Freedom Weekends

CLIENT NAME

FREEDOM WEEKENDS

SECTOR

ORGANISATION

PRODUCT

Dynamic Package System for a Party Organisation Platform

ABOUT

After planning a friend’s stag-do felt like herding cats, founder of Freedom Weekends Mike Wood had his light-bulb moment, so made it his mission to make life easier for event/group organisers by creating a bespoke, intuitive party organisation platform – MyFreedom.

MyFreedom allows individuals to invite guests online to pay for an event in instalments, manage and configure their parties, hide special events from a singular user and download tickets. The intuitive platform automates the execution of administrative functions, allowing the organiser to effectively save time trawling through endless websites and manage all events on one platform.

WHY DOES THIS QUALIFY?

Freedom Weekends developed a new event planning platform with bespoke functionality that allows users to invite guests online, utilise instalments for the payment, manage activities and download tickets.

The development of a platform with bespoke functionality created numerous programming challenges for the team at Freedom Weekends. Substantial amounts of staff time and investment were required to overcome those issues and ensure a smooth user experience.

From an R&D tax credits standpoint, technical challenges that are not easily solvable by industry experts are usually examples of qualifying R&D projects.

WHAT COSTS WERE THEY ABLE TO RECOVER?

By submitting an R&D application, Freedom Weekends have been able to recover the costs associated to:

Salaries of staff working on the R&D project and carrying out activities supporting the R&D
Energy bills (gas and electricity) for systems that were used to conduct R&D
Software used directly for R&D purposes and software indirectly used to support these activities

HOW APOGEE HELPED FREEDOM WEEKENDS

Apogee was recommended to Mike through a business owner on the Goldman Sachs Entrepreneur Programme with Oxford University.

Despite carrying out qualifying R&D activities on daily basis, Freedom Weekends only recently submitted their first R&D application. Our team of experts provided clarity on HRMC’s requirements and facilitate the processes, minimising the client input and gathering all the information needed in two meetings lasting less than an hour each. After finalising our technical report, we delt directly with Mike’s accountant and ensured a smooth submission for the client.