What Land Family Business does

Land Family Business (legal entity: Churchgates Land Family Business Limited) is a UK private limited accountancy and tax advisory firm headquartered at Home Farm, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon. Incorporated in 2017 but operating a practice whose roots date to 1992, the firm delivers specialist accountancy, tax planning, and financial advisory services to farms, estates, and other rural family-owned businesses across England. Its service portfolio spans eight core lines: Capital Taxes, Business Restructuring, Land & Property Taxes, Specialist Trust Advice, Succession Planning, Tax Compliance, Cloud Accounting & Bookkeeping, and Gross Margin Accounts & Benchmarking, supported by a client portal (OneClick, powered by CCH OneClick) for secure document exchange.

The firm's underlying technology stack is entirely third-party: cloud accounting platforms Xero, QuickBooks, and Sage handle bookkeeping and reporting, while CCH OneClick powers client collaboration. Land Family Business builds no proprietary software. Its proprietary analytical asset is the Rural Business Survey, an annual benchmarking study produced by Director Gary Markham since 1992 using client farming data — a longitudinal dataset that constitutes the firm's main non-human intangible asset.

Land Family Business operates a fee-based professional services model with engagement-level pricing; no public price list exists and the firm offers free initial consultations. Go-to-market is sales-led, relying on referrals, an annual conference (100+ attendees in 2023, continuing through 2026), a recurring Tax Tips newsletter, content marketing, and a professional network within the UK agricultural sector. The firm is independently owned with no disclosed external funding or parent entity, and revenue is not publicly reported.

Name

Land Family Business

Legal name

Churchgates Land Family Business Limited

Website

https://landfamilybusiness.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

UK private accountancy firm (1-10 staff) delivering specialist tax, succession, and financial advisory services to farms, estates, and rural family businesses across England, operating from Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon since 2017.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Tax and Rural Accountancy Services

NAICS

Accounting, Tax Preparation, Bookkeeping, and Payroll Services (54121), Trust, Fiduciary, and Custody Activities (523991)

akta.pro primary industry

Estate Planning, Trust Structuring & Governance (FSAAADAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Family Business & Succession Advisory (FSAAADAL)

Keywords

• Rural accountancy services
• Agricultural tax advisory
• Farm succession planning
• Estate tax planning
• Rural business advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Huntingdon

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Accounting Services: Fee-based accounting, tax advisory, and consultancy services for farms, estates, and rural businesses. Revenue is generated through engagement fees for strategic tax advice, compliance services, and ongoing accountancy support tailored to the agricultural sector.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Land Family Business provides accountancy, taxation, and financial advisory services to UK farms, estates, and rural businesses. Core deliverables include capital taxes and land & property tax advisory, succession and specialist trust planning, business restructuring, tax compliance, cloud-based bookkeeping and accounts preparation, and gross margin benchmarking for agricultural clients. The firm supplements advisory work with an in-house client portal (OneClick) and an annual Rural Business Survey.

Product overview

Land Family Business is an accounting and tax advisory firm (not a software product company) offering a comprehensive suite of professional services delivered through a team-led model. The core service portfolio comprises nine distinct service lines: Capital Taxes, Business Restructuring, Land & Property Taxes, Specialist Trust Advice, Succession Planning, Tax Compliance, Cloud Accounting & Bookkeeping (using Xero, QuickBooks, and Sage platforms), and Gross Margin Accounts & Benchmarking. The firm also provides a client-facing digital portal called OneClick (powered by CCH OneClick) for secure document sharing and communication. Additionally, the firm produces the annual Rural Business Survey as a benchmarking research product for the agricultural sector. Services are organised across eight client sectors: Agricultural Sector Services, Farms & Estates, Rural Businesses, Private Clients, Land & Property Taxation, Trusts & Estates, and Diversification in Agriculture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Capital Taxes Advisory
• Land & Property Taxes
• Specialist Trust Advice
• Succession Planning
• Business Restructuring
• Tax Compliance
• Cloud Accounting & Bookkeeping
• Gross Margin Accounts & Benchmarking
• OneClick Client Portal
• Rural Business Survey Annual research publication surveying rural businesses, published by the firm as a thought-leadership and client-engagement asset.

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Townsend Chartered SurveyorsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization providing chartered surveying services. Featured in BNG and Carbon workshop content on Land Family Business website, discussing biodiversity net gain topics.
• Soil CapitalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCarbon farming platform. Representatives Andrew Voysey and Lyndon Cathers discussed carbon market myths and opportunities at LFB workshops. Free online carbon simulator offered to clients.
• Sentry LimitedcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFarming analytics company. Collaborated on the 2022 Annual Conference with George Thomas and Alec Smith presenting on natural capital and benchmarking analytics.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Bidwells: UK property consultancy with a rural and agribusiness team serving estates and farms across the country. Comparable to LFB through shared rural client base and advisory scope, though structured around property transactions rather than tax/accountancy.
• BDO UK: Global audit and advisory firm with a UK agribusiness practice advising farms, estates, and rural enterprises. A broad incumbent peer whose rural team competes with LFB for mid-market agricultural advisory mandates.
• Crowe UK: Major UK accounting and advisory network operating broadly across sectors, including an agribusiness team serving farming and rural clients. Represents the larger incumbent competitive set LFB competes against for larger rural engagements.
• Savills Rural: UK rural property consultancy advising on estates, farms, and land management with adjacent tax and succession advisory. Overlaps with LFB in rural client base and estate planning scope, but with a property-led rather than accountancy-led model.
• Saffery Champness: UK top-20 accountancy firm with a significant private client and landed estates practice. Comparable to LFB on succession, trusts, and private client work, but serving a broader and higher-net-worth client pool nationally.

Direct peers

• Kreston Reeves: Top-25 UK accountancy firm with a recognised agribusiness and rural sector practice. Comparable to LFB in client base (farms, estates, rural SMEs) but with materially greater scale and breadth.
• Accession Rural Wealth Management: UK specialist rural wealth management firm providing succession planning and tax advisory to farming families. Directly comparable to LFB as a niche rural financial advisory peer; already known through the LFB conference partnership.
• Old Mill Accountants: UK accountancy firm with a dedicated rural and agricultural sector team serving farms and estates. Closely matches LFB's positioning as a specialist rural practice with similar service-line breadth.
• PKF Francis Clark: UK regional accountancy firm with a strong rural and agricultural client base across the South West. Comparable service mix including tax planning, succession, and rural business advisory, but at greater scale than LFB.

Emerging players

• Ceres Rural: UK agricultural consultancy focused on rural business management, environmental schemes, and farm advisory. Comparable to LFB at the farm-management and diversification advisory level rather than the tax-compliance level.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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