Last night, Ascend Payroll was named the winner of the Team Excellence Award at the Reward Strategy Awards. An award that celebrates a team demonstrating outstanding collaboration, expertise and dedication to its clients. We are especially delighted to have won this award as it is a category that recognises exactly what we set out to
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Calculating a payment and actually getting the money into the recipient’s account are two separate jobs. For payroll, you can calculate every salary correctly, produce the payslips and make your HMRC submissions on time. Someone still needs to create the banking file, check it, upload it and ensure every employee receives the right amount on
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We’re delighted to welcome Grant Water to the team as Payroll Professional.. Grant brings a broad base of payroll and tronc experience to Ascend, having worked across corporate payroll and specialist tipping schemes for clients spanning healthcare, hospitality and beyond. “Grant joined us because he wanted to be somewhere that puts people first, not just
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If you run a hospitality business today, your payroll is rarely simple and predictable. It is a constantly moving target. You’re working with a mix of salaried managers, weekly paid bar staff, casual workers covering seasonal shifts and often agency workers. You need these different worker types to be flexible and agile, but this flexibility
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As a charity or not-for-profit organisation, every donation counts; it not only goes to fund your cause but also keeps the lights on, wages paid, and storefronts open. Making sure that your costs and outgoings are well managed is essential to ensuring that your donations reach where they are needed most. If your charity or
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For UK charities, not-for-profits, and community interest companies, managing a tight budget is a constant balancing act. Every penny saved on administration is a penny that can be redirected straight into your frontline services and core mission. In the current financial climate, that balancing act has become even harder. With Employers’ National Insurance Contributions now
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Protecting your hospitality margins amid the 2026 cost crisis With one third of the hospitality sector now operating at a loss, managed outsourced payroll and tronc management isn’t just day-to-day administration; it’s a survival strategy. Running a hospitality business right now is not for the faint of heart. If you feel like your margins are
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We’re proud to announce that Ascend Payroll has achieved the CIPP Payroll Assurance Scheme (PAS) accreditation – the gold standard for payroll processes and people in the UK. It’s a significant milestone for our team, and one we didn’t take lightly. Achieving PAS accreditation isn’t a box-ticking exercise. It’s a rigorous, independent assessment of everything
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Holiday purchase schemes are a popular employee benefit, and it’s easy to see why. Extra time off is something most people value, and giving employees the flexibility to buy additional leave can be a low-cost way to enhance your benefits offering without a significant financial outlay for the business. We see requests to support these
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If you’re running a hospitality business, you already know that tips and service charges are essential to your staff’s total earnings. You also know that tip distribution right isn’t optional anymore. Since the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act came into force in October 2024, you’re legally required to distribute tips fairly and within strict timeframes.
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