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Update from the Chair
21 May 2007
In the last few months we have finalised the detail of our sponsorship agreement with the University of Central England which will enable us to more effectively publicise the member Institutes of PINWM. Their involvement is very much appreciated. The first initiative to get the word out and about around the region will be a distribution of around 9,000 booklets to members of the professions coupled with email copies to a further 21,000 or so members, students and other associates. We are expecting that this will encourage more traffic to the www.pinwm.co.uk website. This has been a fairly heavy undertaking and particular thanks goes to our partners at PerfectArc who have helped us every step of the way to get to the stage of being able to distribute that widely. In addition I must pay tribute to the commitment of all the member institutes and their representatives for their contributions to the booklet and for agreeing to distribute it.
We hope that all our members and students will find the booklet a useful reference point but even more importantly that it will encourage them to visit the website so that they can see up to date information on the events on offer. Since the site has been up and running in early 2006 over 200 events in the West Midlands have been publicised and we are expecting that there will be even more now that we have 12 Institute members.
Reflecting back on the last year it is great to see that we have added further professional institutes to the membership and are now getting regular enquiries from other institutes to ask if they can join. Many of the most influential Institutes are already members and we are hoping that throughout the rest of 2007 and into 2008 we will be adding more, if you are visiting this site and your own Institute is not represented do please encourage them to approach us.
If you are reading this as a result of seeing the booklet, thanks for taking the time and we hope that you will add PINWM to your favourites list as the first place to look when you need to top up your cpd activity.
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Keith Simpson ACIB Fifs
UCE agrees 2 year sponsorship
08 May 2007
The University of Central England in Birmingham have become the inaugural publication sponsors for PINWM and we are delighted that as a result of their support we will shortly be issuing our first booklet which will provide an overview of the work of each Institute in the West Midlands. The booklet will also provide a taster of some of the wide variety of continuous professional development opportunities on offer from our member Institutes around the Region. We are proud to have the University's support which will continue into 2008.
We are expecting that as a result of UCE's help we will be able to ensure that more of the 30,000 professionals working in the West Midlands who are affiliated to one or more of our member Institutes will get to hear more of what is on offer for them.
CIOT joins PIN
10 April 2007
The West Midlands branch of The Chartered Institute of Taxation are the latest professional institute to join PINWM. Gary Ashford, a tax specialist at Grant Thornton in Birmingham, is the Midlands contact for the Institute. Keith Simpson Chair of PINWM said "we are delighted that CIOT have decided to add their name to the increasing membership of PINWM, which has particularly strong representation from the world of finance related bodies demonstrating the importance of this sector in the West Midlands".
NEW CHAIRMAN
04 September 2006
Keith Simpson has recently taken over from Margeret May as Chair of PINWM.Keith is the Commercial Area Director - Birmingham for Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets, and has been a member of the PINWM steering groups since its inception.