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Book Now for the next NETWORKING BREAKFAST at our new venue for 2008 Glossopdale Community College's Sixth form Centre at Talbot House, with delicious bacon and sausage butties
Book NOW for our next LUNCHTIME network at Va Bene, get an opportunity to introduce your business, hand out business cards and promotional materials, over a delicious Italian Buffet.
Book now on-line, EMail or phone 07764 821521 or 07818 044768 to book.
Support Mark Haynes
as he completes a 125 mile walk around the Round Tables in the North West for MacMillan Cancer Support. To make a donation please visit Mark Haynes Page on Just Giving. Major sponsors of £300+ will automatically have their names and logos on Mark's banners and T-Shirt, at this high visibility event with a lot or press coverage.
New venue for GBN breakfast networking
Glossop Business Network has been invited to hold its breakfast networking in 2008 at Talbot House, Glossopdale Community College's 6th Form Site. This is the start of a very exciting collaboration between local businesses and education in the area and stands to benefit us all. Glossop Business Network would like to thank Juliette and her team at the George Hotel for their hospitality and help during the first year of the network.
The first breakfast will be held in the Nestle Room at Talbot House, Glossopdale Community College, off of Talbot Road, Glossop SK13 7DP on Wednesday 6th February from 7-9 a.m. and our speakers are Ishbel and Jo from Glossop Women's Aid.
WE DID-WE DO-YOU CAN Glossop and District Round Table
It's all happening right now in your local community, Glossop and District Round Table are continually making the changes to better peoples life's and offer many rewards that come with being a member.
Are you new to Glossop And Hyde and want to network and make new friends and have an active social life? Do you want to participate in helping your local community?
Whatever it is that you are looking for on a social front Round Table Glossop And Hyde can offer these activities that run along side with Area and National events. People come back and join because they simply had a great time.
Want to know more of the benefits then read on?
Glossop and District Round Table are a diverse bunch of guys between the ages of 18-45 who have a fantastic time doing the things that you wouldn't normally do making new friends along the way. Try gliding, floodlight clay pigeon shooting, go karting, ice climbing, absailing cricket, golf and with much more social events being planed you can add your own to this list as a member, as your imagination has no boundaries.
Members can also benefit from social events that are put on for all the family, children and friends as a members this way we can relax have a beer, put on a theme night and a have a barbeque. We Tablers raise millions of pounds for worthy causes throughout the UK. Table is run by and Tablers as a hobby on the basis that you get out of it what you put in and if it isn't fun it isn't done!
Members come from all walks of life and join for enjoyment and as a way of participating in their local community. Round Tables operate individually but with a common cause, and together they form The National Association of Round Tables of Great Britain and Ireland.
However, that's not all, Round Table exists throughout the world and has links with like minded clubs internationally. The work is rewarding ask any Round Tabler and he will tell you that the movement expands horizons and gives you a passport to a world -wide fellowship.
YES you're hearing this right! Away on holiday just mention that you are a Round Tabler and you will be welcomed with open arms to events that put on by other clubs adding to your holiday and fun at the same time.
Glossop and District Round Table meet at the George Hotel, Norfolk Street in Glossop where meetings are friendly and are usually held fortnightly on the first and third Wednesday of the month.
For more details on how to get involved please contact Vice Chairman and Community Chairman David J. Oldham on 0161 351 9699 for an informal chat about Tabling in Glossop And Hyde and what it can offer you at the same time. You can also visit Round Table Website for even more information.
Mentoring for All
Margaret Edwards, our own executive business coach, is pleased to present Mentoring for All Programme (formerly the Mentoring Escalator) on behalf of Nottinghamshire Business Ventures (NBV). If you or your business needs a boost for 2007, and you are in Derbyshire, a great opportunity has come up to access a Mentoring for All 
For more information contact NBV on 0115 970 5550 or email NBV
Peak Directions
Supporting Enterprise in rural Derbyshire. Register your business or your event on the Peak Directions Website, seek other businesses and events in the Peak district. Find out about help and support for your business.
http://peakdirections.co.uk
For Women's Networking Events in the North West
Printing.com comes to Glossop
Congratulations to Martin and Helen Duncan of First Impression on the start of the new arm to their business - Printing.com. To visit their new Printing.com website please click here
Contraception Education News
2007 has been an exceptional year so far for Contraception Education, with trips to the USA, Mexico, Kenya, Berlin, France and Spain. Most recently Barbara won an EU Woman Innovator and Inventor Special Recognition Award in Berlin, was Highly Commended in the Alumni Section of the Manchester University Volunteer of the Year Awards, became an Ambassador for Women's Enterprise as part of the Rt Hon Margaret Hodge's visionary initiative to attract more women into entrpreneurship, and attended a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace.
Corporate Social Responsibility
...was the order of the day at August's Breakfast Network. Speaker Peter Rogan gave an enlightening presentation about what CSR means, and the many different ways in which businesses can make an invaluable contribution to their community and to society as a whole.
Birthday Celebrations at Breakfast
Find out here
about High Peak Borough Council's "Shop Local" CampaignBusiness Planning Support
Would you like help creating or updating your Business Plan?
