Dear Members,
Whilst I was busy climbing Mount Fuji, the BPF team have been working as hard as ever to bring you some amazing events over the autumn season starting with our regular BPFSocial! Professional Networking & Mentoring Event at the Lansdowne Club in Mayfair on Thursday 3rd October, from 6:30 - 8:30pm. I am looking forward to meeting you all there!
BPF hosted a Patrons Lunch Meeting with guest speaker Aneel Mussarat on Thursday 19th September in London. Thank you to Aneel for his inspiring talk and to all our Patrons for attending. I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome on board our new Patron this month, Nasreen Akhtar. If you are interested in becoming a Patron, email the BPF office on info@bpfuk.org.
For those of you who are interested or know people who are looking into a career within the government and civil service, BPF will be hosting a "Focus on Opportunities in Civil Service and Government" Panel Discussion with keynote speaker Baroness Sayeeda Warsi at Portcullis House in Westminster on Tuesday 15th October, from 6:00 - 8:00pm.
We are excited to inform you that we are launching our Property Forum in November – BPF will be having a Focus on Property breakfast seminar. See details below.
We have continued our "Recipes for Success" video series and our interviewee this month is BBC journalist, Emb Hashmi - see her video below!
Finally, the British Pakistan Foundation is a not-for-profit social enterprise (Charity no: 1137700), we need your support to continue with our invaluable work of empowering the British Pakistani community. You can become a BPF Premier Club member for only £10 a year to help us achieve this. You can find out more about the Premier Club below, take a look and register today!
Best wishes,
Asif Rangoonwala
Chairman
British Pakistan Foundation
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BPFSocial! Professional Networking Event
Join us for our BPFSocial! Professional Networking and Mentoring event on Thursday 3rd October 2019 from 6:30 to 8:30pm for a fun evening of networking, mentoring, socializing and listening to our inspirational speakers on their Recipes for Success!
Our inspirational speakers include: Shahzad Younas (CEO & Founder, Muzmatch), Suman Hanif (Filmmaker) and Dr Shahid Latif (Consultant Psychiatrist/Clinical Director)
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"Focus on Opportunities in Civil Service and Government" Panel Discussion
Join us for our Focus on Opportunities in Civil Service and Government Panel Discussion on Tuesday 15th October from 6:00 to 8:00pm at Portcullis House. This event is produced to guide, inspire and assist those who wish to pursue a career within the civil service, government & politics.
The panel discussion will look at personal career paths & journeys as well as the different routes into the various areas within civil service, government and politics.
Our Keynote speaker for the evening: Baroness Sayeeda Warsi
Our inspirational panellists include: Faisal Rashid (Labour MP), Shabnam Chaudhri (Detective Superintendent, Metropolitan Police), Imran Shafi (Private Secretary to the Prime Minister) & Sara Rathore (Senior Policy Advisor in the Civil Service). Hashim Bhatti (Councillor for Clewer North) will be moderating.
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Launch of BPF Property Forum
In the run up to our 10 year anniversary comes the launch of a BPF property forum! We are delighted to be holding a Focus on Property event on Wednesday 27th November from 8:30am - 10:00am at Colliers International EMEA in London.
Email the BPF office if you are interested in attending info@bpfuk.org
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Patrons Lunch Meeting with guest speaker Aneel Mussarat
On Thursday 19th September we had our Patrons Lunch Meeting with guest speaker Aneel Mussarat. We want to thank Aneel for taking the opportunity to give us such an inspiring talk!
If you are interested in becoming a Patron, email the office on info@bpfuk.org
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Premier Member – Individual
The BPF Premier membership encourages the community to take part in supporting BPF’s key initiatives & get entitled to receive a range of discounts, benefits & offers for this support.
BPF’s Premier Club membership contribution is only £10 per Year, which goes towards supporting BPF’s 3 key programmes.
These benefits include discounts on all of the BPF events, as well as priority invitations to special events or opportunities.
