Helping Our Communities
We are proud to do “our bit” and help some of our communities as best we can. Here are some examples of what we achieve.
Tenet and The University of Birmingham
Tenet has been a partner of the University of Birmingham’s Law School and Pro Bono Group since 2021. The team have delivered education and support to students and postgraduates helping them develop their knowledge of how the law in relation to fraud and financial crime operates in the real world and offering legal insights on some of the most topical areas of law.
During 2023 guided by Tenet, Law School students embarked on a project that involved creating and delivering interactive legal education through videos they created about a range of fraud subjects (employee fraud, cryptocurrency and NFT fraud risks), to help them understand the law and raise awareness of their legal rights and responsibilities. Tenet delivered talks and workshops with the students and helped create a range of educational videos.
The central aim of the project is to make a complex area of law understandable to students and to help them learn the skills to unpick complex law and facts and develop interaction skills with those affected and to develop content. These efforts work to help make a positive impact for members of their own and a wider community who would not otherwise be able to access such advice or representation due to financial constraints and limited resources.
The latest project as part of our partnership has been launching The Birmingham Fraud Clinic (BFC).
The BFC is a clinic delivered by university law students working under the supervision of qualified lawyers from Tenet, offering free legal advice for victims of fraud or anyone who is concerned they may be a victim of fraud. With Tenet’s support students offer pro-bono legal advice to individuals, charities and small businesses to identify, prevent and respond in the event they have been targeted or become a victim of fraud.
The Birmingham Fraud Clinic (BFC) is delivered by students and as such is a term time only service, running from the start of October to mid-December and end of January to end of March.
Please be aware that the BFC is only able to assist you if:
- Your legal query relates to fraud or potential fraud;
- Your legal query does not require immediate deadlines to be met (e.g. within four weeks);
- You do not require legal representation in court or a tribunal; and
- We are able to secure a pro bono lawyer with the relevant expertise and capacity to supervise the students working on your case.
If you would like the BFC to assist you with a legal query, please complete an enquiry form.
For more information on Tenet’s Award Winning work at the University of Birmingham, click here.
Tenet’s ‘Good Souls Project’
As Tenet grows, giving back to our community is something which is important to every member of the team.
As part of this, in January 2020, we set up an internal programme of sponsorship, designed to support a local, smaller causes through Go Fund Me or Just Giving pages. We decided we want to help the un-sung heroes fund raising for their local communities or causes.
The ‘Good Souls Project’ is designed to make Tenet’s charitable donations and sponsorships a regular occurrence, driven by the entire team.
Each month, a different member of the Tenet team has the opportunity to select a cause which they would like to donate to.
We have recently decided to become a business sponsor for one of the schools within our local community.
The school is facing state funding cuts, which means resources and extracurricular activities that they provide are under threat. The school tentatively asked if any local businesses would sponsor them in return for marketing/advertising opportunities, openly admitting that it was not a glamorous opportunity! The funds raised will help the school retain its rich heritage of music, arts, forest school, cooking and many other extracurricular activities. While we are not perhaps reaching our potential clients, that’s okay, you never know and it’s nice to help!
In early 2017 we were approached by Open Door Dance Events about helping to find sponsors for a community hospital dance project. The founder Iain Mackay’s (a former principal dancer at Birmingham Royal Ballet) goal was to take high-quality live dance into places you wouldn’t expect to see it.
In summary, he was looking for funding to bring a dance performance to patients and staff at local hospitals: Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and Birmingham Children’s Hospital. We are proud to support Iain and his efforts, after all, he is trying to bring a smile to peoples faces, and that must be a good thing.
Iain has since moved on to the role of Artistic director at Yorkshire Ballet Seminars, a charity providing a great platform to help develop and inspire a new generation of ballet dancers. He approached us again to ask if we would consider forming a ‘Tenet Compliance and Litigation Scholarship’ to fund places for talented young students aged 9-19 in the West Midlands to attend their annual summer residential school. These students would otherwise not be able to afford to attend this world-renowned school. We have been happy and proud to have so far sponsored 3 immensely talented young students since 2018.
As for the environment, we try to be ‘paperless’.
No lawyer will tell you they can be truly paperless, frankly, it is not possible, but we realised we do not need to print everything we read and send. If we do need to print out for internal use, a client of ours suggested we try double sided A5. What do you know, it works just fine! Our letterheaded paper is also made from recycled paper.
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