Work is underway on creating a new Aldi supermarket and Local Centre at a multi-million-pound site in Nottingham.
The 19,570 sq ft Aldi food store is expected to open this summer at the £30 million mixed use scheme at Teal Park off the Colwick Loop Road in Netherfield.
The development, which is being created by Warwick-based property company AC Lloyd Commercial and Nottingham-based Henry Davidson Developments (HDD), will also feature four 1,000 sq ft retail units, a Children’s Day Nursery and a roadside plot.
This phase is in addition to the adjoining trade and industrial park, the first phase of which is already open with the remainder under construction.
Mark Edwards, Managing Director at AC Lloyd Commercial, said negotiations were on-going with a number of companies to let the four retail units.
He said: “It is great to see work starting on building the Aldi and the Retail Parade which will bolster the amenities to serve the new residential dwellings.
“Interest is strong in the four retail units which are being developed at the same time and will be situated at the side of Aldi.
“Negotiations for some of the retail units have now entered the legal stage so we are hoping to be able to announce who will be occupying these in due course.”
Richard Croft, director at HDD, added: “We hope the amenities we are creating will be popular with the local community which is growing all the time as more houses are built in the vicinity.
“This latest phase of our development is seeing Aldi expand towards the east of Nottingham and work is on track for the food store and retail units to open this summer.”
The letting agents for the retail units are Leicester-based Phillips Sutton.
Time-consuming hospital paperwork could become a thing of the past thanks to a Nottingham company providing much-needed hope to healthcare managers looking to drive down Covid-hit waiting lists.
Health software company Trisoft, of Castle Gate, is launching a powerful new tool, AQUA theatreman, which streamlines patient journeys and provides vital information for hospital staff.
The comprehensively designed tool builds on Trisoft’s existing theatreman software, already in use in some hospitals. It allows staff to move away from cumbersome paperwork enabling them to manage both patients and resources much more efficiently – and get more people treated in a day.
With the British Medical Association (BMA) reporting a record high NHS England waiting list of 5.98 million in October, the tool is likely to be welcomed by many hospital trusts trying to get patients seen quicker in 2022 and beyond.
Jane Woolford, who is using theatreman at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Since East Kent University NHS Foundation Trust introduced theatreman, processes have improved greatly, streamlining theatre activities where before paper systems were in place.
“Despite operating in a Covid environment, problem resolution is quick once a problem is allocated to a technician, contact is made and resolution is usually achieved during the call.”
Dominic Claxton, client success manager at Trisoft AQUA theatreman, said: “We are proud to be launching our new AQUA theatreman software in 2022 – the perfect time to help hospitals still badly affected by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on waiting lists.
“Also, by working just as well on the Internet cloud as it does via a hospital’s own systems, AQUA theatreman is helping the NHS achieve its digital goals – which will in turn help reduce carbon emissions.
“We are passionate about helping to make healthcare in this country the best in the world and we hope that with its smart scheduling capabilities our AQUA theatreman software can play its part in achieving those aims.
“Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic the world has seen just how under pressure doctors, nurses, porters, managers and all hospital staff have been, in coping with this dreadful situation. Let’s hope that AQUA theatreman can start to make things a little bit easier in 2022 and into the future.”
The AQUA theatreman system can be used on a mobile, tablet or desktop device and offers hospital staff the ability to digitally process a patient’s journey from ward to theatre. The aim is to help busy hospital surgery departments get patients in and out in a more efficient way, with features such as booking slots, and up-to-the-minute dashboards showing each stage of the surgery process.
The software also gives hospital personnel a range of other information at their fingertips, including waiting lists for different departments, and what equipment will be required for each surgery. It allows them to see which patients are ready to leave which theatres, as well as reviewing activity from previous days and filtering precise information.
The D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has refreshed its Local Skills Report.
The new report sets out the actions needed to make sure everyone has the skills which will allow them to get good jobs, both now and in the future —and how it will also help the region address other issues, from climate change to regional inequality.
Since 2018, Skills Advisory Panels (SAPs) have been bringing together employers, skills providers, and key local stakeholders to better understand and resolve skills mismatches at a local level. The D2N2 LEP, in its capacity as organiser of the region’s Skills Advisory Panel (SAP), is fostering greater collaboration and engagement with key local stakeholders to support its leadership role in the local economy.
Drawing on our regional skills and labour market strengths, challenges and ambitions, the report is a springboard for future engagements, partnerships and conversations. It offers a wealth of insights and ideas for use by any individual or organisation with an interest in skills development in the region.
