DBC Breakfast at The Stables, Beamish
2014-06-25 08:00 - 10:00 (Europe/London) | The Stables Beamish Hall, The Stables Restaurant, Beamish Hall, Beamish,Stanley , Co Durham , DH9 0YB, United Kingdom
DBC Breakfast at The Stables Restaurant & Micro Brewery,
Beamish Hall
Wednesday 25th June, 8 am – 10 am
We invite you to join us for our popular Monthly Informal Breakfast Meeting in the Stables Restaurant. Set in the beautiful surroundings of Beamish Hall Country House Hotel .

One year on we will enjoy another warm welcome and find out more about the Stables Restaurant and Micro Brewery. It wasn’t too early to sample the beer with our bacon sandwiches last year!

Free to DBC Members, £10 Non Members

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DBC Summer Social 'Pigs might Fly'
2014-08-12 19:00 - 22:30
Join us for our annual Summer Social on the glorious 12th in the idyllic setting of Black Horse Beamish. There won’t be a murder this time, or grouse shooting come to that, but there will, of course, be a fun Summer’s evening ahead, complete with hog roast and pig racing!

Tickets *£15 Members & your Guests
(colleagues, family & friends welcome)
*£20 Non Members
*social event no invoices will be issued
Partake in a flutter, with cash & spot prizes to be won, or just soak up the
sun and enjoy the food!
Like to sponsor a race?
For a £15 sponsorship fee you get to name the race (with your logo), present the prize to the winning owner and have your photo taken with the winner (the person not the pig!) for display in the DBG hall of fame (that is the club newsletter and Facebook gallery).
Email or phone Alison if you’re interested – first come, first served!

DBC visits St Cuthbert's Hospice
2014-09-09 18:00 - 21:00 | St Cuthbert’s Hospice, Park House Road, Merryoaks, Durham, DH1 3QF, United Kingdom
We are delighted to invite you to St Cuthbert’s Hospice Durham. Opening in 1988 to provide care and make every day count for those with life-limiting illnesses. This little oasis in the city is so much more than that and we’ve asked Jane Morland of Northumbrian Water to share with us how both NW and she, personally, got involved with the hospice.
Turning the usual format on it’s head, we’ll be enjoying afternoon tea over networking in the conference room and, after all these months of picking your brains, we’re taking the opportunity to officially launch our super new Business Skills Builder workshop programme.

Optional tours will take place of the fantastic facilities and beautiful grounds at the end of the evening.

DBC Breakfast The Slug & Lettuce
2014-09-25 08:00 - 10:00 | The Slug & Lettuce, Walkergate, Durham, DH1 1SQ, United Kingdom
We invite you to join us for our ever popular breakfast meeting as we return to the fantastic surroundings of The Slug & Lettuce Durham. We may even catch the last of the Summer and enjoy breakfast on the terrace.
Informal networking breakfast over a coffee and bacon sandwich. What better way to start your working day?
Members free to attend
Non Members £10 (max. 2 visits)

Launch - Durham Business Skills Builder
2014-09-26 14:00 - 16:00
LAUNCH DURHAM BUSINESS SKILLS BUILDER
Join us for the launch of this unique and versatile programme of business development workshops for business owners and employees looking to develop key skills.
Delivered by experienced practitioners and trainers, each programme will consist of a series of development workshops that can be taken together or individually.
This FREE event will highlight the mechanics of the first programme focusing on sales and marketing and will feature brief introductions from the presenters for each of the workshops.
Durham Business Skills Builder – Sales & Marketing Programme Details
Representatives from funding agencies such as NBSL and Growth Accelerator will also be available to provide detailed information on the support they can offer local businesses looking to develop and grow their business.
There will, of course, also be ample time both before, during and after, to network with like-minded businesses from across the region.
BOOK NOW to enter our free prize draw to win a free place at a workshop of your choice.
Event supported by Jury’s Inn, NewcastleGateshead Quays

