Charlie Jerram

BRADFORD

The Education Partnerships Team, CBMDC, involves partnerships with local, regional and national businesses, community organisations, individuals and training providers to enhance and support the education system within the Bradford District. Through this approach the team attracts a range of funded and in kind offers of support and resources to better support children and young people in education, to improve their outcomes. Our work is built on our Four Pillars of Success:

Skills – Offer fun and practical activities from our Partners to ensure young people develop their skillset.

Exceed – Ensure young people can feel proud to live in Bradford, with high aspirations.

Learning – Support individuals to understand the value of their learning experiences and to accrue their ‘educational currency’.

Families – Support families by offering opportunities that help them to engage with the education of their children.

Alan W Robertson

Edinburgh

Mr Robertson is a Senior Associate with MBS Solicitors, Edinburgh. He is a very experienced lawyer in the field of commercial and contractual disputes, family law (including child law), medical litigation and criminal trials. He regularly appears in Court and has conducted numerous Trials, Proofs and Motion hearings since he qualified in 2006. To date, has written numerous articles for the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland and has previously tutored at the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University. Since 2018, Mr Robertson has also presented a number of seminars for the Law Society of Scotland and more recently, Intelligence Forums.

Ian Hyde

BIRMINGHAM

Ian Hyde is the Acting Chief Executive Officer at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. As Acting Chief Executive Officer, Ian has an overview of the whole organisation, prioritising areas such as operations, financial management, fundraising and income generation, HR, strategic planning and stakeholder relations. He is also Company Secretary and facilitates the charity’s Board of Trustees.

Previously Ian was a freelance consultant in operations and strategic planning for a number of UK festivals and arts organisations including Boardmasters, NASS Festival and the London 2012 Olympic Games amongst others. He also worked for Manchester International Festival, Contact Theatre, Manchester and Urban Splash. Ian currently serves on a number of boards in Birmingham. He is Chair of Birmingham LGBT, the region’s leading charity advocating for and supporting LGBTQIA+ communities and is on the Board of Culture Central, the collective voice of the cultural sector in the West Midlands.

Rita Roberts

Rita Roberts born in Angola, over 30 years ago she made her way to England to save herself from a devastating war. In the first few years she struggled in every possible way to earn a living. Without any knowledge of the English language she worked in coffee shops while learning English, as her English improved she moved from coffee shops to restaurants, then the hospitality, then retail shops, one of them been Harrods and then as she became fluent in English she found that her knowledge of other languages was an asset. She started working as a freelance interpreter. Rita ended up creating one of the largest translation companies in England with 30+ staff speaking over 45 languages and assisted international business clients in translating complex legal agreements that spanned transactions across the globe. Now with a University Degree behind her and years of business acumen and succession the international trade, Rita is a force in facilitating international business agreements.

Now Rita is an HR professional and a serial entrepreneur, Founder of a number of companies such as Angola Business 4U, Immaculate Translations Ltd, Remap Properties Link, The Power Of Introductions. She is also an International Business Strategies Consultant on Cross-Cultural Management and Business etiquette. Before becoming a business owner, amongst all the jobs she engaged in Rita worked also worked as a Freelance translator and interpreter for several Law firms, then for the FSA and The Embassy Of Angola in London where she acquired a wealth of experience in recognising potential synergies between entities. She strategically encouraged business JV’s, made introductions, facilitated business relationships and presented investments opportunities. Within a decade working in this capacity, she introduced various companies to the Angolan government and local private companies for businesses JV and Investments.

At the end of her mission at the embassy she identified a language and culture difference gap on the international business settings. To respond to the need and bridge the language and culture difference gap, she created Angola Business 4U to facilitate business joint ventures between the U.K. and Angola. Then expanded to the rest of the western world and emerging countries bringing awareness to culture and language difference impact on businesses, she did it using a coaching approach.She used her influential network to facilitate and create synergies between Governments, people, companies and countries.

As an International Business Consultant she provides a wide range of services and expertise in Business Strategies; including language, Cross-Cultural and diversity managements for British Companies expanding or setting up business overseas or foreign companies expanding to the UK. She facilitates joint ventures, associations through introductions of Business2business, projects to investors in the UK, Africa and the rest of the world.

Her and her team rendered services to a variety of industries including Oil and Gas, financial services, the energy sector, technology, etc. She had a team created of interpreters for conferences and business seminars, expanded from few languages to 45. We provided traveling visa services by request to oil and gas clients.

Her Businesses were badly impacted by the pandemic Post Pandemic as she revives her companies, she Works as a post pandemic Executive Coach facilitating Executives journey back to Employment and she is also a consultant for an Expat Company.

Social Responsibility

Works with London Metropolitan University as a Career preparation Mentor to University Students

Rita was a Board member at Praxis Community Project for 3 years where she Part took on the decision making Board Meetings, strategic discussions for migrants rapid integration programs, advise to community groups on training and education for better employability opportunities.

Rita worked with the Nacional Skills Academy as Personal & Business coach and Mentor: Her job was to Empower and Inspire Business owners and Managers on how to maintain staff motivation and achieve growth and empower and build confidence of students preparing to enter employment in the financial sector.