Food & Drink

Testimonials

“We didn’t have a clue that the R&D Tax Credits scheme even existed! It was a chance meeting with one of Jumpstart’s Business Analysts that introduced us to the fact that a baker could be doing eligible R&D; no accountant had told us about the scheme. The Business Analyst followed up his initial conversation with a meeting. He explained everything to us and to be honest I thought that must be a load of rubbish – it just sounded too good to be true! Well, when I got the cash I knew by God it had been true and we were very, very pleasantly surprised.

Since meeting Jumpstart I have told many bakers in the industry about the missed opportunities; bakers conduct projects all the time that are eligible under the scheme. I’ve told them how Jumpstart helped us get our claim through with their technical report and I would have no hesitation at all in recommending companies to talk to Jumpstart. As I said, we didn’t know the scheme even existed and we were delighted with the result!”

John Gall, Managing Director
Brownings the Bakers

“I have worked with Jumpstart for a number of years now and there are real advantages to speaking to them. Obviously they can only claim for legitimate costs relating to R&D but they are better at finding them than most. I fully recommend that you spend a few minutes to chat with Brian Williamson of Jumpstart.”

Simon Howie, Managing Director
Simon Howie Butchers Limited

“Jumpstart are awesome! Don’t think twice – get them to guide you. They got us a really big chunk of cash back. We don’t have time in our business to faff about with tax claims! In fact we hate doing anything that takes us away from our business. We are busy making cool, contemporary and progressive beers at BrewDog; that’s what we are really good at! So employing specialists who understand the science of making beer – and it is a science – and who can pull it all together in a detailed report so that the taxman would give us our R&D money back, was a no-brainer! Their Technical Analyst came in, saw what we were doing and then in a short time came back with this impressive technical report. Here we are a few months later with a pot of money we are delighted with. We’ve invested it again and have already toasted our friends at Jumpstart with a BrewDog beer!

Would I recommend Jumpstart to others? Yes, their people are bright, the process is fast and the outcome is brilliant. Hopefully we can do the same again for the years ahead!”

James Watt, Managing Director
BrewDog Limited

“We were vaguely aware that it was possible to get money back but the whole thing sounded complicated. My first thought was to get Jumpstart in to see how it’s done and then I’d try and do the claim myself. I’m so glad I didn’t! Looking at the whole Jumpstart process, now that we’ve experienced it, it’s clear that we would still have been unsure exactly how to maximize our claim. We would have got bogged down in the detail of the legislation and how it applied to our sector and we would have wasted valuable time driving forward our business!

Having Jumpstart work on our claim for us was first rate. It was excellent, brilliant! The Technical Analyst who visited our facilities was particularly impressive. We thought, here we go, we are going to have to explain what we do and it’s going to take a lot of time. How wrong we were! We were very, very delighted with the first report we got back; it was so accurate and I thought golly, Jumpstart came in here and understood the technical aspects of our business so well!

Of course we were thrilled and delighted with the amount we received in R&D tax credits and it’s all been very positive. Perhaps the most interesting thing is that Jumpstart said to us ‘you can go ahead now and do it yourselves’. Looking back, we thought we were so clever that once we saw how it was done, that’s what we’d do, however, Jumpstart was so good, the report was so comprehensive and technically spot on, that we have agreed we’ll leave this to the experts, Jumpstart. ”

Simon Young, MD
Ingram Brothers

“ We would never have thought to do this and probably would not have done anything had our accountant not recommended speaking to Jumpstart. To begin with we were very apprehensive as we were not sure if the process was going to be a lot of work for not a lot, or even nothing, in return. In fact, we were really surprised when Jumpstart helped us to get money back retrospectively. Our experience in the past with outside help or support was for things we were planning to do rather than things we had done, so when we got the cash back for our past innovative and development, we were delighted.

We thought Jumpstart’s spreadsheets for cost capture was well laid out and this made that task a very easy and quick one. We were also very happy with the way we were guided at all times with regard to what would be eligible both technically and financially. There’s no doubt, our initial impression was that this programme was for scientists in white coats and it had nothing to do with food production. When we started working with Jumpstart, we thought that we may be able to claim for some of the technical team but we were really surprised when the full costs included operators and indirect staff. We would thoroughly recommend you speak to Jumpstart. We are certainly looking forward to working longer term with them, where more and more of our projects can be identified. ”

Gordon Wicklow, Director
Scobie & Junor Group