Matthew Goldsbrough has kindly shared his Business Planning Presentation for all Glossop Business Network supporters. If you find it helpful please let Matthew know via his website
Fair Trade in the High Peak
At January's lunch the Glossop Fair Trade Group, represented by Ian Agnew, Mel Price and Paula Moses, gave an enlightening talk about their campaign to see Glossopdale become a Fair Trade Zone by the end of 2007. Advice on how to become a fair trade organisation can be found on www.fairtradeglossop.co.uk or by phoning Ian on 07944 979721.
Directory Entries
Directory entries on this site are just £10 each. This fee is to help us cover the cost of website development and hosting.EMail us with details of what you would like to include
Speed Networking
By popular request, alternate breakfast meetings are now speed networkingmeetings. This enables everyone to speak to the whole group on a one to one basis for a few minutes - time to say the essentials, and also exchange contact details for following up later.
Spotlight on Mike Stansfield
Mike Stansfield who won last month's business card draw, won an opportunity to enlighten us about the full extent of his High Street business. Mike shared some very important news about savings, mortgages and pensions, for young and old, and explained how recent changes may affect us in our retirement, and our retirement ages. For more information please phone Mike on 07970 319540 or EMail Mike hereSpotlight on EMailshot
On 6th December our breakfast network was hosted again by Juliet Palmer at the George. Twenty five businesses booked and we had another fascinating time, listening firstly to Helen Duncan of First Impression as she spoke about EMailshot, her targeted system of using email to reach the right people at the right time. Later Chris Parrack showed us how he is working to promote and educate businesses about Equality and Diversity in the workplace. This was all recorded by Dianne Boardman from the Review Newspaper, who is very interested in the story of how the network began, and will be featuring us in Glossop Review in January.
Mike Stansfield won the Business Card Draw, and an opportunity to enlighten us about the extent of his business after the SPEED NETWORKING at the January Breakfast meeting. The lucky winner always gets a chance to present their business in detail at the next meeting in the Spotlight.
Goldsbrough Consulting's Value Proposition
Friday 17th November was our second monthly Glossop Business Network lunch at Va Bene, attended by 16 Glossop Businesses. Va Bene supplied another outstanding buffet and bar while members networked informally and exchanged business cards and networking success stories. Our speaker was Matthew Goldsbrough of Goldsbrough Consulting and he introduced us to the Value Proposition, a template for improving the way we promote ourselves. His presentation can be found here
Federation of Small Businesses
We also heard from John Pearson of the Federation of Small Businesses who invited members to visit the website to find out about the many benefits of membership.
First Impression's 10th Birthday Celebration
First Impression would like to thank members of the Glossop Business Network for their kind support at our open day celebrating our 10th birthday and to officially open our new offices on High Street West.
It was a good day for us; we were able to show samples of our work including email marketing, newsletters, brochures and leaflets as well as to enjoy the buffet provided by fellow Glossop Business Network members, Va Bene. It was also another good networking opportunity and it was useful to share marketing and business ideas, so I hope everyone enjoyed it.
Examples of First Impression work can be seen at www.firstimpression.co.uk
Plain Talk by Jodi Cook
At our August breakfast meeting we introduced a "Spotlight" feature, where one member, drawn from business cards of everyone present, gets an opportunity to present about their business in detail. On 2nd August the lucky business was Plain Talk Print - and how! Jodi demonstrated how the network could make vast savings by forward planning, and choosing wisely using his fixed pricing system. Find out more at Plain Talk Print
Fire Reforms Made Easy!
On Wednesday 5th July the Glossop Business Network welcomed our first expert speaker. Glossop’s Mike Payton provided the network with details of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety Order) affecting workplaces from October 2006 and he prepared us for the changes in responsibility for risk assessment and for trainng. For more information about Mike's work here are his contact details
Tel 0161 338 5999, Fax 0161 338 7663
Tameside Fire Protection Services, Unit 9, Rassbottom Ind Est, Rassbottom Street, Stalybridge, SK15 1RH
Our breakfast network was hosted again by Juliet at the George Hotel. Twenty five businesses were represented, all of whom exhanged business cards, distributed promotional materials and introduced their business in the now familiar 60 second format.
There is already evidence from members that the network is succeeding in bringing businesses together, promoting more business and linking each other up with wider contact spheres.
At each meeting we will be holding a business card draw, and the lucky winner will have a longer invaluable oppportunity to present their business in detail at the next meeting in the Spotlight.
Glossop Business Network Members' Binders
Have you ever been networking and come away with a delegates list, notes, promotional materials and business cards and then not had a system for storing and retrieving the information back in the office? Well if that's you Glossop's own office and stationery supplier Glosupplies Limited has found a really cost effective solution for you.... a ring binder with business card holding plastic wallets, A4 plastic wallets for delegates lists and A4 notes, 5 part index dividers, plenty of space for our monthly meetings. It's compact enough to travel easily from office to network and back
We are selling these at £10 per binder to raise funds to cover the costs of our website design and hosting.
News from our launch
On 7th June the first Glossop Business Network was a huge success. The atmosphere was really lively even at 7 a.m. as people poured into the George Hotel for an introduction to the art, science and pure fun of getting to know each other and promoting our services. Our hosts at the George joined us, as did the local newspapers, and as well as open networking there was a slot (for everyone who wanted to) to introduce themselves and say what it is that they are looking for in terms of customers and business. Long may it continue to generate more business opportunities in and around Glossop!
Read the news coverage the Glossop Business Network received prior to the launch in the Advertiser. 