Events
Forthcoming events

Annual Dinner 2025
Our 2025 Annual Dinner will once again be held at the popular and prestigious location of Leeds Castle. Join us for an evening of networking, fine dining, and entertainment. To thank you for all of your support over the past year we will have an early bird price reducing the cost of a table by £120! Tickets for this are limited so this has to be offered on a first come first served basis. Please click the link for more information about the dinner and to book your tickets now!
Fri 02 May 7:00 pm
Leeds Castle

Setting Powerful Goals
Setting powerful goals - A masterclass
Wed 07 May 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Haydn Griffiths,

Lloyd's of London tour - May 2025
We will be hosting a guided tour of the prestigious Lloyd's of London building - come and join us!
Tue 20 May 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Lloyd's of London

Webinar – Innovation Skills – Learn Idea Techniques & Make Ideas Pop
Are you coping with the fast-moving pace of insurance? Do you have the skills to innovate to solve the tough challenges you, your team and your organisation are facing?
Join this webinar to learn and practice innovation tools that you can put to immediate use that will make innovation better. Hosted by Harvey Wade, an award-winning innovator and ex-innovation lead at Allianz and Cisco, he works with insurance organisations to make them better at innovating.
Wed 21 May 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Harvey Wade, Innovate21

Webinar – Innovation Skills – Improve Your Ideas & Get Buy-in
Are you coping with the fast-moving pace of insurance? Do you have the skills to innovate to solve the tough challenges you, your team and your organisation are facing?
Join this webinar to learn and practice innovation tools that you can put to immediate use that will make innovation better. Hosted by Harvey Wade, an award-winning innovator and ex-innovation lead at Allianz and Cisco, he works with insurance organisations to make them better at innovating.
Tue 17 Jun 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Harvey Wade, Innovate21
Previous events

WEBINAR: FCA GI Consumer Duty, Premium Finance and Multi-Occupancy update
We’ve had Consumer Duty for a year and firms will have completed their first annual board reports. Join us for an update on this important piece of legislation.
Wed 30 Apr 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Branko Bjelobaba FCII, MIoD,
Annual General Meeting 2025
We need you! To get down to our AGM...
Your local institute council invites you to attend their 2025 Annual General Meeting in order to hear first-hand reports from council members on previous and future activities and vote on the appointment of new council members for the forthcoming year.
If you feel you could make a positive contribution to your institute, it is an ideal first step to becoming involved.
Book your place today.
Mon 28 Apr 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Howden Maidstone

WINE AND CPD - Pairing ESG with Trust: Insights from Wine and Chocolate
Pairing ESG with Trust: Insights from Wine and Chocolate
Wine and chocolate pairings offer powerful metaphors and practical lessons for understanding trust in ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) and building closer customer relationships. Through tasting 5 wines and pairing them with chocolates, we will examine how trust, authenticity, and shared values are central to building stronger customer relationships through ESG principles in insurance and financial services.
Thu 17 Apr 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Jeff Heasman MABP, PGCert CELTA, LL.B (Hons), LL.M,

Free CertCII and DipCII and ACII Training Sessions for Mid-Kent Members
In conjunction with Intuition Training, we are happy to be able to offer a flexible, unit-by-unit remote training initiative for our members who may want support to help them achieve their CII General Insurance qualifications.
The cost of these courses will be fully funded by the Local Institute.
Wed 09 Apr.
Adrian Toomey ACII, Intuition Training

WEBINAR - Personal Lines Insurance Products - endorsements, conditions warranties and...
This webinar, delivered by Alan Chandler, one of the most popular presenters in the UK, takes a plain English view of how the law and the Financial Ombudsman Service interpret endorsements, conditions, warranties and policy wordings and why it is so important to get this right.
What are endorsements? what are conditions and warranties? why does a breach of condition have to relate to the claim in Personal lines? – all the answers will be explained and made clear by Alan, who will include real life case law to provide additional understanding.
Fri 04 Apr 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Alan Chandler, Alan Chandler Training

Kent Annual Conference 2025 - Growing in a world of opportunities
We’re delighted to hold our 12th annual conference once again on Tuesday 1st April. The event provides a superb opportunity to enjoy a fantastic day of education, debate and networking. It is always our aim for you to have plenty of take-aways and thought provoking insight from our brilliant speakers. The event is relevant to issues the sector faces and is an enabler to further your knowledge and understanding to assist you within the scope of your role and share within the workplace or even outside!
From feedback ‘as the one to attend’ we cover off a wide range of topics from a variety of presenters with lunch and refreshments and certainly recommend you bring along your colleagues or contacts and gain CPD.
Tue 01 Apr 8:45 am – 4:00 pm
Kent Showground, Events Centre, The Clive Emson Building, Maidstone