Speed to occupation
Delivering 6–16 week fit-out sprints without sacrificing quality, and closing the gap between tender and handover.
A closed-door forum for the leaders shaping UK commercial fit-out. Two days, one screened room, and every meeting that matters arranged before you arrive, not a trade show floor. Senior leaders from occupiers, developers, landlords and contractors, alongside the specialist suppliers and solution providers who deliver for them. For sponsors, it's not a stand and a hope, it's a guaranteed set of meetings with the exact buyers your marketing budget is trying to reach.
One idea, no exceptions: the best business events aren't just entertainment, they're where an industry actually meets. Tailored experiences at the country's leading venues. Real connections across construction's key segments, fit-out & interiors, main contracting, and residential development, with further sub-sectors, including Digital Health, built out over time. AI handles the precision, matching, scheduling, remembering what mattered last time, so the relationship stays entirely human. The result: introductions that are actually relevant, arranged without friction, in a room worth coming back to.
Our first Lead Sponsor place is held by a specialist who shows up on the country's most demanding projects, not just its conference stands. A second place is reserved and open for enquiry.
These are suggested categories, not confirmed sponsors, drawn from the trades and specialists who already sit alongside TMJ Interiors on live fit-out projects, complementary parts of the supply chain rather than businesses TMJ competes with. Every additional sponsor category is agreed with our Lead Sponsor before an invitation goes out, to keep the room complementary, not competitive. If your business fits one of these categories, the sector-exclusive Lead Sponsor place is still open, and Partner Sponsor places are unlimited.
Network with senior client-side leaders, main contractors, designers and specialist suppliers as they address the most pressing challenges facing UK commercial fit-out today. We bring together senior leaders from occupiers, developers, landlords and contractors to soundboard, benchmark and learn from each other, away from the noise of a conventional exhibition.
Every panel and breakout is built around what the sector is actually wrestling with right now, not generic conference filler.
Delivering 6–16 week fit-out sprints without sacrificing quality, and closing the gap between tender and handover.
Embodied carbon, low-VOC materials and the practical impact of the Building Safety Act and Product Process People framework.
What Cat A+ and higher-spec Cat B fit-outs now need to deliver for hybrid-working occupiers and talent retention.
Where AI is genuinely changing scheduling, site monitoring and predictive cost control, and where it isn't yet.
Managing material cost volatility, tender pricing pressure, retention and cashflow through the specialist chain.
Recruitment, retention and training across the fit-out trades, and building the next generation of talent.
Where offsite methods are cutting programme risk and lifting quality control on live sites.
Specifying AV, IoT and connectivity infrastructure that keeps pace with occupier and landlord expectations.
An evening that starts the relationships, and a conference day built around bespoke joinery, heritage and quality-led fit-out, sustainable timber sourcing, and the trades that share a site with TMJ. The same agenda runs twice: the South Edition in St Albans, 10–11 March 2027, and the North Edition in Manchester, 21–22 April 2027.
James Taylor, TMJ Interiors' Chairman and founder, is a real person (bio and photo below, sourced from public information) who has been invited to give the Welcome Address; that slot is not yet confirmed. Every other named speaker below is a fictional placeholder illustrating the calibre and seniority of contributor being targeted for that session, not a real individual. No speaker, title or session order is confirmed until stated otherwise, and timings remain subject to change.
Check-in and informal networking on arrival.
Opening remarks from our Lead Sponsor. Full bio below.

An opening look at the sector and the pressure points for 2027, from programme delays to the joinery supply chain, and what the flight to quality really costs.
Delivering 6–16 week fit-out programmes without cutting corners, and where offsite joinery manufacture is cutting time off the critical path.
The Building Safety Act, embodied carbon, and chain-of-custody sourcing, FSC, PEFC and Forest Products, in practice.
Pre-booked one-to-one meetings, run in timed rounds and matched to your brief. This is the "speed-dating" element of the Forum, every meeting confirmed before you arrive.
What Cat A+ occupiers, and listed or heritage buildings, now expect from bespoke joinery and fit-out.
Straight out of lunch, while the morning's sessions are still live.
