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Luxury magazine joins as partner
A magazine aimed at Asian entrepreneurs and business leaders has joined forces with Asian Business Chambers of Commerce. The Mayfair-based publication, Asian Wealth Magazine, is published by Asian Wealth Media. The magazine (AWM) was founded and launched by
Well-deserved award (from left): Simon Topman, Bhovinder Nagra, Kirpal Kaur and Councillor Lindsley Harvard, the Lord Mayor of Coventry
Queen’s award for
Coventry charity Sikh Union Coventry has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. This award is the highest honour given to
volunteer groups across the UK and was presented for the first time in 2002, to celebrate the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. Members of Sikh Union officially received the
award at an event they organised at the Daimler Green Community Centre in the presence of the Lord Mayor of Coventry.
‘An example to us all of what can be achieved through volunteering’
Sikh Union Coventry works in the community by managing projects that support vulnerable children and adults through team sports and health improvement. Recent beneficiaries have been cancer and the
children’s appeal funds at the University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, the Lord Mayors charity for the restoration of a local church. Overseas projects include eye camps and
prosthetic limb projects in India and water borehole projects in Kenya. More recently the charity has been
instrumental in rescuing the Daimler Green Community Centre from closure, thereby securing a place of recreation and activity for the local community. Sikh Union director and trustee Bhovinder
Nagra received the award from Simon Topman, deputy lieutenant, West Midlands, who said: “Sikh Union Coventry are an outstanding organisation and an example to us all of what can be achieved through volunteering. “Not only do they offer massive and vital
support overseas, but equally make a massive contribution to Coventry. Bhovinder a former ABCC committee member
and one of three directors of the Sikh Union, added: “We are honoured and delighted to have been recognised for the voluntary work which our organisation has been carrying out for over 46 years.”
36 CHAMBERLINK October 2016
Kalpesh Patel (pictured), CEO, in 2012 under the Media36 umbrella, a publishing house specialising in niche magazines specifically for the oil and gas industry. The magazine and brand was launched with a
very simple concept in mind. It was to be a high-end luxury-based business publication targeted to British Asian entrepreneurs, business professionals and leaders within the UK.
Company CEO Kalpesh Patel said: “The magazine caters for a generation filled with high-flying, motivated and inspirational professionals who pride themselves in being creative and able to enjoy life and its pleasures in and out of the office. “AWM is now proud to partner as
the exclusive official magazine partner for the ABCC. It is an absolute pleasure and privilege to partner with the ABCC especially with an exclusive official partnership. “As soon as we decided to cast our
net further in the UK, our first point of call was to look at the Birmingham and West Midlands area, as we know this part of the country has a fantastic calibre of British Asian entrepreneurs and business professionals.”
‘The magazine caters for a
generation filled with high-flying, motivated and inspirational professionals’
Speak the right language
Language and translation expert Word360 has won three major three big public sector wins this summer. The Birmingham-based company has secured
contracts with Telford Council, Walsall Council and Taunton and Somerset NHS - totalling nearly £100,000. After a fierce tender process
between 17 national companies, Word360 was successful in securing contracts to deliver and fully manage translation and language services. The firm’s success has led to three
additional full-time staff being recruited. Commercial director Kavita
Parmar (pictured), who owns Word 360 with her partner, said: “This has been a real game changer in the Word360 journey
and has enabled us to cement our market share in the region.” Kavita has been running Word 360 for three
years, having bought the business from its previous owner, who was retiring after 23 years. She said: “We provide the majority of
interpreting services across hospitals and GP surgeries across the West Midlands. That’s a very nice place to be. But aside from that we’ve steered our focus into more translation now. We help businesses internationalise and
commercialise their international interests. “Since we bought the business our
translation business client base has grown by 200 per cent, and that’s without marketing. We started off with two or three and now we’ve got a good couple of hundred clients in two years, all just by reputation.”
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