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GROWTH AND YOUR BUSINESS SUCCESS – WHAT IT IS & WHAT IT TAKES
2014-10-10 09:00 - 13:00
GROWTH AND YOUR BUSINESS SUCCESS
Exploring what success looks like for you & for your business.
In today’s highly challenging, highly competitive markets, understand the vital importance of planning your success, versus leaving it to chance. Find the right way forward to optimise on key opportunities in your market place.
Learn how to put a highly effective sales & marketing plan in place to deliver on your personal ambitions.
Spend time focusing on the key elements of success for your business – CLARITY & PURPOSE:

who are you customers,
where are they,
what’s your offer,
how will you differentiate yourself
how will you deliver

Also take the time to consider who are the key people you need to help you succeed and what skills might be required?
Presenter – Jackie Wade, Winning Sales
Jackie Wade, Managing Director of Winning Sales, is the inspirational and passionate sales expert from Dublin. Committed to ethical and professional selling practises, Jackie is focused on helping businesses succeed in highly competitive marketplaces. Her extensive personal track record in global sales, coupled with a wealth of experience training and coaching thousands of sales people across a range of businesses, ensures she is talking real world practical stuff, versus the common rhetoric we come to expect from other “sales gurus ”.

Investment
1/2 day session including refreshments and buffet lunch – £110
Durham Business Club member / Durham Office Services Client – £99
Prices are exclusive of VAT
Interested in attending multiple sessions – special discounts available – Contact Jessica on 0191 3755700
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DBC Member Showcase, Beamish Hall Hotel
2014-10-14 18:00 - 21:00 | Beamish Hall Country House Hotel, Stanley, Co Durham, DH9 0YB, United Kingdom
Let us Show! Let us Show! Let us Show!
It’s not quite winter yet but we might as well start getting used to it! For our October event we invite you to showcase your business in the beautiful surroundings of Beamish Hall Country House Hotel.
Reserve a table to display your products or promotional materials and bring along your banner stand.
Space is limited so please book early to guarantee your place; DBC Members will be given priority booking.
DBC Members – Free to attend
Non Members – £10 to attend
Business Showcase: £20 plus VAT for DBC Members
£40 plus VAT for Non Members (including entry for 2)
PLUS our usual fab evening with Guest Speaker, Networking & Buffet from the Beamish Hall brand new menu!
Book before the end of September for your chance to win a FREE stand!

DBC Breakfast at Tiger Tiger
2014-10-29 08:00 - 10:00 | Tiger Tiger, The Gate, Newgate Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 5RE, United Kingdom
We invite you to join us for our ever popular breakfast meeting as we explore another fantastic venue. In the heart of Newcastle city we look forward to Breakfast with a roar at Tiger Tiger.
Informal networking breakfast over a coffee and bacon sandwich.
What better way to start your working day?

Hey Presto - Write the perfect Press Release
2014-10-29 09:00 - 13:00
HEY PRESTO
WRITE THE PERFECT PRESS RELEASE
Does your business have a great story to tell?
Or are you itching to let the world know about your latest big order?
This workshop will help you to describe what your business does best and create that all-important press release to help your organisation get the coverage you want in the media. We’ll also tell you what journalists want to know about you and what to tell them.
Hey Presto will:

Guide you to write an interesting and effective press release
Show you how to write for websites and generate an instant presence online
Demonstrate why a picture paints a thousand words

At the end of the session you will:

Understand how a newsroom works and what makes a good story
Know how to construct a press release
Write articles for online news websites
Be able to explain what you do clearly and concisely
Understand the importance of a good photograph

Presenter – Jonathan Ward
Jonathan is an award-winning communications professional who has worked continuously within the media industry since 1992. In 2006, Jonathan set up his own PR consultancy successfully competing against more experienced agencies to win contracts with organisations across the North East.
He now works as a freelance PR professional and teaches on the BA and MA programmes in Journalism and Public Relations at Newcastle University and Sunderland University.

