Diary

Wed 4-Aug – WBG meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Siobhan Smyth and John Duguid

YMCA Training Maidstone is in the business of finding people employment. Our customers come from the Job Centre; most have been unemployed for at least a year. We offer them employability skills training (CVs, interview techniques modules and any other relevant training courses etc), get them to go on a 4 week work placement with a suitable company (at no charge to the business) and get them back into the job market. It is a very challenging but rewarding job helping people to turn around their own lives and become self sufficient.”

 

 

Upcoming Events

Wed 11-Aug – WBG meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Geoff Hilton

Kent & Sussex Security Ltd

Wed 18-Aug – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Liz Turner and Ben Carne

Employment Support Officer  KCC

 

The service is provided FREE of charge to employers and our clients which includes:

 

    Advice about job retention issues for staff who acquire a disability and may need reasonable adjustments to accommodate     their return to work. 

 

    Support to employers to understand the business case - savings on recruitment costs and expert support in matching the right person to the right job.

 

    Support to clients referred to the service to find employment and ensure they are matched to a job suited to their abilities.

 

 

Wed 25-Aug 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Jennie Lichfield

Liberty Coaching  tel: 0845 095 0010

Hypnotherapy & Neuro Linguistic Programming

 

www.libertycoaching.info/NLP

 

 

Wed 1-Sep – WBG meeting

Location: Little Silver country Hotel

Speaker: Martin Tickner

Financial Choices

Wed 8-Sep – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Richard Byrt

Richard Byrt
Address 25 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DS
Telephone 020 7745 7337
Fax 020 7745 7221
Email richard@byrtandco.co.uk

Following the presentation the group will be attending Maidstone Crown Court to see what happens.

Wed 15-Sep – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: John Hammond

John hammond is a prehistorian with particular knowledge of transmanche or cross-channel contact during the late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (2500-1500 BC). He has made a special study of funerary traditions and the treatment of the dead on both sides of the English Channel and has an interest in matters of ritual and belief in prehistory. In other words he study the types of monuments that today – among others - we call henges and round barrows: who built them, why and how.

 

John has worked on prehistoric sites in the Mediterranean and, in pursuit of understanding, has spent some time studying hunter-gatherer hill tribes in southern India. In Kent he  worked on numerous sites, including RInglemere – where the Bronze Age gold cup was found (named by the BBC as one of Britain’s top ten treasures and now on show in the British Museum).

 

John teaches prehistory and archaeology at the University of Kent on a part-time basis and is a full-time Business manager for Canterbury Archaeological Trust (which is an educational charity funded by contract archaeology work. CAT employs more than 50 archaeologists and support staff and work throughout the county, not just in Canterbury).

 

John is presently engaged in a £1.2m international project to build a replica of the Dover Bronze Age Boat, which we hope to paddle across the Channel in 2012. The project is being made into a BBC documentary.

 

Please be sure to attend his very interesting presentation.

 

 

Wed 22-Sep 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Kirsty Ferguson

 Kent Fire and Resue service

 

Wed 29-Sep 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Bill Ferguson, Osteopath

 

Bill Ferguson, Osteopath

My name is Bill Ferguson and I am an osteopath specializing in pain relief. I use my skills to reduce or take away your pain and in this way improve your quality of life. I've learned my skills from the best teachers and had over twenty years experience applying what I have learned to help people like you. You don't need a referral just email or phone and ask me how I can help you.

Wed 6-Oct 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Sam Ithell

HARD HAT Business advice

 

Subject of presentation: The number one approach to business transformation

Wed 13-Oct 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Natalie Kedge

Contact Natalie Kedge
Address Renfrew House, Ashford Road, Bethersden, Ashford, Kent TN26 3AS
Telephone 01233 822537
Fax 01233 820164
Email nkedge@baileyfields.com
Website www.baileyfields.com

After the presentation we will be visiting Ashford Industrial tribunal court.

Wed 20-Oct 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Nigel Gracie

Thomas- solving your people puzzles

Title of presentation;

Getting Recruitment Right as we come out of Recession'

 

 

Wed 27-Oct 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Malcolm Elsmore

Elsmore Creative Marketing  (Group member)

Wed 10-Nov 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Mike Parmar

 

Wave2 Communications

Wave2 Communications is an independent UK based communications company that specialises in Telecoms Solutions.

With commercial experience drawn from both Public and Private sectors we strive to meet the needs of businesses from all over the UK.

  • Help to improve business communications
  • Lowering the cost of your voice and data communications without compromising service
  • Your own personal account manager and specially tailored communications solution – whatever the size of your business and whether you are interested in convergence or the just the best current solution for your budget

Wed 10-Nov 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Keith Robles

 

Tenterden Car Sales & Services Ltd

Tenterden Car Sales & Services Ltd, is a newly formed, family run business in Tenterden, Kent. Our aim is to supply quality used cars at affordable prices. We can supply vehicles to cater for all needs, from the small engine/low insurance for the first time driver, Estate cars,MPV’s,  4X4’s to the family sized run around and everything in between. Every car is HPI checked with Experian, for your peace of mind. Our prices are very competitive and fair, with most of our cars being under £3000 pounds.

