Small Business, Big Network

Naomi Riches MBE – Peformance Coach & Motiational Speaker ·       Paralympic Gold and Bronze Medallist in rowing ·       6 x World Championships ·       Guinness World Record Holder Naomi was diagnosed as registered blind at just a few months old, and from that moment, the challen...

Babs Vinden-Cantrell is a recruiter for the British Army, a trained personal, business, and networking coach, and a children's author. She has made use of lots of different networking opportunities to move her career forward over the years. Her latest venture is a series of children's picture books called 'Seagulls Don't Eat Sorbet'.

Amanda Coulson is the CEO and Founder of SVC Solutions which provides complete business solutions, including HR, recruitment, training, and health and safety, as part of one package for companies. With over 30 years experience, Amanda is also a trained Executive Business Coach and provides business owners with the mentoring they need to create a thriving company, using her own experience of creati...

Allen built a successful 6-figure project management consultancy on the back of LinkedIn. Since then he has run a series of businesses in property, motorhome hire, domiciliary care and business support. With a change in personal circumstances, Allen now focuses on sharing his LinkedIn knowledge with small to medium-sized businesses helping them to leverage the platform to generate leads. Allen is...

Ivan Weiss is a portrait photographer based in London. Born with a camera pointed at him, he grew up surrounded by photography. His interest in portraiture was influenced by 12 years living in Florence, Italy. He creates images that reflect a fascination with classical composition, a delight in the technical possibilities afforded by modern equipment and techniques, and a sensitivity for human emo...

Toni Robinson is the founder of The Cookie People, a small business with a large following. Toni is new to networking but is already finding it useful - not only as a way to promote her business, but also in terms of business support.

Faye Dicker  -  broadcaster, voiceover artist and founder of the award-winning networking group Freelance Mum. Faye cut her teeth in television at a young age, before working in television production and then radio presenting, for both BBC and commercial stations.  Her busy voiceover business, means she can be heard on national television and radio campaigns, corporate and E-learnin...

Phil Coley is a British entrepreneur dividing his time between his home in France and business interests in the UK. Phil has a background in sales and marketing for over 30 years, from starting selling advertising for a regional newspaper through to consultancy positions with some of the UK`s leading contact centres. Professional qualifications include a degree in sports science, majoring in sport...

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...