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Tuesday 21 September
Clouday Rain Later
Peter Barron
Editor, Northern Echo
Born in Saltburn and raised in Middlesbrough, Peter joined The Northern Echo in 1984 and rose from reporter to Deputy Editor before joining the Hartlepool Mail as editor in 1997. He returned to The Northern Echo a year later as Editor following Andrew Smith’s move to Northeast Press to take up an appointment as Editor of the Sunderland Echo and editorial director.
Peter also runs training courses around the country for news editors and is a former UK columnist of the year. Married with four children, his light-hearted experiences of parenthood form the basis for a regular column, Dad At Large, which was adapted into a successful book now in its fourth edition.
Peter also serves on the board of Darlington Partnership, is Trustee of the Tony Blair Sports Foundation and a Governor of Sports Aid.
Please email ann@findnetworkingdurham.co.uk if you would like to attend this event.
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Wednesday 21 July
How to Promote Your Business Blog
Maureen Storey, Virtuoso - Digital Marketing Serviceswww.virtuoso.uk.com
Developing a business blog can be a great way to communicate with you existing and potential clients – but how do you make sure your blog content is found on the web!
Maureen Storey of Virtuoso has been working in the field of digital media marketing for over 10 years and has recently helped a number of businesses to set up their blogs.
This practical workshop will provide you with hints, tips and tactics to promote your business blog effectively and will include:
- Tips on developing “sticky” content for your blog
- How to optimize your blog to gain better search engine rankings
- How to promote your blog via Social Media
Please email ann@findnetworkingdurham.co.uk if you would like to attend this event.
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Tuesday 22 June
Make-Up by the Expert
Sam Morgan - Vie at Home Consultant
We seem to get to that certain age where we become uncertain about what clothes, styles and make-up suit us best! We’ve already had tips from our member Allyson McCourt about image and style so we thought we’d bring along a guest to talk about the make-up side of things too
Sam Morgan of Vie at Home is coming along as a guest speak to FIND to give us some hints and tips on the application of make-up, how to help keep it in place longer and how to choose our colours correctly. She will also be doing a demonstration on the night.
Sam has been working for Vie at Home formally known as Virgin Vie Cosmetics for over 5 years now, where she first learned the art of doing make over’s and facials. After being made redundant from her day job as a production planner at the end of 2008, she decided to use part of her redundancy to start a mobile beauty business and attended a private college and did a number of intense courses to increase her skills. Sam says “If it had not been for Vie at home I would never have considered doing this sort of thing but now realise I should have done it years ago.”
So why not come and join us on the 22nd, get some makeup tips from Sam and enjoy our lovely healthy buffet and networking.
Please email ann@findnetworkingdurham.co.uk f you would like to attend this event.
Tuesday 25th May
FIND Midsummer Walk
Meeting Time: Meet at 6.45pm at the Broom Park picnic area - B6302 road
Walk: 2 hour walk, comfortable shoes and clothing recommended
Followed by: A chance to continue networking and enjoy refreshments at the Stonebridge Pub
Cost: Optional £5 donation to go towards a local charity
Guests Welcome.
To book your place, please email Ann Williams-Maughan at ann@educationtakeaway.com
Tuesday 27 April,
6.30pm - 9.30pm - Marriott Hotel, Durham
Social Media for Business
What’s all the Buzz about?
Presentation by the FIND Planning Team
Maureen Storey (Virtuoso - Digital Marketing Services )
Ann Williams-Maughan (Education Takeaway)
Ann Clement (Bush Essentials)
There has been so much hype lately about Social Media it’s sometimes difficult to know where to start – and to really understand how it can help you and your business.
So, we thought we’d pull together an exclusive event for FIND members that will:
- Look at the most popular Social Media tools and how they can help you grow your network and your business (we’ll take a peek at Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the WordPress blogging tool)
- Help you to identify how you might start using these tools to successfully develop your business and network
- Take a real-world look at how some of our members are actually using and benefitting from social media networking
- Enable us to share our experiences as a group – so if you’ve had good or bad experiences, come along – share and be sociable!
Only a couple of places left for this event, please email maureen@findnetworkingdurham.co.uk if you would like to attend.
Wednesday 24th March
7.00 - 9.30pm - Marriott Hotel, Durham
The Importance of Branding & Marketing...
Plus Tips for doing it on a Budget!
Sarah Weightman,
Glow Creative
www.glowcreative.co.uk
Get your brand image and your marketing right and your company will stand out from the competition.
