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16 Accounting software 22 Let’s Play Spring Catch up this May! 22 Gardening in May 25 Buckingham Garden Centre Competition WIN £25

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Welcome...

MAY ISSUE 2013

The aim of the monthly Buckingham In Business Magazine is to support businesses in order that the local community can flourish. www.inbusinessmags.co.uk inbusinessmagazines@gmail.com Office: 0844 6933228 Home: 01386 861478 Mobile: 07899 757473 ADVERTISING Kate Martin FEATURES EDITOR Jen Oakton NEXT ISSUE COPY DATE 15th MAY 2013 © 2013. All artwork and copy appearing in this publication is copyright and may not be reproduced without written permission from the publisher.

...to this months edition of the Buckingham In Business magazine.

The prospect of the summer stretching out ahead of you is wonderful isn’t it?

Let’s hope the sun starts to shine more so we can focus on some of the fabulous events taking place locally. Our What’s On page will give you a flavour of what is on offer over the coming weeks.

Many of the event’s are non profit making; they do a hugh amount to stimulate local culture, connect communities and preserve precious facilities so please do go along and support them if you can.

In the current climate we are all looking to squeeze the most from every pound so be sure to keep your magazine handy and make the most of them.

Until next month…

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Silver Jubilee Golf Day This year Dogs for the Disabled are celebrating their 25th birthday and to mark the occasion Friends of the Charity are pleased to have teamed up with Buckingham Golf Club to hold a Silver Jubilee Golf Day , on Tuesday 11th June, 2013.

Banbury based Dogs for the Disabled is a pioneering charity that trains assistance dogs for children and adults with physical disabilities and families with a child with autism. Through practical tasks the dogs offer freedom and independence and in addition assistance dogs become a reason to go out, giving new found confidence that opens doors to fresh opportunities including friendships,

hobbies, education and even careers.

The partnerships created between people and dogs are life changing and as the charity relies totally upon donations we hope you will be able to join us for an enjoyable day while supporting a very worthwhile cause.

Buckingham Golf course features two rivers, The Great Ouse and Dudley Brook, both come into play on 9 of the 18 hole course.

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Choosing a solution that is best suited to your needs is essential. Once chosen, it is then a priority to ensure that you are getting the most out of your system using the least amount of time.

For many small businesses, using a combination of Excel and Word to run the business works well.

This is a perfectly fine approach and if set up right, Excel can certainly rival a lot of accounting software packages, whilst automatically creating a cumulative total of spend/income allowing for Vat calculations to be carried out at relative ease.

For the slightly larger businesses an accounts package is preferable. Good accounts software will allow you to easily raise and keep track of sales invoices for each customer, enabling searches by business and days outstanding. It is of course also possible to log all expenditure and associated Vat to be able to create Vat returns and also view profit and loss accounts for specific date ranges. Bank statements can also be imported to ensure that all income and expenditure is captured.

The major development in the market over the past few years has been the emergence and subsequent growth of online ‘cloud’ based accountancy software. This software shares all of the characteristics of the traditional ‘off the shelf’ software but is accessible anywhere, anytime, from any computer (or in some cases mobile phones/tablets).

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T h e G a r d e n i n M AY Let’s play spring catch-up this May! There’s still time to get your garden back on track, says Buckingham Garden Centre’s Chris Day. If I had a shiny new pound for every person who has said to me, “Remember last year? We were all swanning around in shorts in March” I would be well on my way towards buying myself a very handsome dinner. This April, I look out of my window and there are spells of rain and sunny intervals, oh, great and predictable April Showers!

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Aim to get your tomato plants planted in pots, cropping bags or baskets, depending on variety by the end of the month. If you are growing the new grafted tomato plants (and if you have not tried these they are well worth checking out), take a tip from the growers and set them in generous sized pots - 18in (45cm) minimum and use a good quality multi-purpose compost. The reason is simply to do with their roots – they are incredibly vigorous so trying to grow them well in a shallow grow bag doesn’t especially suit them. However, your traditional seed raised ‘Alicante’, ‘Moneymaker’, ‘Gardener’s Delight’ and ‘Shirley’ are less fussy so keep them happy in a cropping bag.

Fleece or pop over a plastic bell cloche to protect them from late frosts if necessary.

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• Late maincrop Potatoes can be risked outside now. Plant them about 15cm (6in) deep but be prepared to cover the area with fleece or other suitable material if there is danger of frost.

• If you grow Dogwood (Cornus) (pictured top right) and Willow (Salix) for the colour of their stems, cut them back hard now. This will promote strong new growth and coloured stems that will be attractive next winter.

• Once they have finished flowering, prune shrubs such as Forsythia, Kerria, Chimonanthus praecox (pictured right) and spring flowering Broom to give them maximum time to grow before next spring.

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T h e G a r d e n i n M AY • Hardy herbs such as Parsley, Fennel, Chives and Coriander can be sown outside. Sow them in drills, as for vegetables, and place in their final destination once large enough to handle.

• Get planting/sowing your salad crops now, including Beetroot, Lettuce, Spring Onions and Radish. Brassicas that need establishing include Cabbage, Brussels Sprouts, Broccoli and Cauliflower.

• Deadhead spent flowering Daffodil and Tulip flowers to prevent the plant’s energy going into making seed rather than building up the bulb. Don’t remove the leaves (or rope them in knots!) as these help them store energy.

Top Tip For many people, the Chelsea Flower Show is the showcase for the best in UK gardening, and this year it celebrates its centenary. Although often regarded as a tad elitist by many, one of its enduring qualities is that it brings inspiration, gardening excitement and an opportunity to find out what’s in and out as far as gardening fashion. Lovely planting combinations are often picked out by the TV presenters with Alan

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WIN! Titchmarsh often referring to them as “jewel box plantings”. Please don’t dismiss these as they are often perfect to be recreated in our modest plots. However, this year’s show I suspect will look back with nostalgia (some of the gardens will look at how gardens, garden design and garden plants have changed over the decades) and forward for new, innovative ideas, many of which will be practical and do-able at home. So, embrace the ideas from the Chelsea Dream Factory, you never know you might be onto a winner and something so cutting-edge you’ll have your neighbours swooning over your Chelsea-inspired plantings.

A favourite from last year’s show was the absence of the traditional lawn which was replaced by named varieties of grass being planted in swaths, mixed in with ornamental planting with harmonising results. Purple flowers, like Verbena bonariensis growing through Stipa was one of the looks which you could easily create.

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