Join us for the popular NAWIC business breakfast club at the family-friendly time of 9:30 am.
Speaker:
This month we are going to have a collaboration to explore the benefits of greening our cities.
Catherine Xavier, Landscape Architect and Director at GUARDA and Gabrielle Graham, Managing Director at SWT Ecology Services, will discuss the benefits that using landscaping and trees as an intrinsic part of the way we plan our cities can bring many other benefits.
Our hosts, Designworks, will share a few tips on what to look for when specifying materials both for projects and our homes, to make sure they stand to their sustainability claims.
Agenda:
- 9:30 Arrival and registration
- 9:40 Introduction by the host
- 9:50 Breakfast and networking
- 10:30 The benefits of greening our cities.
- 11:30 Goodbyes
Signing up:
Attendance will be open to members and non-members subject to ticket availability, as is necessary since we are keeping the group contained to in order to encourage participation.
This event will be free to attend and we would like to ask you to avoid booking without making sure you will be attending given the spaces are limited.
Should you know someone who would benefit from having access to this network, please share this invitation.
Event Details:
Date: 24th April 2019 TBC
The location: Designworks at their showroom in Clerkenwell will be our hosts.
(Note the Business Breakfast Club may vary from month to month in order to accommodate additional participants. Please follow announcement to avoid disappointment.)
Previous speakers have included:
Feb 2017: Indre Butkeviciute MCSI, Founder & Managing Director www.lilyadvisory.com (Finances)
March 2017: Karen Fugle, Sleeping Giant Consulting, http://www.sleepinggiant-consulting.com/ (on Resilience)
April 2017: Gloria Halim, Founder Rock on Divas, http://www.rockondivas.com/(on wellbeing)
May 2017 Lisa Conway-Hughes, Westminster Wealth Management http://www.westminster-wealth.com/ (on wealth management in the context of business)
June 2017: Caroline Stagg, from CS Coaching http://www.carolinestagg.co.uk/ who will be speaking about Identifying one’s drive: Why you do what you do?
July 2017: Anne Timpany of On Tap Plumbers
August 2017: Catherine Piercy from Heatherwicke
September 2017 Small Business knowledge exchange
October 2017: London Build
November 2017: Tracey Westell of Pecunia
January 2018:Kim Arnold on marketing
July 2018 Speaker: Nicki Williams
August 2018: Danna Walker on social enterprise
January 2019: Rowena Vaughan on Online Presence, Best Practice