With National Conveyancing Week (NCW) 2023 just two weeks away registration for the programme of planned events is now open.
Launched to raise the profile of conveyancing across the property sector, NCW is bringing the conveyancing community together from 20th March 2023 to 24th March 2023 with a series of free in-person and online events designed to Inform; Educate; Assist; Motivate; Reassure; Help recruit new entrants; Improve the profile of conveyancers and conveyancing and ensure fees can be set at and kept at an acceptable level.
The full events programme is on the National Conveyancing Week website and you can register here.
One of the key dates in the week is Tuesday 21st March, the day of The British Conveyancing Awards, and a live Up Front Information Roadshow, hosted on the morning of the awards at 8 Northumberland Avenue. The panel discussion, which will feature representatives from across the industry, will discuss involving conveyancers earlier in the process and the current progress and practicalities of the drive to provide more information for consumers at the outset of the home move. Spaces can be reserved for both the in-person event, and simultaneous live stream.
Conveyancers have taken the messages of the week to heart with events up and down the country taking place. Alongside the programme of events hosted by NCW, firms have shared plans around “lunch and learn” and “meet the team” events throughout the week with presentations on leaseholds, lenders, indemnity insurance, SDLT, AML. etc.
One of the key themes of the week is collaboration and fostering better relationships with referrers, and on Wednesday 22nd March, law firms are invited to open their doors for a Collaboration Coffee Morning in aid of The Conveyancing Foundation. Conveyancers are encouraged to invite estate agents, brokers and other referrers into their offices to showcase the work they do. Free promotional boxes will shortly be available for all supporters which will include collateral to celebrate and support NCW.
The Conveyancing Foundation has also launched its #sharethelove campaign to coincide with National Conveyancing Week. You can watch a short video about the ambitions of the campaign below.
The week’s events have been designed in such a way that you can choose to dip in and out of various discussions and training depending on what topics are of interest.
Over 150 conveyancing firms have now lent their support to the initiative with all those taking part encouraged to share their events with the NCW team either by emailing info@conveyancingweek.co.uk or on socials using #NatConveyWk2023.
National Conveyancing Week is the brainchild of Bold Legal Group (BLG) founder and CEO Rob Hailstone, who set up the membership body in 2010 and has been championing the conveyancing sector throughout his nearly 50 year career.
“I wholeheartedly enjoyed my 30 years at the coalface of conveyancing. But having “stepped away” in the early 2000’s and tracked how much conveyancing has changed in the last two decades, I now suffer from an element of survivor’s guilt. The BLG members tell me daily of the increasingly difficult job they face. Where 20-30 years ago conveyancers may have had 10-15 plates spinning at any one time, today it feels as though it’s more like 25-30 plates.”
National Conveyancing Week is an opportunity for the home moving profession to come together and agree a way forward based on mutual respect and understanding of the complexities of one another’s role in the home moving process. There’s still time to show you support so please do get in touch. Support conveyancers, support conveyancing, and support yourselves!”
Over 30 organisations, including Today’s Media, the publishers of Today’s Conveyancer have pledged their support to NCW. Resources including logos, social media imagery, local press PR and supporter’s packs are available on the NCW website, with a series of “TED-style” talks published throughout the week discussing a range of topics from around the property sector.
