With Anne Jones, the UK's best known speed reader
Anne's specially designed course is for people who have far too much reading to do in far too little time! The course includes techniques to improve recall and analysis as well as reading speed.
Anne has featured many times on local and national television. Six times world speed reading champion, Anne read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in a record breaking 47 minutes and one second (4251 words per minute).
Next course dates: 3 September and 7 January. The cost £250 includes lunch and all materials.
For booking information email Anne.Jones@speedyreader.co.uk.
Free event for potential Queen’s Award for Enterprise Award applicants
The Queen's Award for Enterprise is like a 'corporate knighthood' and is designed to recognise and reward outstanding achievement by UK companies.
These annual awards have undergone several reviews to keep them relevant to the constantly changing world of business.There are 3 separate categories: International Trade, Innovation and Sustainable Development.
Queen's Award for International Trade winner, Steve Bell, The Davy Roll Company Ltd, said: "Being a recipient of the Queen's Award has helped in two ways. It has opened doors in export markets, as it helps new customers realise they are dealing with a quality company with a quality product. Secondly, it has given enormous pride to our workforce".
To learn how companies of all sizes and types can benefit from winning a Queen's Award for Enterprise and how to go about applying join us at UK Trade & Investment and One NorthEast's next QA event in September.
Bookings can be made via the International Trade Hotline on Tel: 0845 05 05 054 or E mail : enquiries@ukti.rito.co.uk
Tactical Mix is about applying the marketing mix in the most appropriate way to create a totally customer facing organisation.
Service Network would like you to invite you to the 5th event in our Inspiring Excellence series ‘Tactical Mix’.
Tactical Mix is about applying the marketing mix in the most appropriate way to create a totally customer facing organisation.
Joining us on the day will be Phil Hudson, Galaxy Radio, who will discuss how you can achieve results from contemporary radio advertising, and how best to use digital media alongside a more traditional campaign.
Galaxy Radio station has an audience of almost 500,000 people every week. They work with a wide variety of different businesses in the region to help them drive sales, solve problems and ultimately increase the bottom line.
Delivering along side Galaxy Radio is SA Screen Media. With over 20 years experience in planning and consulting with the public and private sector, SA Screen Media will demonstrate how Mobile Screen Media solutions can transform the way in which your customers view your message. Using patented Screen Technology they have engaged with the future to bring you closer to your audience.
Join us on the 4th September for our 5th Inspiring Excellence event.
Venue: Rooms, 6, 7 & 8, Hilton, Newcastle Gateshead
Time: 9:00 registration for a 9:30 start
Members: Free to Service Network and CiM members
Non Members: £30+vat
Registration: To register please email annabrown@service-network.co.uk, register online or call 0191 244 4031
Idea Sharing Breakfast Discussion
We are looking at 'Culture Change' in more depth this session.
How is your company percieved by your customers, the public and your staff. We need to understand our culture, know how to manage it and only then can we reach our true potential.
We are offering a free followup 1 hour consultancy to all the guests, along with fresh ideas and hot coffee.
For more information please contact Craig Hohls on 01865 301 320 or craig@connectionsoxford.co.uk.
Your Personal Invitation to Finding Certainty in Uncertain Times
Sage 50 Accounts 2009 Launch, 9 September 2008, 9am Gosforth Park Marriott Hotel
Come along to the Launch Event to find out exactly why you’ll desperately want the new Sage 50 Accounts 2009. Once you’ve seen it the only question you’ll be asking is ‘How quickly can I get this working for me?’
Book your place today at www.harland.co.uk so you can find out about all of the program’s new and improved benefits, including how to work ‘smarter’ in the current climate, where the words on everyone’s lips are “Credit Crunchâ€. Amongst other things, you’ll discover:
• How this new version of Sage can help you to manage debt.
• How to use the new features in Sage to manage your time more effectively.
• New timesaving routines to get the most out of your Sage software.
• New and improved Sage in-program help.
This interactive two hour session will help you discover how these new features relate to your business, and you’ll get the chance to try out the software for yourself. You’ll even take away a Free Upgrade Guide so you can see exactly how you’ll benefit from upgrading, whichever version you’re currently using.
Don't miss the launch of this amazing new version of Sage! Visit the Events page at www.harland.co.uk to book your place today.
NB Exclusive Discounts will be available on the day for both the Sage Upgrade and further training. The Launch Event is free and we expect places to fill up quickly, so book your place today www.harland.co.uk.
Newcastle University Business School's Ethics Forum, in association with The Bridge Club, David Gray Solicitors and The Journal is holding an "In Conversation with...Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty" on Wednesday 10th September from 4.30pm-7.00pm at Newcastle University.