All of our cars are hand picked by our experienced buyer, and every car purchased from us comes with a full valet and is fully checked over before you collect it. All cars come with a full MOT.  Evening viewings/test drives can be arranged for your convenience, and part exchange can be considered.

We also buy cars for cash, and can offer an honest, fair and courteous appraisal of your vehicle.

For further information or enquiries, please contact Keith via email or telephone at the above numbers and address.

We use “Experian”  Car Data Check on all of our vehicles.


Wed 17-Nov 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: TBC

TBC

Wed 24-Nov 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Richard Harvey

Press and public relations - Richard Harvey PR Limited


Public relations and media relations, including crisis media management
Richard Harvey offers clients advice on how to increase their business or personal profile in the media.

Described by Kent Business magazine as “the doyen of Kent PR”, Richard ran his own agency for more than 25 years, with clients including BT, British Beer & Pubs Association, Leeds Castle, South East England Tourist Board, Crossrail and Shepherd Neame. It became one of Britain’s Top 150 consultancies (source: ‘PR Week’), before he sold it in 2005.

Today, he brings that experience to independent consultancy, acting for clients including The Caldecott Foundation, P&O Ferries and The Children’s Society, as well as small, independent businesses seeking to make their voice heard in an increasingly cluttered media marketplace.

Wed 1-Dec 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Jay Harvey

Aaron Chemicals Limited

Wed 8-Dec 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Richard Byrt

Litigation solicitor - Richard Byrt and Co
I am a civil litigation solicitor that work for individuals through to public limited companies. 
 
I act for clients in all types of business disputes, national and international, including contract disputes, construction disputes, insolvency work, insurance, partnership disputes, professional indemnity claims and all aspects of commercial property and landlord and tenant disputes. 

I am familiar with alternative dispute resolution techniques in addition to litigation and arbitration. 

If I am unable to deal with the matter personally I will direct you to a firm who is able to assist.

I aim to make the complex simple, to be tenacious when it comes to securing results for you, candid in my answers and clear in my advice.

Wed 15-Dec – Christmas dinner for members and guest

Location: TBC

Speaker: N/A

Venue TBC

Wed 22-Dec 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: N/A

Christmas Breakfast

Wed 29-Dec – N/A

Location: No Meeting

Speaker: N/A

No Meeting

Previous Events

Wed 28-Jul – WBG meeting

Location: Little Silver country Hotel

Speaker: Famous dancer

The history of belly-dancing.  There will be a live demonstration.  We welcome some active participation

Wed 21-Jul – WBG meeting

Location: Little Silver Country hotel

Speaker: Graham Seymour

Shoppers Anonymous

Wed 14-Jul – WBG meeting

Location: Little Silver country Hotel

Speaker: Perry Barton

Perry Barton - Carpenter

Wed 7-Jul – WBG meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Natalie Kedge

Baileyfields Solicitors Limited

Wed 30-Jun – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Angus Campbell

Presentation from RAMSAK

The Ring of Agricultural Machinery in Sussex and Kent, which covers the South East of England.

Thu 24-Jun 18:30 – WBG Golf Open and BBQ

Location: Great Chart Golf course, Ashford, Kent

Speaker: Event Managed by Malcolm Elsmore

Invite all members and visitors to this great event...

Wed 23-Jun – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Oliver Johnston

Commercial sectors with in Little Silver Country Hotel

Tue 22-Jun – B2B Exhibition

Location: International Hotel Ashford

Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce Exhibition

WBG on stand number 78.

 

Visit us to find out how we can grow your business

Wed 16-Jun 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Jo James Chief executive

Presentation from the Invicta Chamber of Commerce

Wed 9-Jun – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Graham Card

Card and Company (Commercial Finance) Ltd - Corporate Liquidity Partners

Wed 2-Jun 07:00 – WBG meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Simon Collins

Following Simon's very interesting talk on the 26th May 2010, by popular demand he is to return on the above date to further discuss the 'Buy with confidence' initiative.

Wed 26-May – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Simon Collins

Advanced Limousines

Wed 19-May – New Web Site

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Oliver Johnston/ Malcolm Elsmore

Little Silver Country Hotel.  New web site and marketing development

Wed 12-May – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: TBC

TBC

Wed 5-May 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel

Speaker: Trevor Dodfree

Photographer - Trevor Godfree

Trevor was delayed in New York by the ash crisis.  His experience makes interesting listening.

Do you know how he got back.....you will have to attend the WBG meeting to find out!

Wed 28-Apr 07:00 – WBG meeting

Location: Little Silver Hotel, Tenterden

Speaker: Debate chairman: Olly Johnston

We have all seen evidence of the economy improving as discussed in todays WBG meeting.  Builders are building, solicitors are conveyancing, stock market improving and some very positive growth predictions for the economy from various international bodies.

 

The question to debate, from the viewpoint of "What is best for business?" is:

·          Do we stick with the party in power to protect the economic growth, as it seems to be working? 

