Events & Webinars
Crosby Associates Media host a series of live events and interactive webinar sessions, providing an alternative/engaging format with perspective customers and key stakeholders.
Live events include 1-day Expo events through to dedicated conferences in the Housing sector.
Enable Crosby Associates to host and facilitate your bespoke webinar event, hosted and marketed by a team of industry experts and professionals.
Crosby Associates Media host a series of live events and interactive webinar sessions, providing an alternative/engaging format with perspective customers and key stakeholders.
Live events include 1-day Expo events through to dedicated conferences in the Housing sector.
Enable Crosby Associates to host and facilitate your bespoke webinar event, hosted and marketed by a team of industry experts and professionals.
2026 Events
Build North Expo
Tuesday 16th June | 9:30am – 16:00pm, Exhibition Centre Liverpool, King’s Dock, Liverpool
Build North Expo is an industry event that aims to bring together leading companies, technical experts and practitioners from the UK. The fair offers an excellent opportunity to establish business relationships, showcase innovative technologies and exchange knowledge and experience.
There’s no better place to meet your suppliers and customers, to generate new leads for your business and establish new contacts.
With invitation extended to members from our federation partners – including National Federation of Builders, Builders Merchants Federation, National Access and Scaffolding Confederation.
SEE THE BUILD NORTH EXPO WEBSITE:
WHERE?
Bolton Wanderers Football Club, Toughsheet Community Stadium, Burnden Way, Bolton BL6 6JW
WHEN?
Tuesday 6th October 2026
SPONSORSHIP & EVENTS
Darren Hayes: Head of Partnerships
darren.hayes@crosbyassociates.co.uk
T: 0161 823 4706 | M: 07702 744 783
Housing Executive Conference 2026:
“Future Foundations
Building Resilience, Innovation & Impact
Future Foundations is the flagship one-day conference for the affordable housing sector, delivered by Housing Executive.
The event brings together leaders, practitioners and innovators across the UK to explore the critical themes shaping 2026 and beyond, including:
Governance, regulation & grading
Data, AI & digital transformation
Workforce pressures & skills
Housing supply, repairs & maintenance
Homelessness & temporary accommodation
Social value, community purpose & international learning
WHAT TO EXPECT
One-day immersive event
3 themed zones, each with:
A content stage
A collaboration hub
Exhibitors & interactive demos
Video interviews
Audience Profile
Delegate Breakdown:
Chief Executives & Directors
Governance/Regulation leads
Digital transformation teams
Asset management + R&M professionals
Housing officers + community engagement teams
Developers, MMC and retrofit specialists
Skills, training & apprenticeship bodies
Local authority homelessness teams
Technology suppliers & innovators
WHERE?
Bolton Wanderers Football Club, Toughsheet Community Stadium, Burnden Way, Bolton BL6 6JW
WHEN?
Tuesday 6th October 2026
SPONSORSHIP & EVENTS
Darren Hayes: Head of Partnerships
darren.hayes@crosbyassociates.co.uk
T: 0161 823 4706 | M: 07702 744 783
Housing Executive Excellence Awards 2026
Bolton Wanderers Football Club,
Toughsheet Community Stadium, Burnden Way, Bolton BL6 6JW,
Tuesday 6th October 2026
The ten award categories are as follow (details & criteria to follow):
- Best retrofit initative
- Best decarbonisation approach
- Best use of data & technology
- Council of the year
- Best social value project
- Housing association of the year
- Best repairs & maintenance team
- Partnership of the year
- Women in social housing award
- Best affordable housing development
- Rising star/best trainee award
- Housing Association – Team of the Year
The Venue
WHERE?
Bolton Wanderers Football Club, Toughsheet Community Stadium, Burnden Way, Bolton BL6 6JW
WHEN?
