Corporate Patrons

RREF Corporate Patrons are our lifeblood and allow us to continue to expand programmes and projects. These are individual firms who generously donate £5,000 annually to help support our key initiatives and programmes.

  • BNP Paribas Real Estate
  • Bouygues Development
  • Capita Symonds
  • CBRE
  • CoStar
  • Cushman & Wakefield
  • EC Harris
  • GE Capital Real Estate
  • Gerald Eve
  • GVA
  • Hammerson
  • Jones Lang LaSalle
  • Knight Frank
  • Network Rail
  • Redevco
  • Savills
  • SEGRO
  • SJ Berwin
  • Vail Williams            

Benefits for Corporate Patrons include:

Building brand awareness amongst our 5,500 alumni property professionals across the UK and Internationally:

  • Recognition in our literature, at events and on our website
  • Features and contributions to the RREF Newsletter (published bi-monthly and distributed to all RREF alumni, real estate and planning students, Henley Business School staff and wider industry contacts)
  • Opportunities to host key RREF events

Networking and business opportunities with leading real estate professionals:

  • Priority opportunities to book tables or tickets at our key events of the year including the RREF Annual Dinner, RREF Breakfast Forums and RREF Golf Day

Graduate recruitment opportunities and direct contact to some of the best real estate and planning students in the UK and internationally:

  • Priority representation at the annual RREF Careers Fair  held at the University of Reading in October on the ground floor of the venue
  • Guest lecture opportunities at the Evening Lecture Series, raising your company profile to students and within the Henley Business School
  • Promotion of your student/graduate vacancies on our website, the student portal and our social media pages 
  • Opportunity to host other recruitment events on campus for final year and Masters students
  • Opportunity for your employees to participate in our Mentoring Programme

Corporate social responsibility RREF is a registered charity and all our work is focussed on supporting real estate and planning education at the University of Reading. In today's business climate, the importance of a robust corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme cannot be under-estimated. With our understanding both of corporate concerns and how to make a difference through education, RREF offers interesting opportunities for CSR:

  • Bursaries, Awards & Hardship funds are awarded each year to real estate and planning students in need of financial support
  • The Mentoring Programme Partnering alumni in industry with current students to support their career development and inter-personal skills; the programme is going into its third year and aims to increase the number of partnerships from 260 to 300
  • The Access Internships offer funded internship opportunities to students from under represented backgrounds
  • Research published by the School of Real Estate & Planning at the University of Reading is world renowned and as a Corporate Patron you will have access to the latest reports:
  • VIP invitations to research events
  • Opportunities to undertake joint research projects

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