Rachel's Bookkeeping Services

Rachel's Bookkeeping Services With 20+ years experience, we offer expert bookkeeping services to help businesses and sole traders stay on top of their finances. Free consultation.

ICB registered & award-winning, we specialise in VAT returns, payroll, CIS, cloud and year-end accounts. Our company is based on the belief that our customers' needs are of the utmost importance. We are committed to meeting those needs. As a result, a high percentage of our business is from repeat customers and referrals. With many years' experience in the accounting industry, Rachel's Bookkeeping

Services provides bookkeeping and payroll to customers throughout Bristol & Bath. Rachel's Bookkeeping services are here to lighten the load and take these tasks off the proprietor giving more time to concentrate on actually running the business. The firm provides businesses with professional bookkeeping services and has transport so can come to your office to collect and return your books or can work from your office. The expert staff allow clients to concentrate on running their business. The service is designed to have all the paperwork taken off your hands and am available daytime, evenings and weekends. Having worked in many types of industry from a practise, to motor trade, to property. Many years' experience and being AAT trained Rachel's Bookkeeping Services is fast, efficient and provide accurate set of accounts. Rachel's Bookkeeping Services can offer simple, straightforward ways of recording all business transactions by working to develop a system that is easy to manage. A little time once a month can keep the records up to date and easily accessible. Not only will this help with filing the next tax return, but, should the need to see a bank manager occur about funding, it provides all the relevant financial information in one place. We would welcome the opportunity to earn your trust and deliver you the best service in the industry.

New month, clean slate. Three dates worth knowing:7 Sept — VAT return, if your quarter ended 31 July. 5 Oct — register f...
01/09/2026

New month, clean slate. Three dates worth knowing:

7 Sept — VAT return, if your quarter ended 31 July. 5 Oct — register for Self Assessment if it's your first time. Now — tidy up whatever the summer left behind.

Twenty minutes this week saves a weekend later.

Books closed, kettle on. ☕Wishing all our clients and every local business a proper restful long weekend — you've earned...
28/08/2026

Books closed, kettle on. ☕

Wishing all our clients and every local business a proper restful long weekend — you've earned it.

Back to the ledgers on Tuesday.

Diary check for VAT-registered businesses.If your VAT quarter ended on 31 July, your return and payment are due by 7 Sep...
24/08/2026

Diary check for VAT-registered businesses.

If your VAT quarter ended on 31 July, your return and payment are due by 7 September.

The rule to remember: one month and seven days after your quarter ends. That's it — same rule, every quarter, forever.

Set the reminder now while you're thinking about it. Future you will be delighted.

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If your VAT quarter ended on 31 July, your return and payment are due by 7 September.

The rule to remember: one month and seven days after your quarter ends. That's it — same rule, every quarter, forever.

Set the reminder now while you're thinking about it. Future you will be delighted.

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September always feels like a fresh start, even decades after leaving school. 📚So — one money goal. Just one. Which is y...
19/08/2026

September always feels like a fresh start, even decades after leaving school. 📚

So — one money goal. Just one. Which is yours?

Comment A, B, C or D and I'll share the most popular one next week. (If it's D, my inbox is open. 😉)

"I'm too small to need a bookkeeper." We hear this constantly. 🙋‍♀️Here's the thing — the smaller you are, the more ever...
17/08/2026

"I'm too small to need a bookkeeper." We hear this constantly. 🙋‍♀️

Here's the thing — the smaller you are, the more every wasted hour and every missed expense actually costs you. There's no finance department absorbing it. It's just you.

Most of my clients are between one and five people. Sole traders absolutely count.

If you've been telling yourself you're not "proper" enough yet, you are.

August is lovely. August is also quiet — and quiet months have a habit of showing up in your bank balance around week th...
15/08/2026

August is lovely. August is also quiet — and quiet months have a habit of showing up in your bank balance around week three of September.

Five things worth doing before you switch off:

The one most people skip is the buffer. A single month of running costs sitting untouched turns a scary quiet spell into a mildly annoying one.

Save this for the next slow month — there's always another one.

Good luck to everyone getting their results today. 🎓Whatever the envelope says, it's one morning — not the whole story.I...
13/08/2026

Good luck to everyone getting their results today. 🎓

Whatever the envelope says, it's one morning — not the whole story.

I say that because plenty of the business owners I work with took a route nobody planned for them. Apprenticeships. Retakes. A completely different subject to the one they started. Someone starting something of their own at nineteen with no idea what a balance sheet was.

They're all doing brilliantly.

So congratulations if today went exactly to plan — and if it didn't, you have far more options than today feels like. Both of those things are true.

From all of us Rachel's Bookkeeping. 💙

Everyone files in January. Almost nobody has to.Your tax year ended on 5 April — which means your Self Assessment can be...
12/08/2026

Everyone files in January. Almost nobody has to.

Your tax year ended on 5 April — which means your Self Assessment can be done and dusted right now, while the deadline is still five months away.

Filing early doesn't mean paying early. You still pay on 31 January. What you get is five months of knowing exactly what's coming, instead of five months of wondering.

No queues. No panic. No January.

If you'd rather hand it over than face it, that's what I'm here for.

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Address

Jarrett Garden Centre
Bristol
BS306EE

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm
Sunday 9am - 1pm

Telephone

07758316935

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