Investment
1/2 day session with refreshments and buffet lunch – £80
Durham Business Club member / Durham Office Services client – £72
Prices are exclusive of VAT
Interested in attending multiple sessions – special discounts available – Contact the team on 0191 3755700
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Linkedin for Success
2014-11-11 09:00 - 13:00
LINKEDIN FOR SUCCESS
With over 300 million users, LinkedIn is a powerful resource for you and your organisation.
This half day course will help you get all of the fundamentals of your own LinkedIn account set up to achieve your goals on LinkedIn. You will learn how to translate your current commercial and business skills and use them on LinkedIn.
The course will cover the following key areas:

Understanding what you can use LinkedIn for
Getting your profile set up correctly
Finding existing contacts and starting your online network
Finding groups
Using a proven, successful process to find the right new contacts
Finding, connecting and arranging meetings with key contacts
Refining your profile to best effect and raising your profile with key contacts
Using search (and advanced) searches to find new contacts
Using the MiNe © model to maximise your impact with existing online contacts

At the end of the session you will have all of the fundamentals of your own LinkedIn account set up ready to achieve your goals and succeed on LinkedIn.
Investment
1/2 day session with refreshments and buffet lunch – £110
Durham Business Club member / Durham Office Services client – £99
Prices are exclusive of VAT
Interested in attending multiple sessions – special discounts available – Contact the team on 0191 3755700
Presenter – Nevil Tynemouth, New Results Training
Nevil has over 29 years experience in sales and selling during which time he has been involved in the launch of two major brands in the UK, Dyson and Blackberry, and worked as part of a FTSE100 management team for nearly a decade.
Leaving the corporate life Nevil set up New Results Training based on the belief that everyone has the opportunity to grow, develop and improve and that everyone can achieve their potential with the right mix of skills, knowledge and behaviour.

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How to effectively promote your business with Facebook and Twitter
2014-11-11 13:00 - 17:00
HOW TO EFFECTIVELY PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS WITH FACEBOOK AND TWITTER
Singularly, these social media platforms are useful in developing business relationships and generating new business. However, when using a combined approach the effect increases exponentially.
Covering all the areas identified below, this workshop will provide an understanding of how Facebook and Twitter can be used in conjunction with each other, to raise your profile, promote your goods and/or services, to Network and deal with Customer Services positives and negatives.

Facebook

Business Page or Personal Profile
What to Post
Creating Content
How to Upload Images
How to Network on Facebook
How to problem solve and deal with unwanted posts
Third Party Applications and Software, to use or not to use
How to achieve your goals using Facebook

Twitter

How To Tweet
What To Tweet
Grasping Twitter functionality @mentions and #hashtags
How to Follow
How to Gain Followers
Driving traffic from Twitter to your website and blogs
Trending Topics
Keeping an eye on the Competition

It is essential that you have a basic business page set up on Facebook and a Twitter Account set up before the course starts. If you need assistance or instruction on how to do this, please email amanda@iamyou.co.uk
Presenter – Amanda Dixon, I Am You Ltd
Investment
1/2 day session with refreshments and buffet lunch – £80
Durham Business Club member / Durham Office Services client – £72
Prices are exclusive of VAT
Interested in attending multiple sessions – special discounts available – Contact Jessica on 0191 3755700
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DBC at Thorn Lighting, Spennymoor
2014-11-11 18:00 - 21:00 | Thorn Lighting, Durhamgate, Spennymoor, Co Durham, DL16 6HL, United Kingdom
We invite you to join us as guests of Thorn Lighting, global supplier and part of the Zumtobel Group and will hear and see how the company has been lighting People & Places since 1928.
We will also be looking back to 1914 as we commemorate this very special Remembrance Day and invite you to wear red or a poppy.

Networking for Successful Business Growth
2014-11-18 09:30 - 11:30
NETWORKING FOR SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS GROWTH
“Networking is the art of connecting with people for the purpose of uncovering opportunities,
identifying ways to work together and learning of best practices”.

