The award winners' award winner. Jumpstart's R&D tax credit expertise takes the glittering prizes

EDINBURGH, Scotland - Aug. 21, 2013 - PRLog -- The Edinburgh-based company, which walked away with the award for the Most Innovative Product or Service at the prestigious 2020 Annual Innovation Awards 2012, was shortlisted for the ScotlandIS 2013 Digital Technology Awards.

While Jumpstart was highlighted in the Outstanding Performance in Business Growth category, no fewer than THREE of its existing clients competed for the coveted title of Best Digital Agency - won in the end by Alienation Digital.

Alienation (http://www.alienationdigital.co.uk/) Digital (http://www.alienationdigital.co.uk/), Screenmedia (http://www.screenmedia.co.uk)and NSDesign (http://www.nsdesign.co.uk/), who all vied for the top award, have all enlisted the aid of Jumpstart's top business and technical analysts to reclaim Research and Development tax credits. Gary Ennis, chief executive of NSDesign was joint-winner of CEO of the Year award.

Phill Gillespie, the business analyst who specialises in IT and software at Jumpstart, and who introduced all three companies to the immense benefits that R&D tax credits can bring to a company, said:

"Everyone at Jumpstart wants to join in congratulating Alienation Digital, Screenmedia and NSDesign competing so innovatively in the Best Digital Agency category. They are all dynamic companies with a great vision and a great future.

"The fact that they are all Jumpstart clients illustrates that award winners are attracted to award winners, because they share the same driving, ambitious, competitive and forward looking attributes."

Jumpstart has also been shortlisted in the Growth Strategy of the Year award category in the Scottish Business Awards for 2013 - which puts it in the same company as TEN of its current clients. It has also has been involved recently in the Growing Business awards 2012 and the Business Finance Awards 2013.

Involvement in such prestigious awards is a remarkable recognition of Jumpstart's game-changing approach to submissions to HMRC, the success it has brought to the fast-growing company and the invaluable financial rewards that have been gained for clients.

Brian Williamson, Jumpstart managing director, said: "Jumpstart is becoming known as the company award winners come to. In essence, we work with award winning companies which, in turn, attracts award winners we do not work with. We are also attracting companies who are keen to win awards and see an alliance with us as a good route to follow."

Mr Williamson pointed out that 50% of the winners at the Scottish Baker of the Year 2013 awards were Jumpstart clients.

He said that awards recognise that Jumpstart has continued to provide a unique blend of technological and business expertise to guide companies through the complexities of submitting claims to HMRC, with a success rate of 98.6%.

The company has, through the depths of a sustained recession, maintained an average turnover growth of 201% since 2008, with next year's turnover heading for £9.3 million on current growth rates.

Brian Williamson added: "Jumpstart's business model is not only generating unprecedented success for us as a company, it is also a vital weapon in the armoury of UK plc.

"This government and its predecessors have made the funds available to foster and encourage innovation and research among British companies. It is up to us to make sure that these resources can be efficiently tapped for the long-term benefit of the wider economy."

For more information, please visit www.alienationdigital.co.uk, www.screenmedia.co.ukand www.nsdesign.co.uk.

For further information about Jumpstart, contact Brian Williamson, 6 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh EH3 8HA. t: +44 (0) 131 240 2900. f: +44 (0) 131 226 4506. e: helpinghand@jumpstartuk.co.ukw:www.jumpstartuk.co.uk