Striding Out in Brighton - Financial Partners

Get Inspired! Entrepreneurial Expert Evening

Wednesday 30th April, 6:00 – 8:30pm

Come and join this exciting and inspiring event to listen to the stories of how serial entrepreneurs started their businesses, what challenges they faced and what they learned through their journey.

Our speakers include:

Darren Fell,Founder and Managing Director of Crunch.co.uk, a revolutionary accounting solution for freelancers and contractors.

Darren also runs Freelanceadvisor.co.uk and founded Pure360.comin 2001. Experiencing the issues surrounding setting up to freelance to the newly-formed crunch business, Darren felt it was worth sharing the many lessons learned!Amongst his many awards, Darren won Entrepreneur of the Year - Sussex Business Awards 2007/8.

Jason Woodford, CEO of Academy Internet.A Chartered Marketer with a degree in Economics and Public Policy and subsequent qualifications with ACCA and Chartered Institute of Management, Jason is an expert in Business Strategy, Internet Marketing, online PR and e-learning with strong recent practical experience of rapidly growing a business.

Jason set up Academy Internet to exploit his skills in business strategy, marketing and the internet. Internet Academy is now ranked 34th in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 - the UK’s fastest-growing high-technology companies.

Jason is a Board member of Hub100 and Wired Sussex and committee member of Chartered Institute of Marketing Sussex and the e-Learning Network as well as being on the steering group for the Brighton and Hove Social Enterprise Strategy and founder member of Sussex Forum for Sustainable Business.

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The event is being held at The Werks, a creative workspace for small businesses

Get Charged Up! Coaching Circle

Get Charged Up! is a stimulating and energy fuelled session to help you achieve your goals. It's an opportunity to work with a group of entrepreneurial individuals to brainstorm, strategise, discuss your business challenges and opportunities; as well as connect you to people you need to know. The sessions are faciliated by a Striding Out Business Coach. Open to Members and Invited Guests

Get Informed! Expert Event - From Local to Global - Discussion on developing international partnerships

This event will allow you to discuss your burning questions with experts and entrepreneurs on how to develop international partnerships, market and sell overseas and set up manufacturing relationships in emerging markets.

If your business has been growing steadily at home and you want to take it to the next level of expansion or new markets overseas seem to have great potential, you may be thinking about expanding overseas. But what are the complexities you are likely to face? Where should you start? How should you go about finding the right partner abroad?

We have put together a great range of speakers and experts who will discuss with you the way to go about looking into new markets and developing international partnerships:

Our speakers include:

• Greig Holbrook, Director of Oban Multilingual, a world leader in multilingual SEO with offices in 26 countries worldwide. Greig has worked in the industry for over 7 years and was the Director of the International Web Unit at the University of Brighton where he pioneered research in marketing websites to both multilingual and multicultural users of the web. OBAN provide training on Multilingual SEO for UKTI companies and Corporate clients – keeping them up to speed with the latest developments. OBAN specialise in developing global SEO strategy for SME’s, Multinationals and Government Organisations alike.

• Christine Gent founder of Fairly Covered. Fairly covered was founded in 2004. It dedicates to the supply of Fair Trade, quality, desirable products and it works with two producer groups in Bangladesh and India. Christine has a wide range of experience in sourcing goods from developing countries and creating ethical supply chains, having previously worked for the International Fair Trade Association and The Body Shop.

• Karen Bowring, Managing Director of Professionals UK. Professionals UK Ltd is a work placement agency which works with British Council accredited language schools, other accredited educational bodies and university departments to provide their young professional clients, graduates and undergraduates with an opportunity to gain quality experience in a UK workplace

Lev Denker, International Trade Adviser from the UK Trade & Investment South East. UKTI is the Government organisation that helps UK based companies succeed in international markets.

Get Charged Up! Coaching Circle

Get Charged Up! is a stimulating and energy fuelled session to help you achieve your goals. It's an opportunity to work with a group of entrepreneurial individuals to brainstorm, strategise, discuss your business challenges and opportunities; as well as connect you to people you need to know. The sessions are faciliated by a Striding Out Business Coach. Open to Members and Invited Guests

Get Informed! Expert evening

Discussion on how to be a great entrepreneurial leader and how to build effective entrepreneurial teams. Led by Soraya Shaw, Striding Out's Business Coach. Followed by Networking - Open to Members and Invited Guests

Get Charged Up! Coaching Circle - Thursday 24th July 4-6pm

Get Charged Up! is a stimulating and energy fuelled session to help you achieve your goals. It's an opportunity to work with a group of entrepreneurial individuals to brainstorm, strategise, discuss your business challenges and opportunities; as well as connect you to people you need to know. The sessions are faciliated by a Striding Out Business Coach. Open to Members and Invited Guests

Get Plugged In! Summer Social Networking Party