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| Day: Tuesdays Time: 12:30 Location: Miraj Hotel and Leisure Centre, Derby Road, Ashbourne Group Leader: Sara Gration Membership: Simon Thacker Development: Rachel Royston-Webb Last week the group seemed to have been slightly effected by the holiday season, but still had a fantastic meeting, as always! We welcomed back Steven Gee from directbeers.com, who gave members free samples to take away! We also welcomed Zoe Simpson along for her first visit to Business on Toast. Angela of Virtual Admin Services provided a fantastic ten minute platform and we recommend 'toasters' to visit the group she does her next platform at. Simon Thacker of Willis Cooper would like leads into care homes and nursing homes and Ask EcoMan is offering to calculate your carbon footprint for free! More information: here! |
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| Day: Wednesdays Time: 12:30 Location: Mr Grundy's, Ashbourne Road, Derby. Group Leader: Bill Cort Membership: Sara Gration Development: Karen Sheldon With a regular turnout of 25+, this group seemed to be totally unaffected by the holiday season! Karen Sheldon IFA provided a professional and informative ten minute platform and urges those with pensions to speak to her. Introductions Paul Godney wants data for Antibo’s restaurant. Mr T from Guide2Derby.com wants people to remember these words - "Guide", "to" and "Derby". Martin Jinks of Bakewells bought along Tim from Lloyds TSB and we welcomed on board our latest premier member to the group, Andy Rudkin from Else Solicitors. More Business on Toast, same time, same place this week. More information: here! |
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| Day: Wednesdays Time: 16:30 Location: TC Harrison, Pride Park, Derby. Group Leader: Yvonne Gorman Membership: Martin Pain Development: Chris Redshaw Once again, the meeting area of Pride Park's TC Harrison Ford was full to the brim. New attendees included Steve Kennedy of Clear Coach, a personal coach who's looking for introductions into aerospace and engineering companies. The group's 10 Minutes came courtesy of Karen Sheldon IFA. Karen has accrued over 25 years worth of experience in her industry and conveyed to the group her skills in a number of areas, including pensions. The development slot came courtesy of Chris Redshaw who gave some interesting pointers on how to remember names. These included memorising certain distinct features of the people you meet, including hairlines facial features! Introductions: Sarah Cogdon, video producer extraordinaire, would like an introduction to someone within Derby City Council's leisure department, Jim Roberts from the NHS and an individual within Derby Brewing Company. Jo Higgins-Cezza of Beaumont Training and Consultancy Ltd would like introductions to people from Copenhagen no less! - Hej fra erhvervslivet på toast (Google translate is great). Tee from Guide2derby.com wants you to put people in the catering industry his way. Karen Sheldon is looking to speak to people disillusioned with pensions. More information: here! |
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Day: Thursdays Last week was one of joyous reunion with Sheila and Steve Balaam stepping back into the arena. Steve produces superb corporate video and is looking for companies who'd like to produce and promote video testimonials. |
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| Day: Thursdays Time: 07:00 Location: The Yard, Belmont Street, Swadlincote. Group Leader: Bill Cort Membership: Tony Foster Development: Simon Chaplin Business on Toast's foray into South Derbyshire. A lively breakfast meeting takes place every Thursday morning from 7:30. Ambitious local business people meet at breakfast to share business, support and referrals at Swadlincote's 'The Yard'. More information: here! |
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| Day: Fridays Time: 07:00 Location: The Paddock, Station Road, Melbourne Group Leader: Philip Cooper Membership: Peter Mosley Development: Steve Mason Every Friday morning at 7am, when most of us are dreaming of closing that golden business deal, a collection of hardcore toasters are living your dream in Melbourne, Derbyshire! Last week's 10 minutes was presented by David Pattison of DPM. David explained the types of Architectural design work he has been involved in over the last 30 years covering: domestic, commercial, retail and leisure properties. He has a multi-disciplined background and is able to support work from simple drainage plans and dilapidations, right through to complete design and build project management. His idea referrals would be into local authorities, developers and commercial lawyers. Group Developments Leader, Steve Mason covered the topic of " how to Introduce and conduct yourself at a networking event". Do: Go in to OPEN groups and at a convenient time in the conversation, introduce yourself. Talk to people who appear to be on their own. Be inclusive with everyone in a group. Have a good introduction. Do get other peoples business cards. Present your card, but don't