Patron Membership
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry is London’s key hub for the business community. We connect our members to new opportunities, influence and knowledge, and champion London’s business community in the forums that matter. LCCI’s Patron membership is an exclusive opportunity for thought-leading businesses that are critical to London’s economy and committed to driving prosperity and growth across the UK.
Patron Members play a leading role working alongside LCCI providing much needed support and advice to London’s business community with a platform to showcase and promote their services, a positioning as trusted advisers and a profile as champions of industry.
About Patron Membership
Patron membership is designed for organisations who wish to be part of LCCI’s policy impact agenda, providing progressive thought-leadership and collaborative problem solving to influence London’s position as a world city.
Patron Members have opportunities to share their expertise, experience and advice to London’s business community, giving them a platform to showcase and promote their products and services with positioning as trusted advisers and champions of industry.
A Bespoke Package of Benefits
Positioning as Leaders and Champions of the Business Community
Engage with high profile speakers, including MPs, Commissioners and key influencers at LCCI's events. Raise concerns to prominent policy makers and business leaders through LCCI's policy and campaigning work.
Policy Insights
Patron Members provide support for collaborative research and are associated with our policy updates and discussions which lie at the heart of key issues that matter to businesses. Patron Members benefit from access to a named LCCI policy lead, participation in policy development groups and relevant policy research.
High Level Connections
Patron Members benefit from high-level engagement with the LCCI Senior Leadership team and are invited to attend unique and exclusive events reserved for our Patron Members and key stakeholders, including private lunches and visits to key infrastructure projects. Also included in Patron membership are two complimentary places at all LCCI networking events, access to market intelligence reports and mailing lists, and use of the LCCI Members' Lounge.
Member Committees
Patron Members can participate in member-led committees for LCCI's business groups and associations, including Asian Business Association, Black Business Association, Environment, Sustainability & Green Growth, Property & Construction, City of London Chamber, International Trade, Skills & Innovation, Women in Business, and Aviation.
Programme Partner
Become a Programme Partner of an LCCI thematic or business group that links to your objectives. Programme Partners play a meaningful and active role in supporting and shaping a dedicated LCCI sector, theme, or interest group focused on specific objectives through which they are awarded a significant opportunity to raise brand awareness and present their expertise to a wider audience.
Dedicated Account Management
Patron membership is a tailored programme designed to connect your company with decision makers and business leaders across the capital. Patron Members have a dedicated Account Manager who support them in designing activities that best meet their needs and facilitate introductions, thus maximising value and opportunity.
Meet our Patron Members and Programme Partners
Besso Limited
Besso Limited provide access to global insurance and reinsurance markets, and have a team of experts who handle a huge variety of risks through our specialist divisions. Versatility and reliability are hallmarks of the Besso brand.
Capital City College Group
Capital City College Group (CCCG) is London’s largest further education and training provider, with around 35,000 students and an annual income of £120m. The Group comprises three further education colleges: City and Islington College, The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London, and Westminster Kingsway College, as well as a specialist training arm, Capital City College Training (CCCT), and joint ventures 01 Founders and Visionnaires, focused on coding and entrepreneurship respectively. CCCG has 10 college sites across central and north London for 16-18 year-olds, adult learners, apprentices and businesses. It has nationally-recognised specialisms in areas such as construction, digital technology, healthcare, hospitality, rail engineering and science.
CIBC
CIBC is a leading and well-diversified North American-based financial institution built upon focused ESG principles, innovative thinking and leading technology and is committed to creating enduring value for our clients, team, communities and shareholders. In the UK and Europe, CIBC Capital Markets provides best-in-class insight, advice and execution across corporate banking, global markets, investment banking and research to institutional, corporate and public sector clients. CIBC Innovation Banking serves the innovation economy by providing valuable access, capital and connections when it matters most. Our team and network help make today’s companies, tomorrow’s market leaders.
Goodstone Living
Goodstone Living is a specialist real estate developer and investment manager creating a better way to rent. The vertically integrated platform was founded by Macquarie Asset Management in June 2021.
HaysMac
In the face of never-ending financial complexity, you need a firm that is big enough to tackle problems at scale, but with the attitude to care about how they are solved. When it comes to questions of business, social purpose and personal tax planning, you need specialists with intimate sector and market knowledge. We know financials and tax can seem impenetrable, but we love the challenge. Bring it on. It’s why we built the firm, so we can work together to find the solutions others miss. This is the HaysMac way. For business. For people. For good.
