This year’s annual Directors’ Briefing from leading East Midlands chartered accountants Duncan & Toplis will look to the future and the opportunities and threats businesses could be faced with over the coming years.

Entitled ‘Scanning the Horizon’, the free-to-attend briefing will bring together business leaders from across the region, providing them with insights and advice from a range of expert speakers.

Held at the Belton Woods Hotel in Grantham on Friday 25th November from 8.30am, the keynote speaker for this year’s event will be Director General of the Institute of Directors Simon Walker.

Simon Walker became Director General of the Institute of Directors (IoD) in October 2011. As the public face of the IoD and the most senior representative of the membership, Simon debates regularly in the media and engages with senior figures from across government, politics and Whitehall. With a past in journalism and communications, his speech promises to be both topical and engaging.

Managing Director at Duncan & Toplis Adrian Reynolds, said: “Following Britain’s vote to leave the EU in June, there is much talk among the business community about what the future holds. Although this is not intended to be a fully Brexit focused event, we hope the speaker line-up we have put together for this year’s briefing will go some way towards enlightening delegates on what they might expect to see happen from a range of different perspectives. I am looking forward to chairing the event and hearing what they all have to say.”

Other speakers on the day are:

• Mark Berrisford-Smith – Head of Economics at HSBC UK
• Tony Brooks – Leadership Specialist at The Leadership Training Workshop
• Neil Everatt – CEO of Software Europe
• Ursula Lidbetter MBE – Chief Executive of the Greater Lincolnshire LEP
• James Marshall – Partner Technology Strategist at Microsoft UK
• Stephen Phillips – QC and Conservative MP for Sleaford & North Hykeham
• Nicholas Smith – Director and Head of Tax at Duncan & Toplis

To reserve your place at the event, which is free of charge to attend, visit the Eventbrite page. To find out more, please email hannah.clark@duntop.co.uk or call 01522 507000.

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Notes to editors:
• Duncan & Toplis was established in 1925 and has since grown into one of the largest independent firms of chartered accountants in the Midlands.
• The company appears in the top 40 UK accountancy practices list published by Accountancy Age.
• Duncan & Toplis was named ICAEW East Midlands Medium Accountancy Firm of the Year in March 2014, 2015 and 2016.
• The company has 11 offices throughout the East Midlands: in Boston, Grantham, Lincoln, Loughborough, Louth, Melton Mowbray, Newark, Skegness, Sleaford, Spalding and Stamford.
• Duncan & Toplis offers a wide range of services to small and large-sized family businesses, from accountancy, audit and tax to payroll, human resources and computer services.
• The business employs around 370 staff, of whom 85 are currently engaged in professional training.
• Duncan & Toplis is a member of Kreston International, the global network of independent accounting firms. Kreston UK, a brand representing firms based in the UK, Ireland, Channel Islands and Isle of Man, provides national coverage, a resource of over 1,950 professional and support staff and generates annual fee revenues of £122m. As a combined organisation, it would rank as the 11th largest UK firm.

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