Durham Business Group

Bringing Businesses Together

Bringing Businesses Together

Durham Business Group is a non-profit organisation founded in 1981 – originally as “Durham Small Business Club” – to support businesses in County Durham.

Today, the core values that define what we do remain unchanged, focused on the same aim as 45 years ago: to support and champion businesses in our region, from our base at Portland House in Durham.

Durham Business Club – these days welcoming businesses small and large – is our friendly membership organisation, with a programme of regular breakfast and evening networking events.

We also run The Executive Group, a premium level of membership that hosts informal lunchtime events for larger companies in the region.

Finally, we provide office services to clients in the North East and beyond – from office space to rent, to meeting and conference facilities, registered office addresses, mailing packages, telephone answering and more – under the banner of Durham Office Services.

Our day-to-day operations are overseen by our CEO, Alison Gittins, supported by an excellent team of staff and an elected board of directors.

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The values that make Durham Business Group different

It’s only right that people often ask us “Why would I want to become a member of Durham Business Club?”, “Why would I choose to use your virtual office services?”, or “What can you offer that others don’t?”

After all, those are the kinds of questions that our members and client businesses answer all the time, as they themselves seek to win over new customers.

Whilst there’s no shortage of other respected business organisations in the region – and other companies offering meeting room hire or telephone answering, too – we just focus on being the best we can at what we do, and by the core values, below, that have always defined us.

Our Members

Our Members

Durham Business Club

Durham Business Club is a membership-based networking organisation that runs events throughout County Durham and the wider North East of England.

The Executive Group

The Executive Group brings together North East senior directors and decision-makers in a relaxed, non-sales environment, and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2024.

Durham Office Services

Operating from our modern headquarters, Portland House, in the beautiful city of Durham, we offer virtual office services – the helping hand your business needs.