Regional news 2025

Strategy is nothing without action. Yorkshire’s business leaders know better than most that plans are only as good as their execution.

Robert Lloyd Griffiths, ICAEW's Director for Wales, reviews the latest Business Confidence Monitor (BCM), while reflecting on VE Day and his personal connection to its poignant lessons.

MSCA Legacy has awarded its annual doctoral bursary to Guo Lu, a PhD student at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), in recognition of his outstanding research on the relationship between corporate culture and firms’ carbon emissions.

In November 2024, an ICAEW roundtable held in Edinburgh convened leaders from across Scotland’s energy sector to discuss the key challenges to scale deployment of green transition infrastructure in Scotland. The event included renewable energy developers, capital providers, and policy stakeholders; amongst other leaders in the advisory space.

An update on the challenges and opportunities that businesses are facing in Wales, based on member feedback from our new 'Pulse' initiative.

In March, ICAEW Midlands launched an exciting new initiative, bringing together members from ICAEW, RICS, CIPFA, CIOT, and Birmingham Law Society at two collaboration lunches.