Andrew Hebden from The Journal will be discussing "The Business of Human Rights: How does the rule of law impact your business" and will cover topics ranging from privacy of communications, responsibilities of employers to hand over records, summary extradition, privacy and the war on terror.
For more information and to register for this event please go to:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nubs/about/events/item/in-conversation-with-shami-chakrabarti-director-of-liberty
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nubs/business/ethicsforum/index.htm
Anne Jones' specially designed course is for people who have far too much reading to do in far too little time! The course includes techniques to improve recall and analysis as well as reading speed.
Greg Gordon, Sunday Herald, Scotland: "Two weeks after completing Jones' course I'm forced to say the results are amazing. From a workmanlike 231 wpm I'm now up to well over 1,000 wpm."
Anna Fifield, Financial Times: "My reading speed rocketed from 193 wpm to 760 wpm before midday. Not only that, but my comprehension improved to the extent that I got all the multiple choice questions right."
Anne has featured many times on local and national television. Six times world speed reading champion, Anne read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in a record breaking 47 minutes and one second (4251 words per minute).
Next course dates: 12 September and 7 January. The cost £250 includes lunch and all materials. For booking information email Anne.Jones@speedyreader.co.uk.
By popular demand Durham Business Club hosts its first charity golf day with proceeds to Young Enterprise North East.
An opportunity to entertain friends or clients at one of the regions most idyllic golf courses where we can promise you a professionally organised but fun event and (because we’re a business club, of course!) some great networking both on and off the course.
Format: Stableford best two scores from four
Teams of four (men, ladies or mixed) will compete in an 18 hole tournament for the Durham Cup, with lots of additional prizes to be won along the way including:
ï‚· Nearest the pin - Longest drive - Individual chipping competition
ï‚· Best turned out team - Shot of the day - Player of the day
Fill up on bacon sandwiches and coffee before teeing off from 11am. Take a pit stop at the 13th hole and along the way take part in the various challenges.
Buffet throughout the afternoon from 4pm with presentation of prizes at 8.30pm.
Contact Christine on 0191 3884488 or e-mail christine@durhambusinessclub.co.uk
For the past seven years, The Prince's Trust has brought together the region's Barclays Premier and Coca-Cola League clubs to celebrate the beautiful game at its very best. Hosted by former Soccer Night presenter Roger Tames and co-hosted by BBC, ITV and Sky Sports presenters Jeff Brown, Simon O'Rourke and David Craig The Prince's Trust North East Football Awards reviews the thrilling highs and lows of last year's season.
Roger Tames, who has been associated with the North East Footballer of the Year through three decades said: "There's a tremendous amount of history associated with these awards and many past winners have gone down in North East football folklore. The North East Football Awards provides a great occasion as one of the few times in the year when players and managers from all the North east teams get together."
A must for serious sports fans tables of 10 are available at £1,000 and pairs of tickets are available at £250. This includes a Champagne reception provided by Lovely Bubbly, a three course meal and exclusive access to an unprecedented number of North East football heroes all in one spectacular evening. Funds raised at the event will enable The Prince's Trust to continue to support disadvantaged young people across the region.
For more information and to book your tickets please visit www.princes-trust.org.uk/footballawards or call 0191 497 3227.
"In Conversation With...Tom Fenwick Brown"
This event is hosted by microcomputing
From an unlikely start in life of leaving school with no formal educational qualifications, and a 'red-lined'
postal address in North Tyneside, Tom Fenwick Brown can rightly boast a veritable war chest of practical,
real world, tried and tested experience of what works (and what doesn't) in the 21st Century sales
profession! With a 37 year history in senior sales and general management with leading brand names
including Pfizer, Black & Decker and Sony (where he was responsible for annual sales revenue of £110M)
Tom went on to establish his own company with sales of £5M. A mind-numbing encounter with 'early
retirement' made Tom seek new challenges and by bumping into the CEO of Sandler Training, the world's
largest sales & sales management training organisation he decided to establish a Sandler Training centre
in the North East. For any business owner who is struggling with the complexities of the sales process, is
frustrated by lack-lustre sales performance, wants to understand how to retain integrity of purpose yet
still sell, or simply doesn't believe that huge increases in existing business is attainable by embracing
modern sales techniques such as Tom's, this conversation is a must!
Event Details:
Date: Tuesday, 16th September 2008
Time: 6:00pm-8:30pm
Venue: microcomputing, Unit 3, The Bulrushes, Woodstock Way, Boldon Business Park, Boldon, NE35
9PF
Investment: £10.00 incl. VAT or free to all South Tyneside-based businesses. Please pay on arrival at
the event, either with cash or by cheque payable to Bridge Club Ltd.
To Register, please email your name, business name and phone number to
zara.baxter@microcomputing.co.uk or call Zara on 0191 537 7282
Designing Demand is a new programme developed by the Design Council to help you get full value from design. It will give you the skills you need to spot how design can boost performance and it will help you seize new-found design opportunities.
