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Future Faces joins BPS to create larger network
Future Faces – the young professionals’ arm of Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce – and Birmingham Professional Services (BPS) are joining forces to create a larger, unified professional network for the region. The move will bring members of BPS - including
its Birmingham Aspire, Birmingham Future and Birmingham Leaders sub-sections - under the Future Faces brand. Furthermore, the region’s two
biggest awards dinners for young professionals – the Future Faces Annual Dinner and Awards and the Birmingham Young Professional of the Year (BYPY) – will come together in 2021 for a huge joint celebration of all young professional talent across the region at the ICC in Birmingham. Members of Birmingham Aspire and Birmingham Future will be enrolled into Future Faces - which already has a membership of more than 500 individuals from more than 20 sectors across the region - to further strengthen the network and create an unrivalled package of membership benefits and opportunities. The GBCC also plans to fund Future Faces memberships for existing Birmingham Aspire and Birmingham Future members for 12 months. Chamber chief executive Paul Faulkner said: “The integration of Birmingham Aspire and
Birmingham Future into the Future Faces brand is particularly exciting for the region’s young professionals, with an expanded network and contacts, adding to what is already an extremely popular and vibrant offering.” Future Faces manager Anna Assinder
(pictured) said: “Future Faces has more than doubled in size over the past three years, and welcoming Birmingham Aspire and Birmingham Future into our community allows us to unite these great networks together. “Members of all three
organisations will continue to receive the same benefits with an even broader and larger multi- sector network and professional development package, as well as an even bigger awards event to recognise
their talents and achievements.” BPS chairman Ian Barnes said: “Now more
than ever it is essential that the regional business community comes together to build opportunity across our economy. “This unified approach means we will be able
to provide more support for members whilst still ensuring that the region’s business professional services sector has its own national and international voice.”
• See more Future Faces news on page 45 Transforming the
future of health care An ambitious plan to build two new Birmingham hospitals and get services ready for the future has been unveiled. ‘The Big Build’ would see two new
hospital blocks built, one at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital site in the city centre and the other at the Birmingham Women’s Hospital in Edgbaston. The trust which runs the two hospitals
says both are well beyond their natural operational life. The £442m project would provide a vital
boost to the local economy as it looks to recover from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Work could begin by 2023 with doors opening in 2025, subject to funding approval. David Melbourne, the acting chief
executive of Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, which is behind the plans, said doing nothing was not an option. He said: “We are proud of the amazing care our colleagues provide on a daily basis but they do that in an estate that is well beyond its operational life. “Our Big Build proposal will provide value
for money and unlock huge potential for the development of our existing and new services; opening the door to a new wave of research and innovation tapping into the many world class individuals we are lucky to call colleagues.”
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