THRUST it on others. Do thank people who you have met for their time. Now for the don'ts: Don't talk more than you listen. Don't get districted too easily from the conversation thread. Don't write on people's business card unless they had given permission. Follow these pointers and you should escape unscathed. Ignore them at your own peril! Group Membership Host, Peter Mosley, covered the University of Derby mentoring scheme, which had helped some 50 students in its time and is looking to help more in the future. Introductions Nigel Grainger of Fleet Risk Management is looking for Insurance underwriters. Jean of Confidence with Cooking will be running an Italian cooking course in October bookings open soon. John Bricknell of National Vehicle Solution is looking for companies with fleets of cars, vans, lorries and boats. Keith Deakin of Pink Connect has just saved a company £5k per year on their mobile phones. Andy Miles of Recession Slayer is looking for Students off to University who want to reduce any Student loan effects. More information: here! |
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| Day: Fridays Time: 12:30 Location: Makeney Hall, Milford, Belper Group Leader: Simon Thacker Membership: Gary Parsons Development: Rachel Royston-Webb Belper reported a great meeting during the 'regarded' quiet week for businesses due to holiday commitments. The meeting maintained the usual light atmosphere that is now prevalent of Friday afternoons, with members being as interactive and helpful as ever. It was noted that there was a lot of networking and business discussions before the meeting and this continued at a swift pace following the meeting too. The weeks 10 minute slot was given by Rachel Royston-Webb from HR Dept – Demonstrating the rights employee’s had, discussing contracts of employment and terms and conditions and also health and safety implications. For all your outsourced HR needs, Contact Rachel on 0845 863 0651. This week we have Chris Howard from Cactus Images, dazzling us with his commercial photography skills. The membership slot covered the Mentoring Scheme, in association with the University of Derby, which required minimum input from which you will receive maximum gains. The Development slot covered '1st impressions' and making them count, using a member from our group to underline those facts. We welcomed Bryan Locke from The Business Consultancy who will be signing up following his impending holidays. Jenny from Amber Valley Borough Council educated us as to the work that her team are undertaking in the local area. With respect to regeneration, the Shop Front Improvement Scheme, and also the introduction of a Creative Industry Strategy. They also have a new website – www.Ambervalleybusinessclub.com Introductions We also welcomed Nigel Cholerton from Bakewells Solicitors. In fact, Nigel is not a solicitor, but a Barrister, and is looking for any contractual breeches, dispute resolution and discrimination issues that businesses require legal assistance with. Tim Walker, a fresh graduate with a 2.1 degree in Business Management was looking for leads into HR companies so that he could undertake some mentee work – something that Rachel Royston-Webb from HR Dept in Belper was assisting with. Both Rachel and Simon Thacker are looking for introductions into care homes and will be getting together during the week to discuss how they could both assist each other with this. Simon Chaplin from Chaplin IFA was looking for introductions into probate and injury solicitors, for helping those individuals who wanted to invest their lump sum rewards. Gary and Lee from G&L Plastering wanted to obtain some further commercial plastering work in Derbyshire, which would follow on from their work at Centre Parcs. They also were promoting their new venture, which was the “Damp Detective” – working for Landlords and property agents who wanted damp problems dealing with. Anthony from AML Midlands, the local IT genius (complete with authentic Yorkshire accent) is happy to travel to any business with an IT requirement between Leeds and Leicester. He loves the M1 so much, apparently. Remember, if you’d like to visit this group, or think that you can help any of its members, please contact simon@williscooper.com. More information: here! |
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And so closes yet another Weekly Toaster, your news from the business network wih a difference. Thanks for reading. We hope you find it a useful tool in finding out what's happening across the Business on Toast groups and discovering what sort of introductions your fellow 'toasters' are seeking. If there's anything you'd like to read in future editions, or you'd like to appeal to readers for those all important introductions, simply drop an email to clive.astin@linqlaw.co.uk. Thanks for reading and until next week, happy toasting! All the very best The Business on Toast Team "Flexible membership, NO pressure for referrals, just Business on Toast" Web: www.businessontoast.co.uk E-mail: info@linqlaw.co.uk Tel: 0845 519 0041 
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