Kirstie Allsopp

Why organisations work with Kirstie Allsopp

• Twenty-five years of unbroken primetime presence on Channel 4 means audiences arrive already familiar with her, which shortens the warm-up phase of any event and lifts the room from the first minute.
• She runs her own production company, Raise the Roof, and her own product range, so she briefs as a working businesswoman rather than as talent reading lines, and questions on retail, brand and property land with substance.
• Property, home and consumer behaviour are the core subjects she has covered on screen since 2000, which makes her a natural fit for property, housebuilding, retail, lifestyle, charity and DIY brand audiences without needing a forced bridge.
• A direct, unscripted on-stage style. She is comfortable with live Q and A, off-the-cuff interviewing of executives, and the kind of room where a guarded host would stall.
• Sustained ambassadorship of Home-Start UK gives her credibility with charity galas and corporate-foundation audiences where a frivolous host would jar.

Biography highlights

• Co-presenter of Channel 4’s Location, Location, Location with Phil Spencer since the show’s launch in 2000.
• Co-founder of Raise the Roof Productions, the Glasgow-based independent television company behind Location, Location, Location, Love It or List It UK and the Kirstie’s craft series.
• Founder in 1996 of Kirmir, a high-end home search agency operating in central and west London.
• Author of Kirstie’s Homemade Home, Kirstie’s Vintage Home, Kirstie Allsopp Craft and Kirstie’s Christmas Crafts, all published by Hachette.
• Creator and presenter of the Kirstie’s craft franchise on Channel 4, including Handmade Britain, Vintage Home, Celebrity Craft Masters and House of Craft.
• Long-standing ambassador for Home-Start UK.

Biography

Location, Location, Location launched on Channel 4 in 2000. More than two decades and forty series later, it is still on air, still presented by the same two people, and still one of the most reliable property formats in British television. Kirstie Allsopp has been one half of that pairing since the first episode.

The career around it is broader than the show. She founded Kirmir, a central and west London home search agency, in 1996, four years before the cameras arrived. She co-founded Raise the Roof Productions, the independent company behind Location, Location, Location, Love It or List It UK and the Kirstie’s craft series, and sits inside the business as co-owner rather than as on-screen talent. Her published work with Hachette covers homes, vintage interiors and craft, and her Channel 4 craft franchise has run alongside the property work for more than a decade.

For corporate audiences, the relevance is practical. She has spent twenty-five years interviewing buyers, sellers, retailers and small producers in front of a national audience, and she has run her own businesses across property, production and product. That gives her a working vocabulary for retail, property, brand and consumer behaviour that most television hosts do not carry. On stage she is direct, fluent without a script, and at ease with live audiences, which is the qualification that matters most when an organisation hands a host the room for an evening.

She is also a sustained ambassador for Home-Start UK, the family-support charity, and her fundraising work there gives her credibility in charity-led and corporate-foundation settings where a purely entertainment host would feel mismatched.

Key speaking topics

• Awards hosting and corporate compering
• After-dinner presence
• Property and the UK housing market
• Consumer behaviour in home and lifestyle
• British craft and small-producer retail
• Building a brand alongside a broadcasting career
• Charity event hosting

Ideal for

• Property, housebuilding, mortgage and estate agency conferences booking a recognisable host with subject fluency
• Retail, lifestyle, DIY and home-furnishing brand events and awards
• Charity galas and corporate-foundation evenings, particularly those with a family, home or community focus
• After-dinner slots and awards ceremonies for senior corporate audiences who want a familiar Channel 4 face

Audience outcomes

• A confidently paced evening where transitions, awards reads and guest interviews land cleanly
• Authentic engagement with property, retail and consumer-brand themes when the brief calls for them
• Live, unscripted interviewing of executives, winners and panellists that adds energy rather than filler
• Warmth and access for charity audiences where a sincere host materially affects giving and mood