Join us on Sunday 1st November as we launch our new Secret Garden and Sunday Brunch Menu, with entertainment from Jack Calloway & His World Renown Parlophonians Dance Orchestra.
Located on our terrace at the back of the club, The Secret Garden features an exuberantly decorated stretch tent which is heated and shelters you from the elements, allowing you to continue Al Fresco dining and drinking throughout the cooler months.
Expect a complimentary secret serve cocktail on arrival, followed by a delicious brunch with fantastic entertainment!
Tickets will be released soon!
Be Your Authentic Self
Have you ever felt like you needed to conform to fit in? What does aspiration mean to you? Do you have inspiring role models in your life? Perminder Mann, CEO of Bonnier Books UK, a publishing company with sales of over 80million and a regular on the publishing industry power lists, shares an honest account of her path to success. Overcoming personal obstacles and challenging stereotypes head on, Perminder argues how we all must bring our authentic selves to work. As a passionate believer in the power of books and the role the publishing industry must play in our society, Perminder also lays out her manifesto for positive change.
Discuss this event on Twitter using the hashtag #BristolLectures.
Programme:
18:25 – Join the talk online
18:30 – 19:30 – Lecture including Q&A
Free event
Work in marketing? This year’s virtual Digital Gaggle will equip you with everything you need to take your digital strategy by storm. Expect an exceptional speaker line-up and forget everything you thought you knew about online events; the team at Digital Gaggle are about to rip up the blueprint.
Tickets cost between £19 – £99 to accommodate different budgets and you can find out more about the speaker line-up and activities you can get involved in by visiting the Gaggle homepage right here: https://www.digitalgaggle.co.uk/conference/april-2020/
After joining us for ‘You’re Beautiful Wonkiness‘ last year, we’re excited to welcome back Steve Chapman for his latest talk on creativity and resilience.
Something happens to our perception of creativity as we grow older and adapt to fit into the way the adult world works. We’re often encouraged to put play and uninhibited creative expression aside in favour of focusing on important “grown up” work.
Creativity is often commoditised or “thingified” in such a way that it only exists in the form of a product, a process or a job description. It’s almost as if adult creativity is only valued if it is clearly FOR something tangible and measurable. But creative expression doesn’t have to be focussed for it to be of value to mental and physical wellbeing.
Join us on Thursday 19th November from 12.30-1.30pm for ‘The Art of Creative Resilience’ – an online talk and Q&A with artist, writer and speaker Steve Chapman.
Chapman will explore the concept of creative resilience in the one-hour session. He’ll also discuss the value of adopting creative practices for no other reason than it helps us make sense of what it means to be human.
Tickets are a minimum donation of £10+VAT per person for Bristol Creative Industries members. However, if you’d like to support our future events a donation of £20+VAT would be appreciated.
Tickets cost £25+VAT per person for non-members. To find out more about joining BCI, visit the membership page.
Steve Chapman is an artist, writer and speaker interested in creativity and the human condition. He works as a consultant and coach for those interested in finding creative and counter-intuitive ways to help free themselves from stuck loops of common-sense where creativity, novelty and change are rather difficult.
Steve regularly give talks on creativity, spontaneity, and human culture change. He also muses on imperfection, stuckness, counter-culture, shame and the inner critic and is a regular guest on various podcasts. You can watch some of his talks and listen to various interviews and podcast appearances here.
As an artist, he has exhibited his work alongside the likes of David Shrigley and Pablo Picasso. Steve has also sold his pieces across five continents.
Steve is at his best when he is on the edge of not quite knowing what he is doing.
Building the World’s Largest High Street Optics and Audiology Brand
Doug and Dame Mary Perkins founded Specsavers with the aim of offering affordable eye care to everyone. They will talk about how they saw the opportunity to revolutionise the optical market, following a relaxation of UK regulations, which allowed opticians to advertise products and services for the first time.
Specsavers is not built on a stock exchange model but rather on a unique joint venture partnership, where directors part-own and manage their own stores. Theirs is a values-led approach to business, which has led to a world-wide organisation that turns over 3 billion a year, operating in 10 countries and employing 35,000 colleagues.
Doug and Dame Mary met in Cardiff while studying optometry at university. After graduating they bought Mary’s father’s optometry business in her home town of Bristol, which they built into a successful chain of more than 20 stores across the south west. This provided invaluable experience when they set up Specsavers.
With Mary being Bristol-born and educated and Doug living in Bristol for 15 years (and even playing for Bristol rugby club), they will describe how their business experience in Bristol acted as an extended pilot for the birth of Specsavers and inspired their vision for affordable eyecare and audiology at scale.
After selling their original chain of stores, it took a further three years of worldwide research of partnership and franchises, which were unheard of in the medical sector, to create their unique business model.
