Barberry toasts successful year with charity lunch for Help for Heroes
A West Midlands property developer and investor has celebrated a successful year by hosting a charity garden luncheon to raise funds for Help for Heroes.
Directors and staff at Barberry Group welcomed agents, consultants and property professionals from across the country to the event, which marked a year during which the firm has expanded its portfolio and made significant progress on key projects including a student accommodation development.
Among those present were Barberry managing director Jon Bellfield and company director Paul Watson, who this year share a 50-year friendship and a business relationship for 30 of those.
Long time friend of the directors and advisor at Barberry Group, Lord Digby Jones, was also a guest, making a speech addressing the current political uncertainty posed by Brexit and the general challenges currently facing business.
Henry Bellfield, director of Barberry Group, said: “It’s been a very successful year for Barberry and we wanted to thank all of the people that we have worked with and who have provided invaluable support.
“We are a family business and we believe it is very important to show our team, and everyone else who works with us across different sectors, that their hard work is very much appreciated.”
The event, at Cakebole House, in Chaddesley Corbett, was attended by around 120 guests. It raised more than £2,000 for Help for Heroes, the charity that helps those with injuries and illnesses sustained while serving in the British armed forces.
The money will be donated through a local man who has undertaken his own fundraising efforts for the charity after his four children all returned safely from front line duty while serving in the armed forces.
The group also outlined how the past 12 months has seen it make good progress made at the Bishop Gate student accommodation development in Coventry. It is Barberry’s biggest current project.
The £60m first phase will deliver 725 purpose-built student accommodation units in time for the start of the 2018 academic year.
Barberry is also poised to start work on a speculative development on the former Tucker fasteners site off the A34 walsall Road at Perry Barr.
The 46,000 sq ft warehouse unit follows the extensive fit-out and refurbishment of the group’s offices near Belbroughton. This will enable the group to undertake further expansion.
