Services tailored to you...
With over five decades’ experience serving a diverse range of clients in the South West, we possess an unbeatable depth of knowledge across a wide range of industry sectors.
Our specialist partners and teams can provide expert advice on everything from farming and agriculture, to military tax allowances. We’re here to help you make the most of your planning opportunities so that you can grow with confidence.
Who we are
Simpkins Edwards are a trusted firm of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers founded by John Simpkins and Gordon Edwards in 1968, based in Devon with clients across the UK. Alongside traditional accounting services, we provide tax consultancy, detailed management accounts, and quarterly strategy meetings, to a wide range of business and individual clients. We empower our clients to confidently make decisions on their businesses and give them the peace of mind to focus on their core priorities.
Our almost 60 years of heritage and expert team affords us strong and lasting relationships with our clients, employees, and the community we work within. Our core values of reputation, commerciality and sustainability are at the heart of every decision we make.
Recognised in 2025 as Employer of the Year at the Accounting Excellence Awards and finalist for the People & Work category in the Devon Business Awards, we are confident in our ability to support your long-term success.
Our impact on our local communities and the environment are a primary consideration in everything we do. We have taken several steps designed to make it easier for our people to do as much as they can.
These include:
Installation of showers and the allocation of bike storage space to encourage employees to run or cycle to work.
We have invested in a paperless office system to substantially reduce the use of paper throughout our offices.
We work with like-minded partners and were the first customer of BINIT – an innovative recycling provider based in Devon, to ensure that we recycle everything possible.
We have paid volunteering days to encourage our employees to support a local group or charity. Our volunteering days are fantastic for developing our teams outside of our normal working environment and it is rewarding experience to contribute in a meaningful way to our local communities.
Our annual fundraising “Really Big Quiz” nights have been running since 2004 with proceeds going to the chosen charities of the Lord Mayor of Barnstaple.
We are members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales and are fully licensed for all aspects of non-contentious probate work. Full details can be found here.
Key diversity statistics
(as at 31 March 2025)
During March 2025 we asked all our partners and staff to complete, anonymously, a diversity survey. As it was non-mandatory, the results may not be a complete representation of the firm’s profile but 81% of the 127 people who were sent the survey did respond.