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Family Business UK is a growing body of family businesses working to create a more prosperous and sustainable future for generations to come.

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FBUK Publishes Annual Report

April 24, 2024

Family Business UK have today published our Annual Report, covering the 18-month period July 2022 – December 2023. Comments on the annual report from Neil Davy, CEO of Family Business UK. As members will see from the report, the second half of 2022 focussed on developing a new strategy for the organisation (then known as […]

Family Business' UK Ownership Masterclass

FBUK delivers inaugural Ownership in Family Business Masterclass

April 18, 2024

A successful and insightful day of knowledge share, benchmarking, and exchange of best practice on the thorny topic of Ownership in a family business, was kindly hosted by our partners NatWest in Bishopsgate, London on the 15th April 2024. Moderated and skillfully led by subject matter experts from our carefully selected Corporate Partners Deloitte Private, […]

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How Succession can Make or Break a Family Business – FBUK in the FT.com

April 10, 2024

Family Business UK, and a number of our Family Business members, were delighted to be quoted, and featured in an article in today’s (9th April 2024) Financial Times article: How Succession can make or break a family business. To read the article, please log into the Financial Times.com, using your FT.com account, at – https://on.ft.com/3vz9VWl […]

FBUK Announce strategic partnership with Saxton Bampfylde

March 28, 2024

Family Business UK are delighted to announce a new corporate partnership with executive search and leadership advisory experts Saxton Bampfylde launching today, Thursday 28th March 2024. FBUK has established partnerships with carefully selected and highly respected organisations, that provide compelling professional services to family businesses. They are critical allies and supporters of our work with […]

FBUK announces strategic partnership with Redgrave

March 27, 2024

Family Business UK are delighted to announce a new corporate partnership with executive search and leadership advisory experts, Redgrave Search launching today, Wednesday 27th March 2024. Family Business UK has established partnerships with carefully selected and highly respected organisations, that provide compelling professional services to family businesses. They are critical allies and supporters of our […]

Historic London family businesses play host to FBUK Community

March 8, 2024

The FBUK Non-Family Executive Community were delighted and grateful to be hosted by community members Emma Fox, CEO of Berry Bros. & Rudd and Ben Dalrymple, MD at Lock & Co Hatters this past week. The evening started with a tour of the two iconic family businesses, neighbours on London’s historic St James’s Street. At Berry Bros. & Rudd, the […]

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Discussing Family & Non-family NED’s in Family Business with Deloitte

March 7, 2024

Last month we were delighted to be hosted by FBUK Partners Deloitte in Manchester to discuss the important role of Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) as well as some key differences between family and non-family NEDs. Starting the session by tackling some common preconceptions, the presentation then went on to highlight 3 significant attributes which make NEDs […]

Family Business UK response to Spring Budget 2024

March 6, 2024

Fiona Graham, Chief Advocacy Officer at Family Business UK responding to the Spring Budget said: “With challenges facing them on multiple fronts, the family business community has been waiting on tenterhooks about what support the Chancellor would offer to help kickstart the economy. “While there were incremental improvements on full expensing and VAT thresholds, sadly […]

Upcoming events

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Masterclass

London Bridge, London

14 May 2024, 9:00 am

Masterclass: NEDs

About The Family Business UK Masterclass series, aims to aid and support people involved in family businesses (be they owners, family members, executives or in Board roles) navigate the complexities and nuances of managing, leading and/or owning a family business. This 1-day immersive programme includes: Real-life examples and case studies – Getting the right people […]

Family Business Visit

Papworth Everard, Cambridge

30 April 2024, 3:00 pm

Family Business Visit: Swiss Camplings

About Join us to visit Swiss Camplings and hear how this family owned business is always striving to stay true to its values. Their sector, as a commercial laundry, can often be overlooked and undervalued causing challenges and barriers to growth. This visit will showcase business as usual in this somewhat hidden sector. Hear about […]

Annual Conference

Liverpool Street, London

5 June 2024, 9:00 am

Family Business UK Annual Conference 2024

The Faces of Family Business Harnessing the Power of People 5-7 June 2024 One of the unique advantages of family businesses is the value they place on people. They recognise every person in the business, be they family or non-family, brings a unique set of skills and capabilities. Managed well, the relationships between the people […]