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July 20th, 2010
Sushi evening at Joseph Chamberlain College. Learn the art of sushi from experts, make it yourself and network with Summer university members.
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July 7th, 2010
Private viewing of Staffordshire Hoard at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
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June 24th, 2010
What Has the Recession Meant for You? Show Me the Money!
Join experts from Barclays Bank, an investment advisor and accountant who will answer your questions on how to improve your personal and business finance.
Venue: Barclays Bank, Colmore Row, Birmingham. 6pm for 6.30 start.
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June 9th, 2010
Aegon Classic Ladies' Tennis Tournament
Join wiba for a day at the Aegon Classic Ladies' tennis tournament - a great opportunity to reward yourself, your clients or staff at this renowned ladies' tennis competition at Edgbaston Priory Club.
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May 13th, 2010
An Evening with TM Lewin
at TM Lewin, Cannon Street, Birmingham
TM Lewin, one of Britain's oldest shirt brands has experienced phenomenal growth since it began in 1898,
increasing from 5 shops in 2000 to over 80 outlets today.
Learn how this traditional shirtmaker's business has developed its brand, presence and range from Cliff Burgess, Head of Corporate Marketing at TM Lewin.
Enjoy an interactive style evening modelled by wiba members and guests showing how to make the most of professional workwear extending flexibility of outfits for different occasions.
Question their team of experts on suitable outfits for your profession, personalised to suit your shape and style.
Network with others over wine and refreshments and take advantage of special discounts.
All attendees will receive a goody bag. 4 ladies have the opportunity to model outfits and be rewarded with a shirt from the current collection.
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April 29th, 2010
The Importance of Style
Beth Goodrham, Personal stylist will take us through the importance of style on our professional credibility
helping us understand how to wear the best styles for our shape, size and environment.
Join us for a fun and informative styling evening for all women.
Beth will be offering discount vouchers and a prize of a shopping day voucher worth £170 at the event.
2 course meal and drinks included.
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March 17th, 2010
Love, Life and a Career - Can We Have it All?
Back by popular Demand!
Zahra Pabani – Partner and Head of the Family Team at Shakespeare
Putsman Solicitors.
A family lawyer and teammanager Zahra is published in 2 prestigious family
law journals and has written for women’smagazines, the BirminghamPost,
the Mail on Sunday, appeared as a ‘Hot shot’ in the Daily Telegraph and
appeared on the BBC documentary programme Inside Out.
Her talk will focus on – the successful businesswoman and how to juggle so
many balls to keep so many people happy – your boss, your husband, your
boyfriend, your children, your parents! - sound familiar?!
Wine & Buffet Meal.
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March 10th, 2010
Lisa Shepherd Hair & Makeup.
A chance to look 10 years younger! Tim Scott Wright and his team invite 10 WIBA members to a pampering evening to look their best.
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February 23rd, 2010
Wine and food pairing evening at Loves Restaurant.
We are delighted to announce that we have secured an evening with Claire Love of Loves Restaurant, in which she will host one of her “food and wine pairing evenings”.
Claire and her husband, Steve, opened Loves in September last year and have already succeeded in being cited as one of the “Top 5 restaurants in Birmingham”, Birmingham Mail and recently were awarded 3 rosettes for the restaurant by the AA, an amazing achievement given they have only been open 4 months!
The event is exclusive to WIBA and limited to10 people.
Tickets will sell fast, so don’t miss out book early.
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February 15th, 2010
Career Choices, How to Ignore Them and Get to the Top!
Stella Layton,
European President of Cookson Precious Metals is one of the most successful women in manufacturing today and an
impressive and impassioned speaker.
Stella’s humorous description of the five ‘C’s – career choices open to
women when she left school which were catering, clerical, cashier, caring
and cleaning – is entertaining and will strike a chord with many who have sat
in front on an uninspiring careers advisor!
She is known for her high profile appointments including European President
of Cookson PreciousMetals and past Chairperson of the British Jewellers’
Association. She has received many awards and accolades including the CBI
FirstWoman Award for Manufacturing in 2005, an honorary degree as a
Doctor of Science from Cranfield University in 2006 and was a finalist in the
West Midlands’ BusinessWoman of the Year 2006.
Plus
2 course restaurant meal.
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January 28th, 2010
Online Social Networking For Business:
A Waste of Time or a Business Opportunity?
Speaker Annmarie Hanlon - Evonomie
Plus:
New Members’ evening Networking / Wine & Buffet Meal
SOCIAL NETWORKING such as Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook
has grown significantly in the last year. What’s your view - a
waste of time or business opportunity? Right now professional
businesses are winning work fromTwitter and LinkedIn.
Facebook is being used in place of traditional advertising yeta
few years ago to communicate with customers you picked up the
phone or wrote a letter. Winning business today involves digital
marketing and the ways to have those conversations has
changed.
This WIBA event will share secrets on digital marketing tools
and how they can generate business for you. Find out if
Facebook is essential for your business, why Linkedin is your
online case study site and whether or not to tweet.
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December, 2009
Wishing all our members and supporters a merry Christmas and happy new year.
Hope you enjoyed celebrating xmas at our Christmas Carol event in November.
We look forward to seeing you in the new year.
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November 26th, 2009
A Christmas Carol.
Join us for an evening at the Birmingham Rep, which includes drinks/canapés and a backstage tour.
Please note: male and female guests are invited to this event.
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November 19th, 2009
AGM
Annual general meeting for members to elect new chair, officers and committee and adopt accounts for the year 2009. Wiba's accounts checked for AGM by Collinsons Chartered Accountants, 55 Newhall St, Birmingham B3 3RB tel 0121 212 3637 www.collinsons.biz
followed by:
Laughing in the Face of Fear.
Our speaker is Andy Duncan – the Fear Master.
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November 18th, 2009
Women’s Enterprise Day.
Join us at Business Insight's 4th annual global enterprise week featuring women's enterprise day at Birmingham Central library.
Presentations include running your own business, networking, fashion advice, tax and national insurance, marketing, funding and writing a business plan.
Presenters include Kiss me Cupcakes, HM Revenue education team, Aston Reinvestment Trust, Arrow small business loans, Birmingham chamber training.
The day runs from 10am until 5pm. You can attend all day or just pop in for sessions. The event is free and organised by Business Insight.
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October 15th, 2009
Breast Awareness.
An evening of raising our own awareness (Zoë Vegnuti, Breast Services Manager for University Hospital Birmingham).
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October 2nd, 2009
Vitalise Women of the Year Luncheon and Awards.
Join WIBA members and guests at this prestigious event at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, NEC.
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September 28th, 2009
Taking a Mid-life Gap Year.
Rita’s journey during her gap year that led her to set up Global Care, an international charity for support of deprived children (Rita Sandford – Inside Out Learning).
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August 25th, 2009
Join us for another opportunity to try speed networking. You all enjoyed it so much - you've requested a repeat performance.
Add this opportunity to an evening on City Inn's terrace complete with barbecue, and the ingredients are there for an enjoyable evening.
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