So, how can you increase your chances of networking success? Can you grow your business simply by mingling with the right people? This bite sized 2 hour workshop, delivered by networking specialist Janice Ross, will help you decide what you want from networking before setting out and then help you take an organic approach.

Know what you want to grow (Choose your targets)
Prepare the ground in the right place (Attend the right events)
Sow a few seeds (Listen and ensure your contribution is useful)
Nourish budding relationships (Feed them with support and empathy)
Watch the fruits of your labour grow (Business grows naturally)

Investment
2 hour session with refreshments – £30
Durham Business Club member / Durham Office Services client – £27
Prices are exclusive of VAT
Interested in attending multiple sessions – special discounts available – Contact the team on 0191 3755700
Presenter – Janice Ross, Janice Ross Marketing
Networking has been a focal point of Janice’s career. As winner of the last Durham Business Club Networker of the Year Award, she has built her connections throughout the North East and beyond over 20 years. Janice holds the voluntary post of Joint Chair of the National Women’s Network, a support organisation for women in business.
Currently working with The Business Factory project in North Tyneside for Ixion Social Enterprise, Janice shares her time between North Shields and her home city of Durham.
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Phone based Selling
2014-11-20 13:00 - 17:00
PHONE BASED SELLING
This half day course is designed for anyone who is starting out in selling, booking appointments or speaking to customers on a regular basis over the telephone. This could be because you’re looking for a new career, need to improve skills you learned a long time ago or just that you’re new to sales.
The course will cover the following key areas:

What makes a good sales person? Discuss perceptions, generalisations and myths.
Understanding comfort zones and how they drive your activity
Customer perceptions of cold calling
An overview of the sales cycle and process. Understand from beginning to end how to get a sale and close it.
Planning processes and ideas for calling. Very interactive, getting your mind working.
An overview of call scripting and call structures. Scripts don’t have to be robotic, be yourself and find your own style.
How to open a call effectively and learn some do’s and don’ts
Gatekeepers – how to work with them and get them on your side
How to spot buying signals
How to ask for the order or appointment, closing the deal and getting the customer.

Attending this session and yo will go away with the tools and techniques to improve your telephone skills with regards to sales and appointment setting.
Investment
1/2 day session with refreshments and buffet lunch – £110
Durham Business Club member / Durham Office Services client – £99
Prices are exclusive of VAT
Interested in attending multiple sessions – special discounts available – Contact the team on 0191 3755700
Presenter – Nevil Tynemouth, New Results Training
Nevil has over 29 years experience in sales and selling during which time he has been involved in the launch of two major brands in the UK, Dyson and Blackberry, and worked as part of a FTSE100 management team for nearly a decade.
Leaving the corporate life Nevil set up New Results Training based on the belief that everyone has the opportunity to grow, develop and improve and that everyone can achieve their potential with the right mix of skills, knowledge and behaviour.

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The Art of Successful Selling
2014-11-24 13:00 - 17:00
THE ART OF SUCCESSFUL SELLING
Based on her highly popular book, Successful Selling for Small Businesses – what it takes and how to do it, Jackie Wade from Winning Sales will share with you the key success ingredients to maximise on sales meeting success. Learn the Art & The Science of powerful sales meetings – what’s the magic formula; is there one? This is an opportunity to explore your selling style and find ways to improve it so that you can close more effectively and with higher value sales. Find a lifelong habit of selling that sits well with your personality, versus forcing yourself to do or be something that’s alien and uncomfortable and won’t work. Selling as a Logical Conclusion© versus phoney closing and pushy techniques.
What you’ll get from the session:

A clear and structured approach to highly effective sales meetings (The Science)
A clear understanding of the softer skills required to bring this approach to life and make yourself stand out (The Art)
Confidence to get out there and do it or renewed confidence to do it better
Better outcomes, higher value sales, more sales, shorter lag time to close
An opportunity to understand where and why you might get stuck and how to overcome this.
More customers loving to do business with you – win-win!

