The organisers

National Family Week is run by Family Week Limited, set up in 2008 to run the new national initiative. Family Week Limited is part of the Henley Media Group (HMG), a publishing and marketing company that specialises in developing events and publications on social and business issues in partnership with governments, UN agencies, multilateral organisations and the corporate sector. HMG also owns one of the country's leading sampling agencies, Brands in Hands.

Our Campaign Director and co-founder of National Family Week, Kevin Steele, sits on the Prime Minister's Council for Social Action and was the creator of Enterprise Week. He also led a campaign resulting in a £2 trillion investment group for action on climate change and co-founded a coalition that ran the biggest ever lobby of Parliament. Our Commercial Director, Dom Beaven, is a consultant for Comic Relief and Sport Relief (joining their creative communications team in 2008) and is a former Director of a specialist magazine and website publisher. Jane Nethersole, the Operations Director, has worked for HMG for over eight years – alongside her brother, father and husband – establishing and running publications and events in partnership with the United Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat and numerous governments.

We are proud to be the founders of National Family Week, working with sponsors, marketing and media partners, and hundreds of national and local organisations from the voluntary and statutory sectors, making up the largest coalition on family issues in the UK. We are committed to ensuring that participation in National Family Week is completely free for all non-profit organisations and that The Week offers value to families across the country. Although we are supported by the government (and opposition parties), we receive no government funding. All funding comes from sponsorship and marketing opportunities around The Week.