On Friday 22 May we held our members’ lunch at St James Hotel in Nottingham.
Kindly sponsored by Baker Tilly, over 130 members and guests gathered to hear about the latest developments across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
Paul Southby opened proceedings and announced that he would be stepping down as Chairman of NMB with immediate effect, to take on the role of Chairman of Marketing Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. This new place marketing organisation for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire will combine tourism, inward investment and business to promote the city and county both nationally and internationally.
Richard King, Office Managing Partner at Baker Tilly, sponsors of the lunch then took to the stage followed by Adam Tamsett from intu who provided an update on regeneration plans for intu Broadmarsh and intu Victoria Centre.
Adam was followed by Ian Curryer, Chief Executive of Nottingham City Council who outlined how Nottingham is moving from a ‘good to great’ city.
Ian invited members to donate to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library initiative that the City Council is involved in, raising over £120. A winner will be drawn at random and will be contacted directly by the City Council to arrange collection of tickets to the Aegon Open.
If you’d still like to donate to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, please visit – www.dollybooksnottingham.org
L-R: Sean Akins, Simon Gray, Richard King and colleagues from Baker Tilly, Ian Curryer and Paul Southby outside St James Hotel.
Richard King from Baker Tilly welcomes members and guests.
After the member update from Simon Gray, Sean Akins was announced as the new Acting Chairman of Nottingham Means Business.
Sean Akins – new Acting Chairman of Nottingham Means Business.
To view photos from the lunch, please visit – www.neilhoylephotography.com. Click on the green Client Area icon towards the foot of the first page and on job 220515-1. The password is PAUL (case sensitive).
A big thank you to St James Hotel for hosting, our sponsors Baker Tilly, speakers, members and guests.
We look forward to seeing many of you at our Annual Review meeting on 10 June and #CC2015 on 17 June – places are being taken fast, so please reserve yours early.