Venue: Town Hall, Worthing
Time: 10.30am - 3.30pm
The Business Showcase sets to highlight Worthing and Adur's success stories and those companies who have traded successfully in the town for many years. This is your opportunity to come along and meet with companies such as ETI, Fresh Egg, Bond International and Equiniti and more, to find out more about how their businesses can inspire your growing business.
The day will include talks from keynote speakers
* Gill Fielding - Secret Millionaire
* Tim Breden - Business Angel
* Julie Stanford - Tips for Small Businesses.
Specialist one to one advice clinics covering:
Marketing, Funding, Finance, Sales, PR and Legal Issue will be running all day and are bookable at the Registration desk on arrival.
Marketing and Business Planning workshops will be running along with a speed Networking Session.
Morning Workshops and Keynote Speakers
10.45 - 11.30am - Tony Hedger, MD, A&T Business Associates Ltd - Business Planning and Investment
11.30am - Julie Stanford, Founder and creator of The Essential Business Series - The Essential Business Guide.
“It’s easy to start a business! But running one that will make moneyand thrive year after year is not quite so simple. And if you don’t get it right, the effects can be painful.” Come and listen to Julie talk about her successes and learn about how to mend things when they don’t go quite the way you planned! Julie will share her "Tips for Small Businesses"
Afternoon Workshops and Keynote Speakers
1.00pm - 2.00pm -Speed Networking - Come along and connect with fellow attendees and forge new contacts in our speed
networking session. We’ll organise the room so that you can keep moving and make as many new contacts as possible to really ensure that your time is maximised.
2.00pm - Tim Breden, Business Angel - Investment for Business Tim Breden was the Operations Director at Kates Cakes 1995 to 2009, overseeing tremendous growth with fi rst-hand experience of MBO, SBO and exits. In early 2010 he formed the hugely successful Sussex Business Partnership; a Business Angel network which has to date invested and supported numerous businesses throughout Sussex and the wider South East. He has forged investment links in the areas of food manufacturing, food smoking, retail (food sector), transport, paint recycling, aviation, and recently launched a two new internet based companies. He is currently supporting people and businesses in the areas such as one-to-one mentoring, specifi c project costing and opportunity viability. Aside from direct investment Tim has raised fi nance and developed alternatives strategies to fund business start ups.
2.45pm - Kerry Kyriacou, Independent Business Adviser, Mentor and Business Coach. - How to Write your Marketing Plan
3.30pm - Gillian Fielding, Secret Millionnaire & Worthing and Adur Chamber Patron - Gill Fielding
Gill Fielding, a self-made millionaire with huge credibility in the
fi nancial world, will look at the wider impact of the 2013 budget on
small businesses. Gill has been a ‘Secret Millionaire’ on Channel 4, a business expert on The Apprentice - You’re Fired show, and a
financial commentator for the BBC, ITV and CNBC. As a local celebrity Gill has always enjoyed supporting local businesses. As the Patron of the Worthing and Adur Chamber her talks are always hugely popular, entertaining and inspirational.