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Benefits of payroll outsourcing for recruitment agencies

20 August 2020

The cost and associated resources involved in running an efficient and reliable payroll can soon mount up. It takes a particular skill set, and for many businesses, including recruitment agencies, those costs can easily become a burden. It’s an involved and time-consuming task that takes you away from your core business. Larger businesses are able to maintain payroll departments, but if your business has less than around 30 employees it rarely makes financial sense.

An increasing number of recruitment agencies are seeing the benefits of outsourcing their payroll management to an umbrella company.

Mike Keeling

Along with over 13 years experience in the contractor payroll industry, and after spending most of his working life as a financial advisor in the regulated financial services industry, Mike has garnered an extensive network of contacts in the recruitment industry, many of whom trust both him and the One Click Group to handle their accounting. Mike has also been a member of various industry bodies throughout the years, such as the British Institute of Recruiters, in order to champion best practices across the contractor payroll industry.

One Click Group move forward with bold new brand

9 August 2020

The One Click Group, UK based contractor services company providing umbrella employment solutions to contractors and freelancers announced today the launch of their new brand and logo.

“One Click Group was first launched in 2013 and after 7 years we’ve made the decision to refresh our brand to create a cleaner and more contemporary look” said Mike Keeling, Operations Director for One Click Group “we felt that it was the right time as we continue to expand, reach out into more markets and support agencies, contractors and freelancers with our umbrella services”

Mike Keeling

Along with over 13 years experience in the contractor payroll industry, and after spending most of his working life as a financial advisor in the regulated financial services industry, Mike has garnered an extensive network of contacts in the recruitment industry, many of whom trust both him and the One Click Group to handle their accounting. Mike has also been a member of various industry bodies throughout the years, such as the British Institute of Recruiters, in order to champion best practices across the contractor payroll industry.

Claiming expenses as an Umbrella company employee – A guide

7 July 2020

Claiming expenses can be an exacting and time-consuming process for contractors. For many, choosing to create an umbrella company can make the process straightforward, provided you know what you are doing.

So, how exactly does forming an umbrella company help when it comes to managing your expenses and what should you bear in mind when using one?

Mike Keeling

Along with over 13 years experience in the contractor payroll industry, and after spending most of his working life as a financial advisor in the regulated financial services industry, Mike has garnered an extensive network of contacts in the recruitment industry, many of whom trust both him and the One Click Group to handle their accounting. Mike has also been a member of various industry bodies throughout the years, such as the British Institute of Recruiters, in order to champion best practices across the contractor payroll industry.

When should you use an umbrella company?

28 May 2020

An essential service for a wide range of contracting professionals, umbrella companies can open up a variety of options to help optimise how your business is run. However, knowing which option is right for you can prove extremely difficult – impacting on your ability to save time, resource, and effort.

So, what exactly is an umbrella company and how can your business potentially benefit from deploying one?

Mike Keeling

Along with over 13 years experience in the contractor payroll industry, and after spending most of his working life as a financial advisor in the regulated financial services industry, Mike has garnered an extensive network of contacts in the recruitment industry, many of whom trust both him and the One Click Group to handle their accounting. Mike has also been a member of various industry bodies throughout the years, such as the British Institute of Recruiters, in order to champion best practices across the contractor payroll industry.

2020 tax return checklist

17 April 2020

Are you ready for your 2020 tax return?

Most UK tax payers won’t ever have to complete a tax return under the Self-Assessment system as they pay the correct amount of tax through Pay As You Earn (PAYE) via their employer. However many of us will have to complete a return to allowing HMRC to calculate how much tax we owe them (or sometimes they might owe us).

With April now upon us, it becomes important to ensure that your tax returns are fully in order.
Unless you’ve taken adequate time to prepare – you can quickly be left feeling lost, stressed and intimidated by the whole process.

Mike Keeling

Along with over 13 years experience in the contractor payroll industry, and after spending most of his working life as a financial advisor in the regulated financial services industry, Mike has garnered an extensive network of contacts in the recruitment industry, many of whom trust both him and the One Click Group to handle their accounting. Mike has also been a member of various industry bodies throughout the years, such as the British Institute of Recruiters, in order to champion best practices across the contractor payroll industry.

Self-Assessment Tax Return – It’s all about deadlines

1 April 2020

Note down these key dates for self-assessment tax returns in your diary to avoid a penalty for missing the tax returns deadlines.

