The Asset Finance Professionals Association (AF-PA) collected £12,000 (€14,085) for charity at its Christmas business networking drinks in December 2016, exceeding £100,000 in funds raised since its formation five years earlier.
Peter McDonnell, a founder of AF-PA, presented the £12,000 to the Medical Detection Dogs charity and Friends of Royal Hospital Bath, the latter of which counts former GE Capital Equipment Finance operations director Stephen Grey as its representatives.
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AF-PA welcomed patrons and industry leaders including Mistry, partner at Grant Thornton, and Paul Bartley, director at Close Leasing, and held a strategy away day at the end of January.
Johnnie Halliday, AF-PA chair and director of sales – lending and leasing at Linedata, said: “For AF-PA volunteers the strategy day allowed us to challenge where our focus should be in future.
“We will be sending out a survey to our members to ask for their input and look forward to improving our website too. AF-PA has started by adapting our mission statement.”
Summer charity drinks announced
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By GlobalDataThe AF-PA will hold its summer drinks on Wednesday July 5 at The Yacht London, in aid of the charity ‘Make A Wish’.
The event will take place at 12:30pm, and cost £40 for non-members and £20 for AF-PA members, which will include entrance and a burger.
There will be a pay bar and barbecue, and Global Life Cycle, Vitrx, and Cordoba Rewards have been confirmed as sponsors.