Sarah Weightman from Glow Creative is going to share her ideas, tips & advice on how to establish a strong brand image, how to think creatively about your marketing and most importantly how to get more BANG for your marketing buck.
During the session you will get the chance to work together and think outside the box about branding, marketing campaigns and creative copywriting - learning skills and ideas you can take away & apply to your own businesses.
This will be a great taster session to get you thinking about your branding & marketing in a new light, plus valuable ideas that WILL make a difference without costing a fortune.
Please email ann@findnetworkingdurham.co.uk f you would like to attend this event.
Wednesday 24th February
7.00 - 9.30pm - Marriott Hotel, Durham
Personal Goal Setting
Jenny Evans and Liz ScottRainbows End Business & Life Coaching
www.rainbowsend.uk.net
‘Do you feel that you aren’t getting exactly what you want out of life? That things are not quite in harmony? That you have difficulty in setting and achieving goals? If so, the Rainbows End Life Coaching workshop is the perfect place for you to start to make major improvements your life. The workshop, led by coaches Jenny Evans and Elizabeth Scott provides a taste of life coaching and will enable you to think about how your life is going, what it is that you really want and to give yourself a pat on the back for achieving what you have so far. You will use some tools and try out some exercises that you can take away with you and use in your everyday life.
It won’t be like an individual coaching session, so if you are comfortable to express how you truly feel about things, please feel free to, however if you would prefer to do the exercises using examples and not your own experiences then that is fine.
So come and join us on the 24th, learn a little about life coaching and a lot about yourself.’
Please email ann@findnetworkingdurham.co.uk f you would like to attend this event.
Wednesday 20 January
7.00 - 9.30pm - Marriott Hotel, Durham
Weight Loss for Life - Taster Session
Andrea Bell,
Weight Loss for Life
www.weight-loss-for-life.co.uk
No matter how much we try not to, we all tend over-indulge over the Christmas holidays and are usually looking to make a healthier start to the New Year. So we thought January would be the perfect month to invite one of our members Andrea Bell along from Weight Loss for Life to give us some hints, tips and advice on nutrition and weight loss and how to get back to healthy eating, lose those extra pounds and more importantly keep them off!!
During the session Andrea will look at what makes us yo-yo diet and why often diets just don’t work. She will share some good advice on nutrition and healthy eating and provide us with hints and tips on maintaining a healthy lifestyle that we can take away and start using immediately.
Please email ann@findnetworkingdurham.co.uk f you would like to attend this event.
Wednesday 28 October
7.00 - 9.30pm - Marriott Hotel, Durham
“Environment, Health & Safety
Small Businesses
and Working from Home”
Dorothea Layfield -
IMS (Northern)
www.imsnorthern.co.uk
Health and safety is about getting the balance right, and in recognising that risks around us can be controlled but not removed.
This session is aimed at raising awareness of how environmental, health and safety issues relate to the small business and people working from home. Consideration will be given to the working environment; how ergonomics in the workplace can affect us, and how work, as well as home related stress can impact on our health.
Tuesday 22 September
7.00 - 9.30pm - Marriott Hotel, Durham
HOW TO CREATIVELY EMPLOY PEOPLE
Christine Mordue,
Durham University (Student Employment Service)
www.dur.ac.uk/ses
There are not enough hours in the day. It’s difficult to cope with the routine stuff let alone all those bright ideas you have for developing the business.
There are days when you wonder how or where you can find somebody who is willing to work enthusiastically as and when you want them. You can not be in three places at once - some days are just manic. Well help is at hand, there’s a local service which can help you to find the help you require for a few hours, a few days, regularly or periodically.
During the presentation Christine will explain about a useful resource through which other local employers have found talented employees to work with minimal supervision for limited hours giving them more time to take their business forward. What’s more it’s a service which costs nothing other than the wages for the person you employ.
Wednesday 15th July 2009
7.00 - 9.30pm - Marriott Hotel, Durham
Janette Johnson, Venture To Think
(www.venturetothink.com)
WHAT ‘DRIVES’ YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS?
To explore how your ‘working style’ affects everything you do from organizing your work, managing your time, how you communicate with clients and customers and so on. In this fun and insightful presentation, you will leave with greater awareness of how to build on the strengths of your personal style and begin to identify how to minimize any problems.
As a Personal Development Coach, Janette works with business owners to improve their performance thus building awareness, confidence and motivation which leads to personal achievement and business growth. As an active Director of Venture to Think Ltd, experts in Mindset Development and an experienced psychotherapist, Janette brings an in-depth knowledge to her coaching work.
Please email ann@findnetworkingdurham.co.uk f you would like to attend this event.
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