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Chamber Events
MARCH
Free Fore Business Golf & Networking Thursday 19th March 7 AM - 1 PM Venue: Silvermere Golf Club, Surrey www The Wandsworth Big Breakfast BREXIT - What happens next Wednesday 25th March 8-10 AM Venue: Chelsea Bridge Pestana Hotel & Spa Battersea
www Wandsworth Young Chamber Start-Ups - All you need to know Thursday 26th March 6-8 PM Venue: University of Roehampton - Frobel College
APRIL Rosslyn Park Business Club with Wandsworth Chamber Wednesday 1st April 6-8.30 PM Rosslyn Park RFC
www Earlsfield Business Networking Wednesday 8th April 6-9 PM Venue in Earlsfield: The Earlsfield P.H. www Putney Business Networking Wednesday 15th April 6-8 PM Venue: TBC
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MAY
Barclays Business Briefing Monday 4th May 6-8.30 PM Venue: Barclays Bank Clapham Junction
JUNE
Metro Monday Monday 1st June 6-8.30 PM Venue: TBC
www Rosslyn Park RFC Business Club with Wandsworth Chamber Wednesday 3rd June 6-8.30 PM Venue: Rosslyn Park RFC www Earlsfield Business Networking
Wednesday 13th May
6-9 PM
Venue: TBC
www House of Commons
Thursday 21st May
6-8 PM
Vanue: House of Commons
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Earlsfield Business Networking
Wednesday 10th June 6-9 PM
Venue: TBC
6-8 PM Venue: TBC
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For further details go to www.wandsworthchamber.org/events
WELCOME to new members
Abbey Robb Therapies 6 Kimble Rd SW19 2AS 07754 292813 abbey@abbeyrobbtherapies.co.uk
AFC Wimbledon Cherry Red Records Stadium 422a Jack Goodchild Way KT1 3PB 020 8547 3336 commercial@afcwimbledon.co.uk
Beehiveit Limited 73 Hassocks Road SW16 5HA 07748772903 dmohan@beehiveit.co.uk
Chaka Travel 32 Cannon Close London SW20 9HA 07597852188 sean@chakatravel.com
Christian P. Kerrigan Architecture 64 Southwark Bridge Road SE1 0AS 07947784357 studio@christianpkerrigan.com
Clover CV 71 Alderbrook Road SW12 8AD 07986298367 hdmsilver@hotmail.co.uk
Easy Shipping Ltd Unit 15-16, Liongate Enterprise Park 80 Morden Road CR4 4NY 0208 6489092 info@easyshipping.co.uk
Ecogenie Clean Ltd T/A NIC Services Group 9 Munslow Gardens Sutton SM1 3RN 07876756472 sdavid@nicgroup.co.uk
Frost Architects Ltd Studio 305 The Light Bulb 1 Filament Walk SW18 4GQ 02071838345 d.frost@frostarchitects.com
Fulham Palace Trust Fulham Palace Trust, Bishop’s Avenue Fulham SW6 6EA 020 7610 7161 sian.harrington@fulhampalace.org
GetFoundDigital.co.uk 195 Derry Court 386 Streatham High Road SW16 6BF
richard@getfounddigital.co.uk
Groundwork London 18-21 Morley Street London SW17 7QZ
07809 202551 bryn.cochrane-milne@groundwork.org.uk
Metro Bank
89-93 Putney High Street Putney SW15 1SR carl.maw@metrobank.plc.uk
nucleus of change London Balham High Road SW17 7JE francine@nucleusofchange.com
Peachy Communications Limited 19 Baskerville Road SW18 3RW 07949231442
peachycommunicationslimited@gmail.com
Peter Aguma - Utility Consultant 39 Swanwick Close Roehampton SW15 4EF 07886295484 peter@wesaveumore.co.uk
Putney PC Huntingfield Road SW15 5EA 07941940552 info@putneypc.co.uk
Raethian Solutions Limited T/A Business Doctors 42 Elton Close KT1 4EE 02089778317 oreste.maspes@businessdoctors.co.uk
Sapiens Media Coaching 07772682331 ceccatomarta@sapiensmediacoaching.com
The Pet Stop 296 Trinity Road Wandsworth Common SW18 3RG donniemorgan@gmail.com
Sustainability of people and planet a key focus Bridget and Laurence Callaghan WELL KNEADED LTD www.wellkneadedfood.com
Q1 Tell us a bit about your business? We are known for making sustainable and innovative sourdough pizza. Sustainability of people and planet are at the heart of Well Kneaded and we were founded to provide employment opportunities to young people facing disadvantage. We are ever innovating our menu in the pizzeria with sustainable, seasonal local ingredients and processes at the heart. Q2 What gives your business ‘the x-factor’? Our team, our care for our product and the people that work for us and that we serve and our menu that showcases the best of British seasonality. A current special is Soft Salami (made by local charcutiers, Tempus), Rhubarb, Mozzarella (British) and tomato. Q3 What motivated you to set up in business? Bridget had been a youth worker on the Winstanley estate and saw a need for helping local young people gain confidence and experience in order to be able to get and thrive in a job. She started off with a pizza van in 2011, catering local events and then weddings and street food markets. It was only in 2018 that the Pizzeria in Earlsfield was born. Q4 What do you like most about working for start up? The combination of seeing our team as our extended family, and also constantly innovating our product so that it is truly becoming ever more sustainable and excellent, keeps us creative and on our toes. Q5 What has been your greatest business success to date? Within our first year of trading we won an award at the Street Food Awards, for our pizza pie- that was great. Last year, in 2019, Bridget was recognized as a winner in the Urban Food Awards under the ‘women in food’ category- another great moment for us! Best of all, was expanding from a food truck to our earlsfield pizzeria Q6 What has been your lowest moment ? Being housed most of the time in a vintage van proves to have as many complications as successes. Before we used a tow to get it around, the van broke down and we had to sleep overnight in it in a service station, waiting to be rescued. Q7 In terms of business achievements, where do you want to be within the next year 5 years ? We would love to have a local mill to mill our own flour, and that be part of our business model. We really want to be able to have as wider impact as possible on consumer food habits, to inspire and help people to have as lower impact on the planet in their consuming patterns as possible. We also want to widen the platform we have to be able to offer more employment opportunities to young people locally. Q8 What would be your top tip to someone thinking of starting up their own business? Sometimes you have a vision and just need to start rolling with it, but you can really mitigate the tricky times by having a really clear strategy, although you can’t be sure that your strategy will work. Having clear goals and aims and focus really helps you stay on track. Also think about the impact your business has, and the impact you want it to have. Purpose is everything!
