STROUD BUSINESSWOMEN'S NETWORK
Who We Are
Stroud Businesswomen's Network offers businesswomen based in and around Stroud the opportunity to network, share information, exchange ideas and tap into local resources. Our meetings are informal, friendly, and welcoming. All types, sizes and stages of businesses are welcome, in particular women working as sole traders from home, and including businesses at the development stage.
Meetings, Members, News
Meetings are held monthly, usually starting at 9.15 am at Star Anise Arts Café, Gloucester Street, Stroud GL5 1QG (see map for location) There is no entrance charge to members for the meeting itself; you simply pay for your own food or drink from the café's menu. Annual membership is just £25 and allows you to attend all meetings, receive the newsletter, list your business on our site, and establish a link to your own website.
Several times a year we hold our meetings in the evening, to enable businesswomen who are tied to premises or daytime schedules to come along. These are very social affairs with supper and wine, and are very popular!
Our Members
If you would like to know more about our members or the services they offer please look in our Member Directory
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Future events:
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16 July |
9.15 - 11.00 am |
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| August |
NO MEETING |
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24 September |
9.15 - 11.00 am |
***N.B. FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT OUR MEETINGS AND/OR TO BOOK YOUR PLACE PLEASE VISIT OUR EVENTS PAGE.***
If you have any specific questions you would like answered and/or you wish to confirm your attendance please email stroudbusinesswomen.
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Next meeting: 16 July 2009, 9.15 - 11.00 am "Animals get bad backs, too!"
SBN member and McTimoney & Bowen therapist, Dianne Bradshaw, relates how she has applied these gentle but powerful therapies to help relieve pain and suffering, especially in dogs and horses.
In an entertaining talk, Dianne will explain how the problem of a bad back can be avoided: and how humans and their pets can help one another to do so.
Last meeting: "The history of chocolate", 24 June 2009
A very popular meeting, this one!
Jonathan Garner, proprietor of Special Occasions in Stroud High Street (which has the Thornton's concession) gave a very informative potted history of how chocolate developed from a sharp and spicy drink used in religious ceremonies in South America to the more familiar foil-wrapped delicacies we recognise today.
The chocolate tasting session - complete with scoring sheets and samples of 5 different (anonymous!) Thornton's chocolate - proved a great success. As always, Nicholas of Star Anise Café provided us with a delicious vegetarian supper which we ate outside on a lovely, balmy summer evening.
Sonja Fletcher made a surprise presentation of a colourful bouquet to Susie Amann, our retiring Treasurer, on behalf of all of us in SBN. Susie has been Treasurer since SBN began; her work on our behalf over the years is much appreciated. By the way: Susie is also Jonathan's wife and co-proprietor of Special Occasions. It was she who suggested SBN members might like the idea of a chocolate tasting.
Thanks for everything, Susie!
Promote your Business with Confidence 28 April 2009
SBN’s first training workshop on 28 April, Promote your Business with Confidence, proved very popular with 40 women attending from all over Gloucestershire (one came from Swansea!). Thanks to Miranda Jenkins of Skills to Go for providing such an enjoyable and valuable morning, and to all the delegates who joined in the exercises with gusto.
We are already thinking about SBN's next training session, so let us know which topics, themes, subjects would interest YOU! Email enquiries@stroudbusinesswomen.org.uk
Special offers and events
Our regular newsletter includes news of events, offers, networking opportunities, exhibitions, fairs - to name but a few! Our May 2009 edition included discounts for members on treatments and artwork, as well as information on substantial grants available for training for small businesses.
If you would like to hear more, then sign up for our newsletter or contact enquiries@stroudbusinesswomen.org.uk for more details.
Stroud Businesswomen's Network have members working in many different product and service areas. They work in and around Stroud, Gloucester, Cirencester, Stonehouse, Nailsworth, Tetbury and throughout Gloucestershire and the surrounding counties.
Our members products/services include :-
Accountancy & Bookeeping, Advertising & Copywriting , Art Services , Beauty & Hairdressing , Building Services, Business Consultancy , Business Training , Catering & Event Management , Children's theatre ,
Complementary Health , Counselling & Coaching Services , Curtains & blinds , Financial Consultant ,
Graphic Design , Hypnotherapy , Image Consultancy , Interior Design , Insurance Broker , IT Services , Jewellery , Journalism , Lingerie , Marketing , Mortgage Advisor , On site chair massage , Office Support ,
Photography & Photographs , Retail , Telecomms & Utilities , Website Design, Hosting & Marketing , Wedding accessories , Will writing , Writers & Publishers
Our members :-
Susie Amann, Helena Angeledis, Karen Blaylock, Lynda McGill, Tricia Skitt, Ann Adler , Sue Bradley , Dianne Bradshaw , Lucy Byatt , Liz Chapman , Nadine Constant , Nicki Cook , Clare Corley , Ruth Davey , Tanya De Leersnyder , Janet Dedman , Debbie Fildew , Sonja Fletcher , Wendy Gilbert , Jennifer Gillespie , Jane Hobdell , Annabel Hollis , Jane Holzgrawe , Patricia Jefferies , Stella Jensen , Sharon Jew , Charlotte Kemp , Geraldine Lander , Desiree Latimer , Heather McLennan , Narjas Mehdi , Dummy Member , Inga Milner , Helyn Morris , Mandy Norman , Ros O'Neill , Pam Paradise , Jackie Peet , Sally Phillips , Jenny Price , Allison Priestman , Tricia Prince , Randa Qubti , Angela Railton , Jan Rice-Tarry , Mikala Ritzau , Jackie Rowanly , Berith Sandgren-Clarke , Selinna Simms - Juke , Sharon St. Clare , Carole Stagg , Caroline Staunton , Claire Thomas , Noelle Walsh , Helen Wood
Please visit our Member Directory for more information.