Welcome from FBUK CEO
Neil Davy CEO, Family Business UK
“It’s time to speak-up and make the voice of family businesses heard. And FBUK is here to help.”
businesses matter. For more than a decade our COO Fiona Graham has lobbied policymakers to better understand family businesses. In this edition, she lifts the lid on her journey, arguing why standing up, speaking up and building awareness and influence is critical to ensure policymakers and politicians understand the governance principles that underpin the model of family business and what motivates you – the owners and custodians of your family businesses. There has never been a more important or opportune time. For many FBUK Members family values underpin their business, shaping and defining how they work with one another, colleagues, suppliers and customers alike. It’s often a unique selling point that is under-appreciated and poorly marketed. It’s an opportunity missed. This year – as we celebrate our 25th anniversary – we’re calling on you to showcase your innovation and leadership, to help ensure that family businesses in the UK get the recognition and support you deserve from policymakers, the media and consumers.
Alongside the incredible legacies of our Members, FBUK marking a quarter century feels a little trifling. Nevertheless, this year marks our 25th anniversary. We want to use this year as an opportunity, not to talk about FBUK, but to talk about you, by sharing your stories of leadership and legacy. We start in this edition of the magazine by hearing from the two founders of FBUK, or the IFB as it was, Alex Scott and Grant Gordon. Being part of the organisation founded by Alex and Grant makes you part of a diverse community of people and businesses sharing the common thread of family ownership – a thread which confers enormous benefit to the country but brings with it common challenges. Finding shared solutions to those challenges through our advocacy work, peer networks, and the sharing of experiences and learning was as important to the IFB 25 years ago as it is to FBUK today. But an equally important reason for being part of FBUK is helping us tell the world about why family
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