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A ROBUST performance in the face of the credit crunch has helped accountants Chipchase Manners celebrate their centenary year in buoyant mood.

Chipchase Manners, one of the biggest independent accountancy practices in the Tees Valley area, has increased the size of the business by almost a fifth in the nine months since January.

The firm has recruited six people in the period to help it cope with the increase in its workload.

Tax partner Graeme Boagey says: “2008 - our centenary year - is already one of the most active in our history in terms of recruiting. We have succeeded in increasing our workload in a very short period of time.”

Based in Middlesbrough’s Linthorpe Road, Chipchase Manners provides accounts preparation, audit, taxation and business advisory and support services to more than a thousand businesses, ranging from small traders to £30m-turnover companies.

The firm was established in Albert Road, Middlesbrough, in 1908 by Charles Chipchase. Chipchase went on to establish other practices as far away as London - many of which still bear his name.

Its latest appointments - trainee accountant Steve Jones, 22, a Teesside University accountancy and finance graduate from Middlesbrough, and Kelly Finnighan, 20, as a payroll administrator - increases its workforce to over 30.

In July, Chipchase Manners trainee accountant Matthew Waters, walked from Seascale to Nunthorpe, with friend Jamie Dunn, to raise awareness of prostate cancer and collect £2,300 for Prostate Cancer Research UK in the process. (www.justgiving.com/dunnandwaters).

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