Our Philosophy

Our Vision

We envision a fair and functional R&D consultancy market in which all advisors are knowledgeable, competent, and ethical.

We want to see a market in which a desire to do things properly isn’t a competitive disadvantage – it’s a compelling selling point that wins you business, safeguards your clients and protects the longevity of your R&D service.

Our Mission

We seek to achieve our vision by giving compliance-minded R&D professionals the knowledge, support and recognition they need to prosper in a highly competitive market.

We give advisors access to specialist training, a certification programme, help, support and other member benefits.

Our Philosophy

Why we exist

We exist to help R&D advisors learn from each other, to stay up-to-date and compliant with the rules, and to give you a convenient way to train and support your R&D team to a consistent standard.
We believe in doing everything we can to help R&D advisors who want to continuously learn and improve. We also believe in the power of professional qualifications – our new certification programmes allow you to test and improve your knowledge in a friendly and supportive environment.

Our Roadmap

Training Catalogue

We already have hours of video-based courses, and are constantly adding more. Our training plan covers not only the R&D scheme, but Eligibility Guides that explain what R&D looks like in a range of industry sectors.

Explore our existing course catalogue

Certification programme

Now we have build out our core package of training courses, these form the basis of the UK’s first certification for R&D advisors. We are working to develop and improve the certification and plan to introduce an Advanced Certification in the next few years.

Learn more about R&D certification

HMRC Consultation

We already canvas members to represent their views to HMRC. We’d like to go beyond this and work with HMRC towards positive change in the scheme, so that good practice is rewarded and poor providers aren’t.

See our most recent consultation response

Additional Support

As we grow, we’ll invest in additional technical experts to help us build training, run webinars and run our R&D Helpline and Claim Support services. We’ll select the best people, so you get the best support possible.

Discover our Support options