Enhanced membership benefits for bigger R&D teams

By joining the Company tier, your organisation can unlock numerous advantages that address the unique challenges faced by larger teams. Here’s how Company membership can transform your R&D service delivery:

• Streamlined Professional Development: Empower your team with comprehensive online training courses and live webinars as part of their core CPD.
• Tailored training packages for specific roles. We work with you to customise the system so that each role in your organisation gets access to a tailored package of courses and resources. This keeps your people focused only on what they need to know, with no distractions.
• Enhanced Administrative Controls: Advanced admin features such as unlimited “seat swapping” and customised training reports help leaders manage their teams efficiently.
• Improved Risk Mitigation: Access robust resources and additional helpline support to minimise the risk of HMRC enquiries and safeguard your claims.
• Optimised Collaboration: Encourage teamwork and knowledge-sharing through access to our vibrant member community, offering insights from hundreds of other R&D professionals.

Why choose the Company tier over the Team tier?

For smaller teams, the Team Membership tier provides a solid foundation for R&D training. But when it comes to larger teams, the Company tier offers a broader scope of benefits:

Addressing R&D challenges for larger teams

R&D managers at large accountancy and advisory firms know the complexities of running and scaling a team. Whether it’s onboarding new staff, managing risk within claims, or measuring and maintaining a team’s technical knowledge, the Company tier is designed to ease these challenges:

• Ease the Training Burden: With access to ready-made courses, the need for creating and running repetitive training sessions in-house is eliminated. This allows managers to focus on targeted internal training needs and quality control, as well as advancing complex claims.
• Streamlined New Staff Onboarding: Core training provides new staff with a solid foundation in R&D tax relief, accelerating their professional progress and reducing the training and support burden on experienced team members.
• Build Consistency and Quality: Establishing a standardised foundation of training across the team minimises disparities in knowledge and ensures a cohesive approach to R&D claims.
• Enhanced Screening Processes: Improved structures and processes make it easier to evaluate prospects efficiently, ensuring time and resources are spent on viable clients while aligning with ethical guidelines.

Transformational Results: Success Stories

To help you envision the impact that membership in The R&D Community can have on your organisation, we’ve highlighted three compelling success stories from some of our larger members.

These examples showcase how our tailored resources and collaborative networks are transforming the way larger teams approach R&D training, client screening, and claim preparation.

Acute Business Advisory

The Challenge: Acute Business Advisory wanted to provide enhanced support to their team of tax consultants while ensuring a consistent and ethical approach to R&D tax relief claims. With HMRC scrutiny increasing, they also wanted a stronger framework for screening clients upfront to reduce time lost to projects which don’t qualify.

The Solution: Membership in The R&D Community provided the team with structured training resources, collaborative forums, and expert-led insights, which enhanced their client-screening processes and improved their team’s confidence in explaining the qualifying criteria for R&D claims.

The Impact: Mitch Poyzer, Training and Compliance Manager, explained,

Having a stronger structure to explain why someone doesn’t qualify will prevent companies from ‘hopping’ around advisors until someone says yes. This, for us, is crucial to prevent abuse of the scheme and to help protect businesses from falling prey to less scrupulous advisors.

Additionally, the team has developed a more consistent and collaborative approach across departments, enabling constructive dialogues with clients and helping them navigate R&D claims effectively.

Minerva Innovation Group

The Challenge: Minerva Innovation Group faced complexities in handling R&D claims for large, multi-company structures where subcontracting layers added unique challenges. They needed access to diverse perspectives and expertise to address these intricacies.

The Solution: By leveraging The R&D Community membership, Minerva Innovation Group tapped into the collective knowledge of hundreds of R&D professionals, also gaining insights through webinars, helplines, and community interactions. They also benefited from second opinions on particularly challenging claims.

The Impact: Adam Pearce, Director, noted,

The cool thing about The R&D Community is that there are different people leading the courses, answering the helpline and providing support. It’s led people to challenge themselves and each other more robustly before concluding whether or not a project qualifies.

Furthermore, Minerva Innovation Group gained valuable insights into HMRC’s evolving interpretation of guidelines, helping them navigate complex claims with more confidence and accuracy.

Sedulo

The Challenge: Sedulo wanted to establish a standardised training foundation for their growing R&D team and improve efficiency in their client-screening processes. They also sought opportunities to collaborate with industry professionals and explore innovative tools.

The Solution: Sedulo’s team engaged deeply with The R&D Community’s training platform and collaborative networks. They used the resources to train new staff, refresh knowledge across their 20-member team, and refine their Business Development processes.

The Impact: Ciaran Downs, Accounting & Tax Technical Lead, shared,

Even if you’re lucky enough to work in a team of 20 people as I do – you can chat and share ideas, you’re all informed about R&D tax incentives and the industry, which is great! But it’s fundamentally different to crowdsource from a group of 200 advisers.

The team’s consistent foundation of training has led to improved client-screening processes and higher-quality claims. Their engagement with The R&D Community has also fostered opportunities for innovation, such as their early adoption of ethical AI tools for R&D claim preparation.

Unlock the future of your R&D service

Membership in The R&D Community’s Company tier equips your organisation with the tools, knowledge, and support to overcome the distinct challenges faced by larger R&D teams. By streamlining training, improving team efficiency, and mitigating risk, ‘Company’ membership empowers R&D managers and their teams to:

• accelerate onboarding and upskilling,
• maintain consistency and quality across the team,
• improve screening processes for better ROI,
• gain industry insights and collaborative expertise,
• reduce risk and build confidence.

Invest in your team’s growth and your organisation’s long-term success. Watch the free membership demo to discover how The R&D Community’s Company tier can transform your approach to training and supporting your R&D team(s).

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Have additional questions? Reach out directly to our team or schedule a call to learn more about how we can support your organisation.