing Director

Phil Edwards, a Chartered Accountant, founded Vanilla Accounting in 2010.

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Helen Geohegan
Accounts Assistant

Helen Geohegan is a key member of the Vanilla Accounting team and has recently returned to work after raising a family.

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Caroline Lewis has worked in the finance sector for over four years, during which time she has focused on bookkeeping and payroll.

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Kelly Davies
Client Manager

Kelly Davies has a passion for bookkeeping and has become an AAT-qualified bookkeeper.

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Rachel Wade
Senior Client Manager

Her commitment to attention to detail, allows her to establish strong client relationships.

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Jenna Wood
Accounts Assistant

Jenna Wood brings a wealth of customer service experience to the organisation and is focused on pursuing her AAT qualification. 

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Rachael Cobb ACA
Client Services Director

Qualified to ACA and ATT standards, Rachael Cobb commenced her career as a school leaver at a local firm of accountants. 

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Beth Edwards
Office Manager

With an interesting and varied career history that spans many roles, Beth Edwards leverages her extensive skillset and experience as the Office Manager at Vanilla Accounting. Dedicated to creating a positive and enjoyable workplace environment for staff and clients.

Phill Edwards
Phill Edwards
Managing Director

Phil Edwards, a Chartered Accountant, founded Vanilla Accounting in 2010.

Helen Geohegan
Helen Geohegan
Accounts Assistant

Helen Geogeghan is a key member of the Vanilla Accounting team and has recently returned to work after raising a family.

Caroline Lewis
Caroline Lewis
Bookkeeper

Caroline Lewis has worked in the finance sector for over four years, during which time she has focused on bookkeeping and payroll.

Kelly Davies
Kelly Davies
Client Manager

Kelly Davies has a passion for bookkeeping and has become an AAT-qualified bookkeeper.

Rachel Wade
Rachel Wade
Client Manager

Her commitment to attention to detail, allows her to establish strong client relationships.

Jenna Wood
Jenna Wood
Accounts Assistant

Jenna Wood brings a wealth of customer service experience to the organisation and is focused on pursuing her AAT qualification. 

Rachael Cobb ACA
Rachael Cobb ACA
Client Services Director

Qualified to ACA and ATT standards, Rachael Cobb commenced her career as a school leaver at a local firm of accountants.

Beth Edwards
Beth Edwards
Office Manager

With an interesting and varied career history that spans many roles, Beth Edwards leverages her extensive skillset and experience as the Office Manager at Vanilla Accounting. Dedicated to creating a positive and enjoyable workplace environment for staff and clients.

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