Training and development

Our unique in-house training programme helps you be the best version of you. Whatever your career development needs, we can offer training, support and personal development to help you achieve.

To grow, learn and to thrive together.

Our unique in-house training programme helps you be the best version of you. Whatever your career development needs, we can offer training, support and personal development to help you achieve.

Aspire is our bespoke development programme which provides a structured learning plan to support continuous professional and personal advancement.

It comprises 4 distinct elements, as follows:

  • Trainee Development
  • Management Development
  • Growth
  • Viva Learning

What are the 4 elements of Aspire?

This aspect of Aspire compliments the technical knowledge our trainees receive throughout their qualification.

We deliver masterclasses on the soft skills needed as they begin to interact with clients and colleagues. Alongside this we provide the required technical training required to become qualified in their chosen career field.

In addition to training, continuous support and feedback is provided via our Buddy system and quarterly one to ones.

The 5% Club

We are proud to be a Platinum accredited member of The 5% Club, pledging that we will ensure 5% of our workforce are in earn and learn positions.

Client perspective
In their words

We have worked with Clive Owen LLP for 10 years. I have found them to be an invaluable partner, helping us face the complex challenges of Academy accounts. They provide challenge and support to the board and explain complex accounts clearly, showing the trust’s underlying financial performance.
The team has extensive knowledge of the academic sector and brings a wealth of experience. The Academies Accounts Direction and the Academies Trust Handbook change annually. Clive Owen LLP adds value by running seminars to explain the changes and how to implement them. They also contribute to the Kreston Academy Benchmarking Report, which we find very useful.
They have a collaborative approach and are always available to answer queries or provide support.
As leaders in their field, Chris Beaumont and his team are proactive and genuinely invested in our success. They deliver on time and within budget. The peace of mind this gives us means I would definitely recommend them.”
Alison Kaye

Moorlands Learning Trust

Moorlands Learning Trust

Richmond Fire Engineers LTD

Richmond Fire Engineers design, install and maintain automatic sprinkler systems throughout the UK.

We have been using Kevin Shotton and the team at Clive Owen LLP for over five years now and would not consider using any other accounting firm.

As well as helping with our quarterly and year end accounts, Clive Owen LLP are always at the end of the phone to offer help with our business queries.

Kevin and the team supported our recent management buyout (MBO) which made sure this challenging  process ran very smoothly.

I would recommend Kevin and the team at Clive Owen LLP to anyone who wants an all-round accountancy and business advisory firm to look after them individually and work with them to support their growing business needs.

Richmond Fire Engineers LTD

Charlotte Matthewson and Lucy Lawson said: “We chose Clive Owen as our group auditors after a thorough and competitive tender process.  A combination of experience, technical ability, personable team and value and influenced our decision.  Their local presence is also an advantage.

Having recently completed the first year audit, we are delighted with the Clive Owen team.  The timeliness of completion and their ability to grasp a new business with multiple acquisitions and group reorganisations in the year, and their pragmatic approach to the process, including the opening balance audit were excellent.  The process was a positive one.

James and his team are great to work with and we look forward to working with them going forward.”
Anglotechgroup

Anglotech Group

The Brontë Society looks after the Brontë Parsonage, which was home to the Brontë sisters.

The museum houses the largest collection of Brontë material, including manuscripts and furniture that date back to the 1800’s.

The museum has thousands of visitors from across the globe each year and has been a valued client of Clive Owen LLP for over a decade, mainly working alongside charities expert, Chris Beaumont. 

Rebecca, director at the society, ” As well as the things that have to happen like the accounts and the audit, it has been the additional support and advice given on an ad-hoc basis that has been valuable. We feel like we can come to Clive Owen LLP for open and honest advice, as a critical friend.”

To find out more about how we work with the Brontë Society, watch the full video below.

You can visit the Brontë Society website here. 

The Brontë Society