Click here to join
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Premier Member – Corporate
This year we have launched our “Premier Member – Corporate membership”, for our valued members, who want to promote their event or product or service through BPF.
Register your interest by clicking here
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BPF Patron of the Month: Nasreen Akhter
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Nasreen qualified as a solicitor in 2012 and is a director at Ansham White Solicitors. Nasreen is also an accredited mediator registered with the Civil Mediation Council. She previously worked in Dubai providing estate planning for high net worth clients. She has regularly dealt with many complex contested probate matters including with an international element. Her experience ranges from all Private Client and Family Matters. Nasreen has recently successfully completed Leadership training programme with particular emphasis on personal development. Nasreen is proficient in communicating in Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi.
Ansham White Solicitors is a well - established London law firm, based in Harrow. They specialize in the following areas of law: Wills and Probate, Trusts and Estate Planning, Lasting Power of Attorney and Elderly Client Care, Family Law, Litigation and Immigration. The firm takes a creative approach to meeting their clients’ needs in a professional and efficient manner. They also provide hospital and home visits where necessary.
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Bloom Consultancy is a new London based thoroughly modern matchmaking (not dating) service for busy successful professional Muslims.
Offering a range of membership packages which include a photoshoot with multi award winning photographers ‘Hey Saturday’ and coaching sessions with leading relationship coaches, James Preece and Soraya Soobhany-Chohan, the service aims to help clients break the cycle of dating apps and provides a highly personal one to one service.
To find out more about Bloom, head over to the website or Facebook page.
BPF premium members will receive a 10% discount on all membership packages (excluding Complementary) until 31 October 2019.
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Established with the vision to change the way people perceive architecture, Kompas London Ltd provides complete architectural and construction services to its London-based customers. The philosophy that fuels their culture is that a design need not imitate its surroundings in order to fit in. Whether the design is for a new house, an extension, or a loft conversion, each project is unique.
To find out more about Kompas, head over to the website
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BPF Recipes for Success with Emb Hashmi
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Emb Hashmi is a award winning journalist who works for the BBC. She is also a film maker and made a short social media film called Rising Girl which led to the birth of the charity of the same which helps girls rise through education both in the UK and Pakistan, its work has been recognised by members of Parliament, peers, representatives from the foreign office, CPS and police commissioners.
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Outstanding British Pakistani:
Mohammad Shoaib Memon
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Mohammad Shoaib Memon is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Europe Arab Bank plc and a director of a number of companies of the Group in Europe. He was also the Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Bank during 2018 responsible for management of the Bank’s business interests and leading the operations in Europe for Corporate, Institutional & Private Banking and Treasury services. He chairs the UK Chapter of Institute of Chartered of Pakistan, is a member of various other professional organisations and is an advisor to a large-scale education and health sector project in Sindh Pakistan.
Click here to read his interview
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Use GoRaise to Support Our Work
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GoRaise is a fundraising website which allows organisations and charities to generate donations without customers having to donate a penny!
Over 3,000 retailers have agreed to give us a donation every time you shop online. All that is required is that you start on the GoRaise website and then click on a website that you need to use!
After your purchase, the company you bought from will donate a percentage of what you have spent to British Pakistan Foundation - helping us reach our goal of empowering the over 1 million British Pakistani community in the UK!
Visit our GoRaise page and start shopping (and supporting us) now!
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8 things Pakistanis taught us about climate change
We keep hearing that Pakistan is the eighth most vulnerable country to climate change in the world, but it can be difficult to comprehend what it means to our population on a personal, everyday level.
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Film on Dr Abdus Salam is coming to Netflix in October
A documentary about Pakistan's first and only Nobel Laureate in Science, Dr Abdus Salam, will be on Netflix in October.
Salam — The First ****** Nobel Laureate, a feature-length film, has already won accolades on the international film festival circuit, including DFW South Asian Film Festival, South Asia Human Rights Festival, South Asian International Film Festival and the South Asian Film Festival of Montreal, among others.