Material cost volatility and tender pricing across the joinery supply chain.
Recruitment and training across the trades. Topic to be finalised once the second Lead Sponsor place is filled.
Where digital design and offsite manufacture are genuinely changing joinery delivery, and where it's still vendor noise.
The final round, before closing remarks.
What's next for UK fit-out. Programme closes at 17:00.
Each Speed Networking round runs from booths like this, mesh-panel screens for brand and product, a simple counter for the conversation itself. This is an indicative example of the format, not the confirmed design for The Fit-Out Forum or any named sponsor.
Once an apprentice himself, James founded TMJ Interiors in 1981, trading from a 1,500 sq ft barn on his father's farm in Suffolk and manufacturing the joinery for his father's construction company. Over more than four decades he built the business into a 200-strong tier-one specialist joinery contractor, delivering the restoration of the Private Chapel at Windsor Castle after the 1992 fire, the Royal Opera House, the Royal Festival Hall, Bloomberg's London headquarters, and the London 2012 Olympics.
In November 2024, James led TMJ through a management buyout, moving into the role of Chairman while Tim Coll stepped up as Managing Director, carrying forward the "grow our own" training culture James built the company on.
Biographical detail sourced from TMJ Interiors' own published team page and public reporting on the November 2024 management buyout. James has been invited to deliver the Welcome Address; this appearance is not yet confirmed.
Trade show sponsorship is a bet on footfall. A Fit-Out Forum sponsorship is a guarantee. Every pound is weighed against what it actually buys: confirmed time with the people who write your next spec, not a badge scan and a follow-up email that goes nowhere.
Twelve (Lead) or six (Partner) one-to-one meetings are booked and confirmed before you arrive. No exhibition stand can promise that; it can only hope for footfall.
You brief us on who you need in the room, sector, seniority, project stage, and every meeting is matched against that brief. No wasted conversations with the wrong title.
Lead Sponsors leave with the full delegate list, not a pile of scanned badges. The value compounds for months after the two days end.
No stand costs, no hidden fees, no build and de-rig budget. The entire investment converts into meeting time, agenda input and brand presence in the room.
Delegate passes are complimentary for qualifying senior leaders, at no cost to you. Full access to main-room and breakout sessions, pre-booked one-to-one meetings with relevant sponsors, breakfast, lunch and refreshments throughout, and digital copies of all presentations.
Two ways in, depending on how involved you want to be. Both include full access to all three speed-networking rounds, the full delegate programme, and no stand costs or hidden fees, so every pound goes toward meetings and brand presence, not carpet and Velcro.
| Lead Sponsor | Partner Sponsor | |
|---|---|---|
| Guaranteed 1-to-1 meetings | 12, all 3 rounds | 6, all 3 rounds |
| Speaking opportunity | Keynote or panel seat | 60-second pitch |
| Input on agenda & brief | Yes | No |
| Sector exclusivity | Yes, one per sector | No |
| Team passes | 4 | 2 |
| Post-event contact list | Full delegate list | Your meetings only |
| Investment | Enquire | Enquire |
Sold separately from the package. Several are strictly limited, first come, first served once the sponsor list is confirmed. Items marked confirmed are priced; those marked suggested are put forward for discussion.
| Upgrade | What it includes | Availability | Investment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Executive delegate travel | Chauffeured travel to and from the event for elected delegates | Per delegate | £300 |
| Own breakout room | A private breakout room plus your own billed presentation | Limited to 3 | £4,000 |
| Lanyards | Your brand on every delegate and sponsor lanyard | Exclusive · 1 | £300 |
| Delegate welcome pack | Your literature or branded item in every delegate room | Up to 4 sponsors | £750 |
| Gala dinner table host | A branded table, seated with delegates matched from your brief | Per table | £1,500 |
| Networking break sponsor | Your branding across one refreshment break | 3 available | £1,000 |
| Evening entertainment | Headline billing plus a two-minute welcome from the stage | Exclusive · 1 | £2,000 |
Corporate occupiers, developers, landlords and main contractors, alongside the specialist contractors and solution providers who deliver for them.
