London Family Office

London Family Office runs monthly evening networking for the family office sector in central London. It is organised by Whens Next Limited, an independent London events company, and has been going for more than a decade. It calls itself the only business networking ticket dedicated to the family office sector in London.

Who attends

The room mixes family office principals and executives looking for investment ideas and partnerships with private wealth advisers working in investment strategy, law, tax and structuring, and with the surrounding ecosystem of fund managers, lawyers, recruiters and consultants.

The badge on this listing marks it as an advisers and professionals event. That is the honest reading. Principals do attend, but there is no published qualification test and no cap on how many places go to people selling services, so the mix will vary from month to month.

Treat it as an open sector gathering rather than a screened peer group. The screened alternatives in this directory publish their rules and vet applicants; this does not, and does not claim to.

How access works

Tickets are booked per event through the organiser's booking pages. There is no membership, no application and no annual commitment, which is the main practical difference from almost everything else in this category.

No prices are published on the site itself, so the figure appears at the booking stage. Our research initially recorded ticketing as published; on review the site does not display rates, so check the booking page for the month you want.

What attendees get

The format is deliberately minimal: relaxed networking with drinks and canapés, and explicitly no speeches and no panels. Venues rotate around central London, including Mayfair and the City.

Stripping out the programme is the whole proposition. Most events in this directory sell an agenda and treat conversation as the gap between sessions. This inverts that, which suits people who already know the subject matter and simply want to meet each other.

The monthly cadence is the other argument. A single annual conference asks you to get value from one evening; twelve chances a year let you turn up when a month suits, skip when it does not, and build familiarity with people you keep running into. For a London-based family office, the low commitment makes it easy to try once and decide.