MARCHE Golf Day

MARCHE & the BCF

are hosting the annual Golf Tournament this year at

The Belfry

on 13th July 

PGA National Course

Betterball Stableford competition

Teams of two

Tickets include: 

Bacon baps

18 holes of golf

3 course meal

Booking ends on Monday 4th July

Please download a booking form from our website www.marche.org.uk

Ramada Encore at the Birmingham Dragonboat Festival

MARCHE Members Ramada Encore Birmingham took part in the Birmingham Dragonboat Festival 2011 on Saturday 18th June.


As first time participants they were delighted to have achieved a respectable 14th place out of 21 teams taking part.

Congratulations to the Karate Kids Team!

This is all part of Ramada Encore Birmingham's charity fund raising efforts for Birmingham Children's Hospital so if you would like to make a contribution to their noble cause, please visit their Just Giving page.

VAT & Vince Cable

We are pleased to announce an opportunity for MARCHE Members to attend the forthcoming meeting hosted by Business Voice West Midlands with the Secretary for State, Innovation & Skills ~ the Rt Hon Dr Vincent Cable, MP.

The meeting is being held in conjunction with the Parliamentary All Party Group for the West Midlands and other speakers will include : : ~

Ian Austin MP (Labour, Dudley North)

Lorley Burt MP (Solihull - Chair, Liberal Democrat Group of MPs)

Mark Garnier MP (Conservative, Wyre Forest)

The meeting will be held next week and if you would like to attend, please email the MARCHE Office for further details.

This will be an opportunity for a discussion and for you to raise issues of serious business concerns.

MARCHE CEO Hilary Hall will be raising the subject of VAT on behalf of MARCHE Members - VAT on hotel accommodation, restaurant meals and attractions.

• At 20% - UK VAT is the second highest rate in the EU
• All but two other EU countries have now recognised the importance of tourism within their economies and have set a reduced rate of VAT on hotel accommodation and several have also set a reduced rate on restaurant meals
• The BHA is now actively lobbying for a reduced rate of VAT for the hospitality industry within the next 2 - 3 years and for Government to take immediate steps to improve UK competitiveness for hospitality & tourism

Please see your recent ENews for further information on this subject and feel free to make any comments.

Your support and thoughts on this subject would be appreciated - please comment here on the blog or by email to the MARCHE Office.

Green Restaurant Awards

CONGRATULATIONS!

to the following MARCHE Members

who won awards in the 

GREEN RESTAURANT AWARDS 2011

Category 1 - Waste Management

Candidates were asked to details what initiatives have been taken to reduce waste and increase recycling

Winner ~ Oak Room Restaurant at Moor Hall Hotel

Category 2 - Energy Reduction

Candidates were asked how the restaurant is reducing energy consumption and to give details of how this was implemented and how it was measured

Winner ~ Cafe Vite at The ICC

Highly Commended ~ Aria Restaurant at The Hyatt

Category 4 - Purchasing

Candidates were asked to give details of measures used to reduce the environmental impact of goods & services selectively within their own influence

Winner ~ Opus

Highly Commended ~ Aston Villa VMF Restaurant

HS2

MARCHE CEO Hilary Hall, recently attended the Centro presentation on High Speed Rail - The Opportunity for Transport in the West Midlands.

Two documents have so far been prepared for your consideration : : 

Birmingham & Solihull

The Black Country

(click on the titles for the downloadable .pdf documents)

The details for Coventry will be available shortly, please check the Centro website for further updates.

A full meeting to collate the response from the Midlands will be held on 22nd June, so please get in touch with Hilary at the MARCHE office to give your comments and views on this important transport development.

You can email hilary@marche.org.uk or call the office on 0121 440 1892.