Investment
1/2 day session with refreshments and buffet lunch – £110
Durham Business Club member / Durham Office Services client – £99
Prices are exclusive of VAT
Interested in attending multiple sessions – special discounts available – Contact Jessica on 0191 3755700
Presenter – Jackie Wade, Winning Sales
Jackie Wade, Managing Director of Winning Sales, is the inspirational and passionate sales expert from Dublin. Committed to ethical and professional selling practises, Jackie is focused on helping businesses succeed in highly competitive marketplaces. Her extensive personal track record in global sales, coupled with a wealth of experience training and coaching thousands of sales people across a range of businesses, ensures she is talking real world practical stuff, versus the common rhetoric we come to expect from other “sales gurus ”.

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Digital Marketing - Decoded
2014-11-25 09:00 - 13:00
DIGITAL MARKETING – DECODED
Digital Marketing enables your business to reach a far greater audience more quickly and cheaply than ever before. Dolezal Consulting brings you a half-day workshop designed to ‘decode’ the jargon: what it means, how it works together, how you can use it to grow your own business.
In this half-day workshop includes:
Welcome to the Digital Marketing Landscape
If you are going to navigate your way through the landscape, then you’ll need a map. This session introduces the digital marketing landscape and explains how the various tools, tactics and territories interconnect.
Search Engine Optimisation and What Recent Changes Mean for You
Your website is one of your main weapons of attraction and where your best content should live, but if you can’t be found… how can you hope to win customers? Google’s new Hummingbird algorithm has marketers in a spin, but this session explains how to attract customers to your website and gain their trust, as well as Google’s.
Digital Marketing Tactics and How they Work with Each Other
There are a variety of paid and free digital marketing tactics at your disposal, but which to chose? This session will introduce Pay Per Click & Online Advertising, Social Media, Email and Mobile Marketing – all great tools for customer acquisition and retention – low or no cost options and alternatives to print, exhibitions and direct marketing.
What Googles Analytics is Trying to Tell You
The great thing about digital marketing is the metrics. It’s now easier than ever to see how effective your online marketing activities are. Google Analytics and marketing metrics may be new to you, so this session will guide you through web analytics and other data sources to better understand website visitor characteristics and behaviour. You will understand the most important and appropriate metrics and how to use them improve your digital activities.
This half-day session aims to give you a clear understanding of how Digital Marketing fits in with your website and current marketing activities, as well as being an excellent introduction to the later workshops on Inbound Marketing, Email Marketing and Social Media.
Please feel free to bring your laptops, iPads and any other devices on the day.
Investment
1/2 day session with refreshments and buffet lunch – £80
Durham Business Club member / Durham Office Services client – £72
Prices are exclusive of VAT
Interested in attending multiple sessions – special discounts available – Contact Jessica on 0191 3755700
Presenter – Joanne Dolezal, Dolezal Consulting

Joanne Dolezal is lead consultant at Dolezal Consulting and a lecturer in Digital Marketing at NESMA, helping to deliver programmes for Digital Marketing Institute and Chartered Institute of Marketing. Joanne holds an MA Marketing and Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing. Joanne has worked across the public sector, private sector and with charities on marketing, branding and communications.
Dolezal Consulting provides marketing driven business growth using an improved strategic focus, a clear marketing plan and delivery through the best possible channels for your business and budget.

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DBC Breakfast at Oriental Museum Durham
2014-11-27 08:00 - 10:00 | Oriental Museum, Elvet Hill Road, Durham, DH1 3TH, United Kingdom
Thanks to Event Durham we invite you to join us in the Japan gallery of the Oriental Museum Durham.
We will hear more about the museum, you will be free to explore the other galleries and enjoy informal networking over a continental breakfast.

