Our new meetings
Not wanting to stand still, we’ve made some changes to our meetings.
The two main changes are:
We now meet in the evenings (no more early mornings!)
Our venue. We now meet in Richmond
Why have we made these changes?
Not everybody is a morning person (or have other commitments in the early morning).
And because our meetings finished by 9am, most people needed to leave promptly to start their scheduled work day.
By moving our meetings to the late afternoon / evening, you can stay in bed a little longer, finish your normal work day (or leave a little earlier), and have time after the main meeting to network in a more relaxed environment.
Which brings us to the venue.
The Hope is a short walk from Richmond Station (and just off the A316 for anybody driving), and has a private room for us to start the meeting. But it also has a cosy and friendly bar downstairs where we can continue to network, with food and drinks available.
The meeting format
Our meetings are broadly similar, but refined to make them more valuable to everybody. The schedule is as follows:
17:00 - 17:15: Welcome
17:15- 18:00: 2+2 Presentations
Each attendee has 2 minutes to present their business - and how the other attendees can help - to the room, plus up to 2 minutes for Q&A from the room
18:00 - 18:20: Business Sounding Board
An opportunity for anyone in the room to (confidentially) share a business idea, problem or goal, and crowd source suggestions, improvements and solutions
18:20 - 18:35: Feature Presentation
A short business-focused presentation designed to have practical use to everybody in attendance. Our presentation schedule can be seen here
18:35 - 18:45: AOB and close
18:45: Open Networking
To attend our next meeting (and see dates for future meetings), please book here. If you have any questions, please contact us here