The workshop is for owners, managing directors or other senior managers of firms aiming to grow and improve their performance through design.
Business Workshops are FREE and run from 8.30am - 2.30pm. Breakfast and lunch are provided.
To find out more about Designing Demand or to register simply call 0191 244 4009 or visit www.designingdemand.org.uk
Partners4Automotive 2008 is being organised in cooperation with the Institute of Automotive and Manufacturing Advanced Practice (AMAP) at the University of Sunderland to create an international business led forum that will investigate the future challenges and potential business opportunities that are associated with the development of alternative fuel technologies for various types of vehicles and transportation systems.
Please contact Phil Eadon at Allancia for more details 0191 415 7340 or go to the event website www.partners4automotive2008.co.uk
Are you thinking about raising your business profile but don’t know where to start?
You’d like the help of a PR expert but the budget doesn’t stretch?
Are you thinking you could ‘Do It Yourself’?
Fancy a bit of DIY – then this course is for you?
This straightforward, jargon-free course is designed to provide a basic introduction to PR for anyone managing the media relations or marketing for their organisation - large or small.
If you’ve tried PR before and it hasn’t worked, you’re a PR practitioner or marketing manager looking to improve your skills or you’ve never embarked on PR but think you could handle a bit of DIY, then this course is for you.
Using simple, easily managed techniques our expert consultants will help you:
· Identify what makes your business different
· Uncover key messages
· Unlock your audience
· Find the news story and get it in the media
· Teach you the tactical techniques that will put your business in the media spotlight.
How is the course structured?
The full day course will be delivered through a series of simple exercises, seminars, guidance and plenty of questions and answers.
A comprehensive manual keeps the course on track and is issued to every delegate as an invaluable reference tool to remind you of all you’ve learnt.
The Course begins with an introduction to PR and topics covered include:
· What is PR?
· The importance of reputation
· Identification of brand attributes, key messages and audiences
· Writing the press release – the formula and getting it right
· Tricks, hints tips and an opportunity to have a go
· Uncovering YOUR stories
For more information contact Kerrie on 0191 215 5014 or email training@rowntreegordo.co.uk
Did you know that half of all UK businesses do not have a contingency plan in place in case of emergencies? A seminar to be held at NETPark in September, will show how to identify and assess risks to a business and how to cope if disaster strikes.
Who should attend: A representative from your company that deals with risk management or anyone from the management team.
To register for this seminar: email events@uknetpark.net or call 01740 625 180.
North East Promenaders Against Cancer have now raised more than a million pounds to support cancer care and research in the North East. Book your tickets on 0191 261 2606.
Business Link have teamed together with MBL Solutions to offer businesses in the North East a no fuss workshop that will show you how to:
Understand search engines and how to attract them to your website
Develop online and offline marketing strategies
Use the internet to create a powerful database
Build your brand online
Understand how to use cost effective internet communications
contact carly.herron@mybiz.co.uk or call 0191 250 4530 to book your space.
This fully funded workshop forms part of Business Link's NOW North East Programme and offers an insight into what it is that makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial. It will help you to understand what skills you need to take your idea further and learn how to establish a business that will survive and grow.
If you want to meet with like-minded entrepreneurs, expand your network of business contacts, access a range of business professionals and turn your ideas into a successful reality, then join us on 23rd September. Refreshments and finger buffet will be provided.
For further information and to book your place please visit www.nownortheast.co.uk or contact contact Amanda Edwards on 0845 680 1 391.
Thi workshop will show you how to:
* Understand search engines and how to attract them to your website
* Develop online and offline marketing strategies
* Use the internet to create a powerful prospect database
* Build your brand and attract visitors online
Understand how to use cost effective internet communications
Contact: Carly.herron@mybiz.co.uk or call 0191 250 4530
Business planning can be seen as an onerous task by new (and old!) business owners. This fully funded workshop forms part of Business Link's NOW North East Programme and will show you how to prepare a successful business plan as well as giving you the skills and tools for establishing and developing a realistic business.
If you want to meet with like-minded entrepreneurs, expand your network of business contacts, access a range of business professionals and turn your ideas into a successful reality, then join us on 23rd September. Refreshments and finger buffet will be provided.
For further information and to book your place please visit www.nownortheast.co.uk or contact contact Amanda Edwards on 0845 680 1 391.
The event promises to provide you with ideas and practices that will have a positive impact on the development of your company and takes the real experiences of people who have spent many years creating businesses and developing products. Although most of the speakers are from the healthcare and life science sector the content applies to anyone involved in commercialising ideas, securing funding or expanding into different markets.
