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SBC Chairman’s Report to the AGM - 5 December
2006
We have had an excellent
year. As our Treasurer Ian Kent will report, we are
on a sound financial footing thanks to careful planning,
and the injection of funds from another EU Leadership
Skills event held in June. We were also helped financially
by the fact that Business Link Surrey sponsored our
March meeting, so our thanks once again to them. This
means we can still afford to run our HeadStart discounted
membership for new businesses.
We like to run some events
open to non-members, to expand the networking opportunities
for members. This year, apart from the Leadership
Skills meeting, we have held a joint meeting with
the Lightwater Business Association, and a SpeedNetwork
100 event.
We have as usual tried
out some new venues – Sheerwater Community Centre,
Kingswood Golf Club, St John’s Merrow and Cuddington
Golf Club. Our meetings timetable for 2006 looked
like this:
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January: Buying &
Selling Businesses for Profit
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February: Motivation
for Success – Dr Joe Gelona
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March: Business Link
Surrey & Marketing Skills
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April: Professional
Telephone Skills
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May: Computer Troubleshooters
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June: Leadership
Skills - Len Goss & Bev Hamilton
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July: Business &
the Law - Frankie Tierney
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August: Club Summer
BBQ
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September: Human
Face of Technology - Sam & Tema (Gravity) &
Tom Evans
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October: Speed Network
100 – Heather Nichols
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November: Insurance
& Marketing - Eddie Barnes & Nick Schreider
The Committee has now
taken the Club online, conducting Club business by
email in place of meetings. We have discontinued the
printed monthly Newsletter and replaced it with an
online one which can go out to all on our contact
list at no extra cost. Our website has for years been
the UK’s best business club site, and is now
better than ever in terms of content and usability.
I am pleased to acknowledge
the efforts of two new Committee Members – Linda
Haynes and Paul Cawthorne - who were both co-opted
onto the Committee early in 2006. Linda has been our
Membership Secretary for years, and Paul runs the
structured networking sessions at the start of each
Club Meeting. I’m glad they agreed to join the
Committee, and trust that the meeting will formally
elect them tonight.
In summary then, we are
set fair financially for now, and have the infrastructure
in place to provide members with countless networking
and professional development opportunities for another
year.
I have a new challenge
for the Club as a whole. When I became Chairman we
had 52 Members – and today we have 53. Let’s
see if we can increase that number by this time next
year. We can’t rely on EU funding to keep us
solvent – the Club must be able to survive on
member’s subscriptions in the longer term -
so please tell everybody you know what great value
(and good fun!) SBC offers its members.
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