1. Status and Purpose
The Windmill Family Office is an unincorporated UK single family office. It was formally established in 2026 as the modern institutional expression of collective Windmill family stewardship, governance, family capital management and mutual support practices traceable to the 1890s. Its purpose is to support the long-term management, preservation and responsible development of family capital, family assets and family interests.
The Office operates exclusively in relation to the private affairs, capital, assets and interests of the Windmill family. It does not hold itself out as providing services to the public, does not solicit investment, credit or financial-services business from external parties, and does not engage in activities that would require authorisation under UK financial-services legislation.
2. Regulatory Perimeter and Financial Services
The Office acts solely in relation to family capital, family assets, internal financial arrangements and family interests. It does not manage third-party capital, accept deposits from the public, offer investment products, invite applications for credit, or carry out regulated activities for which authorisation would be required under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
The Office is not authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority and, on the basis of its present activities, does not require such authorisation.
Any financial or credit-related arrangements undertaken within the family are private and internal. They are not offered to the public and are undertaken only where they fall outside regulated consumer-credit activity or within an applicable statutory exclusion or exemption. Such arrangements are considered according to family purpose, affordability, governance and recoverability.
The Office does not provide regulated investment advice, regulated credit activity or any other regulated financial service to third parties.
3. Professional Services Provided by Family Members
Members of the Office may separately provide project leadership, programme management, chair, chief executive, board and other non-financial professional services to third parties under distinct contractual arrangements. These engagements are independent of the Family Office and do not involve regulated investment, credit or advisory activity, or the management of third-party capital by the Office.
Such engagements are undertaken in a personal or professional capacity, not as activities of the Family Office, and do not alter the Office’s regulatory position.
4. Internal Governance and Stewardship
The Office maintains governance arrangements appropriate to a private family enterprise, including oversight of internal financial arrangements, stewardship of family assets and coordination of long-term family interests. Decisions are taken with regard to responsibility, alignment, affordability, recoverability and the long-term interests of the family.
The Office does not act as trustee, fund manager or fiduciary for external parties and does not administer external investment schemes or collective arrangements.
5. Data Protection and Privacy
For data-protection purposes, Roger Windmill is the controller of personal data received through the Windmill Family Office website and Office email addresses.
For website enquiries and other correspondence, personal data is processed for the purposes of receiving, assessing and responding to communications, maintaining appropriate records, protecting the Office’s legitimate interests and complying with legal obligations. Processing is carried out under the legitimate interests applicable to managing correspondence, maintaining appropriate governance records and protecting the Office’s affairs.
Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for these purposes, subject to legal, regulatory and record-keeping requirements. It is not sold and is shared only with professional advisers, service providers or public authorities where reasonably necessary or legally required.
Individuals may request access to, correction of, restriction of or deletion of their personal data, and may object to processing based on legitimate interests, subject to applicable legal exceptions. Individuals may also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office if they believe their data has not been handled in accordance with applicable law.
6. No Public Offering or Solicitation
Nothing on the Office’s website or in its communications constitutes an offer to the public, a solicitation of investment, credit or financial-services business, or an invitation to engage in regulated financial activity. The Office does not advertise or promote financial services, credit arrangements or investment opportunities to external parties.
7. Scope of Application
This statement describes the legal and regulatory position of the Windmill Family Office as currently constituted. It does not limit the ability of family members to undertake professional roles in their personal capacity, nor does it pre-judge the regulatory position of future activities that may be separately constituted, authorised or undertaken through another legal entity.
Position current as at July 2026.