Great Places is a housing association in the United Kingdom, formerly the Manchester Methodist Housing Association. Great Places provides 25,000+ homes mostly in North West England . The organisation is an industrial and provident society headquartered in Manchester .
5-582: In 2020, Equity Housing Group merged into Great Places. The combined organisation has 25,000 homes. Pakistani Billionaire Sir Anwar Pervez is the largest private donor to this social housing group. Its developments include: In 2008, it managed a pilot home zone in Northmoor, Manchester. This article related to a non-profit organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Anwar Pervez Sir Mohammed Anwar Pervez OBE , HPk ( Urdu : سر انور پرویز ; born 15 March 1935)
10-801: Is a Pakistani-born British billionaire businessman. He is the founder and chairman of Bestway Group . According to the Sunday Times Rich List , in 2020 Pervez's net worth was £3.1 billion, and the richest Pakistan-born Briton in the UK. The 2021 list gave his family's assets as £1.364 billion, placing them 125th on the list. Mohammed Anwar Pervez was born on 15 March 1935 to a subsistence farming family in Rawalpindi , then under British rule. He did his matriculation in Pakistan. He studied at Forman Christian College . In 1956, he moved to
15-594: The Muslim community. By the early seventies, he had changed the company's name to Bestway and was operating ten convenience stores in and around West London, mostly serving Asians, and specialised in Asian food. In 1976, Pervez opened Bestway's first wholesale warehouse in Acton, West London. The company has since grown to a multibillion-pound enterprise, and as of 2014 Bestway is the second-largest independent wholesaler in
20-601: The UK at the age of 21. His first job was as a telephone operator in the state-owned telecommunication company PTCL . There he used to work for Rs. 96 a month and most of them were spent on anti-malaria medications. In 1956, he emigrated to England. There he became a bus conductor and driver in Bradford . He worked seven days a week on double shifts for about £16 - £18 a week. In 1963, he established his first convenience store, Kashmir, in London's Earls Court for
25-462: The UK. In 2014, his group bought 774 pharmacies from The Co-operative Group for £620 million. He is currently married to his second wife Sabiha Kasim with whom he had four children. A son from his first marriage and another from his second are directors of Bestway. In 2012, their daughter married Syed Abid Hussain Imam, the son of Pakistani politicians Abida Hussain and Fakhar Imam . Pervez
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