RAPPORT! brings together professionals and business owners to build relationships, socialise and enhance their career. Our events are geared around like minded people across a wide range of cultures and disciplines to come together and share ideas, thoughts, advice and laughter. We hold occasional drinks and dinners. Sometimes we have business roundtables to help up and coming professionals.

Network 2012 is a social enterprise with a social inclusion agenda. It was set up to facilitate and encourage the growth of social enterprise and to provide bursaries through membership fees for start up social enterprises. A large proportion of these bursaries will go towards start up social enterprises from traditionally disadvantaged groups within our society as a way of harnessing All of our creative and entrepreneurial talent. This is the purpose of this site and it is our hope that by becoming a member you will not only be contributing to your own business and personal growth but to the enhanced growth of social enterprise itself through our proposed bursaries. As individuals we have a history of working in the homeless sector for various charities and we understand full well the frustrations for charities repeatedly going cap in hand to various different funding bodies in order to continue their vital work. These frustrations have been our original motivating factors and one of the reasons Network2012 has come about. How much better would it be for charities if they could sustain themselves through their own business endeavours with the profits contributing to the services they provide? The vision of Network …

What is WoMenta? Womenta exists to encourage, enable and equip women who are looking to set up their own business in the East Anglia region. Our aim is to create a positive and progressive environment for all women considering working for themselves. WoMenta: will assist; through support, professional advice and training will strengthen relationships and encourage the sharing of experience will offer information, collaboration and resources will operate in a manner that is flexible, vibrant, transparent, creative and participative.

We offer business support and advice to those wanting to start a business, seek marketing advice or develop their existing business in the District of Easington and work closely with you in order to achieve your business aims

Connections Communications Centre is a charity that uses film, TV, media and leadership skills training to give new opportunitites to thousands of people. From excluded teenages to emerging film directors, we offer excellence and innovation in education and career development for people with stories to tell. We give young people facing disadvantage the technical and professional skills to turn their ideas into marketable products, communicate about the issues that matter to them and introduce them to industry professionals and vocational opportunities. We offer coaching and memtoring and provide media production services and equipment for the third sector. Our ground-breaking online monitoring and tracking tool, www.ontrack.net.uk provides an online community, marketing and online learning resources for the independent training sector.

The Well Heeled Divas is an organisation dedicated to empowering and inspiring women to step and create outstanding lives. We are well established in Manchester and are now making the move to London. Don’t miss out on our first networking and taster night to be held in London on Wednesday 11th June at the Holborn Hotel. We have some amazing women on the guest list, a Diva posse ready to share their stories with you, a fantastic offer to join our next Stepping Up workshop and chocolate on tap! How can you resist? There has never been a better and more exciting time to be a woman - maybe we have too many choices? Maybe we are a little overwhelmed by the expectations and demands on our daily lives? Maybe, just maybe, we are not altogether convinced we are capable or deserve success, true wealth, a fulfilling life? Well Heeled Divas’ mission is to inspire and empower women to reach their full potential.

Golf, the unchallenged heart of the old-boy business network, isn’t just for men anymore! Ever heard the old wives’ tale about the word “golf”? Supposedly, it stands for “Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden”. Of course it’s not true. It is a well know fact that the game of golf is synonymous with BIG business. It is fast becoming one of the most effective tools for networking and deal-making in today’s modern business world. From top CEO to Junior Manager, the men understand this. They all have one thing in common…they play golf for personal and professional development! Most female executives and managers don’t. Whether through fear of ridicule, lack of confidence, sheer frustration at the “old-boy network” attitude or embarrassment about not knowing the rules and etiquette of the game, women have stayed away from the game in their droves. Until now, that is! golfHER is an exciting and innovative networking concept that combines the art of golf with access to a series of unique Personal Impact and Development Programmes for executive women. This coming together is aimed at confidence-proofing your business or career by giving you an in-depth appreciation of this powerful business tool. During these times of economic downturn, …

Tony Burgess and Julie French are Directors of Academy of High Achievers Ltd (www.aha-success.com), a specialist coaching and training business based in Stafford.(Free stuff available at www.aha-nlp.com and www.handleconflict.com and www.performingwithconfidence.com) LOCAL NETWORKING: Tony and Julie also run Stafford Ecademy, which is a group established for networking and personal and professional development - learning from great presentations. The group meets monthly in Stone, Staffordshire on the evening of the third thursday of every month (except December when there is no meeting). No membership required, just a tenner on the door as often as you can make the meetings. Meets at The Stone House Hotel (A34) in Stone, Staffordshire (nr Junction 14 of M6) After paying for room hire, all takings get donated to charities. Call Tony Burgess on 07989 469 570 or visit www.aha-success.com/ecademy You may also be interested in networking online nationally and internationally by setting up a profile on www.ecademy.com