Andrew Roberts rejoins HaysMac as director in charity wing

Audit and advisory agency HaysMac has introduced the return appointment of Andrew Roberts. Re-joining the agency as audit director, he shall be based mostly inside its social function sector group.

Steve Harper, head of social function at HaysMac, added: “Andrew’s return is incredible information for each our group and our purchasers. He brings in depth sector information, sturdy management, and a deep understanding of the challenges going through charities and different social function organisations in the present day. Andrew is already well-known and extremely revered inside the agency, and his appointment as Director underlines our continued dedication to growing our expertise and supporting organisations that exist for good.”

Complete worth of charitable donations in the UK equalled their post-pandemic excessive in 2025. Nonetheless, in keeping with knowledge launched by His Majesty’s Revenues and Customs (HMRC), the quantity of individuals donating declined, elevating considerations as to how sustainable this rise could be in the long-term. Elsewhere, the most important survey of pension scheme funding in the UK third sector – carried out by First Actuarial – lately took in knowledge and perception from 300 UK charities. It discovered that round seven-in-ten have lower than £10 million in their outlined profit scheme, leaving them open to larger working prices and restricted insurance coverage choices.

In January 2026, HaysMac celebrated its twenty fifth anniversary, marking a quarter-century of delivering distinctive service, fostering expertise, and making a constructive influence in the social function and wider enterprise neighborhood. In his new function as director, Roberts shall be working alongside Harper to additional strengthen HaysMac’s help for charities, not-for-profits, and schooling suppliers, as the agency continues to speculate in the expansion of its social function observe.

Having beforehand spent five-and-a-half years at HaysMac, most lately as a senior supervisor, Roberts led the audits of huge worldwide charities, fundraising charities as nicely as impartial faculties, constructing a powerful fame for delivering high-quality audit and advisory companies tailor-made to organisations with a transparent social mission. He joined RSM as an affiliate director with the accounting and monetary reporting group in 2025, and spent the final yr serving to the agency take care of charity and never for revenue purchasers.

Commenting on his return to HaysMac, Roberts added, “I’m delighted to be returning to HaysMac at such an thrilling time for the agency, with it having turned 25 final month. HaysMac has a real dedication to the Social Objective sector and a tradition that actually aligns with my very own values. The agency’s deal with long-term relationships, technical excellence, and making a constructive influence is what drew me again, and I’m actually wanting ahead to working once more with such a proficient and collaborative group.”