Small Business, Big Network

Helena is a born and raised brit who started her copywriting business at the tender age of 21. Having no contacts she immediately started networking her socks off and attended most groups across London. Later she moved to a new country that didn’t have much of a culture of formal networking and so created English speaking networking. With three groups locally that were both online and face to face...

Sheena Whyatt is the founder of the KAPOW! Coaching Programme, which she set up in 2016, and runs as part of her training consultancy business, Lightning Training. Sheena has over 18 years experience in the L&D industry, and speaks regularly to groups of small business owners on a range of topics from networking skills to public speaking.   She has been keynote speaker for the Charte...

Karina Scott is a social media influencer and marketing expert, and the founder of Girl About Social. She started her business in lockdown after losing her job, and thanks to networking she hasn't looked back.

Dabbling in music, photography, radio and design, Martin has been a lifelong creative. But it's only in recent years that he worked out how to get paid for that creativity... by using his voice. Working with brands such as Lego, BMW and NHS, Martin's voiceover work spans across commercial, corporate, telephony and animation. Martin also co-hosts a fortnightly networking group for people in creativ...

Based on the Norfolk/Cambridgeshire border, Lilac HR is surrounded by rural, equestrian and agricultural businesses which is lucky since we are passionate about giving rural businesses the same high quality HR support that city based corporates get, but with a personal touch. We are fully CIPD qualified with over 10 years experience in partnering with companies to manage and develop the human part...

Just Great HR – Making the Complex Simple Dawn had 18 years of working in telephony and technology/ IT businesses, as a senior PA before re-training and moving into HR full-time about 12 years ago. She is used to running teams of people to deliver day-to-day HR support and projects. She's also ex-Army, having spent 5 years in The Royal Signals; 3 of which were in Cyprus (very spoilt!). Dawn is exp...

Steven Mayatt is Co-Owner and Creative Director at Pocket Creatives. His experience over the past 20 years spans the delivery of creative projects in video production and photography. Pocket Creatives work with small and large brands mainly in cosmetics, food & drink and consumer goods, and that work might involve anything from taking simple pack shots right up to TV ads. Steven's role in...

Sam Hollis is a Business Owner, Dad and serial networker. He runs Sam Hollis Web Design from Mozambique where he lives with his family. The UK designers who make the sites don’t usually let him actually touch websites any more. But, that leaves Sam more time for networking, chatting with his clients and running the business. 

Andrew Gibson helps charities to attain sustainable income streams. He also is the author of two books and a long-term member of BNI. Andrew uses the power of storytelling very effectively in his networking, and he teaches others to use it too.

Jennifer Elia helps businesses get visible online in less time, with less stress, and for less money with proven, sustainable, and scalable systems that work in any niche. After over a decade in digital marketing, she has mastered marketing without the tricks and hacks, so your social media is algorithm-proof.  Her goal-driven, holistic approach to marketing up-levels your game while giving y...

Ike Kehal is the CEO of Social27, a virtual event platform that has been helping businesses connect digitally throughout the pandemic and beyond. Ike started his professional career at Microsoft where he focused on partner programs and marketing. He went on to co-found and/or run four successful organizations, eventually starting Social27

Following 14 years working in senior leadership roles within sales, marketing & finance for Scottish & Newcastle the international Brewer, Michael was part of an MBO of McEwan’s & Youngers beer brands and Scrumpy Jack & Woodpecker cider brands, setting up Jygsaw Brands Ltd, after 4 successful years the business was eventually sold to Heineken UK. Since 2011 Michael has worked with...

Susan Gold is a marketing coach and consultant who describes herself as a networking maniac! One of the things she helps her clients with is networking - and in particular, making sure they are in the right room.

Lucy Edgar graduated in Social Anthropology and set about how to find her happy. After travelling, working in communications, teaching and a decade in HR, she decided to set up Human Everything with her partner in order to help make the working world a better place through supporting people to have productive conversations. Life's too short to be unhappy at work, and change can just be one co...

Stewart Leahy is the founder of Yorkshire Powerhouse, a company that provides all kinds of support for small businesses in the Yorkshire region. Twice a month Stewart runs online networking meetings, again for companies based in Yorkshire, or that have a legitimate business interest in Yorkshire.

Michael was born and raised in South Africa and emigrated to the UK on a business startup visa. Michael has been involved in all types of printing and branding for the last 25 years, having owned his own printing business for the majority of that time. His branding business in South Africa, Black Peppa, was a member of the local BNI chapter. It was at a BNI chapter meeting one morning that a light...

Emma is a professional Brand photographer from Natural Aspect. With over 14 years experience in the photographic industry, shooting a range of genres such as product, portraiture and commercial, her clients receive a really rounded brand photography service. She loves to work with business owners, to showcase their business, increase visibility, feel confident and proud of their online presence an...

Jenii Lowe is a content writer, copywriter, and professional explainer who has been working with written digital media for over a decade. Through her copywriting firm, Obsidian Content Creation, she's written for all manner of organisations, from national digital marketing behemoths to scores of small businesses up and down the UK. Jenii really relishes helping IT and tech firms more meaningfully...

After running our own businesses for many years, Ian and I realised that being a business owner can be a lonely place at times. People often start a business because they are good at what they do, but running a business requires additional skills that you don't necessarily have. So, we created We Are In Business, a networking and business support community. It was our desire to help business...

Chris Rabbitt is one of the founders of the Mee-ow network (meet-now). Mee-ow is a totally new way of networking online and is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Users are put into a room with up to three other people who could be from anywhere in the country (or even the world), and they have an hour to chat and network. Find out more at www.meeow.com

Sonny Kurmi runs SK Wealth Solutions based in Cambridge. He attends multiple networking sessions ever week, but his very first networking event will always stick in his mind!

Lucinda (Lucy) is a ghostwriter and editor working to support small and start-up businesses in building their brand voice and online content. She believes that every business has a story to tell, and she wants to help them do it. Her services include book writing, content writing, copywriting, professional bios, and editing. Her own story is a fascinating one - she was training as a teacher w...

A track record of over 15 years work and achievements in management with a strong background in transportation, at a strategic and operational level. A self-confessed transport geek. Lindsay shares her experience which includes facilitating and delivering service improvement and transformation with her current team, Hunts Coaches, other businesses, and learners. Since 2008 Lindsay has worked withi...

Brett Sheldon is the founder of the Business Support Organisation that was founded in early 2018 with the aim of simply helping business owners to do business better. By asking the question “how can they help you” and using common sense they’ve created an ecosystem unlike anything else in the “Business Organisation” world. Email:  brett@thebso.co.uk Website:  www.thebso.co.uk Linked...

I work in all aspects of sales & marketing and financial management, mentoring CEOs and directors to grow and manage their teams, commercialising new products and turning around struggling businesses and projects, particularly those very competent technical business people who want to be better commercially. I love the excitement of innovation and bringing new businesses to life using all the...