Organisers behind The UK’s Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum (UKREiiF) have finalised their plans to move to an all employee ownership model – with all 22 full-time employees being brought into the programme alongside the business owners.

UKREiiF has quickly become the UK’s leading platform and event within the real estate, property and built environment industries having launched in 2022 – with the event expected to attract over 12,000 delegates in 2024, and generate a £20m boost for the host city Leeds.

One of their key values which features heavily across the event is social value, having created £2.25m of social impact in 2023, and bringing all members of the business together under an employee ownership model enables the business to give back to those who’ve worked tirelessly to make UKREiiF a success.

Speaking of the announcement Founder and Chief Executive Officer Keith Griffiths said: “This scheme is really enabling us to give back to people in the business whose dedication has ensured UKREiiF was a success. We often talk a lot about social value and social impact – and it felt like a natural step for myself and my fellow business founder Amanda to give back to the people who have given so much of themselves to make UKREiiF a success.”

Amanda Griffiths added: “The scheme has been a great mechanism for us to attract, retain and reward the best talent in the business which has allowed us to form an exceptional team who’ve helped create, curate and run UKREiiF, developing one of if not the fastest growing event in the UK.”

Nathan Spencer, Director at UKREiiF, added: “It’s incredibly generous from the founders to have brought all 22 members of the team into the business ownership model – their hard work and dedicated has truly enabled UKREiiF to become the UK’s leading event in the industry, and our ambitions for where it can grow to are huge. We have a really talented team here at UKREiiF at this magnanimous approach to business instils the values we talk so frequently about throughout the year at UKREiiF – we’re once again at the forefront of positive action.”

UKREiiF has quickly become the UK’s biggest property and infrastructure event – and in 2024 it will take place at Leeds Dock between the 21st and 23rd May. The forum connects investors both domestically and from overseas to UK development and regeneration opportunities, whilst bringing the wider industry together to share best practice, knowledge and thought leadership.

You can find out more at www.ukreiif.com