Bristol’s family-run businesses can find out about the kind of support and information available to them from the city’s specialist advisers at a taster session staged by a new insight group.
FiB Insight, pioneered by national organisation Families in Business (FiB), is a confidential peer group for family businesses. It launches in Bristol with a free half-day event on February 12 at Close Brothers Asset Management’s offices on Queen Street.
FiB, which is dedicated to supporting the UK’s family run and owned businesses, is inviting between five and 10 current and/or future executives from family-owned businesses in and around Bristol to take part. 
FiB CEO and founder of Dani Saveker said: “The group meets in a neutral setting for half a day every other month, to discuss their challenges, evaluate opportunities, and solve an assortment of strategic, operational and often personal issues that are unique to family firms.”
The session will be facilitated by FiB’s team of trained, experienced professionals.
“Our team are skilled in challenging, stimulating thinking, framing issues and guiding discussions by channeling their appreciation of the issues that family businesses face,” added Dani.
“Whilst this is the first Insight Group event in Bristol, we have run these events in other parts of the UK and family business executives taking part have told us they instantly felt supported, understood and focused after taking part in the sessions. The events are hosted in a neutral setting, are highly confidential, and involve a group of non-competing peers,” she says.
The FiB Insight group event will also introduce family businesses to the portfolio of specialised tools and approaches tried and trusted by FiB when working with its growing community of family business members.
The South West has 250,000 family businesses, and nationally family firms account for two in every three of the UK’s private enterprises, with more than 3m family businesses in the UK. Together, they have a combined annual turnover of £1.1 trillion, employ 9m-plus people, and contribute almost a quarter of the UK’s GDP.
FiB’s national network of approved advisers, which includes Close Brothers Asset management in Bristol, is a vital component of its specialist support for the UK’s family business sector.
To reserve a place at the Bristol event, email: Jennette@fibcommunity.com. For more information, visit: http://www.fibcommunity.com/bristol-insight-group-taster-session