OR

·          Do we vote for another party that may stifle the recovery but promises a quicker recovery? 

OR

·          Does it not matter who is in power, as the recovery will happen anyway? 

 

 

 

Wed 21-Apr – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: Chris Sturdy - CS Solutions Ltd (member)

-- Ground Source Heating--

Wed 14-Apr 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Hotel, Tenterden

Speaker: New WBG Chairman

NEW CHAIRMAN'S MEETING

 

Wed 7-Apr – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: WBG

           -- WBG AGM--

Wed 31-Mar 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: Andrew Frisby

- Andrew Frisby – WBG book review

Wed 24-Mar 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Tenterden

Speaker: Louise Carter - (WBG member)

"Smile While you Dial"

Wed 17-Mar 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Tenterden

Speaker: Malcolm Elsemore - (WBG member)

Elsemore Creative

Wed 10-Mar 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Tenterden

Speaker: Trevor Godfree - Trevor Godfree Photography (WBG member)

 -- CAPTURING THE MOMENT --

Wed 3-Mar 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: Jay Harvey .. Aaron Chemicals Ltd (WBG member)

Enviromental friendly cleaning chemicals and products.

Wed 24-Feb 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Tenterden

Speaker: Oliver Johnson - Presents SPEED NETWORKING

-- Create your network sales team.

Wed 17-Feb 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: Justin Nelson - Justin Nelson Solicitors (WBG member)

"Lasting Powers of Attorney - a workshop: why everyone should have them and how to prepare them"

Wed 10-Feb 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Tenterden

Speaker: Jo Dodds….Counterpoint Matters

Network Marketing form Counterpoint Matters

Wed 3-Feb 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: David Baker .. WBG member

Introduction to David's Painting and Decorating business

Wed 27-Jan 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: Martin Birchall WBG member

The world of Print and Design Centre

Wed 20-Jan 07:00 – WBG Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Tenterden

Speaker: Richard Harvey….Harvey PR Ltd (WBG Member)

Wed 13-Jan – WBG Breakfast Meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: QJ the Inspirationist

How to get the best out of Networking

The Inspirationist webstite

The Quite Stunning website

Wed 6-Jan – Breakfast networking meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels TN30 6SP

Speaker: Olly Johnston, WBG chairman

The tip of the iceberg

Wed 23-Dec – NO BREAKFAST NETWORKING MEETING

Wed 16-Dec 19:30 – Christmas Dinner

Location: Tiffins, The Bridge, Cranbrook TN17 3HL

Wed 16-Dec – NO BREAKFAST MEETING TODAY

Wed 9-Dec 07:00 – Christmas breakfast meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: TBA

Wed 2-Dec 07:00 – Breakfast meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: Louise Carter - (WBG Member)

Smile While You Dial....

Customer Care Training

Wed 25-Nov 07:00 – Breakfast meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: Martin Tickner - Financial Choices (WBG member)

Personal Accounts.....explained

Wed 18-Nov 07:00 – Breakfast meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: David Bewsey, Travel Counsellors (WBG member)

Wed 11-Nov 07:00 – Breakfast meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: Martyn Chapman, Sussex Artisan, bespoke joinery (WBG member)

Wed 4-Nov 07:00 – Breakfast meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel,

Speaker: Dave Clarke

Dave Clarke speaks of his 1000 mile Enduro challenge, UNICEF and awareness of the organisations.

Wed 28-Oct 07:00 – Breakfast meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: Daren Jones of Barry Jones & Sons, florists (a WBG member)

Wed 21-Oct 07:00 – Breakfast meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: Chris Sturdy of C S Solutions Ltd (WBG member)

C S Solutions Ltd

Chris speaks about how his company and services stands out from the competitors.

Wed 14-Oct 07:00 – Wealden Business Group Open-Day 2009

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: TBA

Wealden Business Group Annual Open Day 2009

 A fantastic opportunity to network and be part of a thriving business group:

  - Helping members maximise their business potential.

  - Providing solutions to help businesses improve the way they communicate with customers.

  - Helping businesses to operate cost effectively. 

 

Wed 7-Oct 07:00 – Breakfast meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: Bill Ferguson - (WBG member)

Registered Osteopath, Cranial Osteopath, Acupuncture and Sports Injuries...

Bill will explain and demonstrate the benifits of Acupunture.

Wed 30-Sep 07:00 – Breakfast meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: NO SPEAKER

WBG updates and checklist for Open Day on 14 October

(This meeting is intended for members only - guests may be bored!)

Wed 23-Sep 07:00 – Breakfast meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: Terry Torpe of the D G East Partnership (a WBG member)

Wed 16-Sep 07:00 – Breakfast meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: Marc Lemezma - magician, author, presenter

"Magic that does the business"

Marc's website

Wed 9-Sep 07:00 – Breakfast meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: Richard Byrt, litigation solicitor (a WBG member)

Wed 2-Sep 07:00 – Breakfast meeting

Location: Little Silver Country Hotel, Ashford Road, St Michaels, Tenterden

Speaker: Keith Robles - Used Car Sales (WBG member)