Discuss this event on Twitter using the hashtag #BristolLectures.
Programme:
18:25 – Join the talk online
18:30 – 19:30 – Lecture including Q&A
Free event
The MyWorld project aims embed R&D in Bristol’s creative industry. How can you up your R&D game? Ask the experts in creative innovation!
THIS MASTERCLASS SESSION IS PART OF BBC ACADEMY DIGITAL CITIES VIRTUAL
https://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalcities/schedule
Bristol has a national strength in the combination of Creative & Tech.
MyWorld is a new project funded by UKRI and lead by University of Bristol and University of Bath. It will build on our AHRC Creative Cluster project to create an international centre for R&D underpinning the creative industries sector – bringing university research into the development process.
How can your R&D work create prototypes ahead of the delivery curve and capitalise on opportunities the minute new technologies roll out?
Producer/chair: Paul Appleby
Contributors:
Prof. Dave Bull – University of Bristol: MyWorld R&D Centre funded by UKRI
Tony Bhajam – Inclusion Producer, Bristol & Bath Creative Cluster R&D funded by AHRC
Catherine Allen – creative R&D practitioner in VR
Jenny Tragner – company R&D and gaining from Tax credits
With video clips and success stories, this expert panel session covers the thinking :
Bring your challenges and questions!
Having a concrete local SEO strategy is essential to getting your business on the map.
Get expert tips on how to improve your local SEO visibility from Claire Carlile at the next Business as Unusual webinar on Thursday 15th October at 3pm BST.
You’ll learn:
o How Google is becoming your new home page
o How zero-click searches could be impacting your SEO strategy
o How to use UTM tagging to measure and report on Google My Business (GMB)
o About the new features you should be making use of in GMB
o About the importance of reviews for GMB success
The Festival of Female Entrepreneurs is one of Enterprise Nation’s flagship events. Hosted in Bristol for the past eight years, it brings together some of the UK’s most influential female entrepreneurs, business leaders and brightest start-ups to share ideas, solve challenges and get practical insights on how to start and grow a business.
We sadly can’t all meet in person in 2020 but that doesn’t mean the festival isn’t happening as for the first time we’re taking FFE virtual! Join us from the comfort of your home or office on 23 October for the ninth Festival of Female Entrepreneurs.
You’ll enjoy a day of business inspiration and advice, plus we’ll be crowning the 2020 Female Start-up of the Year winner live on the virtual stage. They will receive amazing prizes to help them and their business flourish and grow. The competition will open for entries in September 2020.
Please be advised the event will be hosted via online platform Hopin.
We can’t wait to see you at #FFE20
Early release ticket price: £10
Enterprise Nation early release ticket price: £7.50
Join Azeem Ahmad, Sunjay Singh and Joyann Boyce for a conversation about cultural diversity in the marketing sector on Thursday 17th September from 3pm – 4pm.
This webinar is perfect for marketers and business owners who want to start being more inclusive at work.
– Practical ways to champion diversity in the workplace and get around the biases of your boss
– First hand experiences of cultural bias as told by our panellists
– The steps we can take as an industry and as individuals to make inclusive marketing the standard
– How we can encourage more young people of colour into the sector
There’ll also be a 15 minute Q&A where you can submit anonymous questions on the topic; so if there’s a question you have which you felt uncomfortable or a bit silly asking, this is your chance to ask it.
Register for the free webinar and get the joining link here: mnky.bz/bau
Submit your questions for the panellists here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/GKCM3BG
However you’ve thought about value in the past, it will have an ongoing and much deeper relevance as we move into a new and more challenging era. Value will become an essential guiding light for agency leaders regardless of any immediate plans for selling their business.
Whether it’s the best acquirers, investors, clients, talent or partners, stakeholders will be more discerning in choosing their next agency. Not only will they be seeking out those that are genuinely at the top of their game, they’ll be assessing which agencies have the performance, resources and management to fulfil their growth ambitions, stick to their principles and survive future market fluctuations.
There will be new challenges for agencies. More rigour, better planning and greater attention to detail around profitability, growth and quality. No half measures and nothing left to chance in the way your business performs and the way it’s managed.
We’ll share our knowledge and experience and explain how you can build the value of your business and maximise your potential for the future.
Places are limited to ensure a personal and productive discussion.
This event is for BCI members only. A minimum donation of £10+VAT per person is required to reserve your place.
We’re the business consultancy to add clarity, colour and confidence to your ambition.
We add our collective knowledge and specialist expertise to help you realise your full potential and value.
The Future Positive series is run by the Tonic senior team who draw on their experience leading and guiding some of the best agencies through challenging times.
To find out more about Tonic, click here.
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