Chambers in The West Networking Event

Neville Reyner CBE, who recently stepped down as President of the British Chambers of Commerce, will address the first ever joint networking event for Bury St Edmunds, Haverhill and Newmarket Chambers of Commerce, supported by Suffolk Chamber of Commerce, at Ickworth West Wing on Friday 23 September. Mr Reyner, who is Chairman of the Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough LEP, will be joined by Patrick Gihana Mulenga, Commercial Attaché to the Rwandan Embassy. Rwanda’s top athletes will be using Bury St Edmunds Leisure Centre as their Pre-Games Training Camp for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games next year.  

UK Female Entrepreneurship  Ambassador, Jan Cavelle completes the lineup of speakers. Jan runs a furniture manufacturing business in Haverhill that supplies furniture to the top end of the interior design market all over the world. In addition, she is a UK FEA (Female Entrepreneurship  Ambassador) one of 250 over 22 countries in the EU, works as an “Enterprise Superstar” for the Eastern Hub initiative in Ipswich and has just launched Enterprising Acorns, a StartUp Local scheme aimed initially at the Haverhill area.

Afternoon tea and champagne will be served during the event which takes place from 2pm to 5pm.

Tickets are priced at £30 for Chamber members and £35 for non members, include champagne and afternoon tea ,and are available from www.businessfestival.org