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Top 10 Regional development authorities based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 48 regional development authorities headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 32,778 professional contacts across them, including 10,159 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers regional development authorities headquartered in the 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 21, 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 21, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
48Companies
32,778Contacts tracked
10,159Verified emails
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The 10 largest regional development authorities based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 10 of 48 regional development authorities based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to regional development authorities: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceStafford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202610001+3,200 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Staffordshire County Council is here to serve its residents by making Staffordshire a great place to work and live.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
2Indirect evidenceDerry, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,000157 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
3Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200150 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The iconic Grade II* listed Battersea Power Station and surrounding area is being brought back to life as one of the most exciting and innovative mixed-use neighbourhoods in the…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
4Strong evidenceLeicester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5022 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Leicester and Leicestershire Business and Skills Partnership (LLBSP) works to drive economic growth, business development, and skills improvement in the region.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
5Indirect evidenceBristol, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-509 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Bristol Temple Quarter is one of the UK's largest, most ambitious city-centre regeneration programmes.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
6Partial evidencePeterborough, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-108 contacts →

Partial evidence

“As an economic development company, Opportunity Peterborough’s core responsibilities include marketing Peterborough to businesses to attract inward investment, engaging with local…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
7Indirect evidenceChippenham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-505 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Swindon and Wiltshire Business and Growth Unit (SWBGU) was formerly the Local Enterprise Partnership for Swindon and Wiltshire, established by Central Government in July 2011…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-105 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“With more than half the world's population now living in towns and cities, the management of urban centres is an exciting career choice for those interested in the future of the…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
9Partial evidenceLincoln, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-103 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are an economic development business.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10Strong evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 21, 20261-101 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We specialise in urban, regional and local economic development.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026

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Regional development authorities based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026
31.0%Verified-email coverage
682.9Average contacts per company
201-500Median size (employees)
12.5%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
7
11-50
11
51-200
5
201-500
6
501-1,000
4
1,001-5,000
6
5,001-10,000
6
10001+
3

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 48 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 regional development authorities, 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 the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “regional development authorities”. 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 regional development authorities), 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 regional development authorities, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 10,159 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 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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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 regional development authorities, 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 regional development authorities are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 48 regional development authorities headquartered in the 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?

Staffordshire County Council, headquartered in Stafford, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most regional development authorities?

London leads with 6 headquartered companies, followed by Birmingham (2) and Bristol (2).

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 10,159 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 48 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 21, 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.