Since the publication of the first D2N2 Local Skills Report in March 2021, the D2N2 area has been successful in securing additional funding for resources and provision to address skills mismatches across the area. Most notably, there have been two Strategic Development Fund pilots, the extension of the Digital Skills Bootcamps, and the recently announced successful bid for an East Midlands Institute of Technology, led by the University of Derby.
The strategies and action plans presented are all designed to contribute to the wider ambitions for the region, responding to local needs and development priorities, and to clearly align with government strategies aimed at growth and levelling up. The report outlines how stakeholders can assist to build more inclusive and sustainable economies and societies:
Government: Provide funding continuity; increase access to reskilling; use SAPs to enable a strategic focus on skills encompassing all funding streams and audiences.
Post-16 Skills Providers: Continue to reassess delivery against the shifting needs of the economy; build collaborative skills pathways; embed digital and low carbon in all learning pathways.
Schools: Provide senior support of careers activity; promote all technical skills pathways; embed careers inspiration and core digital skills in the curriculum.
Local Authorities: Work from this common evidence base for new developments such as County Deals; facilitate relationships between local employers and schools.
Employers and Business Representative Organisations (BROs): Make skills core to recovery and growth planning; engage with colleges, universities and other providers in the skills system to develop the future workforce; support workers in retraining, reskilling and upskilling.
Fiona Baker, head of people of skills at D2N2 LEP, said: “Major economic changes have been driven by skills demand trends and technological changes, and then accelerated by COVID-19 and Brexit. During the pandemic, our focus has been on mitigating actions. With the worst of the labour market impacts seemingly now behind us, we are now able to increase attention on medium-term initiatives.
“We have made good progress since the first Local Skills Report was published in March 2021, but we must maintain momentum to achieve our ambitions. This report will drive wider influence and national leverage by feeding into the Department for Education’s (DfE) Skills and Productivity Board, and into our regular reporting to the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. We all have important roles to play in delivering the priority interventions we have identified.”
This second iteration of SAPs’ Local Skills Reports comes at a time when DfE is trailblazing new Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs), in eight areas of the country. Developed by Employer Representative Bodies, LSIPs are part of a suite of reforms launched in DfE’s “Skills for Jobs” White Paper that aim to put employers more firmly at the heart of the skills system.
An evaluation of the eight Trailblazers will inform the national roll out of the programme. In the meantime, and before LSIPs are rolled out across the country, it is DfE’s intention that Skills Advisory Panels and this Local Skills Report should continue to influence the behaviour of local partners and feed intelligence to central government, including to sectoral focussed skills teams and the national-level Skills and Productivity Board (SPB).
Derby’s Our City, Our River (OCOR) project has received an exciting boost as £17.7 million has been awarded as part of the Government’s initiative to protect homes and businesses from flooding.
This extra funding, which will be formally approved by Cabinet on Wednesday, will go towards the delivery of flood alleviation measures at Derby Riverside around Stuart Street, Phoenix Street, and Exeter Place. The hope is that the investment will create a new area of the city on the east side of the river.
The OCOR programme will unlock the redevelopment potential on the east side of the river with the creation of a new area of the city, and support the construction of more homes for Derby and commercial space for up to 1,000 jobs.
To achieve this, further design work and a refresh of the planning consent will continue over the next two years.
Earlier phases of OCOR defences were put to the test in November 2019 when river levels reached new records. Closing the city’s floodgates saved over 1,200 homes and properties, highlighting the value of the programme.
In response to the funding being agreed, Councillor Steve Hassall, Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Decarbonisation & Strategic Planning & Transport said: “This funding is great news for the OCOR project and the whole city. We’re delighted to receive this substantial investment towards the next phase of our flood defences and the regeneration of the east side of the river.
“We know the importance of protecting the livelihoods of our residents and the major changes proposed with this funding will be key to protecting homes and businesses. The major regeneration of this area will allow us to embrace the potential of our river and also support Derby’s economic recovery.
“This funding and the proposals have the potential to transform our city centre and open up new spaces and opportunities for residents and visitors. We’d like to thank the Environment Agency for their ongoing support throughout the Our City, Our River project.”
Paul Lockhart, Area Flood & Coastal Risk Manager for the Environment Agency, added: “It is great news for the people and businesses in the city of Derby that a further £17m of government funding has been awarded for the Our City Our River Derby Flood Alleviation Scheme.
“We know the devastating impact that flooding can have, which is why protecting people and communities and mitigating the impacts of climate change is our top priority for the Environment Agency.
