Association of Anaesthetists

Association of Anaesthetists

The Association of Anaesthetists represent the life-changing, life-saving profession of anaesthesia. Our mission is to promote and ensure patient care and safety by supporting, informing, and inspiring a worldwide community of over 10,000 members.

 

Website: www.anaesthetists.org

X (formerly known as Twitter): @Assoc_Anaes 

BAE Systems

BAE Systems

At BAE Systems, we help our customers to stay a step ahead when protecting people and national security, critical infrastructure and vital information. We provide some of the world’s most advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions and employ a skilled workforce of 90,500 people in more than 40 countries.

From state of the art cyber threat detection to flight control systems that enable pilots to make better decisions, we never stop innovating to ensure that our customers maintain their advantage. This is a long-term commitment involving significant investments in skills. We also work closely with local partners to support economic development through the transfer of knowledge, skills and technology.

 

Website: www.baesystems.com/en/home

X (formerly known as Twitter): @BAESystemsplc

British Geriatrics Society

British Geriatrics Society

The British Geriatrics Society is the UK’s only multidisciplinary membership organisation for healthcare professionals specialising in the care of older people. Founded in 1947, the BGS now represents over 4,600 members including doctors, nurses and allied health professionals working towards an overarching aim of improving healthcare for older people in acute, primary and community care settings.

 

Website: www.bgs.org.uk

X (formerly known as Twitter): @gerisoc

The Co-Op

The Co-Op

The Co-op is the UK’s largest consumer co-operative, with 4.41 million active members and a presence in every postal area in the country. We’re a major food retailer with more than 2,400 Co-op stores of our own serving over 2.3 million customers every day, a nationwide franchise platform, we service a further 5,000 independent convenience stores through NISA, our wholesale arm, and we also service supply into approximately 1,300 independent co-operative society stores. We are the largest funeral provider in the UK and we provide life planning services and sell insurance products. Our businesses are all UK-based, our main support centre is in Manchester, and we employ over 57,000 colleagues who are absolutely vital to our ongoing success.

 

We’re a consumer-owned co-operative running an ethically responsible business. Our Vision is ‘Co-operating for a Fairer World'. Every day we champion a better way of doing business for you and your community by offering a range of products and services which create value in its broadest sense for our Co-op members and their communities. When you spend at the Co-op it does good for you, your local community and communities across the country and around the world. It’s what we do.

 

Since 1844 the co-operative movement has promoted organisations with a clear social purpose and our Co-op continues that tradition. We’re here to create value for our members and the communities in which we trade and can only do this by running a successful business. How we run our business is important to us. We set ourselves high standards for responsible retailing and service. We have a responsibility to be a campaigning business, speaking out on the issues that matter to our members. By offering great products and services we grow our customers, our membership and the positive Co-op impact and value we can bring to wider society.

 

Website: www.coop.co.uk

X (formerly known as Twitter): @coopuk

The Health & Care Forum

The Health & Care Forum

The Health & Care Forum is a collaboration of influential health and care organisations, bringing together policymakers, charities and front-line professionals to discuss the future of health and care in the UK. This year The Health & Care Forum has partnered with Roche and UCB, and will be more ambitious than ever, with 14 events across both Labour and Conservative conferences.

Key Cities

Key Cities

Key Cities is a diverse, national network that represents urban living in the UK and has the range, expertise and agility to deliver innovative solutions for the challenges we face. The 25 Key Cities are significant urban entities with integrated municipal government in close touch with the lived experience of their populations. As a network, Key Cities is well placed to offer nimble and scalable innovation to maximise the benefits of urban living in the UK. The network’s APPG, events and research initiatives help focus the national policy agenda on cities. For Key Cities, platforming and connecting the diverse voices of urban UK is central to unlocking successful devolution and a productive, balanced economy for all parts of the country.

 

Website: www.keycities.uk

X (formerly known as Twitter): @keycities

Logistics UK

Logistics UK

Logistics UK is one of the country’s largest business groups, representing the entire logistics industry and supporting, shaping and standing up for safe and efficient logistics.

