The Centre is committed to ensuring the most up-to-date and relevant professional support and advice is available to family businesses. Having started with the development of the UK's first MBA for Family Business their major purpose is to offer family businesses a safe place for learning and education and a place where the family and other key personnel can gain access to information, attend workshops, seek advice, and above all, meet and share informationa and best practice with other families in business.

The Centre also offers a range of programmes for professional advisers and intermediaries who work with family businesses - hoping to overcome the views of respondents to a recent survey where only 40% of those surveyed believed that their advisers understood the very nature of their organisation as a family business.

These programmes will give professionals working with family businesses the opportunity to learn more about the nature and the dynamics of the family business and enhance their own skills and experiences through a series of programmes designed to support their own personal development.