“Securing this additional funding to further regenerate the River Derwent area in Derby and reduce flood risk brings the total to £27m for phase II of the scheme; £10m was secured in 2020.
“This partnership scheme between the Environment Agency and Derby City Council provides flood protection to infrastructure, residential and commercial properties and also facilitates the regeneration aspirations of the Council.”
As funding for package 2 has been secured, work has begun the construction of a new pumping station on the Mill Fleam in the final stages of the Munio Project.
The new pump station will discharge water from Markeaton Brook into the Derwent, rather than it backing up through the brook under the city, increasing the risk of the city centre flooding. This will provide further protection to homes and businesses, mitigating the social and economic impacts of any future flooding event.
To prepare for construction, some trees will need to be removed over the coming weeks. Following completion of the project, a programme of tree planting will begin on site and at other city centre and riverside locations to compensate for the lost trees as much as possible. Many of the trees to be removed, particularly on the banks of the Mill Fleam are self-set and overcrowded. Replacement planting will be with more suitable species and with room to mature.
Project Munio works have also created opportunities for wider environmental improvements on Bass’s Recreation ground, including woodland planting, the creation of a fish refuge lagoon on the Mill Fleam, and improvements to the park entrance and events area. This is on top of the programme of improvements that OCOR has already delivered along the river corridor in partnership with volunteer and Friends groups. These include:
Darley Park –tree management, wildflower meadow seeding, river bank improvements and planting, riverside path and boardwalk
Nutwood Local nature reserve – restoration of swamp area and habitat creation, improved access path, invasive species management
Alvaston Park – lake improvements and planting, creation of lagoon adjacent to the river
Councillor Steve Hassall, Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Decarbonisation & Strategic Planning & Transport said: “Residents may have already noticed the preparations for this final step of Project Munio. The new pumping station is the last piece of the jigsaw on the west side of the river, and its completion will leave the city centre with a reliable flood defence system that will protect people’s homes, businesses, and livelihoods.
“We appreciate how essential trees are in the city and it is unfortunate that displacement of trees has had to take place. This is an essential and intrinsic element to the flood defence programme and has to take place in this strategic and specific location in order to protect our city and its residents for years to come from the devastation that can be caused by flood waters.
“We want to be absolutely clear that we will be undertaking a replanting programme and other environmental works to compensate for the trees lost as part of the flood protection project, and that the net outcome will be the introduction of better quality and a more appropriate species of trees.”
TIME is running out for people to make their voices heard in a consultation which proposes a range of measures to tackle rogue landlords and help safeguard tenants in communities across the city.
Leicester City Council is considering bringing in extra measures requiring landlords and properties to be properly licensed in order to protect the most vulnerable people and improve the standards of private-sector rented housing citywide.
Three different options – or combinations of these options – have been set out in a consultation which gives people the chance to find out more and get involved in the decision making to make a difference to their neighbourhoods.
The online consultation which began in November 2021 runs until February 22, 2022.
As part of that, the city council is running three online Q&A sessions giving people the chance to ask questions and find out more details about the proposals.
The sessions take place via Teams, and will take place on Tuesday, February 15, from 2pm to 3pm; Thursday, February 17 from 10 to 11am, and on Friday, February 18, from 12noon to 1pm.
People wanting to take part can log in via the city council’s consultations page here.
The city council wants to widen the scope of its existing powers to tackle ongoing issues within the private rented sector and to improve standards. The consultation sets out three options showing how these different approaches could be used to improve private rented sector standards.
The first approach would involve bringing in Selective Licensing, which would require all privately-rented properties to be licensed by the city council, within parts of the city’s Westcotes, Fosse, Saffron, Stoneygate, Braunstone Park and Rowley Fields wards.
A second option proposes introducing citywide Additional Licensing, which would require all small HMOs occupied by three or four unrelated tenants who share facilities such as kitchens and bathrooms, to be licensed. It would operate in all areas of the city.
A third option would bring in Additional Licensing only within parts of Westcotes, Fosse, Stoneygate, Braunstone Park and Rowley Fields.
Each of the proposed licensing measures would place conditions on the landlord to ensure issues such as gas and electrical safety, installation of smoke, fire and carbon monoxide alarms are adequately dealt with, along with matters such a repairs and maintenance, waste disposal, tenancy management and addressing antisocial behaviour.
Leicester assistant city mayor for housing, Cllr Elly Cutkelvin, said: “It is vital that people have access to decent affordable housing, and for many families the only chance of this is through a private rented tenancy.
