Cobseo Chair, Nick Pope, shared details of the new Cobseo Business Plan 2026-2028 and key findings from the recent membership engagement consultation through the Cobseo Weekly News today (Friday 27 February).
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‘The best way to predict the future is to create it’
‘If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail’
‘Always plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark’.
Before discussing the Business Plan, I want to take us back to the Consultation Exercise that the Cobseo team conducted in 2025. Our aim was always to step into 2026 with vision, ambition, and energy shaped by well-informed plans. As a team, we recognised that understanding our Members and their needs would be at the heart of this. The results of what was a six-month process of engagement are at:
Key membership engagement consultation findings
It’s well worth a read. And in the sense of a ‘you said, we did’ process, we have drawn heavily on your feedback to inform our focus, our priorities, and our business activity.
The next step was to produce a Business Plan. Drawing on your collective comments, it has also been crafted with ongoing input and feedback from the Finance, Audit, & Risk Committee, the Executive Committee (FARC), and the office team.
We took the Plan in draft format to the 2025 Autumn FARC and EC meetings. The EC subsequently approved the Plan – and the associated Budget – in December.
The result of this activity? The link says it far more eloquently that I can:
Cobseo Business Plan 2026-2028
In launching the Plan, the team and I are patently aware that this by no means ‘job done’. The hard graft starts here! We will continue to develop and implement specific programmes of change, to define measurements of success, and determine impact. Communicating what we are doing is key to this process.
Hold me personally to account for this and reach out if you feel you need more information.
