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South West Branch
Welcome to the South West Branch page. If you are thinking of joining us, here is a taster of what we have to offer.
Events – Last year we celebrated 20 years of Women in Property with a series of special events including a free members lunch at Goldbrick House, a summer drinks party held at the Royal West of England Academy, and a half day conference focusing on sustainability in the South West. The culmination of the year was celebrated at the South West Dinner Dance in the impressive surroundings of the City Museum on 10th April. A wide range of guests from across the property ad construction industries in the South West enjoyed a champagne reception, three course meal and dancing into the evening. The event proved to be a fitting end to a highly successful 20th Anniversary year.
As ever we have a variety of events planned over the coming months and hope that there will be something for everyone. Our bi-monthly networking lunches continue to be extremely popular together with our quarterly breakfast briefings, social events and hot topic seminars. This year ‘The Changing Face…’ will be the theme of a series of seminars and site visits in looking at the enormous change that continues to transform Bristol and the South West.
Our annual Summer Drinks Party will take place at the Royal West of England Academy on 25th June when we will also annouce the South West Regional Winner of the Student Award Scheme.
Keep any eye on our events page for further details. The majority of our events are also open to non members so feel free to bring along friends or colleagues who you think may be interested.
Satellites - The branches two satellites continue to develop now accounting for a third of the total branch membership. We are a geographically large branch and whilst we try to hold events in a variety of places we are aware that some are more represented than others.
This year we will be continuing with our initiatives in Bath whilst also providing events for those members based in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. Our first highly successful event in Cheltenham took place on Monday 22nd April with a networking lunch at the highly acclaimed Spice restaurant. If you have any ideas or are interested in holding an event in your area please contact the committee.
Roadshow - The roadshow initiative was hugely successful last year and we will be continuing with this during 2008/09. As ever we are looking for willing volunteers from all sectors and professions to give up an hour or so of their time to assist with manning the stand at school and college open days. Keep an eye on the website for forthcoming dates and if you are interested in becoming involved with this important initiative then please do not hesitate to contact Margot Forsythe.
Mentoring - Mentoring is an important function of the association and we are always looking for people who would like to take part in the scheme either as a mentor or mentee. You can be at any stage of your career to take part and the mentoring scheme is carried out in conjunction with JIVE a government sponsored organisation. Full training and support is provided and many members across the country have found it to be beneficial.
We in the South West Branch hope to offer our members networking opportunities, educational and interesting talks, career support and above all fun!
The association is here for you and if you have any ideas to improve what we do both locally and nationally we would love to hear from you. Emma Glynn
Chair South West Branch
South West Branch
Committee
 Emma Glynn
Chair
Having joined King Sturge in 2002 and qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 2004, Emma has spent four years undertaking investment valuations for bank lending purposes and has recently specialised in the Senior Living sector both in the UK and Europe. Tel: 0117 930 5825
E-mail: emma.glynn@kingsturge.co.uk |  Vicki Redman
Vice Chair
Vicki is a solicitor with Bond Pearce LLP and specialises in Regeneration and Planning. Tel: 0845 415 6861
E-mail: victoria.redman@bondpearce.com |  Sandy Sadhra
Secretary
Sandy is a Associate with TLT. She advises on all aspects of property litigation, landlord & tenant and real property issues. Tel: 0117 917 7953
E-mail: ssadhra@tltsolicitors.com |  Kelly Newlands
Events Secretary
Kelly is a Marketing Co-ordinator for Hyder Consulting, an international multi-discipline engineering, planning, environmental and managment consultancy. She became a member of Women in Property in 2006. Tel: 0117 372 1511
E-mail: kelly.newlands@hyderconsulting.com | Amanda Greenslade (French)
Member Secretary Amanda is a commercial property solicitor predominantly acting for high class retails, office space users and developers nationwide. Tel: 0845 415 6842
E-mail: amanda.greenslade@bondpearce.com |  Cathy Dallosso
PR & Publicity
Cathy Dallosso is Marketing Executive for Cowlin Construction, one of the largest privately owned contractors operating throughout South West and Southern England and in Wales. The scope of Cowlin’s activities within main contracting include design & build, project management and refurbishment, across a broad range of sectors. Tel: 0117 983 2000
E-mail: cdallosso@cowlin.co.uk |  Margot Forsythe
Roadshow Co-ordinator
Margot is a solicitor specialising in non-contentious construction law and has experience in advising employers, funders, developers, consultants, contractors and sub-contractors on a range of projects including private finance initiatives. These projects have spanned the healthcare, retail, office, warehousing, industrial and residential sectors. Tel: 0117 917 3606
E-mail: margot.forsythe@osborneclarke.com |  Louise Brown (Hinks)
Committee Member
Louise specialises in commercial property with an emphasis on portfolio investment and management. She advises on landlord and tenant, leases, options, freehold sales and purchases, portfolio acquisitions and disposals, and development. She handles property investments for institutional and property companies. Louise has also acted for banks and lenders in connection with secured lending. She is a former national chairman of the Association of Women in Property and is still an active committee member for both the national and local committees. She is also a committee member for the Great Western branch of the Faculty of Building. Tel: 0117 916 9483
E-mail: louise.brown@clarkewillmott.com | Catherine Welch
Committee Member Specialises in both contentious and non-contentious construction matters. Joined Osborne Clarke in August 2003 and, after completing her training contract, qualified as a solicitor into the Construction Department in September 2005. Tel: 0117 917 4330
E-mail: catherine.welch@osborneclarke.com |  Louise Garcia
Committee Member
Independently rated as a leading construction expert and adjudication specialist, Louise’s experience ranges from multi-million pound national and international disputes, through to sub-contractor adjudications on interim payment applications, acting for contractors, subcontractors, employers and consultants. Louise advised Costain Limited on its multi million pound reported decision of Tesco v Costain & others and has particular experience in fire, dredging, concrete and tunnelling. Tel: 01225 425731
E-mail: louise.garcia@withyking.co.uk |  Fleur Ragan
Committee Member
Building Surveyor at Knight Frank, Bristol. Working for UK and overseas clients, Fleur specialises in commercial building consultancy services including acquisition surveys, dilapidations and exit strategies, defect diagnosis, schedules of condition, reinstatement cost assessments, planned preventative maintenance, contract administration, project and development monitoring Tel: 0117 917 4533
E-mail: fleur.ragan@knightfrank.com |  Georgina Tibbs
Website Co-ordinator
Georgina is a Senior Planner at Barton Willmore, the UK's leading integrated planning and design consultancy. Since joining Barton Willmore in 2006, Georgina has worked on a variety of projects for key clients in the South West. Projects range from large mixed-use developments to sensitive housing developments. Tel: 0117 929 9677
E-mail: georgina.tibbs@bartonwillmore.co.uk |
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