The Informer January 2017

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Member in the Spotlight

Peter Jones Foundation

Greg Tufnell of Prime Advantage reveals how he enables SMEs to grow their businesses

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Discover our new initiative helping young people enjoy a brighter future

I n f o r m e r Issue 01

January 2017

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IT’S ALL IN THE MIND Unlock the secret to unravelling the matrix of the mind and reach your peak potential in today’s business world

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EDITOR’S LETTER

ADAM BLASKEY FOUNDER & CEO The Clubhouse

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aim is to make you and your business more successful and this month we have lined up two great events to help fulfill this.

To ensure 2017 gets off to the most productive and inspiring start, on 24 January there is a seminar not to be missed on how to achieve and sustain peak performance in business and beyond, run by Potential Project, global leaders in providing organisational effectiveness programmes based on mindfulness. In this age of unprecedented speed, information overload, complexity, change and distraction, if you have any questions on how to succeed in 2017 this is for you. Turn the page for further details.

On 25 January, please join us for what is set to be an incredibly inspiring evening with Will Butler-Adams OBE, MD of Brompton Bikes, the company behind the unique folding

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bicycle. Brompton now makes over 45,000 bikes a year and is the country’s largest bike manufacturer. This is a true British success story so come and find out how the business has grown so auspiciously and what challenges they’ve overcome along the way.

This month, our Member in the Spotlight features Greg Tufnell, co-founder of Prime Advantage and one of our first members.

A successful retailer, having run both Burton and Mothercare, Greg knows what it takes to succeed in business, and in running Prime Advantage, he works directly with SMEs as a highly experienced business growth and corporate finance advisor.

From all of us at The Clubhouse, I hope you have a successful and productive 2017, and if there is anything we can help you with, please let us know.

Make tomorrow’s to-do list today Spend the last moment of your day making your hit list for the morning, so when you arrive at your desk you can be instantly productive.

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Happy New Year and welcome to the first issue of The Informer, our new monthly publication. We are really proud of this inaugural issue in which you will find out what’s happening in The Clubhouse and the surrounding area this January. Each month we will put one of our members in the spotlight to showcase some of the amazing things they are up to and we’ll keep you informed about all of our forthcoming events.

I launched The Clubhouse in 2012 having been frustrated by meeting important clients in uninspiring and unproductive places around London. Today The Clubhouse is London’s leading business club and meeting space, providing the smarter alternative to an office for over 300 amazing companies.

But it’s not just about providing you with a base in which to work and meet – our

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MINDFULNESS

LOUISE CHESTER & ERICK RINNER Potential Project

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It’s all in the mind

aturally at this time of year, we take stock of our habits, both personal and professional. Spending time assessing how you are approaching your business life is vital and the period following a relaxing festive break is ideal to renew our focus and review our objectives. But such an undertaking can be easier said than done. Enter the Potential Project: the leading global provider of organisational effectiveness programmes based on mindfulness.

Their mission is to help an organisation achieve its strategic objectives by enhancing performance, creativity and resilience.

Their UK experts, Mindfulness at Work, have been leading evidence-based, organisational mindfulness training since 2010, introducing over 10,000 people a year to their award-winning offerings. They have unsurpassed experience of designing and delivering a wide range of highly effective mindfulness performance and resilience programmes for the workplace, to enable personal and organisational excellence. But in this age of unprecedented speed, information overload, complexity, change and distraction, what qualities do we really need to succeed?

The tools of enhanced focus, clarity of mind and resilience are vital for the modern workplace, to enable you to maintain high performance, whatever the challenges. Over 350 global organisations, from Accenture to Genentech, Google to Microsoft, have employed these mindfulness techniques and now so can you. Louise Chester, founder of Mindfulness at Work and managing director of Potential Project UK, and Erick Rinner, partner at Potential Project International, TEDx speaker and founder of Milestone Capital, are coming to The Clubhouse, St James’s, to run a dedicated workshop for our members. Louise and Erick will draw both on their senior careers in financial markets, as well as their deep experience of designing and facilitating interventions for a wide variety of organisations, to deliver a practical workshop at The Clubhouse.

