APRIL 2020

In April 2020, a new insurance advisory business entered the insurance marketplace - Partners&. Led by CEO, Phil Barton, Partners& marked a turning point in the way advisers engage with clients. Our focus is on providing high quality, seamless insurance, risk management and employee benefits advice, supported by a culture of partnership between our people, our clients and our ecosystem.

a culture of partnership between our people, our clients and our ecosystem.

Partnership is in our DNA

Our aim is to create the best insurance advisory business in the UK, characterised by...

  • People who stand shoulder to shoulder with you
  • Advice that makes a difference
  • Outcomes that shape your future

Our business is based on...

  • Our Purpose
    We’ve observed many of the best and worst practices in the insurance advisory market. We’re here to challenge the status quo and establish a new level of service.

    ABOUT PARTNERS&

  • Our People
    Our unswerving focus on clients and colleagues is vital to our success. We have built an incredibly talented team and we’re creating a vibrant, collaborative culture. Meet the team.

    OUR TEAM

  • Our Values
    As a values driven business, what we believe informs what we do and how we do it. It’s no surprise that they spell PACE, describing the energy, dynamism and optimism that runs through our business. Read about our values

    OUR VALUES

our first award

Our success is based on the quality of people we employ and the service we deliver.

Investors in Customers Gold Award

We fundamentally believe in continuous improvement. The best client solutions are formed on the intimate understanding we have of our client’s needs and opinions. The survey is an important step to obtain client and employee views on how well we listen and respond to their feedback and ideas. Read about our client experience action plan

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Wearing our Chartered status with pride

Attaining Chartered status is a public declaration of our professional standards. With a focus on technical excellence, abiding by a strict code of ethics and a desire to give back to the communities in which we operate, the values and goals of the Chartered Institute of Insurance Chartered status are fully aligned with our approach.

Launched next generation strategy

Learning from the past to create a better future is at the heart of our Next Generation strategy.

Our mission is to challenge the status quo. We’ve studied our market today, identified best practise, embraced it, and are now committed to going beyond that standard to challenge ourselves to be progressive, continually asking:

  • How can we improve?
  • Is what we’re doing providing tangible benefits for our clients?
  • What do we need to do to consistently deliver better client outcomes?

That is what being ‘next generation’ means to Partners&, and it’s the theme of this strategic period (April 2021 to September 2023).

2021

  • GWP £80m
  • Revenue £13m
  • People 250
  • We believe that...
  • Cutting edge IT that will enable us to deliver exceptional outcomes
  • Highly motivated and capable colleagues delivering for our clients
  • Seamless advice process which builds the business resilience of our clients
  • A first class Ecosystem, enabling us to stand shoulder to shoulder with clients
  • ...will enable us to become the best advisory business in the UK.

June 2021

We’re creating a better way…
…one based on supporting our clients to be more resilient to the risks they face

Challenge... support... perform

The Partners& Difference
Our approach to advice is different to most in the market – we challenge each client’s notion of risk and the efficacy of their existing insurance programme. Then we provide the support to ensure clients have the right advice so that their programme performs when it is needed most.

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June 2021

...and supporting the wellbeing and resilience of our people

Introducing the BEAT programme

Having grown from 50 to 300 people in a short space of time, we were keen to ensure we created a working environment where colleagues feel they belong, and to focus on the wellbeing and resilience of our people to ensure they’re in great shape to thrive, whatever comes our way. Our award winning BEAT programme was born.

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Our award winning equality, diversity and inclusion programme ‘BEAT’.

  • Broker Innovation Awards 2022: Best Diversity & Inclusion programme
  • UK Broker Awards 2021: Best Diversity & Inclusion Programme
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SEPTEMBER 2021

Re-defining the way we engage with our clients

Launched a new Client Journey

Our new client journey is focused on how we want our clients to think and feel about the experience they have working with Partners&. Our Private Client team led the way, followed by our commercial and Wellbeing, Health & Protection teams.Find out more

NOVEMBER 2021

  • UK Broker Awards: Best D&I Programme
  • UK Broker Awards: Best UK start up

Chief People Officer, Natalie McClean:"Our aim is to create an environment where our people can bring their best selves to work. We established our BEAT programme to focus our efforts on belonging, diversity and wellbeing - enabling our people to perform and thrive. It really is the heartbeat of our business."

MARCH 2022

  • GWP £110m
  • Revenue £22m
  • People 400

Partners& achieves menopause friendly accreditation

"We are delighted to be an early adopter of this important accreditation. So we can offer the right support to those within our organisation who need it. Partners& has a 49% - 51% male to female split with an average age of 43, so we recognise that it will affect most of our employees in some way, be that themselves, their partner, mother, daughter, friend, or team member."

Chief People Officer, Natalie McLean

As part of our accreditation, we were invited to take part in an ITN Video launched on World Menopause day.

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June 2022

MacDonald Group joins Partners &, our first entry into the Scottish market.

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2023

  • GWP £180m
  • Revenue £35m
  • People 450
  • British Insurance Awards: UK Broker of the Year
  • UK Broker Awards: UK Broker of the Year
  • UK Broker Awards: Best Commercial Broker
  • UK Broker Awards: Best Training Programme
  • Insurance Times Awards: Schemes Broker of the Year
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Launched our Challenger strategy

Building on our Next Generation strategy and our ambitions to challenge our marketplace, our Challenger strategy aims to recommit to our founder’s insurgent mission, enabling us to focus as a business on attaining scale insurgency.

Through this strategy, we intend to further invest in our people and client proposition, whilst leading our industry in the sustainability challenge we all face. Our focus is to nurture our owners’ mindset, fuel our front-line obsession and celebrate the accountability and talent that has super charged our journey to date.

November 2023

Sustainability: a key pillar of our strategy

We recognise that our world is changing. The norms of the past are no longer sufficient. Partners& is committed to making conscious decisions to implement effective sustainability practices that will have a direct impact on our people, our clients, our ecosystem, the communities in which we operate and the world we inhabit.
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Welcome to the next generation insurance advisory business.