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ICAEW Business Advice Service

The ICAEW Business Advice Service is a support programme offering a free first consultation with a Chartered Accountant for entrepreneurs, start-ups and small or medium-sized businesses in the United Kingdom. Open, no fixed deadline.

Run by ICAEW

Checked against the official page (icaew.com) on 5 Oct 2026.

Free initial consultation with an ICAEW Chartered Accountant for entrepreneurs, start-ups and small or medium-sized businesses.

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These details are gathered from public web pages and are not financial advice. Check them with ICAEW before you apply.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open all year

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Open all year

Confirmed on the official page

How much

Free consultation

Not confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

Entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small or medium-sized businesses can access a free initial consultation with an ICAEW Chartered Accountant.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Start-ups, Micro (under 10 staff), Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 staff)

Confirmed on the official page

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How to apply

Contact ICAEW to arrange a free initial consultation with a regulated accountancy firm.

Not confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

Confirmed on the official page

HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

Drawn from the areas the funder names. If a scheme is only for part of a council area, check its own page. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.

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Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Checked against the official page (icaew.com) on 5 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 22 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with ICAEW before you apply.

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