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Fully Funded Half Day Get Mentoring Training
Date: 26-01-12
The Watershed is offering you the following workshop dates as part of our rolling programme:
Monday 30 January - 9.30am - 1pm
Tuesday 21 February - 1pm - 4.30pm
Friday 2 March - 9.30am - 1pm
Wed 7 March - 9.30am - 1pm
To book your place call Julie or Diane 0114 249 9563/FREE on 0800 068 0897 or email dean.maragh@the-watershed.co.uk
The workshop aims to provide an introduction to the role of the mentor and to ensure that, as a new or existing mentor, you have the right level of knowledge and understanding to undertake the role.
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The Shiregreen Community Awards Night is booked at Hillsborough Stadium on Friday 9th March 2012.
Date: 26-01-12
Aimed at rewarding the locals for their community work in the past year as part of the Shiregreen Neighbourhood Challenge. The event also features Sheffield Forum Badminton Club, whose brave players took on and successfully smashed the current Guinness World Record of 28 hours 37 seconds for a match, by playing for 29 hours 6 seconds. This particular event raised £5,500 for the NSPCC.
The Awards night promises to be a spectacular evening with great entertainment lined up and plenty of surprises in store for the players that took part in the record breaking event. A message of support has already been received from an international sports star (household name), first of many to be expected.
The record attempt received media coverage from the Sheffield Star, Doncaster Star, Grimsby Evening Telegraph, Grayson's Website, Sheffield & Rotherham Town Talk websites, Matalan's national staff charity magazine & we also got a mention on Chris Evans Radio 2 breakfast show. Hallam FM & Real Radio covered the event as it happened.
Over 20 awards altogether will be presented on the evening, with two sold already. Opportunities to sponsor each award are now available. Exclusivity will be given to each business sector, allowing only one type of business per award.
The cost of an award sponsor will be £50 (minimum suggested donation), all of which will go to the NSPCC.
Return on your investment will be the opportunity for you to put marketing material (flyer/voucher/business cards) in the "goody bags" being handed out to all 300 guests on the evening. Should you supply me with a logo this will be used on the big screen and displayed when your award is being announced. I will happily include you in as much press material where possible (level of investment depending). We also have a website being built, where a links page can feature a link to your website.
I hope you will agree that £50 now sounds reasonable, and it is for charity! I can accept cheques payable to Sheffield Forum Badminton Club.
More information and some great pictures from the Successful Record Attempt can be found here
Should you want to get involved with this event, or enquire about tickets you can call me direct on 07772 545110. Or email me allan.ogle@gmail.com
Thank you for your support.
Allan.
Social Secretary, Sheffield Forum Badminton Club.
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Accounts 2010
Date: 24-11-11
Abbreviated Accounts
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Accounts 2010
Date: 24-11-11
Please attached accounts for 2010 full accounts
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Notice of the 2011 AGM on 24th November 2011
Date: 24-11-11
The Sheffield Business Club recognises the importance of small business to the success of the UK's recovery. The Club is now working in collaboration with the Sheffield Chamber to represent the small business sector in the Sheffield City Region.
This event is an opportunity for member and non-members to raise their business issues and discuss ways in which the Club may be used as the forum for raising the profile of small business.
The meeting will also be the Club's AGM and the Club's board will be proposing its agenda for 2012. Attendees will take part in an open discussion to help set the focus of the Club for 2012.
Refreshments will be available.
There will be opportunities for networking and attendees will retire afterwards for drink in a local pub!
The event is at the University of Sheffield’s Enterprise Zone, Portobello (just off West St), Sheffield S1 4DP. We’ll start is 6.30pm and there should be plenty of free parking in the vicinity.
Thursday 24th November,2011.
To book please contact Kim/Diane on 0114 2724879 or email info@sheffieldbc.co.uk
Free Event
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Proposals to Members regarding MOU with Sheffield Chamber of Commerce
Date: 24-11-11
Our Ref:
Your Ref:
DDI: 0114 224 2028
Email: Peter.rawlinson@wake-smith.com
02 September 2011
Dear Member,
Sheffield Business Club Notice to Members – Proposal of
working relationship with the South Yorkshire Chambers (SYC)
The directors of the Sheffield Business Club (“Board”) have been in non-binding discussions with the chief executive, Richard Wright, of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce (SCCI) to review how the two organisations may maintain their legal independence and autonomy but co-operate in their respective mutual operations.
It is clear to the Board that we need additional resources in order to promote the Club and its events and SCCI have offered certain functions to assist with the marketing and promotion of events.
SCCI have had discussions with the other South Yorkshire Chambers and the Club has been requested to consider becoming the representative organisation for the SYC’s small business forum. The Board have for some time been considering how the Club might distinguish itself from other networking organisations and one option is to focus on and become the voice of small business in the Sheffield City Region (SCR). The Club would therefore become the organisation representing and running the SCR’s Small Business Forum (SBF), which would therefore dovetail with the Board’s plans.
