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Join our enterprise adviser network
By Mike Pipe, senior enterprise coordinator
We’re already working with 1,600 secondary schools and colleges. We need more businesses like you on board to strengthen the network. With your help we can bring
the right people together in ways that put young people’s futures first. Joining the network is easy. We’ve got practical resources and support in place to make sure your time and resources are focused on what matters. There are two ways to get involved:
1. Nominate an enterprise adviser from your business Enterprise advisers are senior business volunteers who spend around eight hours a month working closely with the headteacher or senior leadership team of a local college or school. Enterprise advisers use their
business experience and professional networks to help develop and implement an effective careers strategy that puts opportunities with local employers at the heart of a young person’s education. Your employee will be fully supported by one of our trained, full-time enterprise coordinators.
2. Offer encounters with the world of work to local young people • Support our funded partners by volunteering for structured activities, such as enterprise competitions or providing apprentice mentors for young people in schools. We can connect you to partners who are working all across the country.
• Develop your own programmes that we will support to reach new schools through our network.
If you are interested in becoming an enterprise adviser, please contact Mike Pipe at
Michael.pipe@bep.education or call on 07717316661
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Largest UK regional office is opened in city by PwC
PwC, the leading professional services firm, has opened its largest UK regional office as it moves into its landmark new Birmingham home, One Chamberlain Square. The firm’s 2000-strong team in Birmingham has moved across the city from Cornwall Court, where it has been based for 27 years, to its new home at One Chamberlain Square in Birmingham’s Paradise development. One Chamberlain Square is a
world-class building, designed by architect Eric Parry, and is the first building to be completed in the Paradise regeneration scheme in the heart of Chamberlain and Centenary Squares.
‘An amazing space that is fit for the future of work’
PwC will occupy the whole of
the commercial space in the seven- storey, 172,000sq ft office building, which also has retail and leisure facilities on the ground floor. Special attention has also been
given to the internal design to subtly reflect the diverse industrial heritage of Birmingham and the Midlands region. The design of workspaces and ‘hackable’ settings are created to give staff and clients a choice of flexible and tech- enabled settings for now and in the future.
Visionaries: PwC Midlands’ steering group, which has worked together for the past three years to create One Chamberlain Square
The fit-out was inspired by the
city’s motto ‘Forward’, together with the graffiti inscription ‘Everything is Possible’, which featured on the brutalist library by exhibiting artist Lucy McLauchlan, as well as its internationally renowned markets and industries, through internal design features and colour schemes. A diverse steering group, from
new joiners to senior partners, has worked together for the past three years, canvassing the opinions and requirements of all staff, working together with the design team to create an amazing space that is fit for the future of work and will provide first-class space and
facilities for clients, colleagues and community interests which PwC works closely with. Matthew Hammond, Midlands
Region chairman and senior partner for PwC in Birmingham, said: “It is with immense pride on
behalf of all those involved in PwC’s investment in One Chamberlain Square that we move into our new home in the very heart of Birmingham and the UK. “The culmination of many years’
hard work by our colleagues and the development partners have made the visionary scheme for Paradise, and in particular One Chamberlain Square, a reality.”
Year of success: The INFINITY team INFINITY take home another win
A managed IT services firm, INFINITY IT Solutions, who have just celebrated their 10 year anniversary, were awarded Business of the Year at the East Staffordshire and South Derbyshire Business Awards 2019. Over 120 companies entered the awards and
INFINITY were awarded the top prize of ‘Business of the Year’. It was a successful year for the Uttoxeter-based
business, having already been crowned Connected/Mobility Solution of the year at the IT Europa Awards, Professional Services of the Year at the Staffordshire Chamber Business Awards, Best SMB MSP Project and the Managed Services and Hosting Awards and Data Security/Compliance Project of the Year at the SDC Awards.
To find out more visit:
www.infinityit-solutions.com
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