1. Who we are
  2. Our mission

Our mission

Our mission is to help forward-thinking businesses unlock opportunity.

We’re passionate about the power of innovation to supercharge the UK economy, creating jobs, growth and solutions to society’s biggest challenges. R&D is at the heart of the UK’s national growth mission, and our work helps businesses play their part in making this a reality.

Many of our clients use the benefit they receive to hire new STEM talent and kickstart even more ambitious projects. This creates a vital pathway for future talent in science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers.

ForrestBrown can help your business harness the power of innovation incentives and reliefs, maximising the positive impact for your team, your communities and the UK economy.

We strive for excellence in everything we do. We recruit the top talent in tax and from within industry, and train to the gold standard. We’re not content to stand still, and instead constantly challenge ourselves to learn and improve. This commitment to excellence results in superior advice and amazing results.

We value relationships above all else. Keeping our clients happy is what makes us tick. We communicate openly and honestly, and take time to understand your business to uncover the full extent of your innovation. Our approach is rigorous, with a quality assurance process built-in. This means our work is considered and protected from risk.

We are energetic, driven and inquisitive by nature. We’re passionate about our clients, their innovation and the positive impact that innovation incentives can have – on a business and the UK economy as a whole. This common purpose drives us forward as a team and has a phenomenal impact.

ForrestBrown’s forest

ForrestBrown’s forest is our green initiative made possible by supporting Tree Aid, our charity partner. It is a metaphorical forest, but one with real trees that helps our planet and vulnerable populations. It’s our way of giving something back.

For each R&D tax claim we complete, we make a donation to Tree Aid, which works across the drylands of Africa. It helps transform lives by empowering people to grow nutritious food and make sustainable incomes from tree products, while tackling the effects of the climate crisis.

Since 1987, Tree Aid has partnered with local communities to grow over 40 million trees, bring over 264,000 hectares of land under sustainable management and support over 3.8 million people across African drylands.

Tree Aid is changing lives one tree at a time and we are proud to support them. To find out more, visit Tree Aid’s website.

Cropped photo of African American farm worker planting coffee sprout, Rwanda region

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The number of trees we’ve helped to plant so far

ForrestBrown’s charitable giving

Smile4Wessex

Each year, ForrestBrown selects charities to support through fundraising efforts. In 2024 we supported Smile4Wessex.

In 2025, we divided our fundraising endeavours amongst three brilliant local charities: Longfield Community Hospice (caring for adults living with a life limiting condition and supporting their loved ones/carers), R;pple (suicide prevention) and Cots for Tots (neonatal intensive care).

Our charitable giving

In previous years the ForrestBrown team has chosen to support; Smile4Wessex (2024), The British Heart Foundation (2022/23), Jessie May (2021), Penny Brohn (2020), the MNDA (2019), BRACE (2018), and Headlight (2017).

The team has raised tens of thousands of pounds through a host of creative activities, including; book and bake sale, with a competitive spinathon; a not-a-pub-quiz featuring aerial acrobatics and local Pieminster pies, a virtual tea round, 100-mile races, bake-offs, table-football competitions and much more.

ForrestBrown team spin for BRACE on the summer charity day
BRACE cycle
Lisa-Marie Smith serves pints at charity quiz
Ele and cakes at charity bake sale for Headlight Mental Health Charity

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Find out how we can help you

We’d love to help you make the most of your innovation. Whether you want support with an end-to-end R&D tax claim or require advice on how to access wider innovation incentives such as grants and Patent Box, we have the technical firepower you need.

How we work with you