It’s all very well having a developed business plan or a detailed five-year strategy at the ready, but to have true presence in meetings, maintain mental clarity whatever comes your way and meet every opportunity presented in peak condition, it’s wise to have a few mindful tricks up your sleeve. ● potentialproject.com

TUESDAY 24 JANUARY, 8AM BREAKFAST FOR 8.30-10.30AM SEMINAR. £45 MEMBERS/£65 NON-MEMBERS

At the workshop Take a deep dive into the practical techniques that enable us to unlock our full potential and sustain peak performance.

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Investigate multitasking, uncovering the secret of the matrix of mental effectiveness and how we can develop insight.

Examine the neurological basis of performance breaks, the advantages of power pauses and learn how to reset body and mind.

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Bring beginner’s mind to some business basics such as meetings – sharing techniques proven to turn us all into meeting ninjas.

Explore presence, what it means for us and how to build and maintain a powerful presence in all areas of our life.

MEMBER STRAPLINE IN THE SPOTLIGHT

GREG TUFNELL CO-FOUNDER Prime Advantage

Prime Advantage has recently helped launch bestofbritannia.com, showcasing the country’s finest designers

Ga in in g the a d va n ta g e CH: Tell us about yourself and your company.

I have spent most of my career in multichannel, international retail having been a director at Next, managing director at Burton and then CEO of Mothercare. For the last 15 years, I have worked in the SME marketplace with listed, private-equity-backed and owner/ driver businesses. I now run a portfolio of several businesses across retail and outside retail where I act as chairman, non-executive director and board advisor.

I co-founded Prime Advantage in 2011.

It is a business growth and corporate finance consultancy specialising in the SME sector.

We work directly with founders, owners and stakeholders developing strategies that inspire growth, create value and maximise wealth. The focus is on peer-to-peer, direct, hands-on practical advice.

The main purpose of Prime Advantage is to address the fact that every year in the UK 250,000 businesses start, which is fantastic, but at the same time 250,000 fail, so not so good. Prime Advantage tries to help those that start succeed and those that have started avoid failure.

CH: What’s your biggest success so far?

We recently sold a marine towage business to an Australian private-equity-backed operator for two and a half times the value of the company compared to when we began advising the business two years ago.

CH: What project are you most excited about right now?

We have just helped launch bestofbritannia. com, which is an e-commerce platform focused on British brands that are only made in Britain. The site represents incredible craftsmanship and passion.

CH: How has being a member of The Clubhouse improved the way you work or contributed to the success of your business?

Above all it has offered a professional and welcoming environment for our existing and potential clients.

CH: Where can members find you?

At The Clubhouse, Mayfair most of the time. ● primeadvantageadvisory.com

The main purpose of Prime Advantage is to address the fact that every year in the UK 250,000 businesses start, which is fantastic, but at the same time 250,000 fail, so not so good

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QUICK-FIRE ROUND

Tea of coffee?

Tea Favourite place to go in London (apart from The Clubhouse obviously!)

The Emirates, Lords or Twickenham Who inspires you and why?

Anyone that is trying to start, build and grow their own business and keeps trying What’s the best bit of advice you’ve ever been given?

“We’ve got no money... we are going to have to think” If you were on an island and could only bring three things, what would you bring?

It would have to be five, my children Which super power would you like to have?

To be able to eat and drink everything I like and not put on weight Are you an early bird or night owl?

Both, I run my own business What is the worst business ‘faux-pas’ you’ve committed?

Presenting a new season’s colour palette for a retail fashion business to an investor who was colour blind

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EVENTS WHAT’S THIS HAPPENING? MONTH

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Achieving and sustaining peak performance in business and beyond

An Evening with Will Butler-Adams OBE, MD of Brompton Bikes

TUESDAY 24 JANUARY 8AM BREAKFAST 8.30-10.30AM SEMINAR £45 MEMBERS £65 NON-MEMBERS In this age of unprecedented speed, information overload, complexity, change and distraction, what qualities do we need to succeed? This workshop will introduce you to the tools required to maintain high performance through enhanced focus, clarity of mind and resilience, whatever the challenges. Learn practical techniques to enable you to unlock your potential by being more present.