Senior leaders across corporate occupiers, developers, landlords, main contractors and specialist fit-out businesses, including Chief Executives, Directors of Real Estate, Heads of Workplace, Facilities Directors, Development Directors and Procurement Directors. If you're shaping fit-out decisions across your organisation, this event is for you.
No. Qualifying senior leaders receive a complimentary delegate pass covering accommodation, meals, the gala dinner and evening entertainment. You will never be asked to pay. Simply complete the registration form and we'll review your application.
You'll connect with peers navigating the same cost, compliance and programme pressures, discover how other organisations are managing fit-out delivery, and engage with suppliers offering solutions relevant to your priorities. It's a focused, closed environment built for practical takeaways.
The Forum runs twice, with the same programme both times: the South Edition in St Albans, Hertfordshire, 10–11 March 2027, and the North Edition in Manchester, 21–22 April 2027. Register interest and let us know which edition suits you.
Sector exclusivity is limited to one Lead Sponsor per supply category. Delegate places are reviewed on a rolling basis. Tell us which side you're on and we'll come back with availability.
Three evenings a year, capped at forty guests, that most people will only ever hear about afterwards. Built for construction's most valuable relationships, the developer board director, the main contractor client, the partner who's earned more than a thank-you email. Each one designed once, run once, and never repeated the same way twice. Spread across the calendar so no two ever compete for the same window. Every figure below is an honest planning estimate, not a published price, since the exact venue and talent for each edition is confirmed only to those already invited.
A private Greek island, chartered in full for a long weekend. Forty guests, and genuinely no one else on it. Superyacht arrivals from Athens, a single headline performance staged for this audience alone and confirmed only once travel is booked, and a production crew that has vanished by the time the first guest wakes for breakfast.
Paddock-level access for the full Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend, the kind of proximity to the grid that has never been available on any official hospitality package. Strip-side suites, private transfers that skip the race-week gridlock entirely, and a guest list that regularly overlaps with the grid itself.
A chartered superyacht large enough for forty overnight guests, anchored somewhere the fireworks are private too. Four days, one crossing into the new year, and no other charter within sight of the deck.
This isn't a concierge app. It's twenty years of relationships, on call, put to work for construction's most valuable client and partner relationships.
There's very little Sue hasn't already been asked for once, a sold-out final with four days' notice, a helicopter, a table that isn't listed anywhere, a proposal timed to the second the sun sets. Used well, it's how a developer keeps its best main contractor close, or how a fit-out specialist rewards the client relationship that keeps sending work. Twenty years of favours owed means the answer is rarely no. It's usually just "give me until Thursday." One phone number, one person, no call centre, no junior filtering your request before it reaches someone who can actually solve it.
Not one ticket type, the full spectrum: Centre Court at Wimbledon, the paddock at a Grand Prix weekend, the final bend at Royal Ascot, backstage passes most promoters won't admit exist. Sport, music, film premieres, closed auctions, Fashion Week front rows. If it sells out publicly, our members were already confirmed privately, through relationships built over twenty years with the people who allocate the seats everyone else is still refreshing a browser for.
A chef's table that isn't listed anywhere, a tasting menu built entirely around what you actually like, and a room that closes to every other guest for the night, because you asked.
A helicopter lifting you from a Mayfair rooftop and setting down pitchside twenty minutes before kickoff. A yacht crewed, provisioned, and waiting before your flight has even landed.
A sixtieth birthday that quietly takes over an entire wing of a country estate. A proposal staged somewhere she's never been, timed to the second the sun drops.
A private island for the week. A penthouse with the whole floor cleared for you alone. The room that was never going to appear on a booking site, however hard you searched.
A watch sourced before its public release. A wardrobe curated by someone who's actually studied what you wear, not what a mailing list assumes you'd like.
Every relationship SueCo builds for a client starts the same way, deliberately putting the right buyer and the right supplier in a real conversation, rather than leaving it to chance at a trade show or a cold email. An Industry Clubhouse does it continuously, the same twenty faces sharing a box all season at a venue like Wembley, the O2, or the NEC, so the relationship never has to restart. Built around construction's key segments, fit-out & interiors, main contracting, and residential development, with further sub-sectors, including Digital Health, built out over time.
