Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate our 20th anniversary and the launch of our new Social Value business club. Huge thanks to Kohler Co. for hosting and sponsoring the event at their ‘Space 100’ venue. We welcomed around 80 guests including the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire Edward Gillespie OBE DL, Cheltenham Mayor Paul Baker, Rowena Hay, leader of Cheltenham Borough Council and the Dean of Gloucester, The Very Reverend Andrew Zihni, as well as dozens of representatives from businesses, local government, education and the charity sectors.
Special thanks to our speakers Emma Foster MD at Kohler Mira Ltd. Simon Ashley Kohler Co. and Simone Hindmarch MD at Commercial who spoke about the power of connections and value of our NEW ITSA Digital Community Business Club. Thank you to our Lord Lieutenant Edward Gillespie OBE DL and Michael Ratcliffe for the tribute to Monis Khalifa for 20 years dedicated service to the charity.
The launch of our new Social Value business club was well received. We were delighted to welcome our founding members of The ITSA Digital Community: Willans LLP, CloudClevr, University of Gloucestershire, Spirax Sarco, Gloucestershire College, CyNam, Kohler Co, Commercial, Techbuyer, Ratcliffes Insurance Brokers and Hewett Recruitment.
In summary, much goodwill was created, many productive relationships were formed, support for the charity was reinvigorated and the event has helped us all in our aims of ‘supporting communities and leaving the world a better place than we found it.’