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President's Dinner 2025
Date: Thursday 18th September
Time: 6.30pm drinks reception – 12am carriages
Venue: The Grand Hotel, 1 Church Street, Birmingham, B3 2FE
Price: £120 +VAT for member ticket | £140 +VAT for non-member ticket | £1,200 +VAT for a member table of 10 | £1,400 +VAT for a non-member table of 10
Dress Code: Black tie or national dress
You are invited to join Birmingham Law Society for an evening in celebration of our legal community hosted by our President, Richard Port MBE. The President’s Dinner is a prestigious celebration which brings together leaders and influencers from Birmingham and beyond. The evening will commence with a drinks reception at 6.30pm, followed by a formal dinner, entertainment from Aisha Khan & The Rajahs plus an opportunity for networking.
We're pleased to confirm Councillor Sharon Thompson and Sam Beckinsale as our guest speakers.
Sharon Thompson has held senior leadership positions and served as a magistrate, and since 2014, has been an elected Councillor for the City of Birmingham. Sharon has held several non-executive director positions. She is a sought-after keynote speaker on political engagement, homelessness, housing, women in leadership, and Black, Asian, Ethnic Minorities in Leadership. In May 2023, Sharon was appointed Deputy Leader of Birmingham City Council, the very first ethnic minority to hold the position in the city. In May 2024 she was reappointed Deputy Leader of Birmingham City Council and Cabinet Member for Economy and Skills. The new portfolio enables her to continue her work on major sporting events, skills, jobs, apprenticeships, Cost of Living, Levelling Up and Devolution. In June 2024, Sharon was appointed Deputy Mayor of the West Midlands Combined Authority. She is the first woman to hold the post and whilst supporting the Mayor, she primarily focuses on the skills agenda.
Sam turned her lived experience of domestic abuse into The Love? Project which consists of national and international cinematic learning events based on her and Jason Figgis film Love?. LOVE? depicts many of the patterned aspects of domestic abuse focusing on coercive and controlling behaviour and perpetrators impact, including on children and society as a whole.
Sam is also TSB Banks Economic Abuse Advisor, Patron of Broxtowe Women's Project, and an Employers Initiative on Domestic Abuse Advisory Council Member. Sam is also part of WeThrive Consulting Ltd.
Sam continues to work alongside various police forces including Metropolitan, City of London and Avon & Somerset, local authorities, on Crown Prosecution Service London Domestic Abuse / VAWG Scrutiny Panel, educational settings such as Universities of Northumbria, Sheffield, Strode College and others and within financial service, legal service provider and business sectors with one aim : Sam doesn't want anyone else to be caught out like she was.
We will be raising money during the evening for our President's chosen charities, She Beasts CIC and The ManKind Initiative.
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