Azad Ayub, founder and managing director of award-winning property management company Azad Ayub Ltd, is sponsoring this year's Protecting the environment award at the tve Global Sustainability Film Awards together with Fastflow Group.Sustainability and equality are central to our company's values, and we are particularly delighted to sponsor this year's Protecting the environment award,' says Azad, who won the biennial Best Green Landlord award for the third time in 2016. Being a Green Landlord is something we have taken a special interest in - the latest thing we have done is install solar panels on our properties so that the energy costs and emissions are minimised.'
Since starting operations in 1980, Azad and his company have won numerous awards for their commitment to green issues and staff training and development. Our longevity in the sector enables us to provide continuity to our tenants, landlords and staff,' says Azad. Some of our property maintenance professionals are second generation employees, meaning we share a common purpose and values.'
Those values are to provide good services to everybody, which means maintaining our properties to a very high standard,' adds Azad, who also directly supports education and poverty alleviation projects at home and abroad.
Azad will present the award during the Awards ceremony at BAFTA on Monday 26 November. This is one of five competitive categories all of which, between them, address the Sustainable Development Goals. Find the shortlisted films here.
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Azad Ayub is sponsoring the Protecting the environment award. Having founded his company in 1980, he has been providing accommodation to a wide range of individuals, families, students, young professionals and others in London. Azad Ayub prioritises sustainability and green energy in his operations - initiatives for which he has often won Best Green Landlord awards. Azad owns, and through his company manages, a portfolio of properties in the United Kingdom and abroad, and employs a 20-strong team to maintain them. www.azadayub.co.uk
The tve Global Sustainability Film Awards are organised annually by the charity tve. The film competition recognises companies and institutions whose films most powerfully portray solutions for sustainability. This year's competition has attracted 42 entries. For the third year running we are focusing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which set ambitious targets for world development: eradicating poverty and hunger; ensuring good health, quality education and gender equality; and setting targets for affordable and clean energy, climate action and responsible consumption and production. The president of the 2018 Awards is Claudine Blamey, group head of corporate responsibility and sustainability at Sainsbury's. gsfa.tve.org
tve is the non-profit based in London that organises the Awards. It creates and enables others to create powerful, effective communications about the environment and sustainable development. Through film, animation, documentaries, debates and social media, the media charity reaches global audiences, giving a voice to a new generation committed to a greener and fairer world. The Awards are tve's main annual fundraiser. www.tve.org
Fastflow Group is the Awards' main sponsor for the fourth year running. The company provides infrastructure maintenance and improvement services to Northumbrian Water and Scottish Water, FTSE top 100 company National Grid and Cadent Gas, and Housing Associations A2Dominion, Catalyst Housing, Southern Housing, Karbon Homes and Midland Heart. It delivers planned and responsive repairs for housing associations owning around 200,000 homes across the south of the UK. A recent addition to the business - County Durham and Derbyshire based Partner Group - designs and builds homes for housing associations and major asset owners across the UK.
Fastflow Group embraces the strategic, competitive advantages of a sustainable business model and conducts its business ethically, thereby establishing and maintaining long-term relationships to make a positive contribution to society. www.fastflow.co.uk
Sky has partnered with tve to launch the Beyond plastic category this year. Last year Sky News won the Press Association Award for Environmental Storytelling, for its documentary A Plastic Whale'. Through Sky Ocean Rescue, Sky is using its voice and potential reach to inspire simple, everyday changes to stop the oceans from drowning in plastic. Since January 2017 millions have engaged with Sky Ocean Rescue and Sky has ambitious plans for future engagement. As a business, Sky is committed to leading by example and transforming its own business by eliminating all single use plastics from its operations by 2020. It is encouraging and supporting innovation to develop solutions through Sky Ocean Ventures and is working to influence others to take action. Sky Ocean Rescue forms part of the Bigger Picture which also inspires the new generation through the power of sport, and invests further in creativity and diversity in our industry to make a difference.
Grace Bian is Awards vice-president for the third year running, and chair of the China International Culture Stock Exchange. Grace has created two new categories for the 2018 Awards: AI: empowering the future and Global digital futures. An inventor with 73 intellectual property rights in her name, Grace focuses on the potential of smart cities to transform society through projects like mobile hospitals and smart health villages. Grace jointly owns a research and development centre with the China Academy of Sciences and is an economic advisor for the Chinese government. She is currently engaged in setting up platform technology for blockchain and cryptocurrency, aiming to improve the economic cycle in a