Tuesday 6th October 2026
Category Sponsorship Package
Category sponsorship includes award presentation & attendance (each sponsor receives a table of 10), event branding, pre & post event marketing across Housing Executive print & online brands, sponsors bio and branding on the Housing Executive Excellence Awards website.
£4,950 + VAT
Main Sponsor
- Primary event branding – Housing Executive Awards 2026, in partnership with (name of headline sponsor).
- Opening address – This is usually a 5-10 minute speech to the people in the room to kick start the awards from a senior individual from your business.
- Award presentation for an available category. This year for the 2025 awards, Metis (part of SMS plc) were the headline sponsors and had opted to present the ‘Council Of The Year’ award.
- Table of 10 (attendance at the awards presentation). You can bring along either a full team from your business, or you can invite clients, people you works alongside, plus one’s, etc.
- Pre and post event marketing in our Housing Executive Magazine – September issue (pre event) and November issue (post event). You will receive a double page spread for each issue sitting within the awards featured section.
- Branding on both our websites – www.housingexecutive.co.uk & www.housingexecutiveawards.co.uk
- Headline sponsors bio on www.housingexecutive.co.uk & www.housingexecutiveawards.co.uk
- LinkedIn promo pre and post event – Headline sponsors spotlight post, posts linking to editorial articles we post via the websites, etc.
- 1 x e-shot to go out to our newsletter subscribers. Additional promo for your business in general as added value to the package.
£8,000 + VAT
Construction Awards of Excellence 2026
Awards Sponsorships & Opportunities
This remains our flagship event of the year and continues to grow in both stature and attendance. This is a unique opportunity to position your business at the heart of a high-profile industry celebration, celebrating excellence while gaining maximum visibility across multiple platforms.
Award Category Sponsorships
BEST BUSINESS CATEGORIES
- Best Building Contractor (up to £10m turnover)
- Best Building Contractor (£10m – £50 m turnover)
- Best Building Contractor (£50m + turnover)
- Outstanding Housebuilder
PROJECT CATEGORIES
- Public Sector Project of the Year / Private Sector Project of the Year
- Excellence in Sustainable Construction
- Remarkable Renovation and Restoration / Heritage and Conservation Project
- Outstanding Housing Development
INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITION CATEGORIES
- Rising Star
- NFB Special Recognition Award
- Excellence in Heritage Craft
BUSINESS CATEGORIES
- Future of Construction Award (Pioneering use of Digital, Data, Technology and AI)
- Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Excellence
- Outstanding Training initiative
- Construction Employer of the year
WEBINARS
If you’re looking for a fresh and interactive way to reach your audience, look no further than our professional webinar services. Hosting your webinar with Crosby Associates will give you an effective platform to gather your audience all in one place, showcasing your services to current and potential customers through an engaging, interactive format.
Our webinars are one of the best ways to promote audience engagement, not only giving you the opportunity to address your audience directly and answer any queries or questions they have, but also providing a good basis for editorial coverage and publicity in any of our relevant publications.
If you’re looking for a fresh and interactive way to reach your audience, look no further than our professional webinar services. Hosting your webinar with Crosby Associates will give you an effective platform to gather your audience all in one place, showcasing your services to current and potential customers through an engaging, interactive format.
Our webinars are one of the best ways to promote audience engagement, not only giving you the opportunity to address your audience directly and answer any queries or questions they have, but also providing a good basis for editorial coverage and publicity in any of our relevant publications.
The Confederation of Roofing Contractors (CORC)
Crosby Associates Media has been producing our quarterly magazine ‘The Roofing Trades Journal’ and our annual members directory for over 6 years. During this time their service has been second to none. They provide a top quality product that we are proud to put our name to. We also receive annual calendars which are great quality and our members love to receive. The staff are easy to speak to and happy to help whenever needed. We would be very happy to recommend them to other organisations.
Stone Federation
“Stone Federation have been working with Crosby Associates for a number of years and to date, we’ve developed four titles with their team. We’ve always been impressed with how they collaborate with us, bringing their publishing expertise to help us deliver something that is of value to the Federation and the industry as a whole.”
