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Charles Barwell is Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party in the West Midlands Region. An investment manager with Barclays Wealth (formerly Gerrard), Charles was born in Birmingham, and educated in Worcestershire, and Connecticut USA. He was an undergraduate at the University of Manchester, and was a postgraduate at the University of Birmingham Business School. |
His outside interests are considerable and include crewing a sailing boat round Ireland, Golf, he has a handicap 12, education, he is a Governor of St Paul's RC School for Girls, and Music. Charles is a member of the Board of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and sings in the CBSO chorus which, in 2007, will perform at the BBC Proms and the Edinburgh Festival.
In November 2006 Charles raised nearly £3000 for a homelessness social enterprise by spending a very wet and windy night sleeping out on the streets of Birmingham. St Basils Centre helps 4000 young people each year who society has overlooked by giving them a hand up rather than a hand out. Charles’s efforts were reported in the Birmingham Post, the Birmingham Mail, and on
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• Edgbaston Young Conservatives: 1988-1992
• Ward Chairman: Edgbaston Conservatives: 1992-1999
• Constituency Chairman: Birmingham Edgbaston Conservative Association: 1999-2002
• General Election 2001 Constituency Campaign Director
• Deputy Chairman Birmingham Solihull & Coventry Area Conservatives: 2002-2006
• Member Income Generation Board for the West Midlands 2004-
• Deputy Chairman West Midlands Region Conservatives: 2005-date
• Elected Board member and Trustee for Finance: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
• Trustee of the CBSO Pension Fund
• Sings First Tenor in the CBSO Chorus – performed in Hong Kong, Berlin, and Lyon in 2006
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• LEA appointed School Governor: St Pauls RC School for Girls, Birmingham
• Conference Chairman 2005: The British-American Project
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• Member of the Board of Governors of The English-Speaking Union 1992- 2001
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• Organiser for the ESU Schools Public Speaking competition 1998-2007
• Member of the Birmingham and Edgbaston Debating Society
