Revel’s Mission Statement and Our Values

Revel was started because we wanted to create a firm reflective of our values and had a vision that business can be a force for good.

Our vision is our Mission Statement.

Our vision is for Revel to have a positive impact for our clients, as an employer, to our local community, and to the environment. One vision, that breaks down into many parts but have a common theme of our team sharing a collective drive to uphold our values, and to always be open to learn, change and improve.

For our clients

Our vision is to have a positive impact for our clients by delivering clear and tailored advice, combined with excellent service at prices that don’t cost the earth. The result: our client’s get their time back, to invest back into their business, or themselves.

As an employer

Our vision is to have a positive impact as an employer by making Revel a rewarding place to work, where staff feel respected, valued and included in our vision. The result: high levels of staff engagement and alignment with our vision and values.

Our community

Our vision is to have a positive impact on our community by Revel actively evaluating its diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. The result: we are a local employer, paying fair wages, conscious of building our team with diverse representation from the local community whilst creating an inclusive work environment. We are keen to support local suppliers with similar values and are conscious of how we spend and save/invest our money/pensions. We also take steps to empower the team to support local causes that align with their values and allow transparency on our financial performance.

The environment

Our vision is to have a positive impact on the environment by Revel actively evaluating its management practices that impact on the air we breathe, the climate, water consumption, the land and biodiversity. The result: Revel finds new ways to cut emissions, reuse, recycle, and reduce its waste and its impact on the environment.

Our Values

Our values support our Mission Statement and reflect what’s important to us. We also strongly believe we will not achieve our vision without upholding our values.

Our values represent the culture we aspire to every day, guiding our judgements, building trust and helping us to be at our best.

We work in our client’s best interest:

• We listen and understand our client’s needs and care about getting them to where they want and need to be.
• We strive for excellence in everything that we do.
• We put the hard work in behind the scenes to know what we are talking about.
• We deliver tailored advice in language that is clear and simple to follow.

We act with integrity:

• We are ethical.
• We are honest.
• We are accountable.

We act with initiative:

• We plan ahead for deadlines and try to get our clients to do so as well.
• We think of new ways for our clients to tackle problems.
• We actively anticipate and prepare our clients for the future.

We work together:

• We get the full picture before advising.
• We don’t advise outside of our knowledge depth.
• We are good colleagues- caring, polite, helpful, supportive and challenging of any behaviour to the contrary so we can all work at our best.

We forge links outside of the Revel bubble:

• We create and encourage collaborative relationships across and outside Revel with other local professionals.
• We seek ways to share knowledge and integrate work for the best of our clients.
• We stay focussed on our priorities and support each other as a community (clients included) when under pressure.

How do we live up to our commitments?

We actively manage our broader impact as follows:

Positive place to work

We are an ACCA Platinum Approved Employer for training development.

Our staff are productive and engaged with their work so that you get the quality we strive for. Revel is committed to creating a positive and enjoyable place to work for our staff. Revel achieves this by having an open and trustworthy working environment, having an excellent Employee Assistance Programme, private health insurance cover and by supporting and encouraging training and professional development on a firm wide and a personal developmental level. We are an ACCA Platinum Approved Employer for a reason. On a day-to-day basis, we are flexible employers- every day is dress down, we treat employees like the grown-ups they are with regards to working hours, we take anonymous feedback, we are very open about the business, its operation and financial performance, and we welcome creative and innovative ideas.

Charitable Giving

Wherever possible, Revel supports charitable fundraising and giving. We have supported both national and local charities in line with employee wishes.

Our communities

Revel is a local business. We are dedicated to establishing lasting roots and building strong business relationships covering the Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire area. This can be demonstrated by our “Revel Alliance” initiative, and our strong commitment to quality local networking groups. Combined with a local purchasing policy, Revel is committed to investing in the local economy and its people.

Looking beyond Revel’s clients’ needs, and its own supplier needs- Revel gives back. Revel is currently sponsoring a local under 7’s football team, The Headley Hotspurs and is always on the lookout for similar sponsoring opportunities.

Pro Bono

Rob van Eyken acts as Treasurer for a local Parent Teacher Association. As Revel grows, there is a desire to sustainably increase its pro-bono giving. Do get in touch if you have any ideas how we can work together.

Environment

For a long time now, Revel has kept a very careful eye on its environmental footprint: we recycle, we have electrics cars for directors, we refill hand soaps, we keep our energy level to a minimum, we use eco-friendly pens, keep plastic to a minimum, use recycled paper, we recycle ink cartridges, we use compostable sponges, repair and renew IT hardware rather than buy new all the time, the list goes on. We are currently taking steps to decrease our water usage, and compost office food waste. We take it seriously.

As a result of Revel’s long-standing commitment to the environment and sustainability within its own supply chain, Revel has recently been awarded the Trade Mark Surrey Hills, a new accreditation and a Mark of local provenance, quality and sustainability. The Award promotes the very best of what Surrey has to offer and celebrates those organisations of high quality that reflect and support the distinct and special nature of the Surrey Hills and who share the values of supporting the local environment.

Suppliers

Revel primarily deals with local suppliers where possible.

Through supplier selection and direct engagement, Revel favour suppliers that actively:

Reduce their environmental footprint through:

• Conservation of resources, including the use of energy, water and materials
• Waste minimisation, both within their operations and through reduction of packaging
• Reducing the impact of deliveries and maximising local sourcing

Deliver benefits to society through:

• Complying with International Labour Organization (ILO) principles in respect to human rights and conditions of employment
• Ensuring that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in any of their supply chains and in any part of their business

Drive economic growth through:

• Supporting job creation and facilitating opportunities for small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and social businesses
• Considering the life-cycle cost of products
• Providing the Living Wage (at a minimum) to employees and contractors

We don’t just get things right first time for you. We are trying to get things right first time across the entire spectrum of being both a company and employer. ‘Trying’ being the operative word – we don’t pretend to have all the answers across all the above areas (unless is accounts/finance related), but our team share a collective drive to uphold our values, and to always be open to learn, change and improve.