Chambers Lead Bury St Edmunds Business Festival Finale
25 Aug 2011
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.
He 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.
Andrew Denny, Chairman of Bury St Edmunds Chamber of Commerce, said: “This will be a great opportunity for West Suffolk’s premier business representatives to hear interesting speakers and meet other like minded people in the beautiful and relaxed surroundings of the West Wing at Ickworth.”
Afternoon tea and champagne will be served during the event which takes place from 2pm to 5pm.
Sarah Howard, Chairman of Haverhill Chamber of Commerce, said: “We are delighted to be working together with Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket Chambers on this first event of its kind in West Suffolk. We hope members and non members will use the afternoon to network with other businesses and hear some great speakers.”
Graham Abbey, Chairman of Newmarket Chamber of Commerce, said: “There are a number of very talented company’s in the west of Suffolk and in spite of the current economic client these are very exciting times for our region. Businesses within the Forest Heath area fully support any and every effort to forge links not only with our neighbours’ but right across our region and we very much look forward to being involved with the Bury St Edmunds Business Festival.”
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
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