Manchester Sanctions Society (MSS)
What is the Manchester Sanctions Society
The concept of the MSS 🐝 is to bring together sanctions practitioners from across Manchester and the North of England. We aspire to unite Manchester’s sanctions community through a dedicated group where individuals within the sanctions world can come together. Our goal is to foster a space for knowledge-sharing, community building, networking, and exchanging industry insights to promote sanctions awareness. By creating this platform, we aim to illuminate Manchester’s budding sanctions scene and showcase its growth and engagement.
Events
The MSS 🐝 will meet on a monthly basis, either for a coffee morning ☕ or afternoon networking drinks 🍸. Meetings will be an hour, beginning with a short 10-minute address from a sanctions practitioner on a particular topic, issue or development, followed by Q&A and networking time over coffee or drinks. The meetings will take place at the Greater Manchester Chamber, UK (GMCC). As the Society develops there may be more opportunities for meetings of different formats focussing on different sanctions topics.
The inaugural meeting of the Manchester Sanctions Society 🐝 will take place at 10:30 on the 24 June 2024, at the GMCC. We are delighted that following an initial introduction by our CEO, Ian Bolton, we will have two fantastic speakers, Victoria Turner, partner at Eversheds, and Andy Barr, Head of Trade Sanctions Policy at the Department of Business and Trade in the UK government.
How to join the MSS
Joining the MSS 🐝 is completely free, all we ask is that if you intend to join you complete the following form so we can gauge numbers for events and ensure we keep you apprised of upcoming events.
We hope you will share our excitement with this development and look forward to welcoming many of Manchester’s sanctions community to the first event.
Join the MSS: https://lnkd.in/ex4mycPA
A word about our logo
Our logo is drawn from Manchester's rich history. The worker bee represents the workers of Manchester who drove the UK's Industrial Revolution. Whilst the cotton flower is linked to the defiant stand many of Manchester's cotton mills took against using cotton from the Confederate states in the US during the US Civil War. This was following a plea by the Union's President Abraham Lincoln. This stand is in many ways an act of sanctions enforcement that was taken by the people of Manchester.