A big thank you to everyone who attended our November lunch held at Nottingham Racecourse, which was kindly sponsored by Arup.
Following an introduction from Neil Harrison from Arup, Mark Fahy from the London Stock Exchange and Paul Southby from Marketing Nottingham and Nottinghamshire presented to a packed audience of over 100 members and guests.
Mark explained how the London Stock Exchange works to support businesses through its ELITE UK programme and focused specifically on the East Midlands, examining the trends in the IPO market and setting out benefits and challenges for companies that may consider an IPO as part of their future growth strategy.
Drinks ahead of dining at Nottingham Racecourse.
Neil Harrison from sponsors Arup addresses members and guests.
Mark Fahy from the London Stock Exchange.
Paul provided an update on the activity of Marketing Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and how this new organisation will work to promote the city and county to inward investors, business and leisure visitors and how NMB will play a key role in business engagement.
Also, focusing on one of the three pillars that NMB is built upon, we welcomed four students from Nottingham Trent University. Mentored by Simon Gray from NMB they have been taking part in a £10 Challenge run by the Institute of Directors to raise money for The John van Geest Cancer Research Centre.
NMB’s ‘Inspire’ mission aims to encourage the next generation of entrepreneurs to start businesses here and to showcase the range of opportunities that exist in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire across a diverse range of industry sectors. Aptly named ‘Team Inspire’ they worked on a number of initiatives to raise money for this worthy cause and all gained new skills and experience as part of the process.
‘Team Inspire’ with Simon Gray (NMB) at the last lunch of the year.
Thanks again to Neil Hoyle for the photographs. To view these, please visit – www.neilhoylephotography.com – then click on the green Client Area icon towards the foot of the first page. Click on your job 201115-1 and enter COLWICK (case sensitive) as the password.
This was the last lunch of the year and we’re now looking forward to our Christmas drinks celebration on 16 December, kindly sponsored by Russell Scanlan. To book your place, please click here.