Accessible Retail

💫Membership Renewals Are Now Open!💫 As of April 1st, 2025, Accessible Retail memberships are due for renewal! Our Chairman, Craig Wilson of EYCO, is delighted to welcome you back for another exciting year. We have a fantastic lineup of events in the coming months, including: ✅ The AR Quiz – Sponsored by Wickes 🍹 CBRE Summer Drinks 🏌️ AR Golf – Sponsored by Stockford Anderson, American Golf, and Dreams ✈️ Study Tour – Supported by L&G, TK Maxx, M&S, and Nando’s 🎄 AR Christmas Lunch Memberships run from April 1st to March 31st, and renewals are now open on our brand-new website! Follow the link below to renew today: accessibleretail.co.uk Please contact charlotte.wickington@accessibleretail.co.uk with any questions!

Lots of positive feedback from our second CPD event of the year. Kindly organised and hosted by Gary Sleator in the impressive boardroom of Aberdeeen's Edinburgh offices, with EYCO sponsoring the drinks later. A very interesting macroeconomic briefing from David Scott, with Neil Granger of TFT offering us a fly through on key ESG issues and finally a heads up from Alan McDonald of Freeths, on the proposed changes to the Scottish law on tacit relocation / automatic lease renewal rights. We do try to ensure that our CPD is insightful, bespoke and relevant. We think our attendees agreed. The next Scottish CPD will be in September. Membership renewals will be issued next week !

Great way to start a Thursday with an insightful Legal and Retail Market Breakfast, sponsored and hosted by Legal & General A huge thank you to our fantastic speakers, Matt Soffair (Legal & General) and Paul Tomkins (Freeths), for sharing their expertise and giving up their morning. Your insights were invaluable! And of course, a big shoutout to Greg Westover for making it all happen.

Still a few spaces left 👇🏼Please contact Charlotte Wickington to reserve a place.

Great to have this Completely Retail News coverage as we confirm the recent board changes at AR. New chair Craig Wilson will now be supported by Russell Homer MRICS who is stepping in to the role of Depute Chair and Kate Thompson MRICS, Henry Elwess, Catherine Barnard and Marek Kwiatkowski are all joining as new members. We also welcome Simon Letocha as a consultant advisor to the board. It's exciting times as we ramp up our networking and CPD activity for 2025. Long standing board colleagues David Marsden, Mike Spens and Martin Rodd have also left the board and do so with our immense thanks. Each have made a significant contribution, but special mention must go to Dave with 17 years’ service. https://lnkd.in/epr83J3x

With thanks to our friends at Savills, we're delighted to extend this invite to the AR membership. Spring Drinks - Savills (London) - Wednesday 2nd April 2025. Booking is essential, as restrictions on numbers will apply. Please contact charlotte.wickington@accessibleretail.co.uk

Legal & Retail Market Breakfast, kindly sponsored by Legal and General! Join us on Thursday, 20th March (8:30–10:00 AM) at Legal & General, One Coleman Street, London, for expert insights on business tenancy renewals and the retail market outlook. Speakers: 🔹 Paul Tomkins (Freeths) – Key legal cases on landlords opposing business tenancy renewals. 🔹 Matt Soffair (Legal & General Investment Management) – Retail market trends and outlook. Free event, limited spaces – AR members only. Booking required. Contact charlotte.wickington@accessibleretail.co.uk

Sign up for our first Scottish CPD/Drinks of 2025, kindly sponsored by abrdn (Gary Sleator) and EYCO

On a busy day for us, we were excited launch our rebrand yesterday and also announced that Craig Wilson of EYCO will be the new Chair of Accessible Retail. Craig is the current Depute Chair and is excited to take over from James Hamilton in the new year. The Board would like to extend their gratitude to James and also to his co-chair James Honeyman, who left the role in September. Along with the other Board members, they have overseen a rise in membership and an increase in the frequency and quality of events. Thank you both ! Our web site is also being updated and we aim to have it relaunched int be new year.