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The Ellis Group: Introduction
We are delighted to welcome The Ellis Group to the Play It Green community.
The Ellis Group provides accountancy and business support to clients who want clear advice, reliable service and a team they can trust behind the numbers. But like many forward-thinking businesses, they also recognise that responsible business is about more than compliance, reporting and commercial performance.
Through Play It Green, The Ellis Group is taking practical action as a business member, supporting workforce sustainability education, verified nature repair, transparent impact reporting and charity giving.
They are also giving clients the option to take part through a small monthly contribution. Clients can choose to add £2 per month to their Direct Debit, with The Ellis Group adding a further 50p for every £2 contributed.
For each £2 monthly client contribution, the client supports 4 verified nature repair plants each month through Play It Green’s land, coast and sea projects. With The Ellis Group’s additional 50p contribution, the total impact linked to each participating client becomes 5 verified nature repair plants per month.
Through Play It Green’s Regive model, 10% of all revenue raised through The Ellis Group’s Play It Green initiative will also be donated to Francis House Children’s Hospice, helping connect nature repair with wider social impact.
It is a simple, practical and credible step that shows how professional service businesses can make sustainability easier for themselves, their teams and their clients.
We recently caught up with The Ellis Group founder, Ellis Bennett, to find out more about this fantastic and forward-thinking accountancy firm.
Tell us a bit about The Ellis Group and what you do.
The Ellis Group helps ambitious UK marketing and service businesses understand their numbers, improve profitability and make better decisions. We combine accountancy, tax and strategic advisory to help founders build stronger businesses, not just stay compliant. Our focus is simple: give business owners clarity, confidence and a financial partner that actively contributes to growth.
Why did The Ellis Group decide to join Play It Green?
Because most “sustainability” in business is rubbish. A logo on a website, a line in the footer, zero actual impact. I wasn’t interested in that. What got me about Play It Green is that it’s the opposite – a Manchester B Corp doing verified, trackable environmental work where you can actually see where the money goes and what it does. No greenwashing, no smoke and mirrors. And the fact they’re a Manchester business doing it properly made it a no-brainer. If I’m going to put our name to something, it has to be real, and it has to be measurable. This is both.
What impact do you hope this partnership will have for your team, clients and wider community?
For the team – something to be proud of that isn’t a spreadsheet. People want to work somewhere that gives a damn, and this gives them that.
For clients – a genuine invite to do a bit of good alongside us, with full visibility on where it lands. No vague promises. They can see the impact, which is exactly how I think business should be done.
For the wider community, we’ve chosen to back Francis House Children’s Hospice in Didsbury. They do work most people couldn’t do for five minutes, supporting children and families through the hardest moments imaginable, right here in Manchester, in our local community. So, this runs from verified environmental restoration all the way to families on our own doorstep. Global impact, local heart. That’s the whole point.
What does the future hold for The Ellis Group?
We’re building the firm I always wished existed – the go-to for ambitious UK marketing and service businesses who want an accountant that’s a weapon for growth, not a once-a-year cost they resent. That means scaling hard, bringing more firms into the group, and proving once and for all that accountants don’t have to be dull number-crunchers with no personality.
This partnership is part of that. The business I’m building takes responsibility seriously – commercially, environmentally and socially. We’re nowhere near done.
The Ellis Group: Wrap Up
The Ellis Group’s membership will be supported through Play It Green’s Forest Garden, where impact can be tracked and shared over time.
This gives their team and clients a clearer view of the nature repair and social impact being supported, while helping The Ellis Group communicate progress in a transparent and measured way.
We are excited to support them as they launch this next step and look forward to seeing their impact grow. You can contact The Ellis Group by emailing info@eaaccountancy.co.uk or through their website contact page: https://www.theellisgroup.uk/contact-us.
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The Ellis Group Founder, Ellis Bennett
“I’m not interested in looking good on a website. I care about doing something that genuinely makes a difference. Play It Green gives us a way to create measurable environmental impact while supporting families through Francis House Children’s Hospice here in Manchester. That’s the type of business we’re building – one that takes responsibility seriously and brings its clients along for the ride.”
Play It Green Founder, Richard Dickson
“We are really pleased to welcome The Ellis Group to the Play It Green community. I had known Ellis for more than a year before Play It Green moved across to them as our accountants, so this is built on real trust, not just a new partnership. I already knew they were an excellent company, and their approach here is practical, simple and exactly the kind of action more businesses can take.”
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