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2019 UKBCCI Lifetime Achievement Award recipient currently fighting Covid-19

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UKBCCI Directors, members and their families would like to extend their prayers to Mr. Syed Manzur Elahi, who is currently suffering from Covid-19.

Additionally, it is with great sadness that we report that his wife, Niloufer Manzur, died from the novel coronavirus last week. She was the founder and principal of Sunbeams School.

Mr Elahi who was honoured with a UKBCCI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019,  is the Founding Chairman of Mutual Trust Bank Ltd. (MTB) and Pioneer Insurance Company Limited and currently serving as the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the bank. He is the Chairman of Apex Group, a leading business conglomerate in Bangladesh, and has won various awards for his contributions to trade and industry.

Besides being an eminent industrialist, he was also appointed Adviser to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh, twice (1996 & 2001), for his leadership qualities, professionalism and non-partisanship.

We send him our deepest condolences for the loss of his beloved wife and we wish him a full recovery.

The UKBCCI and UK Businesses offer their thanks with free meals to key workers across the UK

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As a way of giving thanks to the NHS and key workers during this pandemic, the UKBCCI, headed by President Bajloor Rashid MBE, Chairman Iqbal Ahmed OBE and their fellow directors Mr Oli Khan, Mr Saiful Alam and Mr Siddiqur Rahman Joynal have been out and about this week supporting frontline staff and key workers with hundreds of free meals.
 
Following on from their visit to the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital in Chelsea, the UKBCCI called on Lambourn Grove Hospital, which is an elderly assessment unit, in St Albans, Hertfordshire. The sponsors who donated food were the Raj Garden in Bushey, Surma in Stevenage and the Prince of Bengal in Watford. Special thanks must go to the hardworking staff from these restaurants and takeaways in preparing and helping to deliver the food.
 
A similar story was occurring in Manchester, where the Vermillion restaurant, another UKBCCI sponsor for this initiative, have been providing free ’signature dishes’ at their neighbouring hospital, the North Manchester General. A tweet from the Vermillion restaurant said “We salute the heroes of our NHS who are making a huge contribution in this time of crisis.”
 
Dr M G Moula Miah, director and convenor of UKBCCI Midlands Region is also hard at work in the Midlands with the same initiative.

UKBCCI Deliver Meals to NHS Frontline Staff

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The UKBCCI provided meals to NHS frontline staff at Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospital in London yesterday – 19th May 2020.

UKBCCI President Mr Bajloor Rashid MBE , along with Directors Mr Oli Khan, Mr Saiful Alam and Mr Siddiqur Rahman Joynal volunteered their time in delivering a selection of two hundred meals as a mark of gratitude.

The food was kindly donated by the sponsors of this initiative all based in Hertfordshire: Raj Garden in Bushey, Surma in Stevenage and the Prince of Bengal in Watford. The owners of these restaurants are all directors of the UKBCCI.

British-Bangladeshi Business Leaders make urgent request to Government of Bangladesh

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UKBCCI Directors along with other leaders from British-Bangladeshi Chambers and Associations have made an urgent request to the Government of Bangladesh regarding imports to the UK in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.

They made the request through Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK, Saida Muna Tasneem recently. In view of this, The High Commission held a videoconference with the British-Bangladesh chambers and business associations.

See the full report, from the United News of Bangladesh here:

https://unb.com.bd/category/Bangladesh/chartered-cargo-flights-sought-on-dhaka-london-route-for-import-from-bangladesh/50528

 

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