“Our responsibility is to protect the most vulnerable people by ensuring their housing, and their landlords, meet a higher standard in terms of safety, maintenance and the effect on the wider community.
“We’re supporting landlords and tenants to engage with us on these plans, and the involvement of communities themselves is key to ensuring we have robust measures that address local issues.
“I’d urge people to take part in this consultation, and to take part in the Q&A sessions, to play their part in shaping how we can raise standards to be met by both landlords and their properties.”
Additional Licensing and Selective Licensing are the latest steps being considered by the city council to both crackdown on rogue landlords and improve the standards of private-sector rentals.
Another consultation, which ended last month, looked at plans to expand legislation known as an Article 4 Direction, which means planning permission would be needed to convert any house into a HMO in certain areas of the city.
An Article 4 Direction already exists covering parts of the West End, streets near to De Montfort University’s campus and Leicester Royal Infirmary, numerous streets in the area between New Walk and HMP Leicester, as well as most of Clarendon Park and a section south of Lancaster Road.
That would be expanded to include thousands more homes from Rowley Fields, to Westcotes, Newfoundpool and parts of the Waterside area, as well as much of Knighton Fields, Knighton, Stoneygate, part of Aylestone, along with most of Spinney Hills and Highfields.
NEW jobs for young people on Universal Credit are currently available with the city council as part of the Kickstart job creation programme.
Kickstart has been devised by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to help get young people aged 16 to 24, who claim Universal Credit, into meaningful jobs with local businesses.
And to mark National Apprenticeship Week (7-13 February), the city council is highlighting the 29 Kickstart jobs it currently has on offer, complementing the 27 council Kickstart roles that have already been filled.
Currently out for recruitment are Kickstart roles in areas including sports, housing, social care, libraries, administration and procurement.
Kickstart jobs are all guaranteed for at least six months, with options to progress to apprenticeships or further work placements. The city council’s adult education service also provides council Kickstart employees with a six-month employability training scheme to help them further their career prospects.
Organisations taking part in Kickstart offer a six-month work placement for a minimum of 25 hours per week, paying at least the minimum wage. The jobs must be new, of good quality, and focus on specific, detailed roles.
The DWP will pay 100 per cent of the age-relevant National Minimum Wage, National Insurance and pension contributions for 25 hours a week, but employers can also top up this wage. The DWP will also pay employers £1,500 for set-up costs such as uniforms or training for people they take on.
Manveer Gill, Kickstart Employment Advisor at the DWP, said: “Seeing young people getting into jobs and learning new experiences through Kickstart has been incredible. For someone to be able to work in a sector that really interests them but might not necessarily have had the experience or skills to get into that sector through a normal recruitment experience, means that we can have really rewarding conversations about the direction a young person wants their career to go in.”
As well as already employing 27 Kickstart employees itself, the city council is acting as an intermediary to help small and medium-sized local businesses take part in the Kickstart scheme. Leicester City Council is well placed to do this, as its specialist Leicester Employment Hub works to put candidates in touch with employers across the city and county.
In this way, a total of 112 Kickstart vacancies across Leicester and Leicestershire are either already filled or in the process of being filled.
Assistant city mayor for jobs and skills Cllr Danny Myers said: “We know these are tough times for youth unemployment, so it’s really important we offer meaningful opportunities and support. We’ve offered a number of 12-month city council contracts – longer than the minimum of six months – to reinforce our commitment to Kickstart.
“As National Apprenticeship Week gets under way, it’s the perfect time to highlight our Kickstart vacancies and make sure that young people know there are opportunities out there for them.
“We’ve also been funded by the Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership (LLEP) to create a Kickstart extension programme. This will help local employers to extend their placements for a further six months, allowing young people the chance to start a career.”
Nahida Ahmed, 23, is a Kickstart employee who started a community facilitator job in public health with Leicester City Council in September last year. She said: “Working as a community facilitator has stretched me and taken me out of my comfort zone. Joining regular team meetings to communicate with professionals across Leicester has helped me to improve my communication skills and grow in confidence. I have come out of my shell and I feel much happier in myself, as I know I will be making a difference in the community.”
Joel Carter, 24, also a Kickstart community facilitator with the council, said: “Kickstart has been perfect for me. I always struggled with applying for jobs and this meant I got straight to an interview. I’m very grateful, it’s been a great experience that has taught me a lot and hopefully will kickstart my council career. What made the whole job even more special was my colleagues and managers who made me feel so welcome, which really helped my mental health and self-worth.”
