Strategic partners work alongside Progress Together to shape sector priorities and unlock overlooked talent across UK financial services.
Progress Together brings together employers, policymakers and strategic partners to strengthen leadership pipelines, unlock overlooked talent and build a more productive, competitive sector.
This is more than sponsorship. As a strategic partner, you'll shape research and thought leadership, engage directly with senior leaders and policymakers, and support practical initiatives that create lasting, measurable impact across the sector.
Why partner with Progress Together?
Strategic Partners gain access to one of the UK's most influential networks of financial services leaders. You'll have the opportunity to:
- Shape the conversationContribute to research, campaigns and programmes that influence how the sector approaches talent, progression and leadership.
- Build senior relationshipsEngage directly with senior leaders, policymakers and regulators through high-profile events, roundtables and strategic forums.
- Strengthen your market positionBe recognised as a trusted organisation helping address one of financial services' most significant workforce challenges.
- Create measurable impactSupport practical initiatives that improve progression, strengthen leadership pipelines and contribute to a more resilient financial services sector.
Why Progress Together?
As the only UK membership body dedicated to improving socio-economic inclusion at senior levels in financial services, Progress Together offers a membership representing more than 60 organisations and over one third of the UK financial services workforce, the world's largest socio-economic background dataset in the sector, trusted relationships with senior industry leaders, regulators and policymakers, and proven programmes, research and campaigns that turn insight into action.
Together, these create a unique platform for influence, collaboration and sector-wide change.
Strategic partnership
Partners contribute £75,000 per year (or the equivalent in agreed in-kind support), with activity ranging from research and thought leadership, policy engagement and innovation pilots, to high-profile events, campaign collaboration and technical expertise, secondments, data capability and content development.
Every partnership is shaped around shared objectives and long-term impact.
Join organisations helping shape the future of financial services
Leading organisations are already working alongside Progress Together to strengthen leadership, improve progression and influence the future of the sector.
If your organisation shares that ambition, we'd welcome the opportunity to explore how we can work together.