Read More
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Gates Foundation to provide $200 million for PM Imran's Ehsaas programme
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will provide Pakistan an amount of 200 million dollars for the implementation of the Ehsaas Program next year, reports Radio Pakistan.
Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister said that the Ehsaas Program was a big project in the history of Pakistan which will turn the country into a welfare state.
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Pakistan is leading the way with its welfare state – the world can learn from its innovation
We should all be looking with particular interest at the work underway in Pakistan to build a sustainable welfare state. Called Ehsaas, which in Urdu literally means ‘empathy’, the new initiative is one of the most comprehensive welfare programmes ever undertaken by a national government.
Read more
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Book of the Month: The Flowering Desert: Textiles from Sindh
by Hasan & Nasreen Askari
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A lavishly illustrated volume of Pakistani textiles of extraordinary colour and vibrancy from one of the most arid areas on Earth.
The Flowering Desert: Textiles from Sindh focuses on a private collection of textiles from Sindh, Pakistan, which, according to some scholars, was the crucible in which the textile traditions of Gujarat and Rajasthan were forged. Sindhi textiles are unique inasmuch as they reflect a dimension that combines the harshness of the terrain with a quest for a mythical and unattainable beauty. The collection is recognised as being of outstanding merit and some of it has featured in exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
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Photographers & Videographers | BPF
We're on the look-out for ad-hoc Photographers/Videographers here at the British Pakistan Foundation!
Our events are fantastic way of networking and meeting new and like-minded people, all whilst supporting a great cause.This would suit London-based students and will give them the opportunity to earn some experience and money whilst studying!
If you love to talk to people and have a few hours to spare, email us at info@bpfuk.org with your name, contact details and availability!
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Community Manager | Muzmatch
London | £22,000 - £26,000
Muzmatch is all about quality, not quantity. Join their fun and fast growing Community Management team and help uphold our behaviour and quality guidelines and keep muzmatch a safe space for all our singles looking for love.
Click here for more details
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Administration & Finance Manager | The Children's Society
Winchester | £22,929
Based in Winchester, the Children's Society are looking for an enthusiastic Admin & Finance Manager to support the delivery of their national Young Carers work.
Click here for more information.
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Fully funded UK Chevening scholarships 2020
The UK Government is offering fully funded scholarships worth £18,000 for Masters students to study & work in the UK for 1 year. It is open to Masters degree students in any field. Follow the link to apply: http://www.chevening.org/
Click here for more information
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Copywriter & Marketing Officer | Muzmatch
London | £22,000 - £26,000
Working Join our fun and fast growing in house creative marketing team and help us be the biggest and best Muslim dating app out there. There are 1.8 billion Muslims out there - will you help us reach them all? This is a multi faceted role where you'll learn a lot and get your hands dirty!
Click here for more information
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Work with BPF
Speak at BPF Events
If you are interested in speaking at our regular professional networking events, then please contact the BPF office at info@bpfuk.org
Write for BPF
We love to hear from our members and would like to feature articles, blog posts etc. by our members on areas that impact the British Pakistan community. If you would like to contribute an article, blog post etc. for our monthly newsletter or website and need to know more about the different monthly topics then please contact the BPF office at info@bpfuk.org
Partner with BPF
We need partners
If you are a business owner, entrepreneur or city professional who would like to offer mentoring, work experience, internships, or access to job opportunities to our top Young Professionals Programme members please contact the office at info@bpfuk.org
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Support BPF
Donating to BPF
Please help us continue our valuable work for the community by making a donation to BPF (Charity registration for England and Wales No: 1137700). If you would like to make either a regular or one-off donation to BPF then please contact the office at info@bpfuk.org
Become a BPF Patron or Ambassador
If you are interested in becoming a Patron or Ambassador for BPF then please contact the office at info@bpfuk.org
Sponsoring BPF Events
If you would like to sponsor a BPF event then please email the office at info@bpfuk.org
Advertise
If you would like to advertise in our newsletter or on our website then please contact the office at info@bpfuk.org
Mentorship
If you are looking for mentorship apply here
If you wish to become a mentor, apply here
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