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We have arranged a meeting of the Business Network on Monday 2nd June 2008 at Enterprise House. The speaker will be John Dee, an advisor from Business Link. If you have plans and aspirations for your business in the near future I'd urge you to attend. Whether you are a new or an established business there will be something to interest you. John will talk about the support that Business Link can offer us - whether it's just a 2 hour consultation or something more long-term. We hope that many of you will take up the offer of a short consultation and we hope to be arranging these at Enterprise House in the near future. I believe that if you attend you'll go away with one REALLY USEFUL lead to follow up. The talk will start at 5.45pm and, as usual, there will be refreshments. I do hope that you can come. If you have not come to a meeting before they are very informal - it's a bit like going to the pub!

Posted by Mike Ashwell on 10 May 2008

Better Welcome Project needs support from local businesses
The Better Welcome Project has proposed improvements to the access from the Auction Yard Car Park and Church Street (via the lane between The Kings Head and Pugh's Butchery). Please read the report better-welcome-project-final-report.pdf and comment direct to Jane Carroll (jane@oldtime.co.uk). This could represent a fairly significant improvement to a rather shabby bit of the Town. Please support.

The Business Network is now affiliated to the Shroshire Chamber. Mike & Simon Pearson (Tersus ltd) attended a lunch and presentation at Telford Golf Club on 22 February 2008 (pity really as we don't play golf!). The benefits of this liaison will become apparent in the near future. The Chamber are offerring all affiliated networks and chambers funds to help with running and towards projects that each group identifies as important.

Posted by Mike Ashwell on 29th February 2008

Next meeting is 30th January 2008 @ Enterprise House. Main speaker is Dave Green from the Wastless Society. He'll give the group 10 top tips for running a greener business. We'll also briefly discuss a few issues relating to our involvement with the Shropshire Chamber.

Posted by Mike Ashwell on 18/01/2008

On 29th October 5.30 - 6.30 there will be a meeting of the network. Lisa Bedford (SSDC) will give us a presentation on the Retail Study that was done throughout South Shropshire last year. I went to a similar presentation at Craven Arms and found it most interesting - interestingly no-one at that meeting was a retailer but we all found it very revealing! Also, you'll get the chance to to view and put your card onto the new bishopscastle.biz boards in the lobby at Enterprise House. We have space for about 80 and in the 10 days we have filled about 25%. If you had already entered your info onto the website prior to Aug 1st we will have produced a card for you - if you have done it any later then you'll need to do your own - the cards must be A6 (landscape) and on card. The boards are getting a lot of interest from our (average) 200 visits a day and so it's a great place to promote your business to the local population.

Posted by Mike Ashwell on 11/09/2007

The Network met on Monday 11th June, 5.30pm @ Enterprise House and looked at the shropshire.biz and the bishopscastle.biz websites. Presentation by Andy Corbett of PerfectArc to show the business search features of the shrop.biz site and how this would interact with the bishopscatle.biz site.