Dates For Your Diary - Business Club Events

Mixing Business with Pleasure – 5^th June 2008

Calling all Business Club members, following the success of the last welcome evening RCT Business Club is inviting businesses to attend a free evening of networking on Thursday 5^th June at the Cross Keys Hotel, Nantgarw, from 5:30pm until 7:30pm.

This new, regular, edition to the RCT Business Club events programme, was launched in April and proved to be a resounding success.

The session gives you the opportunity to drop in to an informal environment on their way home from a busy day at work and chat with like-minded business professionals and representatives from the Business Club team.

The event is free of charge, and there is even a 10% discount on meals courtesy of Jo Cusak, Landlady at the Cross Keys Hotel.

Also if you book your place on any forthcoming Business Club events on the night you can receive a 5% discount – even more reason to attend.

So why not drop in for a meal and a pint, or a coke if you’re driving and help your business grow with RCT Business Club.

The Concept of Successful Marketing – 10th June 2008

RCT Business Club has teamed up with leading marketing professionals Concept Club to run a complete series of "How to" Marketing events. These events aim to help you to successfully up-skill yourself with useful marketing techniques, which will help you to develop an effective marketing campaign from start to finish.

Part Two - Devising a Successful Marketing plan takes place on Tuesday 10th June 2008 at Venture House, Abercynon.

Part Three - Choosing Marketing Tools and Setting Budgets, takes place on Tuesday 8th July 2008, at Valleys Innovation Centre, Abercynon.

If you didn't attend Part One in the series, don't worry you can still easily make a start with Part Two.

The Ultimo Guest Speaker - 25th June 2008

MM Poster 5 The Ultimo Guest Speaker, Michelle Mone, creator of the bestselling Ultimo bra range, is set to inspire RCT Business Club members on Wednesday 25^th June 2008, at the Miskin Manor Hotel, Llantrisant. The event will commence at 5:30pm and tickets cost £30 excl VAT and include a hot buffet.

Michele Mone will be delivering a motivational speech on how she has become one of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs of our time. Best known as the flamboyant creator of the equally flamboyant bust-boosting "Ultimo bra", Michelle is a highly successful entrepreneur and marketer. She launched MJM International in November 1996 and went on to initiate, develop and successfully market the "Ultimo" range of bras around the world.

For further information or to book your place at any or all of the events, call the Business Club on 01443 424109, or email businessclub@rhondda-cynon-taf.gov.uk alternatively visit www.rctbusinessclub.co.uk

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Look who's joined the Club?

RCT Business Club Welcomes our new members

Introduce a member to the Club and get a free place at one of our breakfast events contact us if you would like to take up this offer.

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Local News

This is where you, our members get the chance to share good news stories about your business with other members. If you would like to get your stories featured, please e-mail the copy to rctbusinessclub@rhondda-cynon-taf.gov.uk

The website of knowledge

The re-launch of the website www.RhonddaCynonTaff.com has been designed to provide information for residents, local businesses and visitors to Rhondda Cynon Taff .

The site has been completely redesigned, and has loads more features to add in the coming six months.

If you haven’t visited our site recently please do so and let us know what you think: www.rhonddacynontaff.com

Knowledge Transfer Partnership Helps Secure Prestigious Contract

Blackbox-av design and manufacture audio-visual equipment for the museum, heritage and attraction industries. The company has been involved in two Knowledge Transfer Partnerships with the University of Glamorgan.

The first project involved Associate Alan Williams, who developed a new range of extremely successful communication and media technologies. The new technological capabilities helped secure important contracts, including the installation of the "Ice Station" Antarctica exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London (where the company supplied over 50 different items of audio visual equipment). Alan has stayed on with blackbox-av as their R&D Manager.

The second project is due to end in November this year. Associate Ross Cuthbertson is developing enhanced company capabilities in multimedia programming whilst studying for an MSc as part of the KTP. He is being supported by Clive Thomas from the University’s Centre for Electronic Product Engineering.

Jonathan Knight, Managing Director of Blackbox said, ‘the KTP has been an invaluable exercise for us. University of Glamorgan and our KTP project manager made the process very simple for us and have assisted with the scheme implementation every step of the way. The KTP has assisted in keeping the company up to date with emerging technologies relevant to our business as well as providing an all important succession candidate for a retiring Director. As a small business, this would have been difficult to achieve without KTP. I thoroughly recommend it’.

If you are interested in talking to the university about how Knowledge Transfer partnerships can support your business then contact: Richard Mahoney – rmahone1@glam.ac.uk or tel: 01443 482482.

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