By entering into a memorandum of understanding with each of the SYCs to represent and run the SBF the following opportunities would be made available to the Club:
1. To feature in the October edition of SCCI’s First for Business magazine with the launch of the new Small Business Forum (and future editions);
2. The Chair would be included in events combining all chairs of SYC forums to discuss ways in which each respective organisation to avoid duplication of networking events and future progress;
3. Appropriate press releases would still be published and the Chambers communications systems used to distribute (web sites, newsletters etc);
4. The Club’s events could be promoted by each SYC and fortnightly in SCCI’s e-newsletter;
5. The Club would be invited to attend joint SYC networking events; and
6. Some Admin resource would be made available to the Club by SCCI to help arrange meetings and produce minutes etc.
7. Where required by the Club, SCCI would organise the Club’s events on a cost only, non-profit basis
In exchange, the Club will also promote the SYCs and become their lobbying vehicle and “voice” of the SBF. Each organisation will encourage membership of the other.
The Club would continue to build its membership and charge separate membership fees and offer members the same fantastic networking opportunities but in addition will look to focus on small business issues and become the representative voice for those businesses in the region. As members are aware our fees are very competitive including two great FREE events as part of the annual membership package.
In order to document this arrangement the SYC and the Club will enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) which will be non binding.
Hopefully the relationship will develop in a way that will be of benefit to both organisations but if it becomes clear that the Club would prefer to operate separately it would of course be possible to bring the arrangement to an end.
The Board would like to resolve to enter into the above arrangements and have circulated this email to inform members and provide an opportunity to comment and raise any objections. Unless we receive objections from 6 or more of the members by 5pm Friday 16th September the Board proposes to confirm to Richard Wright that the Club intends to enter into the MOU arrangements on or before 30 September 2011.
Please do not hesitate to contact me by email should you have any questions regarding the above and I would be happy to discuss any of your points raised.
Kind regards.
Yours sincerely
Peter Rawlinson
Chair of The Sheffield Business Club
0114 272 4879
info@sheffieldbc.co.uk
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Sheffield Business Club AGM 2010 Minutes
Date: 24-11-11
The Minutes of the meeting held at Sparks Restuarant at The Sheffield College are set out below.
MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
SHEFFIELD BUSINESS CLUB LIMITED
AGM on 13 October 2010 to be held at Sheffield College (David Hughes) (Chair)
1. Current Board members and also their representative member companies:
David Hughes – BT Local Business (Chair)
Peter Rawlinson - Wake Smith & Tofields;
Katie Beal – Watson Esam
Robert Hanney – Knowles Warwick
Matt Jackson - Benzina
2. Quorate
Minimum of 6 members present.
As there are more than six members present the meeting was declared quorate.
3. The Chair:
Thanked the current directors for all of their efforts during the year.
4. Accounts and Board Appointments:
The Accounts:
The Accounts were formally laid at this AGM. The Accounts have already been approved and signed by the Board and will be filed at Companies House.
Comment on Accounts – the Club is trading in a solvent position.
Board Appointments
In accordance with the Articles the current Board now resigns and the following have requested that they be reappointed (with roles indicated): Peter Rawlinson; Robert Hanney, Kevin Elliot (Treasurer) (resigned July 2010 as Director and Chair), David Hughes (Chair from July 2010), Matt Jackson.
In accordance with the Articles the following appointments/resignations occurred during the year: Peter Rawlinson; Robert Hanney, Katie Beal, Kevin Elliot (Chair/Treasurer) (resigned July 2010 as Director and Chair), David Hughes (Chair from July 2010), Matt Jackson.
Nominations for two additional directors were Kathryn Borg and Rachel Walker-Morecroft.
The Chair reported that the Club's Articles require a minimum of 7 directors to sit on the Board. Since there have been no nominations then in the absence of any objections it was resolved that the current board be re-elected and until such time as it has two more directors appointed the club can operate with 5 directors as ratified by this meeting on a show of hands.
On a full majority show of hands the above appointments were approved and ratified notwithstanding any defect in the notice provisions of such appointment(s) that may have occurred to cause the validity of such appointment to be in doubt.
There were no other proposals made at the AGM for nominees.
6. The Board’s Report as delivered by the Chair
• There are now dozens of local networking organisations and 100s if you count the nationals and online sites offering networking opportunities. With so much competition we have focused on our local presence and the fact we are trusted and friendly organisation. The next step is to look at developing more events with a specific objective of helping organisations do more business.
• In terms of maintaining our contacts and developing new opportunities for members we have recently entered into a “partnership” scheme with Barnsley and Rotherham Chamber. We’ve also completed the revised Sheffield Business Club website and we’d like to take this opportunity to formally thank Rob Pearson of Online Developments for all his hard work in offering to redesign and host the site. I’m sure you all agree the website is an excellent new profile and marketing tool for the Club and the members. If anyone hasn’t yet supplied their 100 words then they should do so to info@sheffieldbc.co.uk so we can add the details against your entry.
