Basingstoke in person business networking 5th November 2024

Do you do business in the Basingstoke area of Hampshire or surrounding areas? If so we’d love to welcome you to our Basingstoke in person business networking group.

Your host is Dawn Packham. Dawn is an HR consultant and very much a people person so she will help you to feel really welcome and supported.

Grow your business network in Basingstoke and beyond

Our new Basingstoke business networking group has got off to a great start and is attracting a wide range of business owners. We’d love you to join them.

Fabulous Networking is a membership organisation, but visitors are always welcome. We don’t restrict attendance by profession or gender. We believe that there are opportunities to be gained by working with our competitors. Visitors are encouraged to attend up to three of our events before deciding if they’d like to join.

Your attendance fee is £15 (£12 for members) to cover venue and light refreshments.

Our agenda

There’s time for informal networking and to introduce your business to everyone present. We don’t do the traditional one-minute pitch. Instead, we find ways to be more spontaneous and interactive. Each month we do something a little different.

In November we’ll be asking you to share one specific thing we can do to help you. It might be sharing contacts, supporting you on social media or giving you feedback on an idea.

Our agenda is structured but flexible to respond to the needs and size of the group on the day. Typically, we will have a speaker on a topic of interest to business people. Our speaker will be this month will be Mandy Dineley of My Beautiful Pen. Mandy will be delivering an interactive talk about Creating a Brilliant About Us Page

Support, learning and inspiration are three of our core values and will be woven through the meeting. We want you to leave feeling it was a morning well spent.

Your speaker

Mandy Dineley is the owner of My Beautiful Pen specialising in writing speeches for brides to deliver at their weddings. She also writes speeches for other special occasions and sells wordy gifts via her website. Mandy is also a talented vocalist and often performs either on her own or with her bassist husband.

Your host

With over 27 years’ experience in the field of HR, Dawn is a Chartered CIPD-qualified HR professional.

She runs a fabulous HR consultancy which provides small businesses with friendly and straight-forward HR support for all things people.

Dawn’s industry background spans the luxury hotel market, large scale retail, senior hospitality recruitment, and electrical and electronic engineering, which gives her a diverse and rich understanding of various business environments and challenges.

Outside of her professional life, Dawn is an avid dog lover, motorhomer and a passionate baker.

Our venue

We’re meeting at the Apollo Hotel, Basingstoke which is easily accessible just off the Basingstoke ring road. There’s ample parking but if you need help with transport please email Glenda and we’ll try to connect you to a lift. The Apollo is an independent hotel with 125 rooms,  and spa facilities.

Reasons for attending.

Running a business can be lonely, the people you meet networking can help you feel less isolated and more supported. They may become your customers or refer you to others who will.

We aim to ensure that you leave our meetings with at least one benefit from attending whether that’s a new contact, some learning or renewed enthusiasm for your business.