Heathrow
Heathrow is the UK’s only hub airport - a gateway to over 80 long-haul destinations - facilitating the global travel and trade that keeps the UK economy moving. Heathrow is also Britain’s busiest, in 2021, Heathrow served 19.4 million passengers, an average of 128,178 a day, alongside handling 1.4 million tonnes of cargo. It’s a place like no other – a city within a city – where colleagues connect around a common goal, to give passengers the best airport service in the world.
HRUC
Our portfolio includes three further education colleges, offering high-quality courses, apprenticeships and programmes for young people and adults, the West London Institute of Technology delivering higher technical STEM qualifications and HRUC Apprenticeships & Skills providing a range of apprenticeships and support for businesses to develop their workforce. We work closely with our communities and employers across west and south London and we are growing our international links, including our recent membership of the Industrial Liaison Program at MIT.
HSBC
HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. We serve approximately 40 million customers through our global businesses: Wealth and Personal Banking, Commercial Banking, and Global Banking & Markets. Our network covers 63 countries and territories in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, North America and Latin America. We’re here to use our unique expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives to open up a world of opportunity for our customers.
IAG
International Airlines Group (IAG) is one of the world's largest airline groups. Before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic it operated with a fleet of 531 aircraft to 279 destinations and carried around 118 million passengers each year. It is a Spanish registered company with shares traded on the London Stock Exchange and Spanish Stock Exchanges.
IGH Hotels & Resorts
IHG Hotels & Resorts is a global hospitality company, with a purpose to provide True Hospitality for Good. It has 6,300 open hotels in more than 100 countries, and a development pipeline of over 2,000 properties. IHG has a family of 19 hotel brands and IHG One Rewards, one of the world's largest hotel loyalty programmes.
Landmark Space
Businesses evolve in unexpected ways, but with Landmark Space there’s no need to worry about outgrowing your workspace. Contracts are simple, transparent, and flexible, so adapting is easy. Whether you require 1 desk or 500, Landmark Space offers ideal serviced office space across 31 prime London locations, and 8 others in 6 major cities across the UK. Access to Coworking Space in 16 locations, bookable Meeting Rooms & Day Offices, and Virtual Offices, extends your workspace to wherever you need. Our friendly, professional staff serve more than 11,500 clients every day and are always on hand to help.
Lenovo Pro
Lenovo is the world’s #1 PC vendor, with a wide portfolio of technology products. Now we offer Lenovo Pro, a dedicated store for SMBs to benefit from exclusive pricing, build to order products, tech advice from your dedicated account manager and 30 day payment terms.
London City
London City Airport (LCY) is London's most central airport, offering passengers safe, careful and speedy journeys to and from the capital. LCY is just a short hop from Canary Wharf, while the City of London can be reached in as little as 20 minutes on the DLR directly from the airport’s own station. The attractions of the West End are only another 10 minutes away.
London Gatwick Airport
Gatwick is the UK’s second largest airport and flies a range of both short and long-haul point-to-point services. The airport is a vital piece of the UK’s national infrastructure and is also a major driver for the economies of the South East and Greater London. 15 million people can get to the airport within one hour, and Gatwick is the most connected airport in the country by rail.
London Stansted Airport
London Stansted Airport is the third busiest airport in the London system, serving 200 destinations across 40 countries. A market leader for short-haul travel across Europe, it also has daily flights to Dubai and serves as a major cargo hub in support of the London economy.
London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra was established in 1904 and has been the Barbican’s Resident Orchestra since 1982. Each year the LSO presents some 70 concerts in London and over 50 concerts throughout the UK and worldwide, plus an extensive programme of online broadcasts that reach millions of music lovers worldwide. The Orchestra also runs its own world-leading learning and community programme, LSO Discovery, and has released over 200 recordings on its own label, LSO Live. Through captivating live performances, educational programmes and technological innovations, the LSO’s reach extends far beyond the concert hall – inspiring hearts and minds through extraordinary music-making.
Luton Rising
Luton Rising is a business and social enterprise owned by Luton Council for community benefit. Our largest asset is London Luton Airport, and we are proud to be the owner of the most socially impactful airport in the country, supporting and improving lives across the communities we serve. We make a major economic contribution to the region, and aim to be one of the greenest airports.
Menzies LLP
Menzies LLP is a Top 25 firm of accountants and business advisers. Specialising in property and construction as one of their key sectors, Menzies offer a wide range of services from audit and tax advice to business strategy and corporate finance.
