About the Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce

Wednesday 17th July 2018
Lakeside Park Hotel, Wootton
8.30am – 9.45am
£15.00 per person

Start Expo 2019 with a Full English buffet style breakfast at the Lakeside Park Hotel Brasserie at 8.30am with University of Portsmouth.

During breakfast you will have the opportunity to network with fellow members and then be amongst the first to look around the Business Expo area from 10.00am.

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Wednesday 17th July 2019
Lakeside Park Hotel, Wootton

Doors open at 10am and it’s free entry for visitors until 5pm.

It’s the biggest day of the business calendar, full of potential opportunities for you to grow your business base. Join us for a day of top quality business-to-business networking.

Everyone who has pre-registered will be emailed a barcode before the event. Print out your barcode or scan from your phone when you arrive, to print out your name badge.

Pre-register now!

Tuesday 23rd July 2019
N0 64, Shanklin
7.30am – 9.30am
FREE

Meet members for informal networking in a great location. It’s free to attend, with hot drinks and toast for everyone.

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We offer new businesses the opportunity to take their ideas from paper into practice. As part of the 50 plus Start Me Up Programme we offer a free one day business seminar aimed at people over 50 who are starting a business. Get the tools you need to take your idea from the drawing board to the real world.

This course is available for non-members and will be held at Mill Court Business Centre, Newport on Thursday 25 July 2019.

To book a place on the course please click here.

We offer new businesses the opportunity to take their ideas from paper into practice. We offer a free one day business seminar aimed at people who are starting a business. Get the tools you need to take your idea from the drawing board to the real world. This course is designed for those with a business idea through to those who have been in business for six months.

This course is available for non-members and will be held at Mill Court Business Centre, Newport on Thursday 25 July 2019.

To book a place on the course please click here.

Friday 26th July 2019
IW Chamber Offices, Newport
9.00am – 10.00am
FREE

Monday 29th July 2019
IW Chamber Offices, Newport
1.00pm – 4.00pm
FREE

Tuesday 30th July 2019
IW Chamber Offices, Newport
9.30am – 4.30pm
£60.00 per person 

Where an organisation’s risk assessment of First Aid needs identifies that there is a requirement for Emergency First Aid at Work practitioners,  then this national Award in Emergency First Aid at Work satisfies the requirements of the regulatory body for First Aid – the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). All learners will have the skills and knowledge to provide the organisation with Emergency First Aider’s that can provide treatment to their casualties in a prompt, safe and effective manner. This course is provided by Jigsaw Training & Development Services. The course will cover:

• Responsibilities and reporting
• Dealing with an unresponsive casualty
• Resuscitation and Defibrillators
• Burns
• Anatomy
• Choking
• Minor injuries
• Epilepsy
• Basic hygiene in First Aid
• Bleeding control
• Shock

Friday 2nd August 2019
Ventnor Botanic Gardens, Ventnor
7.30am – 9.30am
£15.00 per person

Come along and join us for our Business Breakfast hosted by Ventnor Botanic Gardens. Our guest speaker this month will be Noel Egan from Fusion Finance.

Noel Egan of Fusion Finance asks the question “What can you do when you need to raise money for your business, and your bank has said NO?”. He answers by offering up six simple tips to help you secure that much-needed business funding.

Noel builds on a wealth of practical business experience, having taken several businesses from start-up to eventual sale over a 30 year career.

Fusion Finance is an independent financial consultancy specialising in finding business and property funding for sole traders, partnerships and small to medium-sized companies.

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Monday 5th August 2019
Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce Offices
9.30am  – 4.30pm
£65.00 per person

“A View from the Top: new perspectives on Leadership”.

Leadership is a topic that’s been written about, discussed and pondered over for thousands of years.  From Alexander the Great, Marcus Aurelius and Sun Tzu to Warren Bennis, Winston Churchill and Richard Branson, “great leadership” is interpreted in multiple ways. In this workshop, we’ll be taking a fresh look at what leadership means for you in your own contexts.  Whilst there are a number of generally accepted principles of what great leadership looks like, we’ll be considering the implications of a particular definition: “great leadership is whatever works”. Re-read that and notice what thoughts and feelings come to mind….I’ve been working as a leadership coach for 20 years and bring a unique view on the link between how we think & feel and our effectiveness as leaders.  We’ll also explore how to spot leadership potential and harness this across your business, regardless of where this comes from.  Let’s break the conventions and accepted wisdom of how leadership works – join me to co-create new ways of leading!

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Wednesday 7th August 2019
Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce Offices
9.15am – 4.30pm
£105 per person

If you’re planning how to make your business grow in 2019, then consider doing what some other Island businesses have already done…. Invest your time in our successful new format 1 Day Elevate Your Sales & Social Seminar.

Over the past few months, Matt Greg (Nosy Design) and David Thornton (Delivering Sales Excellence) have helped several Island businesses to grow their profits.

Transform your Sales and Social Media skills in just 1 day running on Wednesday August 7th at the Chamber offices in Newport. It costs just £105 for the day course. Matt and David focus and support on the practical, so you learn skills and then put them into practice on the same day to create an immediate impact. The day also features coaching and a live video practice on delivering a skilled elevator pitch.

The number of spaces on the course is tightly limited, so that Matt and David can offer close practical support.

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Friday 9th August 2019
Location TBC
10.00am – 5.00pm
£125+vat per person

Wednesday 14th August
Island Sailing Club, Cowes
1.00pm – 4.00pm
£60.00 +vat per person

IW Chamber’s Cowes Week Barbecue and Drinks party with Hose Rhodes Dickson

Tickets are on sale for this new and exciting opportunity to network and have fun, taking advantage of a three hour open house-bar. Watch the Cowes Week action from the Island Sailing Club, overlooking the racing.

Click here to book your tickets

Thursday 22nd August 2019
Caffe Isola, Newport
7.30am – 9.30am
FREE

Meet members for informal networking in a great location. It’s free to attend, with hot drinks and toast for everyone.

BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE

We offer new businesses the opportunity to take their ideas from paper into practice. As part of the 50 plus Start Me Up Programme we offer a free one day business seminar aimed at people over 50 who are starting a business. Get the tools you need to take your idea from the drawing board to the real world.

This course is available for non-members and will be held at Mill Court Business Centre, Newport on Thursday 22 August 2019.

To book a place on the course please click here.

We offer new businesses the opportunity to take their ideas from paper into practice. We offer a free one day business seminar aimed at people who are starting a business. Get the tools you need to take your idea from the drawing board to the real world. This course is designed for those with a business idea through to those who have been in business for six months.

This course is available for non-members and will be held at Mill Court Business Centre, Newport on Thursday 22 August 2019.

To book a place on the course please click here.

Thursday 29th August 2019
Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce Offices
9.30am – 11.00am
FREE

The old puzzle: “I need more sales,  I can’t afford to advertise but I can’t watch my business die!”

Major stress! One symptom is difficulty in creating ways to improve things. So let’s simplify that task – we’ll get systematic and identify lots of small, cheap and quick things you can do.

We will start from the customer’s experience of buying products or services like yours, and feed that information back into your Customer-Attracting Pathway to improve it.

Every Step On Your Customer-Attracting Pathway Must Work Hard

Most businesses already have 12 steps in their Pathway – from Advertising to Client Retention. Let’s work through these steps so everyone attending finds missing steps, steps they need to improve and ways to redesign each step to lead customers on to the next step more effectively.

With next-to-no-money to spend, we’ll put the steps into priority order for fixing, work out what you can do for free and plan which steps you could spend on when you’ve got some spare funds.

Training course delivered by Dave Simon.

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