We organise events for members, ranging from CPD courses to annual dinners, social events and discussion groups, as well as representing the interests of chartered accountants in the district to the wider business community.
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Ben Powell, Partner/Head of Corporate at Ballards LLP in Worcestershire and President of ICAEW Birmingham and West Midlands
Meet your 2022-23 ICAEW Birmingham and West Midlands Committee.
Ben Powell ACA has been elected as President of ICAEW Birmingham and West Midlands.
The society was formed in 1882 and serves more than 6,000 members in Birmingham, Solihull, Coventry, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire and parts of the Black Country.
The society’s members come from accountancy practices small and large and from a range of business, public sector and Third Sector interests. The district society is deeply engaged in the development of the local economy and regards the promotion of the profession – especially among students – as a crucial part of its work.
It also acts as a link between the ICAEW in Moorgate Place and members in the district.
PIN WM is an Association of Professional Bodies based in the West Midlands for the purpose of :
A new programme of in person events for 2022-23.
6.30pm for 7pm-9pm
Old Silhillians Clubhouse, Warwick Road, Knowle, Solihull B93 9LW
Junction5 of the M42
Chris Jacob FCA - Meeting Secretary
Netherwood Cottage, Arbourtree Lane, Chadwick End, Solihull, B93 0AZ
T: +44 (0)1564 775325 F: +44 (0)1564 776673 Office: +44 (0)121 733 3003
E: chj@chadwick1.co.uk
Chairman John L R Hare FCA,
Netherwood Byre, Netherwood Lane, Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire B93 0BB
T: +44 (0)1564 785454 M: +44 (0) 7768 321484 F: +44 (0)1564 785455
E: johnhareltd@hotmail.co.uk
The Solihull Business Discussion Club is an informal gathering of chartered accountants, in practice, business and retired, where we invite speakers to come and talk to us on matters not directly related to our profession. For over thirty years the Solihull Business Discussion Group has been meeting on the second Thursday of the month October to April.
In the mid 1970s ICAEW and BWMSCA set up a number of local discussion groups to encourage members to get together informally. For some reason Solihull Business Discussion Group is the only one that has survived.
The SBDG is a regular gathering of members of ICAEW who come together socially to hear a variety of speakers and to discuss topical and interesting matters over beer and sandwiches.
Members come from across the West Midlands area, not just Solihull, and the SDBG gives them the opportunity to network with similar thinking friends and colleagues in industry, commerce and the profession, and provides a regular meeting base for our retired and semi-retired colleagues.
The SBDG meets at the Old Silhillians’ clubhouse, Knowle, Solihull, Junction 5 of the M42, on the second Thursday of the autumn and winter months (October – April) at 7 pm.
In the recent past our speakers have been as diverse the Minister of the environment, Chair of the Solihull NHS Trust; we also had an evening with Sir Bernard Zissman and the tale of a Blacksmiths mate in the Royal Navy from Benin to Jutland.
In some cases it is probably the annual dinner combined with a wine tasting that keeps the members coming back. The evening takes the form of a combined four course dinner and wine tasting. Two wines are served with each course, plus a port; all you have to do is to identify the wines. Surprisingly all our well versed, expense account accountants, seem to fail miserably at identification without a price list.
Subjects booked for the 2012/13 season include the music of Shakespeare an insider’s story; a funny thing happened at the registry office, the round-the-world clipper race and the Queen’s jubilee pageant.
So why not come and join us at the Old Sils, Junction 5 of the M42 on the second Thursday of the month October to April, or just e-mail Chris Jacob at chj@chadwick.demon.co.uk to be put on the mailing list.
Solihull Business Discussion Group is the only one that has survived – could this be because we discuss - 'anything but accountancy'? To learn more, or to be placed on the mailing list please e-mail Chris Jacob at chj@chadwick1.co.uk.
BCAG, Birmingham Chartered Accountants Group, is a Birmingham based social organisation for newly qualified chartered accountants.
BCASS has been in existence for over 125 years and continues to provide all trainee accountants in the Birmingham area with support and networking opportunities through a variety of activities.