 

We represent a sector delivering an increasingly innovative, productive and sustainable system of essential national infrastructure – creating opportunities across the UK and linking the UK to the global trade network. This system ensures the availability of the products households, businesses and public services rely on every day; its key hubs provide a catalyst for local economic growth, jobs and investment; and it is supporting the UK’s transformation for the future.

 

Our membership of over 20,000 includes global, national and regional businesses and SMEs spanning the road, rail, sea and air industries as well as the buyers of freight services, such as retailers and manufacturers. As an organisation, we deliver services, representation and thought leadership, helping members and policy makers to seize new opportunities for the sector and the economy as a whole, right across the country.

 

Website: www.logistics.org.uk

X (formerly known as Twitter): @LogisticsUKNews

London Councils

London Councils

London Councils is the collective of local government in London, comprising the capital’s 32 boroughs and the City of London Corporation. London Councils seeks to shape national policy to ensure our member authorities have the resources, freedoms, and powers to do the best possible job for their residents.

 

Shared ambitions are developed, agreed, championed, and delivered at London Councils by members working together. Through London Councils, boroughs speak as one and collaborate with the government, the Mayor of London, the wider public sector, the third sector, business, and other key UK and international cities.

 

Website: www.londoncouncils.gov.uk

X (formerly known as Twitter): @londoncouncils

The National Care Forum

The National Care Forum

The National Care Forum brings together over 170 of the UK’s leading social care organisations, offering thousands of services across the country, which are not-for-profit and always at the heart of community provision.

 

Website: www.nationalcareforum.org.uk

X (formerly known as Twitter): @NCFCareForum

NHBC

NHBC

NHBC is the UK’s largest new home warranty and insurance provider covering around 70-80% of new homes in the UK and protecting approximately 1.5 million policyholders. We are an independent, non-profit distributing organisation with no shareholders, reinvesting any profits made back into its core purpose to raise standards in house building.

 

NHBC cares passionately about new build quality, providing guidance and services across the industry, including research and apprenticeships.

 

Website: www.nhbc.co.uk

X (formerly known as Twitter): @NHBC

The Nuclear Industry Association

The Nuclear Industry Association

The NIA is the trade association for the UK’s civil nuclear industry. We support over 260 member companies across the supply chain to ensure more nuclear power is deployed across the UK for a safer, cleaner future; one which is better for industry and the environment.

 

Nuclear is our only source of low-carbon energy which is available 24/7, making it is essential to meet the UK’s clean energy needs. Working alongside renewables, it has provided reliable power for communities across the country for sixty years, saving more carbon emissions than any other energy source.

 

Our priority is to ensure NIA members are central to delivering the UK’s nuclear opportunity, by offering the highest level of support.

 

Website: www.niauk.org

X (formerly known as Twitter): @NIAUK

Parkinson's UK

Parkinson's UK

Parkinson's UK drives better care, treatments and quality of life.

 

Website: www.parkinsons.org.uk 

X (formerly known as Twitter): @ParkinsonsUK

Policy@Manchester

Policy@Manchester

Policy@Manchester aims to impact lives globally, nationally and locally through influencing and challenging policymakers with robust research-informed evidence and ideas. As The University of Manchester’s sector leading policy engagement unit, Policy@Manchester connects researchers with policymakers and influencers, nurtures long-term policy engagement relationships, and seeks to enhance stakeholder understanding of pressing policy challenges.

 

Website: www.policy.manchester.ac.uk

X (formerly known as Twitter): @UoMPolicy

Port of Dover

Port of Dover

The Port of Dover is closing the gap every day between the UK and the world by connecting trade, travel, visitors and communities locally-globally, collaborating with local and international partners to create a more seamless, sustainable and tech-enabled port.

 

As the UK's busiest international ferry port and a vital gateway for the movement of people and trade, Dover handles £144 billion of trade per year, 33% of UK trade in goods with the EU and welcomes over 11 million passengers.

