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Leicester Business Festival takes a break in 2025

  • Writer: associateevents
    associateevents
  • Jul 8
  • 2 min read

The Leicester Business Festival (LBF) Community Interest Company (CIC) Board has taken the decision to pause the festival this year, while it seeks to review the direction and enhance the festival for the future.

 

After ten consecutive years – including surviving COVID times through an exclusively created studio and being 100% online - the LBF will take a break whilst the Board uses the time to engage with the community and define the next iteration of the festival.

 

Over its lifetime, the LBF has seen over 1,000 events attended by almost 50,000 people and a marketing reach that stretches into the hundreds of millions. Critically, the festival has made a big impression on the business community with an average of 90% of events rated as good to excellent.

 

The CIC Board consists of Richard Osborn from Excello Law; Bethany Grundy from PPL PRS; and Rupinder Drew from the Peter Jones Foundation. Chair, Richard Osborn, said, “The LBF has been running in its current guise since 2015. It has seen a remarkable decade filled with hundreds of impact stories, many brilliant accounts of business development, growth, and new, valuable partnerships forming. But the board agrees that it’s time to take a short break to re-define the LBF to ensure it continues to have maximum impact for the business community and the people of Leicester and Leicestershire.

 

“I would like to express my gratitude to the team at AE, who have all worked tirelessly, with undying enthusiasm through some particularly challenging times, to make sure every annual festival has been successfully delivered to the highest quality.”

 

Alister de Ternant, managing director of AE said, “Many of the AE team have played an integral part in the LBF, since the concept was born in 2014, by Corin Crane, who was Chief Executive of the Leicester & Leicester Enterprise Partnership at the time. Everyone who has been involved has enjoyed playing their part at the helm, driving this unique festival.

 

“We are thankful for the LBF and the opportunities it has afforded AE, but we also appreciate the Board’s decision to take this break. We look forward to seeing what the next chapter of LBF will look like and being part of its future.”

 
 
 

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