David Sales was installed as the new Aldgate Ward Club President last week.

It was a convivial evening at the Guildhall attended by more than 50 guests. Tim McNally was installed as Senior Vice President, Vanessa Dal Busco as Junior Vice President and remain Secretary and Membership Secretary respectively. Nick Smith remains Treasurer, Debra Sales-Tiffin is Assistant Secretary and Shai Umradia CC is now Immediate Past President. There is an exciting calendar of events planned for …

Lighting of the Beacon Queen’s Jubilee 2022

Our President Shai Umradia is also the President of City Livery Club. Last week CLC & Rotary hosted a Lighting of the Beacon Ceremony at Nomura celebrate the Queen’s 70th Jubilee. It was a fantastic event attended by many Civic leaders including Lord Mayor of London Vincent Keaveny, Alderman and Sheriff Alison Gowman and others. Guests enjoyed meeting visiting dignitaries and …

Why brand value needs to be a board room priority

The other day I found myself talking to a Board of Directors and their C-Suite, explaining why brand value is not only the responsibility of a company’s marketing team, but one of the most important areas of responsibility for the board itself. As an intrinsic part of my work as a Non-Executive Director, this is …

To succeed in today’s climate, advertising needs to remember its purpose

The more things change, the more things stay the same – such is the truth in so many areas of work and life. However, at no time, certainly in my memory, has any industry, including advertising, experienced such accelerated change as it has this year, and yet its future seems somewhat in question. Last month, …

What do you have that other people want?

Businesses seem to have fallen into three categories over the last year. There are those whose marketing departments seem to have adopted radio silence, there are those who have put information out on the pretext of being helpful but have shown in their follow through that it’s only skin deep. Then there have been those …

Reimagining the city of London as if you were a new board of directors

With the vaccine roll-outs, I can’t help but think what a post-Covid London is going to look like, and how we are going to promote The City on the world stage moving forward. None of us are the same after the year we have endured. The same goes for The City. As a result, it …

The Virtual Lord Mayor’s BIG Curry

A SERIES OF INCREDIBLE ONLINE EXPERIENCES Starting as all good events should, with a glass of Pol Roger champagne on 17 March, the next eight weeks will take us on an adventure through books, wine, and delicious home-cooked curries with some of the nation’s best-loved personalities. Hear tales of travel and adventure with Sir Michael …

Aldgate Connect BID

Please see a newsletter of the Aldgate Connect BID in the url below. There are several free events. They all looks interesting, I was interested in the drawing classes on 17 and 24 February and the tour of Open spaces in the City on 26 February.  Geliya, President https://mailchi.mp/65d46c9f4731/aldgate-news-february-2021?e=7527b73bbb