Business success in Solomon’s Room - Pentecostal Credit Union Students on the Pentecostal Credit Union (PCU) Moneywise Business Development Programme got the chance to pitch their business ideas at our ‘Solomon’s Room’, Dragon’s-Den- style event on 30 January. More than 100 church leaders, community influencers and Christian business owners joined us for the evening, which took place at The Royal Society in London, SW1. We named our event ‘Solomon’s Room’ after King Solomon – for us, the ultimate Moneywise entrepreneur. As with all our activities, our business development programme is grounded in biblical principles. On the night, we were delighted to welcome four highly successful business owners as our ‘Solomons’: Michael Petrie of Cloudstream, Antonia Burrell of Antonia Burrell Holistic Skincare, Reggie Cole of Buy2 Let Cars and Patrick Reid of PJ’s Community Services. All our students – Tanya Aquaah, Freddie Brown, Glynis Brewster- Nathan, Andrew and Shireen Morrison, and Sascha Layne – won promises of mentoring and business development support. The evening was hosted by our course teacher, businesswoman Claudine Reid MBE.

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February 2018
Inside
Lauren on Loans 2
Going digital in 2018 3
Youth Shadow Board assists
with NTA Christmas hampers 3
Focus on: Personal privacy 4
PCU founder shares his life story 4
News from the Pentecostal Credit Union
Business success in Solomon’s Room
Students on the PCU’s Moneywise
Business Development
Programme got the chance to
pitch their business ideas at our
‘Solomon’s Room’, Dragon’s-Den-
style event on 30 January.
More than 100 church leaders,
community influencers and Christian
business owners joined us for the
evening, which took place at The
Royal Society in London, SW1.
We named our event ‘Solomon’s
Room’ after King Solomon – for us,
the ultimate Moneywise entrepreneur.
As with all our activities, our business
development programme is grounded
in biblical principles.
On the night, we were delighted to
welcome four highly successful
business owners as our ‘Solomons’:
Michael Petrie of Cloudstream,
Antonia Burrell of Antonia Burrell
Holistic Skincare, Reggie Cole of Buy2
Let Cars and Patrick Reid of PJ’s
Community Services.
All our students – Tanya Aquaah,
Freddie Brown, Glynis Brewster-
Nathan, Andrew and Shireen
Our formidable four Solomons set about
judging our students’ pitches.
The PCU’s Chair Leslie Laniyan was
awarded an MBE in the
New Year’s Honours List –
and we couldn’t be more
delighted.
Leslie’s award
recognises
voluntary service
Congratulations to Leslie Laniyan MBE
to London’s communities, especially
his achievements in helping to
transform and regenerate community
organisations in crisis.
Leslie is the founder and CEO of
BME-led Shian Housing Association,
and has also worked with or sat on the
boards of many other organisations.
Our CEO Shane Bowes, said: “The
PCU deems it a privilege to have
Leslie Laniyan serve as Chairperson of
our board. His experience, knowledge
and expertise have helped to steer
PCU to the position it currently
occupies. We are pleased that his
contribution to BME communities
has been recognised with an MBE
and extend our congratulations to
him on this fantastic achievement.”
Morrison, and Sascha Layne – won
promises of mentoring and business
development support.
The evening was hosted by our
course teacher, businesswoman
Claudine Reid MBE.
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2. Hi! I’m Anca Bordei (pictured below) and I’m writing Lauren’s column
for this issue, because I am the PCU’s temporary Loans and Business
Officer until Lauren returns from maternity leave later in the year.
Lauren on loans
I will be working for the PCU three days a week,
processing your loan applications. I am also
responsible for member communications –
responding to your emails, phone calls and letters.
I am looking forward to meeting more of you in the
months to come.
New life at the PCU
Meanwhile, I am pleased to pass on the news that
Going digital in 2018
Our 2016 member survey showed us that many of our
customers now want online services – especially as we
attract new, younger members.
So, in 2018, we will be focusing on upscaling our
financial technology. It means that in future, we will be
able to offer you:
• a PCU debit card for making purchases at home,
abroad or online – whether you’re an individual or
corporate member
• a new interactive website so that you can manage
your account online
Lauren gave birth to a beautiful baby
girl in January (they are pictured
above). The PCU send Lauren and
baby all their love.
The PCU is getting ready to embrace the digital revolution – with services
you can access via your computer or smartphone.
• transaction banking – allowing you to make and
receive payments to and from third parties (great news
for our corporate members and business owners)
• a mobile app, so that you can access your account
on your smartphone.
