A CHARTERED ACCOUNTANCY firm is celebrating 10 years of working with a successful business woman from Leeds who recently won a prestigious ‘Women in Enterprise’ award.

Clough & Company has worked with Jane Middlebrook, who is Managing Director of Kaleidoscope Day Nurseries Ltd since 2002 providing tax advice as well as helping raise finance for the entrepreneur.

Kaleidoscope was formed in the last recession in 1991 with just one site in York. The company has steadily grown its business over the last 20 years and now provides high quality childcare and afterschool clubs across 11 sites in York and Leeds employing 130 staff.

Jane says: “We have continued to expand our business over the last 20 years despite operating through two recessions. Thanks to the dedication of my staff and the professional support I have received from firms like Clough & Company we are still expanding with a new nursery opening in 2012 in Drighlington.”

Ann Brown, Senior Manager at Clough & Company who has worked alongside Managing Partner Nigel Bullas for Kaleidoscope from day one says: “When we started working with Jane 10 years ago she was operating as a sole trader with four sites but we provided guidance that helped with the company’s profitability and aided the ambitious business plan that has seen Kaleidoscope become a real success story.”

Nigel says: “At a time when a lot accountancy firms are merging and consolidating, Clough & Company's success is based on our ability to forge long standing relationships with clients and for us to have worked and grown alongside Kaleidoscope for 10 years is testament to this ethos.”