“London Chamber of Commerce and Industry has worked in partnership with Crosby Associates Media on the production of ‘London Business Matters’ for a number of years. We work closely with the Crosby team to produce a bi-monthly magazine for London’s business community and value their professionalism, design and publishing expertise. We look forward to continuing the partnership, and would recommend their services to other businesses.”
The North & Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce
For the past two decades we have worked in partnership with Crosby Associates Media on the production of a high quality and regarded desk diary and wallplanner, which is always well received by out members. Throughout this relationship we have found Lee Carroll and his team to be professional, trustworthy and willing to go the extra mile to support their customers.
We Look forward our partnership with Lee for many more years and have no hesitation in recommending his service or those of Crosby Associates Media Ltd.
National Federation of Builders
“Crosby Associates Media has been working with The National Federation of Builders (NFB) for nearly four years and in that time have delivered an exemplary service. In addition to the wallplanners and diaries, Crosby Associates Media came to us with an excellent idea to give us a more regional impact, something our members were really keen for us to achieve. As a result we now have a suite of quality regional magazines that raise the profile of our members and assist us with our member retention. We highly recommend the opportunity to work with them.”
BMF
Crosby Associates Media has worked with the BMF for many years and produced our quarterly member magazine, One Voice, our annual BMF Handbook, Year Planner poster and the BMF Annual Review.
The professional and helpful team has worked closely with us to develop the publications over time and ensure that the production process runs smoothly and to the agreed timings. They have a good working relationship with our 950 BMF members which helps them to secure advertising revenue to support the production of these publications.
The Confederation of Roofing Contractors (CORC)
Crosby Associates Media has been producing our quarterly magazine ‘The Roofing Trades Journal’ and our annual members directory for over 6 years. During this time their service has been second to none. They provide a top quality product that we are proud to put our name to. We also receive annual calendars which are great quality and our members love to receive. The staff are easy to speak to and happy to help whenever needed. We would be very happy to recommend them to other organisations.
Stone Federation
“Stone Federation have been working with Crosby Associates for a number of years and to date, we’ve developed four titles with their team. We’ve always been impressed with how they collaborate with us, bringing their publishing expertise to help us deliver something that is of value to the Federation and the industry as a whole.”
“London Chamber of Commerce and Industry has worked in partnership with Crosby Associates Media on the production of ‘London Business Matters’ for a number of years. We work closely with the Crosby team to produce a bi-monthly magazine for London’s business community and value their professionalism, design and publishing expertise. We look forward to continuing the partnership, and would recommend their services to other businesses.”
The North & Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce
For the past two decades we have worked in partnership with Crosby Associates Media on the production of a high quality and regarded desk diary and wallplanner, which is always well received by out members. Throughout this relationship we have found Lee Carroll and his team to be professional, trustworthy and willing to go the extra mile to support their customers.
We Look forward our partnership with Lee for many more years and have no hesitation in recommending his service or those of Crosby Associates Media Ltd.
National Federation of Builders
“Crosby Associates Media has been working with The National Federation of Builders (NFB) for nearly four years and in that time have delivered an exemplary service. In addition to the wallplanners and diaries, Crosby Associates Media came to us with an excellent idea to give us a more regional impact, something our members were really keen for us to achieve. As a result we now have a suite of quality regional magazines that raise the profile of our members and assist us with our member retention. We highly recommend the opportunity to work with them.”
BMF
Crosby Associates Media has worked with the BMF for many years and produced our quarterly member magazine, One Voice, our annual BMF Handbook, Year Planner poster and the BMF Annual Review.
The professional and helpful team has worked closely with us to develop the publications over time and ensure that the production process runs smoothly and to the agreed timings. They have a good working relationship with our 950 BMF members which helps them to secure advertising revenue to support the production of these publications.
