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DATE -
Tuesday 20 July
VENUE - Langford Lakes Nature reserve
SPEAKER - Chris Riley
SUBJECT - Social and Networking event, BBQ |
DATE -
18 May
VENUE - Penruddock Arms, Dinton
SPEAKER - Sarah Ackroyd
SUBJECT - Writing good marketing material |
DATE -
19 January
VENUE - The George Inn, Longbridge Deverill
SPEAKER - Rodger Seaman of Business Class
SUBJECT - Winning and Retaining Good Clients
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DATE -
17 November
VENUE - TBA
SPEAKER - Dr Mike Allen
SUBJECT - The Small Time Entrepreneur
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DATE -
15 September
VENUE - Queens Head, Broad Chalke
SPEAKER - Ian Hunter
SUBJECT - 0 to 60 in 15 Years |
DATE -
Tuesday 21 July 2009
VENUE - The Wool Store Codford
SPEAKER - TBA
SUBJECT - Social and Networking Event |
DATE -
Tuesday 19 May 2009
VENUE - Black Dog, Chilmark
SPEAKER - Jane Mackay of Jane Mackay Coaching
SUBJECT - AGM and Speaker |
DATE -
Tuesday 17 March 2009
VENUE - The Penruddocke Arms, Dinton
SPEAKER - Liz Granville-Sharp of LX Marketing
SUBJECT - Marketing |
DATE -
Tuesday 20 January 2009
VENUE - The Swan at Stoford
SPEAKER - Mike Brown from Trinity Accountants
SUBJECT - How to Survive the Financial Situation |
DATE -
Tuesday 18 November 2008
VENUE - Angel Inn, Hindon
SPEAKER - Amanda Bryant from Banshee Events
SUBJECT - Keep your Customers Happy
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DATE -
Tuesday 16 September 2008
VENUE - The Penruddocke Arms, Dinton
SPEAKER - Alastair Barrett
SUBJECT - Health & Safety issues
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DATE -
Tuesday 22 July 2008
VENUE - The ginger Piggery
SPEAKER - Caroline Wheatly-Hubbard
SUBJECT - Social Event |
DATE -
Tuesday 20 May 2008
VENUE - The Crown Inn , Alvediston
SPEAKER - Ceri Hurford-Jones from Spire FM
SUBJECT - Radio Advertising |
DATE -
Tuesday 18 March 2008
VENUE - The Queens Head Inn, Broad Chalke
SPEAKER - Wendy Carmichael
SUBJECT - Save Money and the Environment
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DATE -
Tuesday 15 January 2007
VENUE - The Black Dog
SPEAKER - Hugh Davies & Ian Sheekey
SUBJECT - Capital Gains Tax Shock for Small Businesses |
DATE -
Tuesday 20 November 2007
VENUE - The Compasses at Chicksgrove
SPEAKER - Jacqui Mann
SUBJECT - Employment Law Update |
DATE -
Tuesday 10 July 2007
VENUE - The Bison Farm
SPEAKER - N/A
SUBJECT - Social Event |
DATE -
Tuesday 8 May 2007
VENUE - The Crown at Alvediston
SPEAKER - Martin Fisher
SUBJECT - Exhibiting |
DATE -
Tuesday 13 March 2007
VENUE - The George at Mere
SPEAKER - Dennis Flexney-Briscoe
SUBJECT - marketing topic |
DATE -
Tuesday 16 January 2007
VENUE - The Queens Head at Broadchalke
SPEAKER - Tony from Banshee
SUBJECT - Making the most of
Networking |
DATE -
Tuesday 21 November 2006
VENUE - The George at Longbridge
Deverill
SPEAKER - Chris Stanbury
SUBJECT - The Naked computer
Chris Stanbury showed us the components that go to make up a computer
and explained what their function was. He then connected up the various
components on the table and it worked. Many questions ensued, from
the 22 members present. Much networking took place during and after
the meal that followed.
