What Enventure Research does

Enventure Research is a UK-based independent market research agency founded in 2003 and headquartered at Thornhill Brigg Mill in Brighouse, West Yorkshire. The firm delivers bespoke research, consultation, and engagement services to public sector bodies, professional membership organisations, healthcare regulators, housing associations, emergency services, charities, and educational institutions across the United Kingdom. Its 1-10 person team, led by Managing Director Mark Robinson and Research Director Matt Thurman, executes mixed-methodology projects including online, telephone, and face-to-face surveys, focus groups, in-depth interviews, postal surveys, workshops, and online research communities.

The core offering is a professional services engagement model rather than a software product. Enventure uses standard survey infrastructure — Snap Surveys as referenced in survey URLs, secure cloud-based encrypted data storage, and IQCS-trained interviewers — combined with bespoke question design, statistical analysis, longitudinal tracking, and creative reporting. The company holds ISO 9001 accreditation, Cyber Essentials certification, and Market Research Society (MRS) Company Partner status, positioning it for regulated public sector procurement. Over 60 case studies are published on the company website.

Revenue is generated entirely through commissioned bespoke projects quoted per engagement, with multi-year repeat contracts evidenced by Clarion Housing (since 2017), CIOB (2024 and 2025), GOC (now in its 5th wave in 2025), and Peabody (2019-2023). The firm is privately held and founder/owner-managed, with no disclosed external investors or parent company. Distribution is direct via website contact, phone, and email, supported by competitive tender processes for public sector work and event presence at conferences such as MemberWise MX2024 and the Housing Studies Association Annual Conference.

Name

Enventure Research

Legal name

Enventure Research Limited

Website

https://enventure.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Enventure Research is a UK-based independent market research agency founded in 2003 that delivers bespoke research, consultation, and engagement services to public sector bodies, healthcare regulators, professional membership organisations, housing associations, and charities across the United Kingdom using mixed quantitative and qualitative methodologies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Market Research Services

NAICS

Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling (54191)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Industry & Sector Research (Syndicated/Custom) (BPAHALAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

English Learners with Disabilities (ELD/ESL Special Education) Materials (EDAGAMAL)

Keywords

• Market research services
• Public sector research
• Member engagement surveys
• Consultation and engagement
• Bespoke research consultancy

Headquarters

HQ city

Brighouse

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Bespoke Research and Consultation Services: Enventure Research generates revenue through commissioned bespoke research, consultation, and engagement projects for public sector, professional, and not-for-profit clients. Projects are project-based and quoted per engagement. No subscription, freemium, or recurring SaaS revenue model is described. Each project is individually commissioned and delivered.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Enventure Research designs and delivers bespoke research, consultation, and engagement projects for public, professional, and not-for-profit sector clients across the United Kingdom. Each project is commissioned individually using mixed methodologies (online, telephone, face-to-face, and postal surveys, focus groups, in-depth interviews, workshops, and online research communities) and delivered with question design, analysis, reporting, and presentation of findings. The output is insight and recommendations tailored to the client's strategic or operational question, rather than a standardised software product.

Product overview

Enventure Research is a service company offering bespoke research, consultation and engagement solutions rather than a software product. Their core offering is a comprehensive suite of research methodologies including online surveys, telephone surveys, face-to-face surveys, focus groups, in-depth interviews, postal surveys, workshops, online research communities, observation, question design, insightful analysis, and creative reporting. They work across sectors including local and regional government, health and social care, membership organisations, regulation, housing, education, charity and not-for-profit, and emergency services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Research and Consultation Services Bespoke, commissioned market research, consultation, and engagement services delivered to UK public, professional, and not-for-profit sector clients using mixed qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Each project is scoped individually with the client and covers question design, data collection, analysis, reporting, and presentation of findings, serving local and regional government, health and social care, membership organisations, regulators, housing, education, emergency services, and charities.

Quantifiable outcome

• 9,038 school pupil survey responses analysed for Wakefield Council's School Health Survey
• +9 more outcomes

Named customers28 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles7 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Savanta: UK-based full-service research agency that operates membership and public sector research practices; materially overlaps with Enventure in healthcare regulator and membership survey work, though at larger typical project scale.
• Walnut Unlimited: Independent UK insight agency with public sector and membership clients; offers mixed-method bespoke research similar to Enventure and competes for the same mid-sized tenders from professional bodies and local authorities.
• Censuswide: UK-based full-service research agency operating across public, third-sector, and professional body clients; overlaps with Enventure on membership insight, stakeholder surveys, and public consultation work.
• Opinion Research Services (ORS): Welsh-registered research agency focused on public services, housing, and local government consultation; highly comparable sector mix to Enventure and a frequent co-bidder on UK social housing and local authority tenders.
• DJS Research: Independent UK research agency of similar scale delivering bespoke quantitative and qualitative studies to public, not-for-profit, and membership clients using mixed methodologies - a near-direct overlap on Enventure's core offer.
• BritainThinks: UK research and insight consultancy with a strong public engagement and policy research practice; directly comparable on stakeholder consultation work for local and central government clients.
• Hopkins Van Mil: Boutique UK stakeholder engagement and consultation consultancy focused on infrastructure, planning, and public sector; comparable on the consultation/engagement leg of Enventure's offer, especially for local authority and combined authority clients.
• BMG Research: UK-based independent market research agency with comparable sector mix across public sector, NHS, housing associations, and membership organisations; competes head-to-head for many of the same local authority and regulator tenders Enventure pursues.
• Research by Design: UK research consultancy providing bespoke insight work to public sector, housing, and not-for-profit organisations; highly comparable in sector focus, methodology, and project size to Enventure's wheelhouse.

Broad incumbents

• Ipsos UK: Global research giant with a substantial UK public sector and healthcare practice; competes at the larger end of the tenders Enventure bids for and shapes buyer expectations on quality and methodology.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/enventure-research
• Xx.com/Enventure_Ltd

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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