Nazira Vania, a project manager in public health at Leicester City Council, said: “The young people that have joined us through the Kickstart scheme are full of talent and potential. They have been a great asset to our team and have brought valuable skills and perspectives to our project.”
The Kickstart scheme and Employment Hub are both key part of Leicester’s Economic Recovery Plan, which lists the ideas and actions the council and its partners are developing to help ensure Leicester’s local economy, jobs market and businesses can remain resilient and flourish in these challenging times.
Kickstart vacancies are promoted only through the DWP, where work coaches discuss available opportunities with young people. For more information on city council Kickstart opportunities, young people can email kickstart@leicester.gov.uk or chat with their work coach.
Leicestershire’s Business Gateway is offering small businesses support with a difference from 22 February with a programme of four webinars.
Designed to give business leaders the skills they need to encourage new ideas from their teams, the four free webinars will be delivered by Loughborough-based Qinesis.
Dr Cham S Kang of Qinesis explains the difference: “The Business Gateway are keen to make their support as relevant as possible to participating businesses so we will be contacting each one of them beforehand, to get some context and understand their specific challenges. It will be very different from some of the generic webinars that people may have attended before and much more valuable we hope.”
Dr Cham S Kang
The Business Gateway is encouraging small business owners and leaders to attend the whole programme so that they can make sure they introduce a culture of new ideas within their business and sustain it in the longer term.
The first session will focus on the importance of the leader. A good leader will let their team know that new ideas are welcome and encourage suggestions from all staff around reducing costs, improving efficiency and even new products or services. If a business leader does not feel that they have the skills to do this, this programme will solve that issue.
Dr Kang continued: “A lot of small businesses in Leicestershire are already thinking creatively and we saw many examples of that during the pandemic with businesses adapting to the circumstances that no one saw coming. Our programme will help businesses embed these skills as part of their DNA so that they can adapt when the next challenge comes, and do so profitably.”
As with all Business Gateway programmes, places are fully funded and therefore free to participating businesses. The four webinars in the programme are:
Running a small business is a lonely place, who listens to the leader? – 22 February, 8.00am-9.30amCreative thinking for growth in your non-creative businesses – 9 March, 8.00am-9.30amCreative thinking to sustain long-term growth – 29 March, 8.00am – 9.30amDeveloping an individual action plan for growth – 14 April, 8.00am – 9.30am
At the end of the programme participating companies will have the ability to develop, implement and lead different thinking in their teams and a plan of action to embed it in the company for the long term.
The programme is aimed at small businesses with ten employees or fewer and more details can be found at https://bit.ly/Qinesis
Work will start later this year on a new homes development consisting of 44 houses for affordable rent in Mansfield, after planning officials at Mansfield District Council gave the scheme the green light.
The scheme will be developed by York-based Urban Group (York) Ltd for social housing provider, PA Housing, and the detailed plans for the homes, including the floorplans and elevations, have been designed by Leeds-based Brewster Bye Architects.
The vacant site sits within the urban boundary of the Mansfield District Council District Local Plan and is accessed from Sherwood Avenue, close to Sherwood Oaks Business Park, which is less than three miles southeast of Mansfield Town Centre.
The scheme forms part of The Berry Hill development, which will include up to 1,700 new homes. It will also neighbour a 169-home development off Old Newark Road and Bellamy Road, which secured planning permission last year.
Nick Gould, Managing Director of Urban Developments (York) Ltd, said: “This development will offer a superb range of high quality, two, three and four bedroom homes with gardens and parking.
“It’s in a popular area, that is currently benefitting from a wide range of residential and commercial development, as part of The Berry Hill development, and it’s exciting to be contributing to this major regeneration scheme, alongside national housebuilders and PLCs close to the recently opened Aldi supermarket as well as a new pub, coffee shop and food outlets. It’s also within walking distance of several schools and benefits from good transport links, which will make it a popular place to live.”
Mark Henderson, from Brewster Bye Architects, said: “These homes will appeal to a wide range of residents and families who want a contemporary new home, for an affordable price, in a sought-after area.
“Every house has been carefully designed to offer spacious, light and well-proportioned living spaces and the whole development has the potential to become a vibrant and sustainable community with an attractive street scene and distinctive character.
“This is enhanced by retaining existing landscape features around the edge of the site, as well as a central hedgerow, which runs right through the middle of the development. All this combines to offer privacy and further improves the attractive street scene that the development will enjoy.”