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DATE -
Tuesday 19 September 2006
VENUE - The Black Dog Chilmark
SPEAKER - Steve Archer
SUBJECT - Tax returns |
DATE -
Tuesday 18 July 2006
VENUE - Hidden Brewery / The
Bell at Wylye
SPEAKER - Conducted tour of
the Brewery
SUBJECT - Social Event |
DATE -
Tuesday 16 May 2006
VENUE - The crown Inn at Alvediston
SPEAKER - David Dean from D & R
Marketing
SUBJECT - TBA
David Dean gave a lively talk on marketing. He gave some interesting
examples of what not to do and how we should go about it. Work out
what you do – then tell people. Do marketing a little and often,
target customers; work out your USP (unique selling point) to help
us do this David gave us all a questionnaire to complete to create
our own USP.
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DATE -
Tuesday 21 March 2006
VENUE - The George Inn at Mere
SPEAKER - Dennis Flexney-Briscoe
SUBJECT - Getting the Price Right
Dennis Flexney-Briscoe gave the members present some ideas for “Getting
the price right”. Dennis discussed several methods of arriving
at a price for manufacturers and retailers but stressed that after
making sure that you are selling at a profit see what the going
rate in your market is, stressing, we do not buy things, we buy
benefits. Service industries should look at the benefit to the
customer, be sure of your self, be proud of your price, charge
what the market will bare. |
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DATE - Tuesday
17 January 2006
VENUE - Black Dog - Chilmark
SPEAKER - Teresa Allwood
SUBJECT - The work of The Prince's Trust
Teresa gave an overview of all the aspects of the work of the Prince's Trust and then elaborated on the specific work done with young people who wish to start their own businesses, detailing the training courses they provide and the mentoring they do to help progress the business after it has been started. Her presentation generated much lively discussion, leading to a successful evening. |
DATE - Tuesday
15 November 2005
VENUE - George at Longbridge Deverill
SPEAKER - Bob Hill of Conservation Management, Wessex Archaeology
SUBJECT - Using heritage as a marketing tool
Bob Hill from Conservation Management encouraged the listeners to use our local heritage as a marketing tool to promote their products and services. Bob went on to describe some of the work of Conservation Management, giving a very interesting insight it their work.
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DATE - Tuesday
20 September 2005
VENUE - Penruddocke Arms, Dinton
SPEAKER - Gerard O'Donovan, from Noble Manhattan
SUBJECT -
The seven qualities of all super achievers
Gerard gave a lively talk on the qualities of super achievers under the headings of - hard work - Courage - Persistence - Self discipline - Personal power - Willingness to change - Positive mental attitude. these were all delivered in the form of a parable or story. |
DATE - Tuesday
19 July 2005
VENUE - Bison
Farm
SPEAKER - None
SUBJECT - BBQ
- Social event with Wine tasting from Sunbird wines
 
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DATE - Tuesday
17 May 2005
VENUE - The
Crown Inn at Alvediston
SPEAKER - Hugh
Davies
SUBJECT -
financial matters that may be topical after the budget |
DATE - Tuesday
15 March 2005
VENUE - The
George at Mere
SPEAKER - Jacqueline
Flexney-Briscoe
SUBJECT -
Backs |
DATE - Tuesday
18 January 2005
VENUE - The
George - Longbridge Deveril
SPEAKER - Tony
Brown of Withy King solicitors in Trowbidge
SUBJECT -
Employment law
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DATE - Tuesday
16 November 2004
VENUE - Black
Dog - Chilmark
SPEAKER - Sue
Landon
SUBJECT - Effective
marketing
Sue, an experienced marketing consultant, gave a fascinating talk
about how we should be dealing with our customers. We particularly
enjoyed the exercise in communication we were invited to take part
in, most revealing.
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DATE - Tuesday
21 September 2004
VENUE - Penruddock
Arms
SPEAKER - Colourworks
SUBJECT - Team
building - Nick Fewings
Nick gave a fascinating talk about personality types and got us
all thinking about how teams work. A great evening - enjoyed by
all.
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DATE - Tuesday
20 July
VENUE - Army
Flying Museum - Middle Wallop
SPEAKER - None
SUBJECT - BBQ
- Social event
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DATE - Tuesday
18 May
VENUE - Cravenplan
Computers - Swallowcliffe
SPEAKER - Chris
Stanbury
SUBJECT - E-Bay
for business and fun - all you ever wanted to know about E-Bay
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DATE - Tuesday
16 March 2004
VENUE - The
George Inn, Mere
SPEAKER - Carole
Buksh
SUBJECT - Collecting
your debts 
Carole Buksh gave an informative talk on managing financial matters
in a business. Credit control was discussed in detail with various
examples given of how to speed up payment of monies owed to you.