A permanent box at a major national venue, Wembley, the O2, the NEC, leased for a full season and shared for a year by twenty companies in your sector, ten decision-makers, ten suppliers. Event attendance is the occasion. Business networking is the actual point. Not a client day. A clubhouse.
Think Soho House, built around your industry instead of a postcode. The box itself is designed to feel like a members' room, not a hospitality suite you're passing through for one afternoon, furnished, hosted, and styled to be somewhere you'd genuinely want to be seen, not just somewhere convenient to close a deal.
Access to every eligible event for a full year, already paid for. One guaranteed place at each flagship fixture, allocated fairly by rotation, never first-come-first-served against nineteen other holders. A relationship that compounds instead of resetting every visit.
Sustained proximity to the decision-makers who actually buy, all year, not one sponsored afternoon. A built-in discount for booking a slot together with a decision-maker holder, plus an automatic attendance and value record ready for your compliance team without being asked.
These are the benchmarks we build the member list and the season around, not a track record yet, since the first Clubhouse is still to launch.
Ten decision-maker debentures and ten supplier debentures per Clubhouse, one per company. Decision-maker holders are screened for seniority, Chief Executives, Chief Operating Officers, Directors of Real Estate, and equivalent director-level roles. This isn't an open-registration membership.
Debentures are priced by sector and role, decision-maker and supplier pricing differs, and a discount applies when a decision-maker and supplier book a slot together. Enquire through Sue directly for the figure relevant to you.
Access to every eligible event for a full season, already paid for, plus one guaranteed place at each flagship fixture, allocated fairly by rotation. Automatic attendance and compliance records for every visit, ready for your team without being asked.
SueCo VIP is built around the construction sector for now, Fit-Out & Interiors, Main Contracting, and Residential & Mixed-Use Development are the first three segments, launching through 2027 at venues including Wembley, the O2 and the NEC. Other sub-sectors, including Digital Health, will be built out over time. Get in touch for the confirmed calendar as dates are finalised.
A normal hospitality package is one afternoon, then you start again from zero. A Clubhouse is a standing room shared with the same nineteen other companies all season, so the relationship compounds instead of resetting every visit. That's the entire difference, and it's the whole point.
Every category below is a relationship, not a booking engine. If it's the hardest access of the year, in sport, music, or culture, it has usually already been asked for once, and the answer was usually yes.
Every booking is confirmed personally by Sue before you commit to a single flight, using the same relationships that secured the access in the first place, not a call centre reading from a script.
Pricing is given directly by Sue once she understands what you're after, it was never going to be the same figure for two different lives. What's included is not vague, and it never changes tier to tier without you knowing exactly why.
| Personal Essentials | Personal Signature | |
|---|---|---|
| Access to sold-out event sourcing | Included | Included, priority |
| Travel concierge & planning support | Included | Included, unlimited |
| Personal onboarding consultation | Included | Included |
| Booking & arrangement fees | None | None |
| Response coverage | Standard hours | 7 days a week |
| Handled by | The team | Sue, personally |
| Early access to Ultra Events & flagship fixtures | – | Included |
| Personal & corporate shopping concierge | – | Included |
| Curated seasonal briefing, what's worth knowing before it's public | – | Included |
| Places available | Open | Capped at 12, permanently |
Every one of these started with a single conversation. The sector, the objective and the scale were different each time. The methodology was the same.
Some things simply cannot be arranged without the right relationships. Twenty years of them, put to work on your behalf.
No retainer required to begin. Direct access to Sue, no juniors, no handoffs.
Delegate passes and sponsor packages are both confirmed personally, no automated forms. Write in and we'll come back with next steps.
Write to Sue or Bob directly, no forms that go to a team. Response usually the same day.
No forms, no automated replies. Write to Sue directly, however vague, and she'll come back personally.
Tell Sue which of the three, and whether it's for you or a group. Invitations are confirmed personally, never automatically.