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Celebrating three years of outstanding teaching


Shirley-based accountancy training specialists HTFT Partnership marked its third birthday in style – after helping nearly 1,000 students develop lifelong skills and enjoy exam success. The training provider, launched to help provide


the next generation of professional accountants in the West Midlands and further afield, partied at the Hyatt along with past and present students to celebrate three years since its foundation. James Taylor, Commercial Development, said


HTFT was a ‘multi-national organisation based in Birmingham’ helping students across the West Midlands and as far afield as Pakistan, Australia, South Africa, Botswana and Dubai. “We are not an organisation which is just


supplying training. Our clients pay for students to go on training courses to take exams but we provide a far wider service than that. “Exam success is very, very important but by


coming to HTFT we look to develop very well- rounded professional accountants so that when they are in a workplace they can think outside the box and add greater value to the organisation.” James said the vast majority of students were


trainees employed in sectors ranging from accountancy practices to NHS Trusts and commercial organisations. “Of the 955 students in the last three years


around 700 have come from this area. The majority of our courses are delivered via home online in the evening. Everybody has a different set of skills and there are also live classes at weekends.”


Inspirational speaker is a voice of reason


Battling inequality (from left): Gareth Roberts (Warwicks CCC), Dr Haseena Lockhat (ABCC), Saqib Bhatti, Baroness Sayeda Warsi, Dee Kundi (ABCC), and Russell Jeans (Birmingham Chamber)


by The Asian Business Chamber of Commerce (ABCC). Baroness Warsi, named by the Royal Strategic


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Studies Centre as one of the top 500 of the most influential Muslims in the world, spoke about her experiences, philosophy and future plans. She also spoke about the Baroness Warsi


Foundation, which was established to help create more inclusive communities. The Foundation believes that the best way to


do this is to help increase social mobility, so that disadvantaged young people can build a future based on their ability, and not their background. The Foundation also wants to improve the


lives of women and girls worldwide, by challenging the social, cultural and economic barriers that currently prevent them from fulfilling their potential. The organisation also wants to promote


And then there were three: HTFT partner Clare Finch and students Russell Hardwick and Graeme Toon


freedom of religion or belief, in order to counter intolerance. Baroness Warsi said: “The Foundation seeks to challenge these issues


Lending skills to a good cause


Solihull College & University Centre’s construction students have volunteered their time and expertise to lend their skills to a family in Shropshire who were in need of support. The plastering students worked on set of the


BBC’s long running TV programme ‘DIY SOS: The Big Build’, featuring DIY star Nick Knowles. The programme featured the Graftons, whose


move from London to Hopesay in Shropshire coincided with the tragic death of mom Jess Grafton, from cancer. That left dad Joe to look


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after seven-year-old daughter Lucy, in a house that was half-renovated. The challenge was taken up by DIY SOS, who


recruited plastering students from Solihull College to help out. Level 2 students Daniel Austin, Shaun Smyth, Paul Burke and David Lynch jumped at the chance to get valuable work experience on a real life building site. At the end of the show, the college also


donated a bike to Lucy, for her to to enjoy in her new home.


Ready to get plastered: The Solihull College team on site at ‘DIY SOS’


ritain’s first Muslim cabinet minister, Baroness Warsi, was guest speaker at an International Women’s Day event staged


‘Our vision here is to create a more inclusive society and thus redefine tomorrow’


which exclude individuals from fulfilling their full potential. Our vision here is to create a more inclusive society and thus redefine tomorrow.” In a wide ranging and humorous after dinner


address, Baroness Warsi said: “Frontline government is a bit like childbirth – once you have done it, you forget about all the pain and and you start to remember the good bits.” ABCC president Saqib Bhatti said that the


ABCC fully supported the aims of the Warsi Foundation and would do what it could to overcome the gap in gender equality. He said: “This has been the cornerstone of my


agenda as president of the ABCC. There is an economic argument to overcome this gap in gender equality but, much more importantly, it is the right thing to do.” The event, held at Edgbaston Stadium, was


sponsored by NatWest and Warwickshire County Cricket Club.


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