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This week is a strange week for us here at The Growing Club HQ as this week Jane Binnion MBA is retiring. On Thursday this week (12th) we will be saying goodbye and thank you with a fabulous daytime disco at the Gregson. If anyone is local and would like to pop in and say hello (and goodbye) we would love to see you. If you pop Rebecca a message - Rebecca@thegrowingclub.co.uk she will share the details. Please share any memories below as we know Jane would love you read them. Lorraine Birch Christine Harwood ACMA Jane Booker #WomenSupportingWomen #SayingGoodbyeToJane #WomenInBusiness

A busy couple of days for some of the team who have been strengthening the connections we have within the community. Tuesday saw us host the Business Support Providers Network which is ran by Lancaster City Council whilst Wednesday saw us learn more about ways to communicate the impact that we have with Insights 2 Impact and Lancaster District CVS Different meetings but both incredibly valuable. Ros Jones PhD Sarah Ludford Rebecca Ansell #WomenInBusiness #WorkingWithLocalOrganisations

📣There are a couple of places left for this cohort📣 Have you heard about our Business Start Up Course for women who are starting a new business? Previously called Roots and Shoots, this now 7 month course is designed to to support women with a systematic programme to help start a solid sustainable business. The course starts THIS THURSDAY at 10am so if you are interested, pop rebecca@thegrowingclub.co.uk a message with your contact number or call the office in the morning on 01524 383846. Please share with anyone you know that is starting a business #WomenInBusiness #BusinessStartUp #WomenAndEnterpriseHub

Another fabulous week for us here at The Growing Club. Monday some of the team were at the Business Expo organised by Lancaster City Council Tuesday was the Funding Fair that was organised by Lancaster District CVS so Ros and Rebecca spent the afternoon chatting to funders about the amazing work we do here at TGC. We have also starting training our new cohort of mentors, held our drop in session, delivered a session of our Business Start Up course, been into a local school to deliver a session there and had Kat Dooney delivering an Introduction to Canva session to some of our women in business. Next week we have an info session for women looking to start their own business. If you know anyone wanting to do this, please ask them to email us - admin@thegrowingclub.co.uk #WomenSupportingWomen #WomenInBusiness Ros Jones PhD Rebecca Ansell

What a beautiful sunny Monday morning for the team at the Lancaster District Business Support Expo at Morecambe Football Club. Join us and lots of other fabulous organisations all aiming to give support to those in business. If you see us, do say hello. #WomenInBusiness #WomenSupportingWomen Ros Jones PhD Zoe Blundell

We are excited to be hosting this October's Women in Business event at our new offices, 123 The Barracks. This is a great opportunity for networking. This month's guest speaker is Amanda Daniels-Allen, founder of Koogar, who is an award-winning Marketing Architect, Customer Journey Specialist and Money Archetype Coach. These events are always popular and great to attend, so please book your tickets quickly to avoid missing out! Thursday 10th October 2024. 12.30-2.30pm. For full details of the event and to book your place, follow the link 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eek8GksA

We are officially open! A huge thank you to everyone that came to see us on Friday and to Charlotte Ellwood from Lancaster & Morecambe Chamber of Commerce for cutting the ribbon to open the new Women and Enterprise Hub. Thank you to everyone that supports us daily, that refer women to us, that talk about the work we do. We are incredibly grateful for you all. Caroline Charnley Lyn Page Mandy Blackwell #WomenAndEnterpriseHub #WomenInBusiness

We are looking forward to Friday and the Grand Opening of our new Women and Enterprise Hub. If you would like to join us, please email Rebecca@thegrowingclub.co.uk (so we can check we have enough cake 🎂) We would love to see you all there. #WomenInBusiness #WomenSupportingWomen Caroline Charnley Lorraine Birch Ros Jones PhD Jane Binnion MBA

We can hardly believe that a week has gone by already. The new Women and Enterprise Hub is starting to take shape and we are so incredibly grateful for all of the support we have received over the past couple of months. Moving an office certainly isn’t easy and is very much a team effort. Thank you to everyone at White Cross Business Park To the team from Move It Men who moved (almost) everything To Jess Hall for arranging for the huge training table we have to be moved To Kathleen (Kay) P. For hosting some of our workshops at the beautiful Fraser House Hub We have a grand opening on the 4th October and we would love to see you all there. Email rebecca@thegrowingclub.co.uk for more details #WomenAndEnterpriseHub #WomenInBusiness Rebecca Ansell Ros Jones PhD Lorraine Birch

We have moved!! We are so pleased with how our new space looks so far and it has been fabulous to see so many of you over the past few days. There will be much more on the new Women and Enterprise Hub over the coming weeks. If you are in the area and want to pop in, drop us a message or call us on 01524 383846 #WomenAndEnterpriseHub #WomenSupportingWomen #WomenInBusiness Lorraine Birch Ros Jones PhD Jane Binnion MBA