Vincent and Robert Tchenguiz Provide Support To Charitable Groups.
NSPCC Ashdown Family Centre, Tidworth www.nspcc.org.uk
The Centre, situated in Tidworth in Wiltshire, is a support facility, specifically targeting children around age eleven, as well as their parents and carers.[1] The town is in a somewhat isolated part of the county surrounded by a military garrison. Families living here are faced with the unusual pressures military life, which increase each time a parent is situated abroad. On these occasions it can cause issue for both the remaining parent and children.
The Ashdown Family Centre supports children, as well as their families, offering services including: drop-in centres for children and their parents, individual and parent/child guidance and advice for moms and fathers. All services are free and the centre is open between 9 am and 5 pm, Monday to Friday, all year round, excepting Public Holidays.[2]
Anne Frank Trust www.annefrank.org.uk
The story of Anne Frank is a well-known and whose poignancy constantly engages people more than six decades following the end of her life. The Anne Frank Trust uses her story to produce exhibitions that educate people by addressing issues of hate and prejudice.[3] The exhibitions are attended by over 100,000 people every year in the United Kingdom and have been known to produce such a deep impression that people go out into their communities to make a difference to society.[4] Ancillary to the shows, the Anne Frank Trust visits schools and arranges courses and talks for secondary students, including inspiring visits by holocaust survivors. The Trust also works closely with prisoners, both young and old, to challenge the growing problem of prejudice and racism in prisons. Since 2002, the Anne Frank Prison Project has visited over forty institutions.[5]
Consensus Business Group is delighted to be helping the following charitable organisations:
- The Cure Parkinson’s Trust – To fund innovative initiatives with the objective of maintaining the trajectory towards a cure. – www.cureparkinsons.org.uk
- Rays of Sunshine – Helping children with serious illnesses by granting wishes and helping hospices, hospital and specialist schools to improve their facilities. – www.raysofsunshine.org.uk
- Marie Curie Cancer Trust – Supporting terminally ill patients by providing care, either at home or in hospices. - www.mariecurie.org.uk
- Norwood – Supporting people with learning disabilities, and children and families in need. Helping to support their life choices. – www.norwood.org.uk
- Renewable Energy Foundation – Promoting sustainable development of sustainable energy technologies. – www.ref.org.uk
[1] ‘Together – Opportunities’. www.nspcc.org.uk. Retrieved 26.01.12
[2] ‘NSPCC Ashdown Family Centre’. www.netmums.com. Retrieved 26.01.12
[3] ‘Welcome to the Anne Frank Trust UK’. www.annefrank.org.uk. Retrieved 26.01.12
[4] ‘Exhibitions’. www.annefrank.org.uk. Retrieved 26.01.12
[5] ‘Working with Offenders’. www.annefrank.org.uk. Retrieved 26.01.12
Vincent and Robert Tchenguiz
Vincent and Robert Tchenguiz
Vincent Tchenguiz, the British businessman, was born in Tehran in October of 1956. His Iraqi-Jewish family changed their name from Khadouri to Tchenguiz once they left Iraq in 1948 for a new start in Iran. They left Iran in 1979 once the Shah fell. Vincent completed his schooling in Iran in 1973. He furthered his education with a Business Administration course at Boston University, and then in 1978, he earned both a BSc Honours degree in Economics and a BSc degree in Commerce from McGill University in Montreal. In 1980, Vincent went on to earn a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from New York University. His education complete, Vincent went to work for Prudential Bache London as being a Senior Vice President trading financial instruments within the fund-management division. He moved on to Shearson Lehman Brothers’ London offices in 1986, filling a similar role in trading financial instruments as a Senior Vice President. Two years later, Vincent, along with his brother Robert, started an industrial property venture called Rotch Property Group; Vincent serves as both joint Chairman and joint Controlling Director in the organization.
2002 saw Vincent establish the Consensus Business Group, which he serves as the Chairman off, the organisation functions as a principal advisor to a family trusts (that’s ultimate advantageous owner). Consensus provides advice on a portfolio that includes roughly £4.5 billion in both commercial properties and residential freeholds and another £200 million of investments in areas such as homeland security, clean technology, health care and holdings in funds. Vincent along with the Tchenguiz Family Trust filed civil damage claims in England and Iceland when Kaupthing, the Icelandic bank, failed in October of 2008. The combined claims totalled £1.5 billion.
In March 2011, Vincent was arrested by the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office which launched an investigation into Kaupthing’s collapse. He was released without charge on the same day. Kaupthing settled out-of-court with Vincent and the Trust in September 2011, the details of the settlement remains confidential. Vincent Tchenguiz lives in Mayfair, London. Unmarried, he owns homes in Cape Town and St. Tropez, he also owns a 130-foot Mangusta motor yacht moored across the French Riviera. The yacht’s title, Veni Vidi Vici, means “I came, I saw, I mastered.”
