
Business over Breakfast (BoB) Clubs, Regional Membership Co-ordinator
Bristol, United Kingdom

Business over Breakfast (BoB) Clubs, Regional Membership Co-ordinator
Bristol, United Kingdom
In addition to LinkedIn I am networked through Business over Breakfast (BoB) Clubs, Ecademy.com
Union negotiation (former acting senior steward with Nalgo/Unison), 20 ys experience within Local Government (with 5 years in the Best Value leading-edge team of Bristol City Council Neighbourhood & Housing Dept) serial entrepreneur (business and social)
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Business over Breakfast clubs are operated around the UK and internationally. Offering just one exclusive place for each business category at each club means that every member benefits from having NO competition and having an unpaid sales force of between 25 and 35 members promoting their goods and/or services by word-of-mouth recommendation.
ur clubs are all about helping members not only to get more quality business but also helping them improve their presentation skills and being able to meet with to develop mutually beneficial relationships with other business people on a regular basis.
(Public Company; 1; Utilities industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
"Making a living through giving"
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry)
September 1996 — Present (13 years 4 months)
authoring editing and designing community newsletters for the not-for-profit sector
graphic design – publicity material
(Real Estate industry)
December 2005 — September 2009 (3 years 10 months)
Director, sourcing off-market 'brown field' land for developers ie residential 'knock down and rebuilds)
(Real Estate industry)
December 2005 — August 2009 (3 years 9 months)
ALL Enterprises (Andy L Lampard) embraces the range of curent entreprises
Off-market Land sourcing for developers (private and RSLs) -www.AlphaHousingSolutions.com and
utilities in partnership with Euphony - www.CutBills4Me.com
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 1 month)
BNI helped me to understand an important factor - there was a name for what I did - networking . Loved it
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry)
February 2005 — February 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Assisted in the rectifying of the Data held in the Community Care Dept data-base to ensure that statistics generated reflected work done in the filed, rather than erroneuos data unwittingly entered by staff!
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry)
September 1989 — April 2003 (13 years 8 months)
Various positions but from Sept 1997 joined the Client-side team when Housing came under CCT (Compulsory Competitive Tendering)-UK legislation of the Thatcher/Major Governments.
That evolved into the Best Value of the Blair Government. Discovered I 'loved' the suite of toolkits Central Govt. introduced from the private sector into local government i.e. Benchmarking, Business Process analysis (Activity Based Costing etc.), EFQM, Balanced ScoreCard etc. Took me 8 yrs to recognise that whilst I 'live and breathed' the spirit of BV the culture and bureaucracy of a large Organisation only permitted grudging conformity to the 'letter of the law' rather that enthusiastic opportunity-focused embracing of the 'spirit of the law' (not denying that there were, and are, a lot of good, well-intentioned, well motivated, highly-able and highly-skilled people in BCC Neighbourhood & Housing Dept .. though somehow the 'sum of the parts LESS than the sum of the whole. Well that's my 5-minute analysis!
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Religious Institutions industry)
April 1993 — August 1996 (3 years 5 months)
Part-time role
handling community liaison/public relations/publicity
community newsletter -authorship, editing and design
assisting at various church-led community groups
Diploma , Church studies, theology and ethics , 1983 — 1990
member of a local church, (networked throughout the Bristol region in the Celebation Churches Network, and throughout the UK via www.eauk.org) active networker though BNI activly developing business plan with a BNI associate for an exciting new product to bring to market in the Flexible Managed Office growing industry
BOB Club
Ecademy.com,
Property Networking Club,
Property Marketing Millionaire group,
Business West
FSB
Associate of Strategic Land Options