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WEDNESDAY 25 JANUARY 6.30PM FREE TO MEMBERS £25 NON-MEMBERS The unique Brompton folding bike was designed and built in London in 1975

by Andrew Ritchie in his flat in South Kensington opposite the Brompton Oratory. Since Will Butler-Adams took the helm of Brompton Bikes in 2002, the business has grown from 24 staff to over 240. Still made in London today, Brompton is making over 45,000 bikes per year and is the UK’s largest bike manufacturer.

Louise Chester

Erick Rinner

Will Butler-Adams

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The late Michael Andrews was one of Britain’s leading post-war painters who was often associated with the School of London, a circle of figurative painters which notably included Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, R. B. Kitaj and Leon Kossoff. Andrews was a notoriously slow painter and during his lifetime had few solo exhibitions. The Gagosian next to The Clubhouse, Mayfair celebrates his works in ‘Earth Air Water’.

Damian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo return to the West End to star in the darkly comic masterpiece, Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? Martin (Lewis) is at the pinnacle of life: he has a loving wife and son, a hugely successful career as an architect, and the commission of a lifetime, but when he embarks upon an improbable and impossible love affair from which there is no return, familial relationships begin to collapse.

Set in a sophisticated yet relaxing interior of muted colours alongside huge expanses of light grey Italian marble, San Carlo Cicchetti on Piccadilly reinterprets the delightful Venetian culinary custom of cicchetti – delicious small plate dishes to share or eat alone.

The place was bustling when we ate there for lunch with seats at tables or along the bar turning quickly. The Burrata with parma ham and black truffle was our favourite.

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GIVING BACK

A he l p i n g h a n d f o r tomorrow’s entrepreneurs Collaborating with entrepreneurial programmes and celebrating success is the key to unlocking Britain’s next generation of innovators. Join us in extending a helping hand.

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hen guest speakers come to The Clubhouse, there’s often a common thread in their stories — they caught the business bug at a young age and wanted to build something they could be proud of. It’s a trait The Clubhouse admires and identifies with enormously, so it is a natural progression that we have become a corporate patron of the Peter Jones Foundation.

Founded in 2005 by Peter Jones CBE and with HRH The Duke of York as its patron, we are delighted to be supporting their work by donating £1 from every meeting room booking to the charity. Last year we hosted over 4,500 individual meetings at The Clubhouse and this year we hope to host over 5,500 so the more meeting rooms you book with us, the more we can assist the charity. It’s an easy way to benefit your business, their work and inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs.

The Clubhouse’s purpose is closely aligned to the goals of the Peter Jones Foundation, making it a perfect link up. Peter Jones CBE commented: “The Peter Jones Foundation is thrilled to partner with The Clubhouse, one of London’s most prestigious business clubs. It is great to join forces with a business that shares a very similar mission to our own: to make entrepreneurs and their businesses more successful. I look forward to all that lies ahead!”

Adam Blaskey, founder and CEO of The Clubhouse, said: “I am very proud to announce that The Clubhouse has become a corporate patron of the Peter Jones Foundation, a fantastic charity that helps young people reach their potential through a range of educational activities and initiatives that champion and celebrate entrepreneurship.”

Driving the Foundation forward is the belief that all young people deserve access to education. Through different schemes, including the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy and Tycoon in Schools, the next generation have the opportunity to acquire the skills they need from the outset. At The Clubhouse our continuous aim is to make our members and their business more successful — we believe that no potential entrepreneur should lose that opportunity, whatever their age, and that budding businesses should have a helping hand. So book a meeting room for your business needs knowing you are encouraging the dragons of the future. ● Book your next meeting room online at theclubhouselondon.com/meeting-rooms Visit peterjonesfoundation.org for more information

FOUNDATION AIMS

EDUCATE Achieve a transformational change in the quality and accessibility of enterprising and entrepreneurial skills, education and learning available in the UK. This involves working with leading educational bodies and providers across the country.

ENCOURAGE Excite all budding entrepreneurs across the nation, through a range of national campaigns, to follow their business dreams and encourage a culture of enterprise and entrepreneurship in Britain.

SUPPORT Provide effective support to young people across the UK who are at various stages of their lives or in many different circumstances, in a variety of ways.

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