Hear from colleagues who have successfully:
Presentations include:
The event is FREE to attend if you're an SME and will include breakfast and lunch.
For the full agenda please click here.
To register email your name, company name and email address to gaia.hassan@celsatlife.com.
Business Link have teamed together with MBL Solutions to offer businesses in the North East a no fuss workshop that will show you how to:
Understand search engines and how to attract them to your website
Develop online and offline marketing strategies
Use the internet to create a powerful database
Build your brand online
Understand how to use cost effective internet communications
Designing Demand is a new programme developed by the Design Council to help you get full value from design. It will give you the skills you need to spot how design can boost performance and it will help you seize new-found design opportunities.
The workshop aims to help practising designers get the value of design across to business and advises them on ways of building relationships both with existing and would-be clients.
There is also the chance to find out more about other Designing Demand activities in your region, and how to take part.
Designer workshops are free, with canapes and refreshments provided.
To find out more about Designing Demand or to register simply call on 0191 244 4009 or visit www.designingdemand.org.uk
Durham Business Club invites you to an Andy Hanselman masterclass focussed on giving YOU the tools and techniques to create devoted customers by delivering unsurpassable levels of customer service.
No magical answers, academic theories or making rafts out of squeezy bottles, we’ll be concentrating on practical exercises, real work on key business and customer issues and introducing you to toolkits to
make it happen when you’re back in the workplace.
Andy will be presenting three highly interactive sessions focussing on Creating More Customers, Creating ‘Devoted’ Customers and a customer linked facilitated networking activity over lunch.
Attend one, two or all three sessions!
Contact Christine Yule on 0191 388 4488 or Email:
christine@durhambusinessclub.co.uk
Business Link have teamed together with MBL Solutions to offer businesses in the North East a no fuss workshop that will show you how to:
Understand search engines and how to attract them to your website
Develop online and offline marketing strategies
Use the internet to create a powerful database
Build your brand online
Understand how to use cost effective internet communications
contact carly.herron@mybiz.co.uk or call 0191 250 4530
Come join charity After Adoption for Arriba! a salsa-infused fiesta at the Black Swan in Newcastle on Saturday 27 September.
An event to dazzle the senses: mouthwatering food and drinks, a spectacular show performed by all-round salsa entertainers The Latin Connection, salsa masterclasses, a prize draw, charity auction, and much, much more...don't miss this fantastic night out.
Tickets just £25 each, discounts available for group bookings. For more information and to book, please contact Sarah Dawson on 0161 827 7809 or email sarah.dawson@afteradoption.org.uk.
Venue: Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre, Westgate Road, Newcastle
Date: 27 September 2008
Time: 7.30pm
Geordie food-lovers have the chance to sample some of the region’s finest foods at a special food festival in the centre of Newcastle this weekend.
The ‘Cook, Eat and Enjoy’ food festival will be held at Old Eldon Square from 10am to 4pm on Saturday and Sunday (27 and 28 September) with shoppers able to sample food from the North East, Cumbria, Yorkshire and beyond.
Grainger Market-based ‘mmm…’ will be tempting foodies with samples of Northumberland rapeseed oil, Cumbrian chutneys and jams, as well as selling locally produced pickles, sauces, flours and other foods.
Simone Clarkin, who set up mmm… to sell handmade and interesting foods from the local area and further afield, is pleased to be supporting the event, which has been organised by Newcastle City Council.
Simone said: “Our philosophy is to sell foods from close to home with smaller producers who share our passion for good food and quality of life.
“Many of our products are handmade locally using traditional methods with the finest natural ingredients, meaning you can truly taste the difference.
“This means they not only taste fantastic, but are good value for money, good for you, the environment and the community.â€
To find out more call 07801 357314, e-mail info@mmm-food.co.uk, or log onto www.mmm-food.co.uk
Last few places on seminar for commercial creative professionals
Northern Film & Media will welcome Joel Barry of leading law media law firm Olswang to the region next week to give an introductory afternoon seminar on Intellectual Property. Aimed at professionals in the commercial creative sector, only a very few places for this free seminar are still available.
Tom Harvey, chief executive of Northern Film & Media, says: "No one who produces original content and original ideas can afford not to turn intellectual assets into profit. We are delighted to welcome such a prominent expert to the region and look forward to hearing the insights he will offer."
The seminar will be held on Monday 29 September between 1-5pm at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead.
For more information and to request a place, please go to the Northern Film and Media website.
Attracting finance during economic downturns
Raising finance to develop technologies can be tricky whether you're an early start-up or a mature business. This seminar brings together five speakers to talk you through raising early-stage finance, development capital and bank finance, through to AIM listing.
Who should attend: Anyone looking to raise finance to develop technologies, to diversify or to get a business started.
To register for this seminar: email events@uknetpark.net or call 01740 625 180.
