The Beginning

TEn broking services
...was born from a belief that Insurance Brokers, particularly those run as local independent businesses, were in origin a peculiarly British phenomenon and it would be a shame simply to look on as their numbers here decline... for want of a simple re-inventive idea.

An industry that militates against start-ups and small business expansion, as ours has done in recent years, is one doomed to stagnation and ultimate extinction.

TEn does not accept dominion of the biggest
as the only possible future plan

Therefore, we set out to recreate the conditions prevailing during the 1970s, whereby an account executive from within a larger broker could decide to do his/her own thing and open a broking business from a small office somewhere or, indeed, a back-bedroom.

In 1971, one of our founders, Kedric Rhodes ACII, did just that... and the business ran from a his mother's spare room for the first three years.

Of course, he was also able to spend his first day walking from one end of the Uxbridge Road in Ealing to the other, collecting a dozen agencies on the way.

In the 21st Century, that's the hard part. Likewise, gaining and maintaining direct authorisation by the FSA, as well as implementing all requisite systems.

TEn, quite simply, makes it possible again to do what people used to do in the good old days, by allowing new businesses to focus on their clients and not having to worry about anything other than that.

Liberty Island

"Give me your tired, your poor,"
"Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

The inscription on the Statue of Liberty expresses much the same sentiment as the proposition TEn has placed before the Insurance market since its inception.

However, TEn is not especially a home for the disgruntled and the disenfranchised, rather we challenge the most entrepreneurial and the most motivated to dare to dream.

Anybody who knows the full inscription on the Statue of Liberty will have realised that we have left out the following line above:-

"the wretched refuse of your teaming shore"

Of course, we are none too keen on the idea of 'wretched refuse'; so only the brightest, the best, the most professional and the most virtuous need apply.