Covid-19 update – 26.04.20
This is just a quick update to recap on a few things we have put in this update email over the past few weeks.
Closed
Our office will remain closed during Level 3 restrictions.
Our senior staff are working from home so we can still provide essential support and, for those of you have already dropped your annual accounts in to us, we have logged your accounts into our workflow records and will prepare your annual accounts on a first-in, first-out basis. Unless of course you have an urgent need for financial information to give to your bank, in that case we will give you accounts priority.
Contact numbers
You can contact us as follows:
Sari Hodgson 7 days. sari@savage.co.nz 021-548-489
Neil Hodgson 7 days. neil@savage.co.nz 021-445-142
Anna Patchett Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm anna@savage.co.nz 021-276-7393
Libby Gledhill Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm libby@savage.co.nz 027-313-4382
Zoom
We are available for Zoom meetings (via internet). Just email the person you want to talk with and we will make a time to meet and send you a zoom link so we can chat online
Monthly Invoicing
Also as per last month, because we won’t be back in the office our monthly invoices for the end of April will be sent without the usual detail. If you require a detailed invoice please just contact us and we will send you one when we are able to operate from the office again.
And don’t forget, you are able to contact Neil to make arrangements to pay your account over time if your business and cashflow has been impacted by the lockdown.
We do understand these are challenging times for many people and businesses and we will support you in any way we can.
Free help
A reminder we are offering free help to all clients who need help putting together cash flows and other planning documents you may need during the recovery stage as we move out of lockdown. We are here to help and will give you an hour free time towards preparing these documents, pointing you in the right direction or reviewing various plans you have been working on.
Tell us what is happening
Let us know if you’re open for business so we can share the good news, we want to encourage everyone to do as much business locally as possible. This is our community and to make sure it remains a great place to live, work and play we need to make sure we support every business in the region.
Tell us about your business – are you open again? What changes have you made to be able to operate in Level 3? We want to share the good news so tell us and we will tell others.
Buy local
As above, we urge you all to buy local and support local, small businesses are really suffering in these most unusual, unexpected and unplanned for times so they need as much help as they can get, every $10 you spend locally makes a big difference to local businesses.
You don’t need to buy everything online or make every meal a delivered meal but maybe treat yourself once a week to something tasty for a great local food business.
Personally we have made a point of having things we normally buy delivered by local producers and retailers and have already ordered some meals for delivery for later in the week.
Watch this space for an email about local restaurants doing home delivery for the next few weeks.
Stay safe
Finally, we trust you have managed to stay well and have been keeping safe, don’t drop the safety standards just yet because we don’t want Covid-19 to tighten its grip again meaning we have to go back to Level 4 lockdown for another four weeks.
