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Greater Birmingham’s leading companies In Brief


Birmingham Youth Sports Academy is celebrating 15 years of voluntary service to community sports with a gala charity dinner on 12 May at the Holiday Inn at Birmingham Airport. The dinner is designed to raise


funds for the BYSA to continue its voluntary work and serve young people of the region.


An advertising student has won a prestigious award from the University of Worcester, sponsored by a local marketing agency. James Laws, 22, won the


‘Nexus Creative Prize for Outstanding Performance in Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations’ award. Nexus has sponsored the award for the past three years.


Bromsgrove-based pensions and employee benefits specialist Johnson Fleming has raised £10,000 for local charity CLIC Sargent, which supports children and young people with cancer. The Johnson Fleming team raised the cash through a number of initiatives, including sports days, community fun days, raffles and collections.


Cheltenham-based telecoms firm Bamboo has become the first UK service provider for Vodafone in more than ten years. The partnership will see


Bamboo’s direct customers benefiting from access to Vodafone’s network and services. Bamboo boss Lorrin White


said: “We look forward to working with Vodafone as we expand our business.”


Atherstone-based Mythe Barn has hosted the Midlands Air Ambulance annual conference. Due to the fact that the Air Ambulance was on call during the event, the organisation moved their operations base to Mythe Barn for the day, and this included having two ambulance on site and two helicopters parked on standby in a nearby field.


30 CHAMBERLINK March 2017 Order up for charity


Umami Indian Kitchen is the latest restaurant to join the charity campaign ‘Let’s Feed Brum’. They are providing hot food to the homeless every Tuesday from 8pm at New Street Soup Kitchen. ‘Let’s Feed Brum’ is a campaign led by the Inspiration Support Team,


encouraging restaurants to help feed the homeless people of Birmingham. Birmingham has 1,152 registered homeless cases, being the second largest


city in the UK. The wastage of food from eating establishments is a growing concern, particularly when so many people are going hungry. Each week, Umami have been donating big pots of curry and rice with


both vegetarian and non-vegetarian options, enough to feed 100 to 150 people, while temperatures have been dropping as low as -2°C. Other restaurants on board the campaign include Itihaas and Chop and


Wok.


Fleet management specialist Fleet Alliance has acquired a controlling interest in East Sussex-based Neva Consultants for a seven figure sum. Under the terms of the deal, Fleet Alliance will take a


majority shareholding in Neva, but the latter’s current directors, Graham Prince and Nick Collinson, will continue to have a shareholding in the business, which they formed in 1992. Neva will continue to trade as a separate


brand. The firm offers a range of fleet management and contract hire and leasing services to both corporate and private customers, and the deal will give Fleet Alliance a greater physical presence in the south of the UK. Fleet Alliance managing director Martin Brown said:


“We have known and worked with Neva for the last ten years or more and, indeed, share the same IT platform and back office systems. In that time, we have come to recognise them as a thoroughly professional, well-run


Feed the hungry: Mandeep Bajwa, head chef of Umami Indian Kitchen


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Fleet Alliance expands with Neva Consultants


business with a culture very similar to our own. In short, they made the perfect fit for us. “Although we are headquartered in Glasgow, we


already operate on a national basis. So the positioning of Neva in the south of the UK, while useful, was not of paramount importance for us. “More so was the relationship between the


two businesses, our greater national presence through a combined operation, the corporate culture and the fit between us.” Midlands-based Fleet Alliance member Richard Wileman (pictured) said: “The continued growth of Fleet Alliance through the purchase of Neva is an excellent addition.


2017 looks like an exciting time for the company.” Fleet Alliance recently announced a fifth successive


record year in terms of fleet size, revenue and profitability and has seen growth on three fronts – in its traditional direct business, its corporate sales division and its personal leasing operation, Intelligent Car Leasing.


Fundraiser takes on Marathon challenge


A Midlands-based fundraiser is preparing to undertake his biggest and toughest challenge – running four full marathons in the first three weeks of April. Haroon Mota, fundraising


manager for humanitarian charity Penny Appeal, is hoping to raise £20,000, towards a solar water panel for the people of Senegal and will run marathons in London, Paris, Manchester and Boston. Thirty-one year-old Haroon who


lives in Coventry and works in Birmingham’ and decided to take up running again to honour the memory of his late father. He said: “Running the 2012


London Marathon was supposed to be a one off as it was such a painful and exhausting experience. “But after my father was killed in


a car accident in 2013 I put on my running shoes again and was compelled to dedicate every mile and every step towards goodness. “My father, Hafiz Kasim Mota, was


always striving to make life better for others. I am very determined to make this challenge a success to make him proud.”


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