Board Strategy Day
18th January 2025 Our annual strategy day for 2025 for all of the board members including our next gen representatives. In this meeting, we discussed key areas of focus and events that may take place throughout the year. We look forward to delivering another great year of opportunities for the Freehold members!
LandAid Sleepout 2024
In March, LandAid a charity dedicated to ending youth homelessness hosted their annual SleepOut where a handful of Freehold members along with 1,300 other real estate professionals came together across seven different UK locations to sleep outside for the night, raising funds for this very worthy cause.
Freehold appoints four new board members
New board members with a focus on the Next Generation of LGBTQ+ professionals in real estate Freehold, the leading networking forum for LGBTQ+ real-estate professionals, is appointing four new board members to expand their leadership and continue to promote diversity and inclusion within the property industry. Freehold welcomes Warren Stapley and Anyi Hobson as Board Directors […]
‘Can we even name ten openly gay professional sportspeople?’
Last Wednesday, CBRE and Freehold held an interview with rugby behemoth Gareth Thomas where the openly gay, openly HIV-positive and openly Welsh former captain gave us an incredible insight into his revolutionary life on the field, what he has been up to since retirement and of course answering those all important questions about team showers! […]
LandAid SleepOut 2022
A week ago today over 800 bright eyed industry professionals descended onto six different locations across the country to take part in the 2022 LandAid SleepOut – back from the 2 year covid-induced hiatus and here to tackle youth homelessness. The largest of these locations, Canada Water accounted for about 300 of those and was […]
Change in Leadership of Freehold
After 10 trailblazing years, our co-founders and co-chairs David Mann and Saleem Fazal are passing the baton on to fellow board members, Kelly Canterford and Scott Parsons who will become our new co-chairs this month.
Lesbian Visibility Day – Where are all the lesbians?
I am a lesbian and I am visible. But it hasn’t always been that way. I struggled, like many people do with coming to terms with my sexuality and eventually coming out.
The Future is a Digital Twin
The Future is a Digital Twin – just like now (but better and with a twin)
Joining the property industry as an LGBT+ graduate
Marko Salopek shares some thoughts on navigating a way in to the industry as a LGBTQ+ student.
Have your say: LGBTQ+ in real estate 2021
For three years EG has been surveying the industry to see how people who identify as LGBTQ+ feel in the industry, how wide the sector’s understanding of LGBTQ+ people and issues is and whether attitudes have improved.
