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TAKING SAGE 50 TO ANOTHER LEVEL


GOOD FOOD AND DRINK FESTIVAL SET TO RETURN


The date for the 2020 Northamptonshire Good Food and Drink Festival has been set following the success of last year’s inaugural event. The successful festival,


sponsored by Wilson Browne Solicitors, will take place on 14 June and will feature local food producers offering a variety of produce. The fun filled day, which also includes entertainment for all the family, is free to attend and gives food and drink lovers a


chance to try local produce while relaxing in the beautiful gardens of the award-winning Kettering Park Hotel & Spa. Also present will be the Daniel


Thwaites shire horses and several well-known local producers including makers of bespoke chutneys and preserves, bread producers, and a local brewery. The event will include gluten free, dairy free and vegan suppliers. The festival was the vision of the hotel’s general manager, Andrew


Hollett, who brought together events management business Polka Dot Events and Kettering Business Network leader Simon Cox. Kerry Bate, of Polka Dot Events,


said: “Building on the success of last year’s event, visitors and exhibitors can expect another amazing event. We’re really excited to be working on this festival again.”


Visit: www.northantsfoodfestival.co.uk


A FREE ENERGY CONSULTATION


One of the most forward-thinking renewable energy companies in the UK is offering Northamptonshire Chamber members a free corporate energy consultation. SAS ENERGY prides itself on


providing customers with affordable, efficient and sustainable solutions. Stuart Gentry, director special


projects, said: “If you own your building, or have a long-term lease, you can take steps to reduce your company’s carbon emissions and also your national grid bills from your energy provider in one fell swoop. “We are a national and regional


award-winning company and our new office in Milton Keynes hosts an exhibition of renewable energy products from our global suppliers, where you can view these products.


One of SAS ENERGY’s project managers with a bank of inverters that change the sun’s energy into energy we can use


“We can talk to firms about how


they can soak up the free, sustainable energy on offer and how they can future proof their organisations against rising National Grid energy costs. Our consultants can answer any questions about


renewable energies, plus how they work with your company’s existing energy providers.”


Call: 07535 701007 Email: s.gentry@sas-energy.co.uk Visit: www.sas-energy.co.uk


Sage 50 is a well-established finance package for smaller businesses, but it needs some help when used in a business that requires the management of departmental expenditure beyond the finance team. Going beyond simple


bookkeeping and introducing the requirement to send supplier invoices out for departmental approval introduces time-consuming manual tasks. However, this does not


mean that you need to abandon your legacy Sage 50 system thanks to recent technological advances. Invu, a leading software


company, has now launched their latest cloud-based invoice-processing product Invu Verify. Invu Verify integrates


directly with Sage 50, providing automated supplier invoice processing. Data capture software replaces data entry, and the routing of invoices for coding and approval is automated. Laura Coote, operations manager at Tube UK Limited, one of the 10 beta customers who tested the software for the past year, said this of the software: “Verify has given our accounts system a much more streamlined and efficient process, the system is very user friendly and is constantly being updated to tailor to the end user’s needs.”


Visit: www.invu.net/verify/ Call: 01604 878010


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