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Chamber Events
Upcoming Events
Over the past year, Hertfordshire Chamber of Commerce have gradually been returning to live events alongside our webinars.
We will continue to do so as long as it is safe and in accordance with current government guidelines, in order to continue supporting our members and non-members and to provide vital information that businesses may need. If the decision is made to postpone any of our events or to move them online, you will be notified as soon as possible.
With our members and benefit partners we have designed our events programme to cover a variety of topics:
Looking After Family Business
Date: 05/05/2022 Time: 08:45 – 11:00 Venue: Marriot Hanbury Manor Hotel & Country Club, Ware Price: FREE
Do you pass on your family business to the next generation or sell it? Does the next generation want the business and have the expertise to run it? Are all the family in agreement about selling?
A hallmark of many family businesses is the informality of relationships within the organisation, based on the assumption that family ties can overcome any and all business challenges. Experience shows that this assumption is flawed. You need to know what options are available when it comes to the question of succession or sale.
Join us at this free to attend breakfast seminar on 5th May at Hanbury Manor Hotel, Ware, and hear from an expert panel of solicitors from Longmores Solicitors, who will discuss the options for succession or sale, how to prepare for either eventuality and how to avoid the common pitfalls.
Early booking is advised for this established, popular event for family businesses.
Delegates are encouraged to join in and ask the panel questions. If preferred, questions can be emailed in advance to bookings@hertschamber.com
Please note that bookings are limited to two places per company.
Our Speakers:
Michael Budd
Partner and Head of Company Commercial
Richard Horwood
Partner and Head of Private Client
John Wiblin
Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution
Richard Gvero
Joint Senior Partner, Head of Commercial and Head of Employment
BUSINESS BREAKFAST with Dobsons
Date: 11/05/22 Time: 08:30 – 10:30 Venue: Dobsons Home Specialists, Cheshunt Price: FREE
Join us at the fabulous Dobsons Home Specialists showrooms in Cheshunt, for a light breakfast and refreshments, followed by a networking opportunity, providing the chance to meet with a variety of different business people in an informal atmosphere, to listen and share experiences.
Please note, there are limited places at this event, with a maximum of two places per company.
bookings@hertschamber.com or www.hertschamber.com
BUSINESS BREAKFAST with Herts Chamber
Date: 17/05/22 Time: 08:30 – 10:30 Venue: Knebworth Barns Conference and Banqueting Centre Price: Members £15.00 +VAT Non Members £22.00 +VAT
Join us on Tuesday 17th May, from 08.30-10:30am, at Knebworth Barns Conference and Banqueting Centre, for a light breakfast and refreshments, followed by a pure networking opportunity, providing the chance to meet with a variety of different people in an informal atmosphere, to share contact details and create new business opportunities. This event is sponsored by Steven Eagell Toyota and Lexus Hatfield.
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise Launch
Once again, Hertfordshire Chamber of Commerce are delighted to announce the launch of The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, taking place virtually on Thursday 19th May 2022, from 11:00-12:00 noon.
The Chamber is hosting the launch of these Awards to promote their importance and encourage businesses within Hertfordshire to submit entries. We are delighted to bring you this event in partnership with the Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership. The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are highly prestigious awards, given in recognition of outstanding achievement by UK businesses, across the following four categories: • Innovation • International Trade • Sustainable Development • Promoting Opportunity through
Social Mobility
Mark Bretton, Chair, Hertfordshire LEP and Chair of the LEP Network,
will discuss the role played by the Hertfordshire LEP in support of county-wide businesses. We are also pleased to announce that
HM Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire,
Robert Voss CBE, CStJ will be joining us to emphasize the significance of these awards.
In addition, we will hear from a number of Hertfordshire-based past winners of Queen’s Awards and learn about the benefits that winning one of these important awards has brought to their organisation.
Sarah Minney, Social Media and
Stakeholder Manager, and Will Arndt,
Deputy Head at The Queen’s Awards Office, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
will explain how to enter these awards and provide some top tips for entrants.
Adam Train, Brand Manager – UK Acute Healthcare, GAMA Healthcare
will discuss their entry and how winning one of these prestigious awards has benefitted their organisation.
Mark Bretton
Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)
Robert Voss CBE CStJ
HM Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire
Upcoming Events
Virtual Networking Opportunity
Date: 24/05/22 Time: 11:00 – 12:00 Venue: ZOOM Price: Members FREE Non-Members £15.00 + VAT
Join us on Tuesday 24th May at 11am for our next Virtual Networking Opportunity! These popular webinars are a fantastic opportunity to enjoy the powers of networking, providing the chance to meet with a variety of different business people in an informal atmosphere, to listen and share experiences whilst working remotely. Each participant will be given the opportunity to introduce themselves and their business. N.B. Any non-member attending this meeting who subsequently signs up for Chamber membership within one week (i.e. by 31/05/2022) will receive a full refund of the cost of attending this webinar.
