Giving everyone equal opportunity to gain access to the accountancy profession
Access Accountancy
Access Accountancy
Access Accountancy is a profession-wide collaboration established in 2014 on the back of overwhelming evidence that people from that lower socio-economic backgrounds are less likely to be hired in the profession.
Blick Rothenberg is proud to join more than 25 professional services firms dedicated to improving the diversity within the accountancy profession in the UK and empower all to thrive in the sector.
Access Accountancy’s vision is for the accountancy profession to be more representative of the socio-economic demographic of our wider society. It’s mission is to ensure that everyone has an equal chance of accessing, and progressing within the accountancy profession based on merit, not social background.
Access Accountancy provides:
- Work placements to students from lower socio-economic backgrounds
- Collects and monitors socio-economic data of applicants and hires on an annual basis
- Generates interest in the accountancy profession in schools & colleges
Blick Rothenberg’s purpose is to improve the lives of our colleagues, clients and communities in a sustainable way.
To support this Blick Rothenberg runs its own Access Accountancy paid work experience programme twice a year aimed at Year 12 and 13 students.
In my role as CEO, I hope that I can give our people the same opportunities and support that have been afforded to me, and my own measure of success will be to see people develop their careers beyond mine.
Nimesh Shah
CEO
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Mahmood Ramji becomes an Access Accountancy Trustee
Mahmood Ramji, Partner at Blick Rothenberg, has been appointed as Trustee to Access Accountancy, part of our commitment to opening up the accountancy profession to people from all social backgrounds.
In addition to promoting social mobility within Blick Rothenberg, Mahmood will be helping Access Accountancy develop further to build on its success to date.
Mahmood said “I am delighted to join Access Accountancy as a Trustee. Having received tremendous support from people on my own journey through the profession, this appointment provides the opportunity to contribute to helping the next generation of people achieve success and to increase the diversity of the profession.”
Hear what the students have to say about their experience
In 2023 we welcomed our largest group of students yet, doubling the amount of people we have previously welcomed.
We asked some of the students who took part what they thought of the week.
