Join Sarah Bailey from West Cheshire & North Wales Chamber of Commerce, Leon Stowell from Ellis and Co Accounting and Robin Gill Excello Law to cover the basics on setting up a business bank account, when you need an accountant and how to avoid legal mistakes start ups make. Each of our speakers will provide you with a brief 5 minute introduction to their area of expertise followed by 30 minutes of Q+A where you can ask any questions you may have more specific to your business idea.
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Venture Programme: Business Mentoring Appointments
If you have an early business idea, you can book a 45 minute appointment with our friendly, supportive business mentor Hems de Winter at our remote Business Mentoring Clinic. You can use this time as an opportunity to talk through your business and your ideas, and Hem’s probing questions will help you to navigate your next steps. Come along with your questions too!
Please Note: You must have attended at least 3 Venture Sessions or watched 3 videos to book an appointment
Venture Programme: Pricing for Profit – How much do I charge?
This session will help you work out the pricing strategy for your business and will cover:
- Product vs Service and how to approach pricing
- How stakeholders influence your pricing
- Cost-plus vs Value based pricing
- Financial planning concepts
Venture Programme: What to include in a pitch deck
You’ve decided to launch or grow your business and now you need investment, but how do you pitch your idea? Mike Skinner connects investors with ambitious entrepreneurs and knows a thing or two about what they are looking for. Mike will be giving you a simple, effective PowerPoint presentation template which you can use to prepare your pitch, making sure you address everything a potential investor is looking for.
Venture Programme: How to perfect a 60 second pitch
How can you introduce yourself and your ideas in just 60 seconds? What should you include and not include and how can you stand out and be memorable?
Whether you are pitching a your business idea, applying for a job or simply introducing yourself to someone new it is vital to be clear, concise and distinctive because first impressions are made quickly and you definitely don’t want to come across as confusing, chaotic and forgettable.
Give it a go: Wildlife recording- City Nature Challenge
Start Date: 26 April 2024 1:30 pm
End Date: 26 April 2024 3:30 pm
Location: Outside Grosvenor, Exton Park – by the amazon lockers
Book NowThe City Nature Challenge is a global event where people in over 500 City Regions worldwide work together to record as much wildlife as possible. It is a four-day challenge, this year running from Friday 26 – Monday 29 April.
There are three categories in the challenge:
- Number of observations made
- Number of species recorded
- Number of people taking part and making observations
Last year, across Chester West and Cheshire, 2000 observations were made covering 521 different species. We placed 12th out of 19 UK cities taking part – we are hoping to beat that this year and we need your help. Learn more about the City Nature Challenge.
We will be making recordings of Wildlife found on campus and along the canal and greenway. We’ll be on the lookout for birds, bugs, bees, spiders, plants, funghi, mammals, wild plants and anything else we can find. It is useful if you have a smartphone or a digital camera, but this is not essential.
We will start the session with a briefing of how to use the iNaturalist app, and then we will walk around campus making as many observations as possible. We’ll also go along the greenway and the canal, as lots of wildlife can be found here too.
How to get involved: Sign up is not essential, but if you register your interest in advance, we will send you a reminder and some extra information about the iNaturalist app in advance or how to get involved with just a camera / no tech.
Register your interest on the Volunteer Hub
Meet us by the amazon lockers outside Grosvenor House, Exton Park, on Fri 26th April at 1:30pm and stay for as long as you like.
There’s lots of other wildlife-recording events happening across Chester and Cheshire-West, and you can also just go out yourself across the 4 day period and make your own observations on iNaturalist.
Suspension Training
Start Date: 7 June 2024 12:00 pm
End Date: 7 June 2024 1:00 pm
Location: Gymnasium, Exton Park
Book NowImprove your strength, flexibility and balance using a suspension strap system that incorporates your bodyweight as a form of resistance. This class is suitable for all levels of fitness as every suspension exercise can be modified.
Suspension Training
Start Date: 31 May 2024 12:00 pm
End Date: 31 May 2024 1:00 pm
Location: Gymnasium, Exton Park
Book NowImprove your strength, flexibility and balance using a suspension strap system that incorporates your bodyweight as a form of resistance. This class is suitable for all levels of fitness as every suspension exercise can be modified.
Suspension Training
Start Date: 24 May 2024 12:00 pm
End Date: 24 May 2024 1:00 pm
Location: Gymnasium, Exton Park
Book NowImprove your strength, flexibility and balance using a suspension strap system that incorporates your bodyweight as a form of resistance. This class is suitable for all levels of fitness as every suspension exercise can be modified.
Suspension Training
Start Date: 17 May 2024 12:00 pm
End Date: 17 May 2024 1:00 pm
Location: Gymnasium, Exton Park
Book NowImprove your strength, flexibility and balance using a suspension strap system that incorporates your bodyweight as a form of resistance. This class is suitable for all levels of fitness as every suspension exercise can be modified.