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# Young professionals in Lichfield and Burntwood encouraged to apply for membership of business group
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/young-professionals-in-lichfield-and-burntwood-encouraged-to-apply-for-membership-of-business-group/
- Published: 2024-01-21T08:09:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-20T13:19:43.000Z
- Description: Young professionals are being enoucraged to apply for a fully-funded membership to a business group.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Business, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:07, News

Young professionals are being enoucraged to apply for a fully-funded membership to a business group.

The Future Faces Chamber of Commerce is part of the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce.

The group is open to 18 to 35-year-olds and provides professional development opportunities, mentoring and networking.

Lichfield District Council has confirmed it will sponsor ten memberships for 2024.

Cllr Janice Silvester-Hall, cabinet member for high streets and visitor economy at Lichfield District Council, said:

> “This is the second year that Lichfield District Council has supported Future Faces membership for young people after a successful first year.  
>  
> “We are really pleased to be able to support young people across the District to become business leaders of the future.  
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> “Through this programme our own council ‘Future Faces’ have also benefitted from meeting and learning from peers and inspirational leaders from the private sector at a range of events and engagement opportunities.”  
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> Cllr Janice Silvester-Hall, Lichfield District Council

Sophie Poduval-Morrell, Future Faces Chamber manager, said:

> “Our division of the chamber is open to any young person working in business from anywhere across Greater Birmingham. The support of Lichfield District Council has been a huge help in further promoting the opportunities we offer throughout Staffordshire.  
>  
> “In the last 12 months we have seen a marked increase in members from the Staffordshire area join.”  
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> Sophie Poduval-Morrell

Any business with an office in the Lichfield District Council area can put forward a maximum of two staff for the funded places by [downloading an application form](https://www.greaterbirminghamchambers.com/asset/D2AF4F8C-3557-4F4D-83F0BA8108CA6B38.7C11F27A-0022-4E27-B3EA65A9682D35C8/?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk).