The United Kingdom and Portugal leg of My Most Trusted,
a national and global super-community of
90,627
trusted connections in our Trusted Universe, November 2026
United Kingdom · Portugal
aliança. In Portuguese, an alliance, and also a wedding ring. England and Portugal signed theirs in 1373, and it has never been broken.
Take a tour of the UK-Portugal Bridge Meet the people on each end
The UK-Portugal Business Bridge exists for people doing business between Britain and Portugal, and for the many who live in one country with their family, their clients or their history in the other.
The two countries keep the same clock all year, and a flight from London to Faro takes under three hours. Distance was never the obstacle. The obstacle is that a good firm in Bristol and a good firm in Braga have no way of hearing about each other, because the people who could introduce them have never been in the same room.
It is also where careers move. Members in United Kingdom and Portugal sometimes meet their next employer, find their next job or make their next hire through The UK-Portugal Business Bridge, because the best roles are often filled by someone a trusted person recommends.
Knowing Portugal is not the same as knowing who in Portugal answers an email in August. Each end of this corridor has its own customs, its own pace and its own way of deciding you are worth meeting, so each end has its own person, who lives there.
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The founding UK host seat is open. One person in the UK will hold this end. Somebody who already has people who trust them, and who wants to choose the first hundred members on their side personally.
Talk to us about itPortugalthe Algarve
Elaine Godley holds the Portuguese end of the Bridge, and meets people in person in the Algarve. She founded The DISCPlus Academy, which trains coaches, leaders and teachers to use DISC behavioural profiling alongside physical wellbeing, and she mentors chief executives and chief operating officers as an Executive Health Mentor. Before that she spent more than twenty five years in the C-suite, including as a COO and a managing partner, and as a business turnaround consultant. She knows from lived experience how pressure shows up in the body, which is why she now works on both. By September 2026 she had made 134 introductions on My Most Trusted.
More about ElaineA practical guide for British business owners in Portugal. Why the Algarve's British circle is easy to join and hard to leave, what the Portuguese side of business runs on, and how one trusted introduction does what a year of mixers will not.
Read Can you run a UK business from the Algarve?Sunshine, sardines and a short flight home. What British business owners need to think about when running a UK company from the Algarve, from tax and time zones to clients who miss you.
Through people who already know Portugal. The UK-Portugal Business Bridge, part of My Most Trusted, is hosted in Portugal by Elaine Godley of The DISCPlus Academy, who introduces members to Portuguese partners, advisers and clients through people they trust.
Elaine Godley, of The DISCPlus Academy, hosts the Portuguese side of the UK-Portugal Business Bridge and lives in Portugal herself, so she knows how British business people settle and work there. The UK host seat is open, for someone British business already trusts. Members also reach My Most Trusted's wider network.
Many people do, but residence, tax and company rules on both sides need professional advice before you move. Keep UK clients close with regular visits; Portugal shares UK time all year. The UK-Portugal Business Bridge, part of My Most Trusted, can introduce trusted cross-border advisers. Read more
The Anglo Portuguese alliance is the oldest in the world still in force, first signed in London in 1373 and sealed again at Windsor in 1386. Six centuries of kings, wars and treaties have come and gone since, and the promise underneath has held, because it was made between parties who each had something the other needed and chose to keep their word. A business introduction across the Bay of Biscay is the same promise, made small.