DBC Member's AGM Lunch Bistro 21
2014-12-09 12:00 - 14:30 | Bistro 21, Aykley Vale, Durham, DH1 5WA, United Kingdom
We invite you join us for our final event of 2014!
Durham Business Group Annual General Meeting will be held at a favourite of the business club, one of Durham’s finest restaurants..Bistro 21 followed by an optional 2 course Christmas lunch.

How to find more clients and customers using referral and word of mouth marketing
2014-12-10 14:00 - 16:30
REFERRAL MARKETING
All things being equal people rather do business with people they know or know of as opposed to a stranger. Many business owners depend solely on referrals to generate business but don’t have a consistent strategy of using referrals and word of mouth to generate leads. The workshop will show you exactly how to develop a steady stream of introductions and leads.
The workshop will include:

What is referral marketing
How referral marketing can grow your business
How to get introduced too hard to reach prospects
The 5 critical rules of referral marketing
11 proven methods to get referrals and recommendations
The five step blueprint to build an effective lead generation referral system that gets results.

At the end of the session the delegates will have:

A clear understanding how to referral marketing to generate more enquires and introductions
An effective referral strategy that can be implemented quickly and inexpensively

The session will be practical and hands on and supported with a work book, examples and templates to help swift implementation on return to the office.
Investment
Bitesize session with refreshments – £45
Durham Business Club member / Durham Office Services client – £40
Prices exclude VAT
Interested in attending multiple sessions – special discounts available – Contact the team on 0191 3755700
Presenter – Ford Henderson, More Clients Marketing
Ford has been in sales since leaving university when he joined the graduate sales training programme at General Foods and had his first taste of marketing with Tefal. Having experienced corporate life Ford launched his own office products business some 20 years ago when times were difficult and the ‘right’ customer was hard to come find.
With all the other demands of running his own company, it didn’t take long for Ford to understand how exhausting and frustrating marketing my own business could be. He saw the need to implement simple but effective, no frills, marketing techniques and now strives to pass these techniques onto other businesses across the country

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Let's kick off 2015 making an Exhibition of Ourselves!
2015-01-13 18:00 - 21:00 | Riverside Suite, Durham County Cricket Club, Durham Emirates International Cricket Ground, Riverside, Chester-le-Street, Durham, DH3 3QR, United Kingdom
We invite you to kick off the New Year at our Annual ‘Member Showcase’ event! Now in it’s fourth year it’s back bigger than ever as we’ve teamed up with Business Durham to showcase the great things happening in the County, including the arrival of Superfast Broadband!

DBC Breakfast at Sjøvoll Centre Durham
2015-01-28 08:00 - 10:00 | The Sjøvoll Centre, Front Street, Durham, DH1 5BZ, United Kingdom
We invite you to join us at our first breakfast of 2015 in The Sjøvoll Centre Durham, a superb addition to Framwellgate School. Discover more about this science learning and conference centre and enjoy informal networking over breakfast.
What better way to start your working day?!

DBC return to Sjovoll Centre Durham!
2015-02-10 18:00 - 21:00 | The Sjøvoll Centre, Front Street, Durham, DH1 5BZ, United Kingdom
Join us for a business twist on Valentine’s as we explore the formula for the perfect match!
You’ve cracked the science of Networking so there will be, as ever, plenty of time for that before the main event and over a buffet served at the end of the evening.
We look forward to welcoming you and introducing the many new members of 2015.

DBC at Sage UK
2015-03-10 18:00 - 21:00 | Sage UK, North Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE13 9AA, United Kingdom
Join us as we return to the fantastic offices of Sage UK in Great Park, Nr Gosforth.
The event will include information about the all important pension auto-enrolment, new members and other news. Buffet & Networking.

DBC Breakfast at Sage Gateshead
2015-03-26 08:00 - 10:00 | Sage Gateshead, Saint Mary's Square, Gateshead, NE8 2JR, United Kingdom
We invite you to join us for our ever popular breakfast meeting hosted by the iconic Sage Gateshead. Since our last visit the venue has celebrated ten years and there’s many exciting times and events to share with you. Enjoy spectacular views of Newcastle Gateshead quayside from the open balcony overlooking the concourse.

