Alan Higgs

Alan Higgs

Alan Edward Higgs was a successful self-made businessman who became a multimillionaire mainly from his house building business in Coventry, as well as from other businesses in Birmingham, England.cite web
url = http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/search/article/407452/the-mt-interview-matthew-lynn-derek-higgs/
date = 2002-11-01
publisher = Management Today
title = The MT interview by Matthew Lynn: Derek Higgs
accessdaymonth = 20 October|accessyear = 2007|] He died in 1979, and because he thought that inherited wealth did more harm than good, he made provision for a charity to be created after his death to help deprived children from Coventry and nearby localities.cite web
url = http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cms/go/hon-degree/2005/jul-higgs.html
publisher = University of Bristol
date = 2005-07-13
title = Sir Derek Higgs: Doctor of Laws
accessdaymonth = 20 October|accessyear = 2007|]

Alan Edward Higgs Charity

The Alan Edward Higgs Charity (sometimes incorrectly called the Alan Higgs Trust) benefited from Higgs entire estate of approximately £26 million. [cite web |url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3842018.ece|title = Sir Derek Higgs|publisher = timesonline |accessdaymonth = 29 April |accessyear = 2008] It was set up specifically to help deprived children from Coventry and within 25 miles of Coventry. Higgs' son Derek Higgs, who was knighted in 2004, and his daughter became the trustees.cite web |url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/apr/29/allianceleicesterbusiness.banking|title = Sir Derek Higgs dies suddenly aged 64 |publisher = guardian.co.uk |accessdaymonth = 29 April |accessyear = 2008]

The charity has given millions of pounds to good causes over the years. It gave the money to build the The Alan Higgs Centre, a leisure centre in southeast Coventry,cite web
title = The Alan Higgs Centre
publisher = RHWL architects
url = http://www.rhwl.co.uk/project_111.aspx
accessdaymonth = 20 October| accessyear = 2007] and partly owns the Ricoh Arena.

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