These services will be much more convenient for
customers who rarely visit our office. They will also
reduce staff processing time. Going digital is a key part
of our strategy to grow and develop the PCU.
Watch out for more information about the launch
of these services.
Young people from the PCU’s
Youth Shadow Board spent a day
volunteering at the New Testament
Assembly (NTA) in Tooting. They
were supporting the church’s
Christmas Hamper Programme.
The New Testament Assembly has
delivered an impressive 2,914
hampers in the past eight years –
660 this Christmas alone. The
project was initially started by Amy
Rose Powell MBE in 2008.
Our young people spent a busy
Saturday in December helping NTA
church members with shopping,
packing and the distribution of this
year’s hampers. Most went to single
parents, pensioners and households
on a low income – whatever their
religious persuasion or ethnicity.
Youth Shadow Board assists with NTA Christmas hampers
We see this as an essential local social
service, which we are pleased to
support. One member said: “We at the
Youth Shadow Board are privileged to
take part in this.”
The NTA hamper team were very
impressed our youngsters. Bishop
Delroy Powell said: “Your partnering
with NTA...has made a difference in
the lives of hundreds of some of the
most needy people in our community
Our first guest speaker, Pentecostal minister Bishop Wayne
Malcolm (who is known as ‘The Business Bishop’), shared
that it is: “moral, right and spiritual” for church leaders to
support entrepreneurship within their congregations.
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Our second guest speaker, businessman Levi Roots, got a
standing ovation for his inspiring and humorous talk, which
described his life journey from a Jamaican childhood to the
owner of the UK’s Reggae Reggae sauce brand.
The PCU’s CEO Shane Bowes challenged church leaders to
“educate, support, nurture and encourage” business
entrepreneurship within their congregations, by hosting
seminars, making links with Christian business networks,
preaching business-inspired sermons and providing
spiritual support for entrepreneurs.
The PCU is now firmly set on promoting entrepreneurship
and business ownership as a
way to support the socio-
economic development of
our communities in the
Pentecostal church.
Below: Host and course leader,
Claudine Reid MBE.
Right: PCU CEO Shane Bowes.
For a video of the event, go
online to: http://tinyurl.com/PCU-YOUTUBE-CHANNEL
Below left: Bishop Wayne Malcolm. Below right: Levi Roots.
Below: The audience at The Royal Society.
...this Christmas... [W]ell done for
your vision to include the young
emerging leaders ....in embracing
their social responsibility. I get the
sense that we are seeing future
champions who will go on to make
a significant mark in society in time
to come.’’
You can see our young people in
action at: http://tinyurl.com/ PCU-
YOUTUBE-CHANNEL

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• The right to move your data
from one place to another.
Companies will need to ask you to
opt in to their mailouts. Currently,
you only have the right to opt out.
What this means for us
We take privacy very seriously already,
but we are conducting an audit of all
the data we hold to ensure compliance
and we will review our privacy notices.
Data privacy laws are being standardised across Europe, with
the arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on
25 May 2018.
The new rules apply across EU borders
and companies will face large fines
for breaking the regulations.
Individuals gain new rights.
• The right to access: You will be
able to ask a company if they have
records on you, where they are
storing them, and what use they
are making of them. You will be
able to request a free electronic
copy of the data held.
• The right to be forgotten: You
will be able to get your date erased
if we have no valid business
reason to store or use it.
Focus on: Personal data
PCU founder shares
his life story
The Revd. Carmel Jones,
who founded the PCU back
in 1979, has published his
autobiography. It’s a
fascinating account of his
life and work in the
Pentecostal community.
The fifth of six children, the
Revd. Jones grew up in the Bye-
berry district, in the Parish of St.
Elizabeth in Jamaica.
He arrived in England on 21 August 1955 and, the
following year, met Iveline – the woman who would
become his wife, and mother to their three children.
A mechanical engineer by trade, the Revd. Jones became
a Pentecostal church leader by vocation. At the core of
the story is a record of his spiritual journey. It also
recounts the early years of the Pentecostal Credit Union.
Told with humour and in faith, this is an uplifting story.
Copies are available from the office for £6, with the
proceeds going to the Equiano Benevolent Gift Scheme.
PCU Annual
General
Meeting
Saturday 24 March 2018
at 6pm
Tooting Neighbourhood Centre
28 Glenburnie Road
London SW17 7PJ
Everyone is welcome
CONFIDENTIAL
1 Revd. Carmel Jones
Autobiography
of my life from
age 11 to 80