Mike Keeling

Along with over 13 years experience in the contractor payroll industry, and after spending most of his working life as a financial advisor in the regulated financial services industry, Mike has garnered an extensive network of contacts in the recruitment industry, many of whom trust both him and the One Click Group to handle their accounting. Mike has also been a member of various industry bodies throughout the years, such as the British Institute of Recruiters, in order to champion best practices across the contractor payroll industry.

Supporting the UK healthcare sector

24 March 2020

In the current crisis, we will be relying more and more on temporary workers to deal with massively increased demand for healthcare. To try to do what we can to help, from today One Click Group will halve our normal umbrella margin for all workers in the healthcare sector for the next three months.

We have a fully remote workforce and we are providing a seamless service despite the challenges currently posed by the COVID-19 crisis. If you are a contractor and you’re looking for an umbrella you can rely on or an agency wondering who you can rely on to ensure your contractors’ needs are met, please get in touch.

Call our team on 0345 557 1287 or email

Mike Keeling

Along with over 13 years experience in the contractor payroll industry, and after spending most of his working life as a financial advisor in the regulated financial services industry, Mike has garnered an extensive network of contacts in the recruitment industry, many of whom trust both him and the One Click Group to handle their accounting. Mike has also been a member of various industry bodies throughout the years, such as the British Institute of Recruiters, in order to champion best practices across the contractor payroll industry.

IR35 changes extended to April 2021

18 March 2020

The Government has sensationally given a 12 month reprieve to contractors and businesses being forced to make difficult decisions around their IR35 status in the private sector. It was announced on Tuesday 17^th March that they would be delaying the changes to the Off Payroll rules due to be imposed in April until April 2021. This is great news for contractors and the businesses who faced being forced to decide on many of their contractors’ tax status and will hopefully provide the opportunity for the measures to be scrutinised in more detail and maybe even scrapped.

Even if the measures are introduced unchanged in 2021 it will give businesses more opportunity to prepare and ensure that they are implemented correctly.

At One Click Group we are able to provide advice and guidance to agencies, end-hirers and contractors on how to navigate their way around the legislation and now would be a great time to get in touch.

Mike Keeling

Along with over 13 years experience in the contractor payroll industry, and after spending most of his working life as a financial advisor in the regulated financial services industry, Mike has garnered an extensive network of contacts in the recruitment industry, many of whom trust both him and the One Click Group to handle their accounting. Mike has also been a member of various industry bodies throughout the years, such as the British Institute of Recruiters, in order to champion best practices across the contractor payroll industry.

COVID-19: One Click Group update

17 March 2020

There is a great deal of uncertainty around how businesses will continue to operate in the face of the challenges being caused by the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. Clearly businesses do not like uncertainty and we understand that the same applies to contractors and freelancers. We would therefore like to reassure our contractors, suppliers and agency partners that we are operating at full strength and will continue to do so as the situation develops and eventually improves.

All of our staff are working from home and we have all the necessary technology in place to ensure that we continue to provide the great personal service that we are proud of. Our opening hours will remain unchanged and we will continue to provide support outside of our core hours via email and social channels.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to get in touch.

Mike Keeling

Along with over 13 years experience in the contractor payroll industry, and after spending most of his working life as a financial advisor in the regulated financial services industry, Mike has garnered an extensive network of contacts in the recruitment industry, many of whom trust both him and the One Click Group to handle their accounting. Mike has also been a member of various industry bodies throughout the years, such as the British Institute of Recruiters, in order to champion best practices across the contractor payroll industry.

How much does outsourcing payroll cost?

25 September 2019

There are many great reasons for outsourcing payroll if you are running a small to medium business and need to ensure it is handled by competent and experienced professionals. Outsourcing payroll is cheaper than many people think, and it can save you a great deal of time and stress. In this article, we will discuss the advantages of outsourcing payroll and explain why it could be such a fantastic decision for your company. Read on to find out more about the benefits of outsourcing payroll to a firm that you can trust.

Mike Keeling

Along with over 13 years experience in the contractor payroll industry, and after spending most of his working life as a financial advisor in the regulated financial services industry, Mike has garnered an extensive network of contacts in the recruitment industry, many of whom trust both him and the One Click Group to handle their accounting. Mike has also been a member of various industry bodies throughout the years, such as the British Institute of Recruiters, in order to champion best practices across the contractor payroll industry.