Welcome to our Autumn newsletter which brings you up to date on the Private Equity Foundation’s work . If you have any comments or questions about anything in this newsletter, or would like to get involved in our work please contact us.

This time, we’re not asking you to run a marathon for PEF, but how about sponsoring the ten members of the private equity community who already have!  

All you have to do is log on to http://www.justgiving.com/PEFBerlinMarathon09/ to support the runners from Cinven, Cognetas, Clifford Chance, Horwath Clark Whitehill LLP, and AMG, who went the full 26 miles and 385 yards in Berlin on 20 September.  A big thank you to Nayen Pankhania, Jo Lea, Mitesh Patelia, Sam Dundas, Cameron Saylor, Andrew Mills, Martin Kolmar, Tom Houston, Matthew Kellie and Amar Anand, as well as to their shirt sponsors, Private Equity Recruitment (PER).

Spruce up your Christmas AND help more young people into work this winter by joining forces with PEF and giving a social enterprise the opportunity to set up shop in your office.

The Kennington Cross Flower Stall is an initiative run by PEF portfolio charity, Tomorrow’s People, which provides job placements and training opportunities for young people that other agencies find hard to reach.  This year, the flower stall is branching out and, in association with PEF, is offering a variety of seasonal services to firms. Read more>>