Annual Conference 2025 in Review
The Family Business Recipe
Our 2025 annual conference brought together 300 delegates from family businesses across the country, making it the biggest FBUK conference yet.
Focused on the purpose and values of a family business, like the ingredients in an old family recipe, delegates heard how these core ingredients are key to sustaining a successful family business.
With keynote speeches from Sir John Timpson CBE on putting people, culture and happiness at the heart of the business to Jonathan and Ross Warburton on building stronger business and customer relations by sticking to their core family values.
FBUK Annual Conference 2025 in numbers
- 300 registered attendees
- 5 family business visits showcasing the cream of Manchester’s family businesses
- 40 speakers
- 15 workshops including 3 interactive BPR forums
- 98% of attendees rated speakers good or excellent
- 91% felt content was relevant to the needs of their family business
- 98% said they would attend a future FBUK conference
Testimonials
“An unrivalled gathering of thoughtful, ambitious, productive and connected family business owners.”
Alex Scott, Applerigg
“I would recommend FBUK to any medium sized or large family business. They are the only organisation specifically working for the family business sector both providing support for members and undertaking significant lobbying activities with government. The annual conference is a great opportunity to meet with other like-minded companies and share best practice and hear from some leading companies about their stories.”
Charles Hodgson, Hodgson Sealants Group Ltd
Thank you to our sponsors
James Reed OBE, Chair & CEO of Reed
Sir James Wates, former Chair of Family Business UK
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