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We support you and your business at every stage with expert advice that delivers outstanding results.

We provide accounting, tax and business advice to individuals, family, and owner-managed businesses from across our offices in Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and York.

Family Businesses

The economy for the future

Craig Manson
mob: 07718 518706
cmanson@garbutt-elliott.co.uk

David Dickson
mob: 07710 024062
ddickson@garbutt-elliott.co.uk

Russell Turner
mob: 07720 549112
rturner@garbutt-elliott.co.uk

Jeremy Oliver
mob: 07779 139912
joliver@garbutt-elliott.co.uk

How can we help you with your family business?

We can make a significant contribution to the success of your family and business interests in the following areas:

  • Creating a vision and goals for the family and the business
  • Managing family involvement with the business
  • Help with governance and a family constitution
  • Succession planning and family wealth preservation

Why can Garbutt & Elliott help your family business?

  • We are fully qualified professional family business advisors (the first in the UK!) and we are corporate members of the International Centre for Families in Business
  • We have a wealth of experience in advising several hundred family businesses in our region
  • We offer a unique approach in understanding the needs and requirements of the family and the business
  • Our Directors have firsthand experience of running family businesses

For details of our family business events and other activities please visit our website or if you have a more specific query one of our family business specialists would be delighted to speak with you.

 

Latest Family Business News

Acting now could pay dividends!

As you will already be aware from the 6 April 2010 the tax rates for individuals earning over £150,000 will increase to 50%. A number of our family business clients have been looking at the timing of interim or final dividends that are normally paid post 5th April.  For some, there is an opportunity of bringing...read more

Curtain firms on track

A North Yorkshire textiles and interiors business has acquired its former sister company to take greater control of its brand as the economy starts to grow.

RE Grafton Ltd, Hookstone Park, Harrogate, which trades as James Brindley, has acquired James Brindley (Furnishings) Ltd, Wetherby – a totally separate business - for “a significant but undisclosed sum... read more

Ex-Thorntons boss lifts the lid on family firms

A businessman who headed up one of Britain’s greatest family ventures will impart his knowledge to the family businesses of York and North Yorkshire. Peter Thornton, the former chairman of Thorntons chocolates will be the guest speaker at a meeting for Family Business organised by chartered accountants Garbutt & Elliott...read more

   

Results of the National Family Business Survey

Following the success of Garbutt & Elliott’s regional Family Business Survey last year, The International Centre for Families in Business extended the Garbutt & Elliott survey nationally. For a PDF copy of the results of the full survey click here



Craig Manson, Director of Garbutt & Elliott (Back Centre) receives the Certificate for Fellowship and Corporate Membership of the International Centre for Families in Business. To find out more about the International Centre for Families in Business click here

Enter your Family Business for The Press Business Awards 2009
Once again Garbutt & Elliott are sponsors of the Press Business Awards 2009, and for the second year running we are sponsoring the Family Business of the Year category. Entering the awards is an excellent opportunity to promote and celebrate the achievements of your Family Business...read more

Firm's Award for Taking the Family into Account
Three senior directors of leading Yorkshire accountants Garbutt & Elliott, who sponsored the Press Family Business of the Year Award, have successfully completed a two-year post-graduate course in Family Business...read more

Garbutt & Elliott Sponsor Family Business of the Year Award
David Dickson, Chairman of Garbutt & Elliott introduces this brand new category for the York Press Awards 2008...read more

Garbutt & Elliott Family Business Survey Results

To download a PDF copy of the results of the large scale survey of Family Businesses in Yorkshire carried out by Garbutt & Elliott click here

Forthcoming Events and activities

We run a Special Interest Group that meets to discuss various issues facing family businesses, the next meeting will be held in Spring 2010 (venue and date tbc). If you would like to be involved in this initiative please contact Rebecca Green