Headline sponsor
The Amber River Group is a leading independent financial planning business, trusted by professionals, individuals, families, and business owners.
With offices located around the UK, we're a national brand with local presence and every member of our team has one clear purpose: enriching lives.
Our advisers’ expertise spans everything a client needs for a life well-lived. Whether that's pension and retirement planning, inheritance tax and estate planning, investment and wealth management, specialist mortgage advice, or a long-term plan that combines all the above. We also help business owners to develop a future-proof financial strategy, from tax-efficient earning and investing, shareholder protection and succession planning.
We call it Life Landscaping, and it starts with you.
Sponsors
GRL Legal is proud to sponsor the Bar Conference once again. With over 100 years of combined leadership experience gained within many of the UK’s leading barristers’ chambers, GRL Legal has spent more than 16 years providing specialist recruitment and consultancy services to the Bar. We work in partnership with chambers across the UK to recruit senior leaders, business support professionals and operational talent, while also advising on strategic growth, organisational development and leadership challenges. Combining an in-depth understanding of the Bar’s unique culture with extensive industry networks, we deliver tailored, practical solutions that help chambers attract exceptional people, strengthen their leadership teams and position themselves for long-term success.
Vector Professions Finance is a well-established company whose principal activity is the provision of Aged Debt Funding Services to the Bar.
Vector offer a fast track online application and only usually require electronic printouts from the clerks system of your gross receipts for the last 12 months to date and your aged debt together with application and personal worth forms that can be completed online on the website
Popular uses of Vector’s facility include: tax bill funding, overdraft clearance/reduction, junior to silk transition, KC application fees, debt consolidation, chambers expenses, LAA funding, pension top ups, chambers freehold acquisition, and school fees.
Exhibitors
Founded in 1978, Hospital and Medical Care Association (HMCA) is a family-owned provider of membership benefits, specialising in private medical plans.
Focusing exclusively on members of professional bodies and associations, HMCA has helped members gain faster access to private healthcare for nearly 50 years through a tailored approach that prioritises value, wellbeing and exceptional service.
Alongside private medical plans, HMCA also offers dental and hospital cash plans. With a deep understanding of the needs of professionals and those planning for the future, HMCA provides prompt access to treatment, flexible cover with no upper age limits or medical examinations, and access to more than 500 hospitals and a wide choice of specialists.
Backed by a friendly UK-based team, HMCA is committed to delivering trusted support, continuity of care and peace of mind, helping members protect their health, wellbeing, and financial security.
Founded in 1946, Lloyd & Whyte have a long-standing history of providing insurance. With decades of experience in providing personal and commercial insurance policies for members of professional associations, including the British Medical Association, British Dental Association, and British Veterinary Association, barristers can now benefit from our service and advice-led knowledge and expertise.
Whether you are looking for Private Medical Insurance or insurance for your home, car, office and chambers, and cyber protection, we can help.
We provide PMI for barristers which can help reduce waiting times and provides access to medical services at a time and location to suit you.
Our Service gives you access to expert, unbiased advice, and a wide range of insurers.
Lloyd & Whyte is proudly part of the Benefact Group, a family of international specialist financial services companies, who are driven by a shared goal – to give all available profits to charities and good causes.
Place Campbell’s relationship with the Bar goes back 60 years and we now act for over 2,000 barristers and 50 chambers. Place Campbell’s depth of experience makes it the preeminent barrister-specialist firm of Chartered Certified Accountants.
From the newly qualified barrister undertaking pupillage to the KC taking Judicial appointment, Place Campbell understands the pressures facing members of the Bar so its aim is simple, to make dealing with your financial affairs straightforward and efficient so that you can concentrate on your practice.