 

Dover is also an award-winning cruise port, delivering world class travel and visitor experiences to the most prestigious cruise lines. With a growing and diversifying cargo business operating from state-of-the-art facilities, a brand-new marina which is a major feature of the exciting waterfront development, and opportunities for further expansion in the future, Dover’s proud history dating back 400 years has a new modern twist.

 

Website: www.doverport.co.uk

X (formerly known as Twitter): @Port_of_Dover

The Railway Industry Association

The Railway Industry Association

The Railway Industry Association (RIA) is the voice of the UK rail supply community. We help to grow a sustainable, high-performing, railway supply industry, and to export UK rail expertise and products. RIA has 350 companies in membership in a sector that contributes £43 billion in economic growth and £14 billion in tax revenue each year, as well as employing 710,000 people. It is also a vital industry for the UK’s economic recovery, supporting green investment and jobs in towns and communities across the UK; for every £1 spent in rail, £2.50 is generated in the wider economy. RIA’s membership is active across the whole of railway supply, covering a diverse range of products and services and including both multi-national companies and SMEs (60% by number).

 

Website: www.riagb.org.uk

X (formerly known as Twitter): @railindustry

Rail Partners

Rail Partners

Rail Partners exists to make the railway better by harnessing the expertise and creativity of private sector operators for the benefit of those who use the railway, passengers and freight customers, and those who pay for it, including taxpayers.

 

We represent independent passenger owning groups and freight operating companies, who are working together through Rail Partners to leverage their unrivalled collective experience to develop and advocate for workable policy solutions to the challenges facing the rail industry.

 

Rail Partners also provides technical services to train operators in the public and private sectors, to help them deliver a sustainable, safe, reliable, efficient and customer focused railway.

 

Website: www.railpartners.co.uk

X (formerly known as Twitter): @RailPartners

Royal College of Emergency Medicine

Royal College of Emergency Medicine

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) is the single authoritative body for Emergency Medicine in the UK. Emergency Medicine is the medical specialty which provides clinicians, doctors and consultants to A&E departments (EDs) in the NHS in the UK and other healthcare systems across the world.

 

Website: www.rcem.ac.uk

X (formerly known as Twitter): @rcollem

Thakeham

Thakeham

Thakeham is a sustainable placemaker, committed to people, communities and creating amazing places to live.


With an industry-leading focus on biodiversity and the environment, Thakeham has committed that by 2025 every home it builds will be zero carbon in operation and carbon neutral in production. This, alongside our infrastructure-led approach to placemaking, means that Thakeham is widely accepted as being at the forefront of community creation in the UK.

 

Whether offering our expertise in strategic land promotion, the delivery of high-quality private homes or partnering with Housing Associations, Councils and institutions, everything we do puts emphasis on the community and the well-being of those within it.

 

Thakeham’s placemaking approach is widely accepted as pioneering in community creation in the UK. We take a holistic, multi-faceted approach to community creation, ensuring that every aspect is carefully considered. From the development of schools, healthcare facilities, sports amenities to the integration of community-owned and run shops, cafes, allotments, co-working spaces and open green spaces. Thakeham believes a sense of belonging is key to any development flourishing.

 

Website: www.thakeham.com

X (formerly known as Twitter): @Thakeham

Trade Unionists for Safe Nuclear Energy

Trade Unionists for Safe Nuclear Energy

Trade Unionists for Safe Nuclear Energy (TUSNE) are a campaign group of trade unions that represent many thousands of workers in the civil nuclear sector.

 

Website: www.tusne.org

Western Gateway

Western Gateway

The Western Gateway is the pan-regional partnership that represents the economic powerhouse of South Wales and Western England. Representing 4.4 million people, we bring together business, research, local authorities and governments on both sides of the Severn to create growth, decarbonise our economy and support innovation. Home to world leading industry, innovative clusters and a skilled workforce, the area stands ready to become the UK’s Green Energy Powerhouse and deliver a greener fairer future for all.

 

Website: www.western-gateway.co.uk

X (formerly known as Twitter): @WesternGateway_

Speaker updates

Twitter feed