We are pleased to provide the results of our ICAEW Probate Diversity Survey 2025.

Whitehead & Howarth as a firm is licensed by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to carry out the reserved legal activity of non-contentious probate in England and Wales (ICAEW).  We are required by ICAEW along with other such firm’s to complete the ‘Probate Diversity Survey 2025’.

The firm’s survey results for 2025 show that we continue to be a mixed team with representation from both males and females at different levels across the firm.  Whilst we are primarily a Chartered Firm we have a strong mixture of qualified Chartered, other Qualified staff and staff in training.  Our workforce draws from a wide range of ages and demonstrates some ethnic diversity amongst our team.

The majority of us have state school education and for many of us who attended university we are the first generation from our families to do so.

If you had undertaken this survey for our firm 100 years ago when it was only a couple of years old the survey results would have been very different.

Whitehead Howarth – ICAEW Diversity 2025 – Survey Report