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Top 14 Governance consultancies based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 37 governance consultancies headquartered in Edinburgh, United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 209 professional contacts across them, including 82 with verified work emails. Across the United Kingdom, London is the largest hub for this category (1,227 companies); Edinburgh has 37.
This list covers governance consultancies headquartered in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 28, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 14 largest governance consultancies based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Headquartered in Edinburgh, FWB is one of the UK’s leading boutique Executive Search & Board Advisory businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are an independent policy, research and grants management consultancy working for the public, charity and private sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Helping people and organisations perform better, when it matters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Quantum is a political communications agency based in Scotland and London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Multi-award winning media, political, campaigns and brand consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Transformation, made real.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LÙTH Associates is a UK based specialist consultancy company providing Non-Executive Director (NED/NXD), Board Advisory and Mentoring/Coaching services both directly to ambitious…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We provide expert consultancy services for charities of all sizes across the UK, covering strategy, growth, transformational change, governance improvement, mergers, leadership…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a small, Scottish consultancy specialising in stakeholder engagement, consultation and research across the education, outdoors and sustainability sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Playfair Scotland has unrivalled experience of the Scottish political scene in terms of knowledge of local, Scottish and UK government politics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Formation Consultancy helps universities, funders and public organisations tackle a growing challenge: How do you manage risk, strengthen governance and protect collaboration…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “dere-street provides project and programme support and consultancy services, leveraging experience from designing and delivering more than £50M worth of multi-partner programs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to KarenMooreBiz, Interim Chief Executive, Strategic Consultancy and Executive Coaching or Mentoring support for Scotland’s non-profit sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PolicyScribe is an independent consultancy providing research and evaluation services to public sector organisations, NGOs, and private businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: governance consultancies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names governance consultancies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of governance consultancies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name governance consultancies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Governance consultancies based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United Kingdom list rather than for Edinburgh, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Edinburgh, over 37 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among governance consultancies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Edinburgh, United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “governance consultancies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names governance consultancies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among governance consultancies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Edinburgh are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 82 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Governance consultancies by metro in the United Kingdom
- Governance consultancies in London1227
- Governance consultancies in Manchester47
- Governance consultancies in Bristol36
- Governance consultancies in Leeds30
- Governance consultancies in Belfast28
- Governance consultancies in Birmingham28
- Governance consultancies in Cardiff25
- Governance consultancies in Glasgow25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names governance consultancies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many governance consultancies are there based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 37 governance consultancies headquartered in Edinburgh, United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
FWB, headquartered in Edinburgh, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United Kingdom has the most governance consultancies?
London leads the United Kingdom with 1,227 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (47) and Edinburgh (37).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 82 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 37 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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