Catch up with members and meet guests for an informal networking breakfast over a coffee and bacon sandwich. What better way to start your working day?

DBC Meet the Funders at Radisson Blu
2015-04-14 18:00 - 21:00 | Radisson Blu Hotel, Frankland Lane, Durham, DH1 5TA, United Kingdom
You may or may not be in the market for funds to grow and develop your business but your clients or contacts may and knowing what’s on offer in the region is vitally important.
So, as well as our usual informal meeting and networking, this month we invite you to Meet the Funders and hear how they may be able to help you to grow your business.
The FFBNE fund (also known as the JEREMIE programme) is the most successful of its type in the UK and since its launch in 2010, it has provided debt and equity funding to more than 700 SMEs. Investments have been made in companies across a wide range of sectors, including bio-technology, manufacturing, engineering and renewable energy.

DBC Breakfast at The Stables, Beamish Hall Hotel
2015-04-23 08:00 - 10:00 | Beamish Hall Country House Hotel, Stanley, Co Durham, DH9 0YB, United Kingdom
We’re heading back to one of our favourite venues for our popular Monthly Informal Breakfast Meeting in the Stables Restaurant. Set in the beautiful surroundings of Beamish Hall Country House Hotel, here’s hoping for a sunny morning so we can sit and watch the squirrels in between the networking!

Another warm welcome awaits us, along with chef specials and it’s never too early to sample beer from the micro brewery.

Free to DBC Members
£10 Non Members (max. 2 visits)

DBC invites you to Novus Seaham - You're hired!
2015-05-12 18:00 - 21:00 | Novus Business Centre, Spectrum 7, Spectrum Business Park, Seaham, SR7 7TT, United Kingdom
We’re heading over to the sea for the next club meeting as East Durham Business Services
host our event at Novus Seaham. In addition to the business support and conference centre EDBS offer apprenticeships and it got us wondering who’s got what it takes to be ‘the Apprentice’!
Well, tonight we’re going to find out as our own ‘Lord Sugar’ does the hiring and firing and you get to help keep the prospective winners in with a chance of the big prize and avoid the dreaded pointed finger!
Lots of opportunity for networking and a light buffet to finish off the evening.

DBC Breakfast at New College Durham
2015-05-21 08:00 - 10:00 | New College Durham, Framwellgate Moor Campus, Framwellgate, Durham , DH1 5ES, United Kingdom
At last year’s club meeting we heard how New College Durham has developed into one of the cornerstones of education development in the North East and heard first hand from some fantastic students. This time the college will host our ever popular informal breakfast meeting. We hope you can join us as we network and enjoy the impressive facilities. We look forward to welcoming you.
Free to DBC Members
£10 non members (max. 2 visits)

DBC invite you to Tea with Thomas & friends
2015-06-09 18:00 - 21:00 | The Locomotion, Soho Street, Shildon, DL4 1PQ, United Kingdom
We invite you to let off steam at the magnificent Locomotion. An informal evening of
networking and discovery as we introduce you to the delights of another of the region’s hidden treasures.

So join us as we enjoy our club meeting at one of the most popular railway museums in the world. View the collection and hear more about the history of these fantastic engines.

DBC Members free to attend
Non Members £10 (max. 2 visits)

DBC 'Summer at Brambles' Poplar Tree Garden Centre
2015-07-14 06:00 - 21:00 | Brambles, Shincliffe Garden Centre, Durham, DH1 2NG
We are delighted to return to Brambles for another Summer evening in the pretty Poplar Tree Garden Centre. It doesn’t seem a year ago since we enjoyed inspirational speakers, gin tasting and a sweepstake ahead of the world cup!

Well, I’m not sure how we will follow that line up but you can be sure of a great evening of networking and activity.

Free to DBC Members
£10 Non Members (max. 2 visits)
