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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
On behalf of the BBGV Board I wish all of you a successful and healthy New Year.
2011 was a challenging year for companies but the BBGV continues to be busy with a full schedule of business and networking events. The BBGV hosted the BiSEA (Britain in South East Asia) conference in Ho Chi Minh City in June - sharing lessons learned and a strengthening the relationship with other British Business Chambers in the region. The year also saw the launch of the BBGV's new website and I hope you are all now regular visitors.
A priority for 2012 will be the identification of suitable funding resources to support the BBGV's charity programme. In recent years over 90% of our charitable revenues have come from our annual Fun Run. The Run's unfortunate absence from the schedule in 2011, owing to the difficulties BBGV experienced in obtaining the necessary approvals, means that the BBGV have only very limited resources to support charitable activities next year until additional fund raising occurs (do let us know if you have any fund-raising ideas or would like to help with our fund-raising activities)
During 2012 BBGV will be conducting an on-line member survey to better understand our member's needs and priorities. We will be sending out further details shortly. In the meantime if you have any topics that you feel we should be looking into then please contact Jakki Lydall and we will consider covering them through the survey questions. New Board members were elected with Steve Banner looking after business events, Peter Simson taking charge of social events both based in Ha Noi and Tim Mullet joining at the AGM based in HCMC. At the AGM, Charles Gregory, who has been a Board member for 2 years, was elected to the role of Vice Chairman based in Ha Noi, where he will be working hard to continue the close relationship we have developed with the British Embassy and Vietnamese government institutions.
I would like to take a moment to thank Patrick Regis who has recently stepped down as Chair of the BBGV, for his personal efforts over the past 4 years and I am both pleased and personally relieved that he will continue as Board member. I would also like to record the sterling efforts of Alun Thomas, who recently retired from the Board after 8 years of service on the Board, including many years of service on the Charity Committee
Once again, on the occasion of the Lunar New Year of the Dragon I would like to wish you all a wonderful Tet holiday.
Chúc mừng năm mới
Regards,
Nick Holder
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FROM THE BBGV
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The secretariat would like to wish you all a Happy New Year. We have some interesting business lunches and events planned for 2012. On Monday 16 January in Hanoi, we are fortunate to have Lady Barbara Judge who is Chairman of Emeritus UK Atomic Energy Authority & Chairman of The Energy Institute of UCL speaking at a BBGV luncheon, and on Friday 17 February in HCMC we will have a panel lunch on Education. Our last Tuesday of the month networking event for January (HCMC) will be postponed to Tuesday 7 February at Vascos; we are co-hosting a networking evening with CanCham on Thursday 19 January at RED Restaurant and Bar Lounge: more details on these events will follow shortly.
We would like to thank DatVietVAC for sponsoring our January e-newsletter. We do have sponsorship slots for 2012: each edition costs 4,300,000 VND for the month, which is exclusive with your own logo at the top and banner logo at the bottom clicking into your website. Please contact Chi on membership@bbgv.org
BBGV would like to support "La Vita e La Morte" a Charity Event upholding Visual & Performing Arts. For your more information, please click here.
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New SME members: Mr Mark Atkinson from MATTHEWS DANIEL INTERNATIONAL VN LTD; Ms Gill Bannon from CHEVRON VIETNAM; and Mr Suresh G Kumar from TMF GROUP. And additional members: Mr Eddy Azoulay from ASIAN TIGERS TRANSPO INT'L VN LTD; Ms Nguyen Thi Nguyet Anh from CHARTIS VIETNAM INSURANCE CO., LTD; Mr David Harrison from FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER LLP.
Please note our corporate Membership fees will increase to 12,900,000 VND per year from January 2012 for up to 3 corporate members as announced at our AGM. Please note all membership fees, services, and events fees will now be quoted in VND.
We would like to thank you our new discount outlets, who have joined us in November, offer special rates for BBGV members: Kingston Hotel, MM Bistro Saigon, Au Lac Do Brazil, Manta Sail Training Centre, Ly Club and Southgate.
And our renewal discount outlets who contiunue to support BBGV, and offer BBGV members special rate: Bamboo Village Beach Resort & Spa, Boat House, Caravelle Hotel, Grand Hotel, Novotel Phan Thiet Ocean Dunes and Golf Resort, Princess D’annam Resort & Spa, Sheraton Nha Trang, White Sand Doclet Resort & spa,The Deck Saigon, Mekong Merchant Saigon, La Doree, Sunny Beach Resort & Spa, Sapphire Hotel, Legend Hotel Saigon, La Veranda Resort Phu Quoc, Tandoor, Novotel Halong Bay, Life resorts, Club Royale, Starlight Dental Clinic, Rock Water Bay, Cosmo Laundry & Dry Cleanning.
For more information about our discount outlets, please click here.
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MEMBERS NEWs
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