Middlesex University London
We are a connected and collaborative global learning community with over 35,000 students across three linked campuses in London, Mauritius and Dubai. We offer unique opportunities for our students, staff and partners to study, work and create change.
Panin International
Panin International, the pioneer of the world’s 1st Sustainable Photonic Display (SPD), focuses on crafting Sustainable PHYGITAL Real Estates for Luxury Brands, exemplified by “Net-Zero 3rd Commerce Malls”. Redefining commerce with no carts, no queues, or cash counters, PANIN”s 3rd commerce seamlessly merges traditional and e-commerce, guaranteeing a mutually beneficial outcome for Brands, Buyers and the Environment.
Philharmonia
The Philharmonia Orchestra is one of the world’s leading symphony orchestras. It was founded in 1945, and Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali took up the baton as Principal Conductor in 2021. The Orchestra is made up of 80 outstanding musicians, each giving their all to contribute to the renowned Philharmonia sound. Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Arturo Toscanini, Riccardo Muti and Esa-Pekka Salonen are just a few of the great artists to be associated with the Philharmonia, and the Orchestra has premiered works by Richard Strauss, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and many others.
Pool Re
Pool Re is the Government backed reinsurer for terrorism. We provide confidence and resilience to the UK economy, whilst seeking to return risk to the private market. As a world leading public private partnership, we are an example of how Government and the insurance industry can work together to provide an imaginative solution to managing otherwise uninsurable risk.
Thames Freeport
Thames Freeport is an economic zone connecting Ford’s world-class Dagenham engine plant to the global ports at DP World London Gateway and Forth Ports’ Port of Tilbury. Thames Freeport will drive new investment, jobs, skills and the adoption of greener technology.
SSE
Part of SSE plc, the UK and Ireland's largest renewable electricity generator, SSE Energy Solutions provides gas and electricity to 500,000 business premises across the UK. SSE Energy Solutions also invests in, builds and connects localised flexible infrastructure to drive the long-term performance of energy assets.
The British Museum
The British Museum was founded in 1753 as the first national public museum of the world. Our eight million objects allow us to explore the extraordinary diversity of human cultures, from small communities to vast empires, to discover the many forms and expressions human beings have given to every aspect of life, and to realise how closely they are interconnected.
UPS
Operating in more than 220 countries and territories, UPS is committed to moving our world forward by delivering what matters. Beginning as a small messenger service started by enterprising teenagers and a $100 loan, UPS and its more than 500,000 UPSers around the globe are a transportation and logistics leader, offering innovative solutions to customers, big and small. UPS understands and appreciates its responsibility to help build safer, stronger and more resilient communities founded on justice and economic opportunity for all, supported by a healthy, sustainable global environment.
University of Westminster
The University of Westminster offers a vibrant learning environment attracting more than 20,000 students from over 155 nations, with global engagement, employability, and sustainability at the heart of what we do. Our highly attractive practice-based courses are independently rated as excellent, many with international recognition.
Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, is the oldest of the four tennis Grand Slams and the only one played on grass. Managed by The All England Lawn Tennis Club and staged on the AELTC Grounds, Wimbledon has evolved from its origins as a private members’ croquet club in 1868, to one of the world’s biggest annual sporting events and one of the most well-respected brands in sport. Visit www.wimbledon.com and follow us @wimbledon on all major social media platforms.
Policy and Public Impact
LCCI are champions of the London business community and aim to generate shared prosperity for London and the whole of the UK. We strive to make London the exemplar for sustainable economic growth and the best city in the world for business trade and investment. As London’s most representative business support organisation, we use our voice to campaign and champion key London business issues in forums of policy debate and influence in City Hall, Parliament, Local Government, and Whitehall.
LCCI’s policy work draws on our members’ experiences in the areas that matter to them most to contribute to consultations, enquiries, and debates. LCCI is also secretariat for the APPG for London as a Global City, which brings parliamentarians and London businesses together to promote London’s global position. LCCI's research covers many critical topics including sustainability, skills, diversity, housing, transport, infrastructure and trade.
Patron Member Testimonial
Patron activities are great value, providing senior-level platform for discussing key issues with industry and leading politicians.
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John Holland-Kaye
Chief Executive Officer, Heathrow
Become a Patron Member
Patron membership provides several opportunities to enhance your business profile and promote your services to a targeted audience. It grants you a place at the highest level of discussions and encourages participation in conversations across all levels, allowing you to offer support, insights, and advice on the most pressing challenges facing London’s business community.
To arrange a call to discuss Patron membership, please complete the contact form below or email patronteam@londonchamber.co.uk
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