• All of our events and the organisation involved in running them requires and takes up a lot of the Board’s time and I’d like to thank the board for all of their efforts this year. Unfortunately, due to their own business commitments, Sue Hildred and Neil Anderson and Kevin Elliot stepped down from the board and we’re very grateful for all of their hard work too.
• As promoted at last year’s AGM the board decided in light of growing competition to restructure the membership fee structure and this seems to be paying some dividend by attracting more members.
• Our income has improved but debt collection is still a major administrative burden. On this basis we decided to employ the services of Raw Estates which is co-owned by Peter Rawlinson) and operated by Kim and Diane (who most members have met at a couple of events). Raw Estates is now responsible for ensuring bookings and chasing debtors and this process is now a lot better co-ordinated. The service is charged at a low cost and is cost-effective provided we can continue to attract new members and manage the debtors efficiently.
• We have held a number of very successful events including two of the three free member events. The first was held at The Sheffield Brewery Company in conjunction with Creative Sheffield. The event promoted all things “Sheffield”, with the Reel Monty film and Sheffield themed quiz. The second free event was the Summer barge trip in which members enjoyed a great evening’s entertainment without the rain this year! Both events attracted visitors who have subsequently been converted into new members. The final free event is the Xmas party which will be in December.
• This has been a good year for the Club from a financial and operational perspective. We have paid off our creditors and currently have a positive bank balance. Our membership contact database is now over 100 strong and continues to grow after each event.
• Please remember to pass on details of the Club to any new prospective member and help grow the membership of your club!
The Chair declared the meeting closed.
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AGM Notice 2010 - Proposal Form for Director
Date: 13-09-10
The proposal form shoudl be completed and sent to info@sheffieldbc.co.uk
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AGM Notice 2010
Date: 13-09-10
The AGM will be held at Sparks Restaurant at the new Sheffield College site 13-10-10 from 12:00. Nominations for the board are welcome by downloading the form and sending to info@sheffieldbc.co.uk.
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Sheffield Business Club Annual Accounts 2008
Date: 13-10-09
Please view the pdf Accounts report for the Sheffield Business Club 2008
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Minutes of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Company held at 2.00pm on 30 October 2008 at 1889 Restaurant, SUFC, Sheffield
Date: 11-05-09
Present: A list of Members in attendance is attached.
Chair: Robert Hanney Chaired the meeting and announced a quorum was present.
Notice and Minutes: The notice convening the meeting and the Minutes of the 2007 AGM are attached as approved.
Annual Report: Review of 2007 -2008.
Mr Hanney reviewed the year’s events as set out in the AGM script attached.
With particular thanks to Darren Housley who worked for the Club over the summer.
Mr Hanney concluded with a request to Members to ensure that they attend all forthcoming events and invite as many guests as possible to all events in order to grow the Club.
Annual report and accounts: Mr Hanney confirmed the Accounts and Directors’ report had been presented before the Members, and the accounts would be available to inspect at the website of Knowles Warwick.
Rotation and appointment: IT WAS RESOLVED BY A UNANIMOUS SHOW OF HANDS OF
of directors: THE MEMBERS THAT Peter Rawlinson; Kevin Elliot; Sue Hildred; Robert Hanney; Neil Anderson and Katie Beal be duly elected and hereby appointed as directors of the Company.
Election of Chairperson: It was resolved that the Directors shall elect the Chair for the forthcoming year.
Close There being no further business the meeting closed.
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CHAIR
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Minutes of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Company held at 1.30am on 18 October 2007 at 1889 Restaurant, SUFC, Sheffield
Date: 11-05-09
Present: A list of Members in attendance is attached.
Chair: Peter Rawlinson (PAR) Chaired the meeting and announced a quorum was present.
Notice and Minutes: The notice convening the meeting and the Minutes of the 2006 AGM are attached as approved.
Annual Report: Review of 2006 -2007.
PAR reviewed the year’s events as set out in the AGM script attached.
With particular thanks to Colin Lavender (outgoing Chair) and Bob Teasdale who are retiring from the Board and not standing for re-election.
PAR concluded with a request to Members to ensure that they attend all forthcoming events and invite as many guests as possible to all events in order to grow the Club.
Annual report and accounts: PAR confirmed the Accounts and Directors’ report had been presented before the Members through the website www.sheffieldbc.co.uk and these were duly received.
Rotation and appointment
IT WAS RESOLVED BY A UNANIMOUS SHOW OF HANDS OF of directors: THE MEMBERS THAT Peter Rawlinson; Kevin Elliot; Sue Hildred; Robert Hanney; Robert Addy; Neil Anderson and Katie Beal be duly elected and hereby appointed as directors of the Company.
Election of Chairperson: It was resolved that the Directors shall elect the Chair for the forthcoming year.
Close There being no further business the meeting closed.
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CHAIR
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