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Contact: Anna Assinder T: 0121 607 1836


Connect with Millennium Point


Eastside-based Millennium Point has opened a new conference venue, Connect. The facility, due to open this month, has three meeting rooms, and can cater for up to 120 delegates. Judith Armstrong, CEO of


Millennium Point, said: This investment will further prepare Millennium Point for the arrival of HS2 in 2026.”


Networking Events


• Future Faces Social at Loki Wine 29.06.17


• Leadership Development Event – Leverage the power of your network 06.07.17


New members


• Eleanor Pugh-Stanley – RoSPA • Natalia Solanki – Birmingham Children’s Hospital


• Rachel Phillips – The Belfry


Common Purpose offers programme place as prize


Birmingham-based leadership development organisation Common Purpose is offering the overall winner of this year’s Future Face of Greater Birmingham award a place on their Midlands ‘Navigator’ programme, worth £3,500. Common Purpose, a not-for-profit organisation that


runs leadership development programmes across the UK. The course is a ‘modular leadership development


programme for emerging leaders in the UK’, and is aimed at helping people develop their problem-solving skills. Louise Teboul, operations director for Common


Purpose Midlands, said: “We are committed to developing emerging leaders in the region, from a breadth of organisations and are especially keen to work with small to medium enterprises (SMEs), and like Future Faces, we share the same commitment to the creation of more confident, knowledgeable and better-networked leaders. Other sponsorship opportunities are available for the


Future Faces awards, which will take place on 15 September at Edgbaston Stadium. Future Faces manager Anna Assinder said: “This prestigious prize ties in perfectly with Future Faces’


The winner takes it all: last year’s Future Faces awards winners


objective to professionally develop, network and recognise Birmingham’s future leaders. “This prize isn’t the only change we have made -


there are more awards for professionals to enter and more sponsorship opportunities available to help Birmingham’s employees and businesses position themselves as leaders in their industry.”


Committee Focus: Sian Averill


This month’s Committee Focus is by Future Faces vice president Sian Averill,who reveals more about herself – and how she became involved in Future Faces.


What’s your day job? I’m a fundraising manager at Heartlands Hospital Charity in Birmingham. My main role is to manage and identify fundraisers to help raise money.


What do you like most about your job? I really enjoy meeting staff and identifying projects with them and raising the money to deliver those projects. Everything we do has to benefit staff and patients and its really nice being able to make a difference.


If you weren’t doing what you were doing, what other job would you have? I love the idea of being a wedding planner.


What brought you to Birmingham? Birmingham born and bred.


What’s your favourite thing about living/working the city? All of the new bars. So many bars are expanding and choosing


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Birmingham as their new location and it’s great that we can try these out each month.


Which of the FF events have been your favourite recently? The AGM at Park Regis.


How do you think Future Faces has helped your professional development / career? Future Faces has definitely helped with my career development as it has helped to build my confidence and attempt new things.


How has FF benefitted the company you work for? FF gives me the opportunity to meet 30-40 new people every month and talk to them about our charity and the work that we do.


What do you enjoy the most about being on the committee? I enjoy being able to help make decisions about the events that we do and the direction that Future Faces is going.


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