Midlands-based contractor G F Tomlinson is celebrating after its recent project for Nottingham Trent University was crowned a winner at the national LABC Building Excellence Awards last week.
The contractor, which has offices in Derby, Newark and Birmingham, saw its Medical Technology Innovation Facility (MTIF) for client Nottingham Trent University named nationally as Best New-Build in the non-residential category.
The construction of the £5.5million Medical Technology Innovation Facility was completed in winter 2020, with G F Tomlinson working alongside Maber Architects on the scheme. The project was supported by the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership with funding received by the University through its Local Growth Fund allocation.
The facility focuses on the research and development of innovative products and advanced materials to meet future healthcare needs – the key aim is to improve patient care by speeding up medical product development and ensuring innovations reach the market as quickly as possible, which is critical for patients, business, the NHS and regional economic growth.
The scheme was crowned a winner at the awards ceremony which was held at Park Plaza Westminster Bridge in London, with more than the 700 guests in attendance at the prestigious event.
This national award win comes after G F Tomlinson celebrated success at LABC’s regional Building Excellence Awards last year, winning three accolades which were subsequently named as finalists in the national awards.
As well as the success of the Medical Technologies Innovation Facility, the regional awards saw G F Tomlinson’s flagship project for Nottingham Castle win Best Non-Residential Conversion, with its Tower Garden Pavilion scheme in Skegness winning Best Public or Community Building – a project which was successfully delivered via the company’s ongoing involvement on the Scape Regional Construction framework.
Chris Flint, Managing Director at G F Tomlinson, said: “We are extremely pleased to have won this national accolade at the LABC awards – it is wonderful to be recognised amongst such strong competition that highlights all of the fantastic work that has been happening in the industry over the last year.
“The Medical Technologies Innovation Facility at Nottingham Trent University is an impressive building for many reasons – both in the way it has been designed and constructed, and in its purpose in progressing the development, clinical production and commercialisation of new medical technologies.
“There were several technical aspects we had to get absolutely right in order to provide the best possible working environment – including ensuring that the facility has the correct pressure, ventilation and seals needed, as well as the placement and optimum performance of highly-specialised laboratory equipment.
“It is exciting to see our other two regional-winning projects recognised as national finalists, too – Nottingham Castle is our flagship project to date and we were pleased to work with so many different local and regional specialists and teams to complete the work on time. It is also rewarding to see a smaller value project like the Tower Gardens Pavilion in Skegness pick up so many regional awards over the last 18 months and go on to national recognition. Working jointly with our partner, Scape, this project has a strong community story to tell.”
The Association of Member-Directed Pension Schemes (AMPS), the industry body representing SIPP operators and SSAS practitioners, has announced that Martin Tilley, director and head of technical at Westbridge SSAS has been appointed interim chair until the next AGM scheduled to be held in October this year.
Martin takes over from Claire Trott who took up the appointment in 2018.
Martin is an industry veteran having spent over 30 years at SIPP and SSAS practitioner Dentons Pension Management, before taking senior roles at Hurley Partners and latterly Westbridge SSAS which operates nationally and has its HQ located in Meridian Business Park, Leicester.
Martin Tilley, who joined the committee in October of 2021, said: “I am sure I speak for the whole committee in thanking Claire for the hard work she has put in while chair of AMPS. I would also like to thank her for the support she has provided to the whole committee and to the membership in general. I have known Claire for many years and know that she would not have taken the decision to step down lightly and we all wish her well for the future.
“I look forward to serving the committee and membership to the best of my ability and to seeing membership representatives at our annual conference to be held on 25th May at 1 Wimpole Street in London. This will be the first live event that AMPS has been able to host since October 2019. It looks set to be a packed event and will be a great opportunity to network and hear from high quality speakers.”
Mr Tilley will be supported by the committee which consists of:
Geoff Buck, Vanguard Asset Management
Sarah Hawkins, Punter Southall SIPP
Ian Linden, James Hay Partnership
Andrew Phipps, Embark Group
Debbie Seaton
Zoe Smith, Barnett Waddingham
Tasneem Ul-Haq, Aviva
Joy West, Hartsfield Trustee Services
Claire Trott, head of pensions strategy at St. James’s Place, said: “It has been an honour to lead AMPS over the past 4 years, but due to my charitable fundraising activities and work commitments it was time to hand over the reins to someone else. Martin is an ideal candidate as he is highly experienced, well known in the industry and his technical knowledge is second to none. I am sure that he and the committee will continue the good work undertaken over many years and ensure confidence in the self invested sector.”
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