Ian Storey gave a short presentation on the formation of a new rural
business network covering the whole of rural Wiltshire.
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DATE - Tuesday
20 January 2004
VENUE - The
Black Dog, Chilmark
SPEAKER - Stephen
Archer
SUBJECT - Budget
Statement & Business Tax Returns 
It's not often that one can enjoy a "talking to" from
the taxman but Stephen Archer managed to achieve the right mix of
humour and information.
A thoroughly fascinating tale of how to keep on the right side
of the Inland Revenue. To condense Stephen's talk into a few words
"Be reasonable - be consistent".
The evening concluded with a superb meal (as usual at The Black
Dog) and some good networking.
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DATE - Tuesday
18 November 2003
VENUE - Penruddock
Arms, Dinton
SPEAKER - Speaker
from Shelwork Industries
SUBJECT -
Employing the Disabled
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DATE - Tuesday,
16 September 2003
VENUE - The George
Inn, Longbridge Deverill
SPEAKER - Mark
Griffin of MacLachlan's Solicitors of Sherbourne.
SUBJECT - Speaking
about business terms and conditions and debt collection.
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DATE - Tuesday,
15 July 2003
VENUE - Bush Farm
at West Knoyle
SPEAKER - N/A
SUBJECT - Social
Event-
Tuesday 15 July 2003, the WRBC held its annual
social event at Bush Farm Bison Centre in West Knoyle which is owned
by Pepe and Colin Seaford.
28 people turned up to enjoy a superb BBQ which included some very
tasty Bison burgers.
Everyone was given a tractor/trailer ride around
the fields to get a closer look at the different animals on the
farm, these included Bison, Elk and Canada Geese.
Visit the Bison Centre web site at www.bisonfarm.co.uk
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DATE - Tuesday,
20 May 2003
VENUE - The Black
Dog at Chilmark
SPEAKER - Roly
Frost.
SUBJECT - Presentation
Skills -
Roly an accomplished speaker and trainer,
gave a fascinating talk on how to make the most out of any presentation
opportunity.
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DATE -
Tuesday, 18 March 2003
VENUE - The Emblems
Restaurant.
SPEAKER - Justin
Allison.
SUBJECT - How to
win sales and influence people -
Justin showed several examples of his work to illustrate how to put
over a message to potential customers. |
DATE -
Tuesday 21st January 2003
VENUE - The George, Longbridge Deverill
SPEAKER - David Ridley. - Solicitor
SUBJECT - Employment
Law -
 Tuesday
21 January 2003, David Ridley from Whitehead Vizard, Solicitors,
gave a talk entitled a Brief Insight into Employment Law, going
through the life of an employee from engagement to termination and
all in between.
David pointed out the pitfalls that smaller
companies encounter in employment legislation, that is constantly
being updated. David outlined the main changes in legislation recently
and to come.
 He
also pointed out that some existing laws that do not apply to small
firms, will apply in the future. Contact enq@whitehead-vizard.co.uk
web site www.whitehead-vizard.co.uk
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DATE -
Tuesday 26th November 2002
VENUE - The Black
Dog Inn, Chilmark
SPEAKER - Yvonne
Emmerson-Pearce
SUBJECT - The complete
Business service -
Tuesday
26 November 2002, Yvonne Emmerson-Peirce gave a talk on the work
of the IIB ( Institute for Independent Business)
Yvonne is an Associate of IIB there are 1,000
associates in the UK. The IIB offers a mentoring service to small
firms to supply the expertise that is often lacking in a small business,
the majority being financial and marketing guidance. There is no
membership fee but charges for 2 days per month = £6-800.
contact yvonne@mallarddrake.co.uk.
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DATE -
Tuesday 24th September 2002
VENUE - The Lamb
at Hindon
SPEAKER - Caroline
Cavaner of Zest Marketing
SUBJECT - Marketing
talk - |
DATE -
Tuesday 2nd July 2002
VENUE - Yapp Bros.,
Wine Merchants, Mere
SPEAKER - N/A
SUBJECT - Social
event - wine tasting |
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