Charity champs Wesleyan on
FINANCE firm Wesleyan is a Birmingham institution, having been founded in the city 176 years ago.
The mutual provides niche financial services to professionals such as doctors and dentists and has stayed dedicated to Birmingham, the city where members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church gathered in 1841 to create the Wesleyan Provident Assurance Society.
It was crowned Company of the Year by the judges alongside winning the Contribution to the Community Award.
Richard Wilson, field strategy manager, described the firm’s headquarters in Colmore Circus an “empowering environment” for staff to work.
He said: “There are a few things that make us stand out from other companies. One is our approach to how we look after our customers by providing very specialist advice to clients. But also our approach to our own staff, by providing an environment where people can be creative, feel empowered and deliver to the best of their potential.
“Our community work is also key and it was incredibly humbling to win the Contribution to the Community Award. We have an ongoing policy of trying to support and empower our people to go out there and do vol- untary work and really strive to give something back to the community which we have been a part of for 176 years.”
Wesleyan spearheaded a fundraising programme which generated £750,000 of the £1 million required to launch a new facility at Birmingham Children’s Hospital called Magnolia House. The centre, which opened in