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Business News President’s Focus


This month’s President’s Focus is by Future Faces president Sian Averill, who is hoping to build on the organisation’s growth in membership. She believes the organisation can continue to take advantage of the fact that Birmingham is the ‘youngest’ city in Europe, and will attract more young people when HS2 and HSBC arrive in the coming years.


I have worked in the charity sector since 2013, having previously worked for Lloyds Bank. I started my career in fundraising as a fundraising assistant for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity and have recently been involved in the creation of the new charity involving the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Charity, Good Hope Hospital Charity, Solihull Hospital Charity and Heartlands Hospital Charity where I am based as the fundraising manager. Our aim is to support patients


and their families at the hospitals by raising funds to provide extra equipment, enhance facilities, fund research and provide added extras that are over and above what the NHS can provide. I have been a member of Future


Faces since the beginning of my career in the third sector and joined as a member in 2013. In 2015, I joined the executive committee at a time when the Chamber was undergoing a rebrand. It was great for me to see how the Chamber and Future Faces have gone from strength-to-strength since the rebrand back in 2015. With the support of Anna


Assinder and the wider Chamber team, Future Faces has seen a membership growth of 55 per cent in 2017, the highest membership growth of all the chamber divisions. This was reflected in our awards which sold out in 2017 for the first time. Last year, we introduced new categories to represent members from our ever-widening range of sectors and we were thrilled to see an increase of 148 per cent in award applications, something we are all very proud of. I am so excited to be the new


president of Future Faces and I hope to continue on the success that Anna and Victoria Sears built last year. Together with the wider Chamber and the new refreshed committee, we want to ensure that every member gets the most out of their Future Faces membership. Our aims for 2018 are: to


increase members from third sector organisations, to make it easier for members to refer friends and colleagues as, when surveyed, 100 per cent of our members said they would do so but may not always


‘Future Faces saw a membership growth of 55 per cent in 2017, the highest membership growth of all the chamber divisions’


know how to, and to reintroduce a mentoring scheme that can benefit all of our members by connecting aspiring young professionals to experienced mentors in their profession, or the profession they want to explore. Birmingham is the youngest city in Europe with under 25 year olds


accounting for 40 per cent of the population and there is no doubt that HS2 and the HSBC headquarters will bring more young professionals to the region. I am confident that Future Faces will be the go-to membership organisation for those young professionals wanting to build on their career


and expand their network. I’m really excited to be working with such a talented and inspiring group of people on the committee and I look forward to seeing what the future holds for Future Faces.


For more information on Futures Faces visit greaterbirminghamchambers.com/ future faces


• Future Faces news – Page 32. February 2018 CHAMBERLINK 11


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