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HCCI NETWORKING EVENTS FOR 2008

Wednesday 9th April - Hospitality Race Night – Coral Romford Greyhound Stadium
Bring your clients to a hospitality evening at Romford Dogs.
Three course meal at the Pavilion Restaurant - £30.00 includes admission and racecard.
Table of 10 - £250.
Sponsor a race for £90
• Your name/company on the cover on the racecard
• A race named after you/or company
• Presentation of a trophy to the winning connections
• A colour photograph of the presentation
• A message on the TV screens
• A basket of flowers/sparkling wine and chocolates

Tuesday 29th April - University of East London - Networking Event - 5.00-7.00
Knowledge Dock is the University of East London's enterprise development service. They help link industry with the knowledge, expertise and resources housed at UEL. Their services include contract research and consultancy services, specialist training, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, supervised student projects, and business advice. The Knowledge Dock Business Centre is also home to 43 fully serviced business offices, a pre-incubation hotdesking facility (HotHatch), as well as virtual office solutions. They also house a number of Expert Centres, such as the Product Design Lab that helps SMEs to access the latest in technology at extremely competitive rates. This is a FREE event. Refreshments provided.

FREE Networking Event – Havering College – 5.45-8.00
Details to be confirmed

Wednesday 21st May - Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch - Adult Learners Week 12.00-2.00pm
The Queen’s Theatre are looking for organisations that want to promote their opportunities for Adults - especially if you have training opportunities for employees and/or volunteering opportunities to promote.  This is a great opportunity to meet with the business community in and around Havering. The principal sponsor of this event is Havering College but there are opportunities still for smaller sponsorship, exhibition stands and marketing presence.

Thursday 22nd May - Networking Evening - Coach House Hotel, Romford – 5pm
The second event of four, being held in conjunction with the London Borough of Havering. A guest speaker plus a chance to network with like-minded business people. A light buffet with tea and coffee will be provided. FREE event.

Wednesday 18th June - Annual General Meeting & BBQ
A social evening plus the chance to network. BBQ supplied by the Outback Steakhouse. Venue to be arranged.

Thursday 11th September - Coach House Hotel, Romford - 5pm
The third event of four, being held in conjunction with the London Borough of Havering. A guest speaker plus a chance to network with like-minded business people. A light buffet with tea and coffee will be provided. FREE event.

Tuesday 16th September - Speed Networking Event – Outback Steakhouse, The Brewery – Buffet lunch and refreshments – 12.00pm-2.00pm
Loosely based on speed dating where you sit in twos and talk about your business for 2 minutes and vice versa, after four minutes a whistle is blown, and you swap partners. You are guaranteed to talk to everyone in the room.
• £10 for members
• £20 for non-members

Thursday 27th November - Networking Evening – Coach House Hotel, Romford - 6.30pm
The final event of four, being held in conjunction with the London Borough of Havering. A guest speaker plus a chance to network with like-minded business people. A light buffet with tea and coffee will be provided. FREE event.

NOTE: These events are subject to frequent date and time changes – please telephone the Chamber office for further information.

POSITIVE FEEDBACK FROM OUR SPEED NETWORKING EVENT!

“I just wanted to say a big thank you. I really feel that I got something from the event. I made some great contacts, and some really nice people, who I probably would never get the opportunity to speak with if I were to cold call and say I was from an agency!”
Richie Daysh
Select Appointments plc

HCCI, Thank you for organising today’s event, I really enjoyed it and made some really good contacts.”
Dharm Tanna
Star Mini Cabs & Couriers

Non-members are welcome to these events. Please bring a colleague and introduce them to HCCI.

If you are interested in any of the above events, please contact the Chamber office on  0845 270 3332 or email


Chair’s Message

Havering chamber of Commerce & Industry exists to provide networking and support services to local businesses and to encourage business growth, regeneration and new ventures.  In view of this, I thought I would let you know about my new business venture.  It concerns the launch of a new Community Radio Station LINK FM 92.2.  The studio is based in St George’s Centre, Harold Hill.  LINK FM was born in 1992.  The first broadcast proved to be more popular than we ever imagined and LINK FM not only began to establish a loyal listenership, we were inundated with volunteers.  Since 1992, we broadcast for one month a year, at different times each year, and students from Havering schools volunteered their services by updating weather reports, writing news articles and supporting the presenters.   LINK FM finally received a full time Licence from OFCOM and was launched on Friday, 6th April 2007.

As accomplished broadcasters, we have provided an exciting format of music, chat and information to the people of Havering.  LINK FM is the place to showcase talent, air your views or to get involved in a variety of different ways.

LINK FM aims to promote social and economic prosperity and works in partnership with many local organisations.  A high percentage of shows focus on the needs of individuals and groups within the broadcast area and includes interviews, debates, documentaries, education, training, employment and business issues.

Advertising - LINK FM is a cost effective way to reach your existing and potential customers, and you can rest assured that revenue raised is used to support your community and true community broadcasting in Havering. Contact Nicki Cook on 01708 378378, for further information.

Sponsorship & Promotions - Our key programming elements are packaged into attractive, affordable sponsorship opportunities designed to appeal to a variety of local companies including small businesses.  Contact Nicki to see what LINK FM can do for your business.

TUNE IN NOW!

92.2 FM
or listen on-line: www.linkfm.net
Tel: 01708 342200
Fax: 01708 345500
Email:

Jill Martin, Chair


CAN YOU SUPPORT HAVERING YOUNG PEOPLE BY VOLUNTEERING A DAY A YEAR?

Business and Community Volunteers receive full training and deliver activities to students aimed at
enhancing their employability skills!

Contact Jenny at or on 0845 273 2228 for more information
 
 
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