MAY CHAMBER Lunch
Date: 26/05/22 Time: 12:00 – 14:30 Venue: Herts County Showground, Redbourn Price: Members £39.00 +VAT Non-Members £49.00 +VAT
Our guest speaker Mandy Hickson, former Fighter Pilot, will share her inspirational journey to become a pioneering female fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force and the transferable skills she has gained for her new career as a performance coach.
Join us for our May Chamber Lunch, taking place at the Herts County Showground, Redbourn, on the 26th May, and sponsored by the Ministry of Defence (MOD).
Use this opportunity to network and meet with new business contacts, while enjoying a delicious lunch.
Mandy Hickson has over 30 years experience within aviation. She joined the Royal Air Force in 1994 and flew the Tornado GR4 on the front line, where she operated in hostile environments, including patrolling the ‘No Fly’ zone over Iraq.
Since leaving the RAF she retrained as a facilitator and coach in human performance factors. Drawing on her experience of calculated risk-taking, decision-making under pressure and the critical role of the human in the system, she transfers vivid lessons from the cockpit to other management and leadership contexts.
Hertfordshire County Show
28 - 29 May 2022
The Hertfordshire County Show is one of our county’s flagship events – a celebration of everything county, country living, food and farming offering something special for each and every one of the 35,000+ visitors! Organised by the Hertfordshire Agricultural Society, a registered charity whose aims is to educate our Hertfordshire communities and celebrate food, farming and our glorious countryside. All profits from these events support educational work through which they engage with local schools, children, and communities. Herts Chamber will be hosting a marquee over the weekend, for the highly anticipated Entrepreneurs Challenge! We look forward to seeing you there.
Members wanting to book in advance for the show, can use the online discount code: ebHertsChamber to receive 10% off the full ticket price!
bookings@hertschamber.com or www.hertschamber.com
Your opportunity to help shape a state of the art CONSTRUCTION CENTRE
Oaklands College will be investing £15m to create a new, state of the art construction centre on its St Albans Campus.
The Centre, which is aimed for completion by December 2024, will be the regional hub for delivering the latest skills and construction methods and supporting the region’s construction sector.
Oaklands College is keen to ensure that the Centre, both the physical building and the skills taught within it, are informed by the sector and its current and future skills needs.
This online event on 17th June from 10am to 11:30am, is an opportunity for you to see their plans and to input into the Centre and the curriculum. At the event we will hear from: • Andrew Slade, Oaklands new Principal, who will outline the College’s refreshed strategy and its vision for the
Construction Centre • Harpreet Nagra, Deputy Principal, will outline the construction curriculum • Nolan Smith, Director, and Dan Porter, Associate
Director, Fusion Project Management, the College’s architects, will discuss the details of the Centre’s design. Most importantly, the event is an opportunity for you to input into the planning of the building and the skills that are taught within it. This event should be of interest to any potential users of the new Centre, including:
• Businesses in the property and construction sector and associated services • Current and potential students • Tutors and other staff
Take the opportunity to join us at this free to attend webinar and participate in the shaping of this exciting new state of the art Construction Centre.
HERTFORDSHIRE PA CLUB:
The Magic of Storytelling
Date: 23/06/22 Time: 12:00 – 14:00 Venue: The Riding School, Hatfield House Price: Members FREE Non Members £10.00 +VAT
The Hertfordshire PA Club is a free benefit for members, designed specifically for Personal, Virtual and Executive Assistants, to enable you to share your ideas and thoughts with other like-minded colleagues.
Join us on Thursday 23rd June 2022 at the Riding School, Hatfield House for a delicious complimentary buffet lunch. Our speaker Martin Gladdish, Ghostwriter and Author at The Business Ghost will explore The Magic of Storytelling: For your personal life, working day and changing the world. From cave paintings, smoke signals and papyrus scrolls to broadsheet newspapers and today’s neverending streams of social media, stories have been making the world go round for millennia. In this magicfilled presentation, Martin will unravel the hidden secrets of storytelling, demonstrate how stories can change hearts and minds, and teach you to utilise the power of stories to change your world: at work, at home, and everywhere you go.
Martin Gladdish
Martin Gladdish is a ghostwriter of business books and blogs by day, and a close-up magician whenever he gets the chance. He has been a freelance writer for the last 17 years and has published two books under his name while being the uncredited pen behind dozens of publications for his clients. Martin also performs table magic at corporate dinners and charity events when he is not hiding behind a keyboard.
