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Keep It Local Magazine
Thirsk & District Business Association are exploring new ways to promote our local businesses and members. With this in mind, we will be launching a bi-monthly magazine call KEEP IT LOCAL THIRSK.
The magazine will be Royal Mail delivered to all YO7 postcodes alternative months starting in May (6 editions per year). Only businesses based in/or servicing the YO7 postcode areas will be permitted to advertise, so no national advertisers will be included.
The publication will contain a newsletter from the
Thirsk Coworking Dates 2020 - Q1 Jan - Mar 20
Free local coworking sessions open to all at Rural Arts and Thirsk Library.
Thirsk Coworking is a popular FREE informal coworking event for freelancers, small business owners, homeworkers and those who are otherwise self-employed. Those attending are free to bring their laptops and paperwork etc and enjoy working alongside others, collaborating, chatting and so on. Sessions such as these are great for accountability (getting that piece of work done that you procrastinate over at home/the office), sharing experiences, offering advice
T&DBA Breakfast Networking at Tea Time Cafe - 6 Feb 20
Thirsk & District Business Association welcomes you to our next breakfast networking event on Thursday 6 February 2020. February's networking event will take place at Tea Time Cafe (formerly Arabica).
Event location:
Tea Time Cafe
87 Market Place
Thirsk
YO7 1ET
Event time:
7:30am - 9:00am
Costs:
T&DBA Members - FREE
Non-members - £8.00
The event will be a format of relaxed networking with a breakfast of bacon sandwiches & coffee/tea.
Please get in touch if you have any special dietary requirements.
Members
The Thirsk Christmas Window Competition 2019 Winner is...
The winner of the 2019 Thirsk Christmas Window Competition is Alina’s Florist.
The competition was independently judged by Thirsk Mayor David Duffey on Thursday 5th December. There were so many excellent window displays that it was difficult to choose between the local businesses but the Kirkgate florist beat the rest to the punch.
The runners up in the competition included The Clock Works, Ewe and Yarn and Eufloria along with the highly commended window displays from Crafts of
Create An Effective Marketing Plan 29 Jan 20
Develop an actionable marketing plan in a day with CIM Marketer Deborah Goodall and Caroline Todd.
We'll look at the key elements of a marketing plan with the aim of making all your communication with your customers and potential customers effective.
Date: Wednesday 29 January 2020
Time: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Location: The Durham Ox, West Way, York, YO61 4TE
Cost: £150 - Early bird offer runs until 31st December 2019 - after this time the fee rises to £175.00
Social Media for Business - 11 Mar 20
Have you hit a STOP in the growth of your reach on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter or Linked In? Not 100% on how to use Social Media to help grow your business?
Date: Wednesday 11 March 2020
Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Location: The Durham Ox, West Way, York, YO61 4TE
Cost: £100 Early Bird Attendee at Social Media Workshop, includes lunch at The Durham Ox. Early Bird save £25 on the fee which rises to £125 on 31st January
Spotlight On...
Our T&DBA Member in the 'Spotlight' this month is Ian Sadler, who is the Customer Experience Director for North Yorkshire from insight6
1. When did you start your business?
I took the brave step to go self-employed in April 2014
2. What led you to start a business/how did it all begin?
I’d previously spent 20 years in Customer Service roles at Aviva, doing the do, and then managing customer service admin, call centre, and finally complaint teams before being made redundant.
In my next
Thirsk Winter Ball 2019
On Saturday 16 November Thirsk Ladies Group held their annual fundraising dinner dance event at Thirsk & Sowerby Town Hall.
The town hall was transformed into a winter wonderland, guests were treated to a drinks reception, three course meal from Friends 4 Dinner, a festive winter photo backdrop by JD Photography Ltd and danced the night away to local Thirsk band Sugartown. Over £3000 was raised during the fundraising evening through a live and silent auction plus various raffle
Business networking takes off!
We held our first breakfast networking on 17th May at the Golden Fleece.
There was a great turnout with 20 businesses coming for some networking (and bacon & sausage butties!)
The room was full of people catching up and meeting new faces in a relaxed atmosphere - exactly what networking should be about!
Our next breakfast event will be on Thurs 21st June at Hambleton Ales in Melmerby.
If you want to come, sign up here.
We will
What a fantastic launch event!
Over 100 business people from Thirsk and the surrounding area attended the launch of Thirsk & District Business Association’s new website and membership scheme on Thursday 22nd March.
Held at Thirsk Racecourse, Guy Baragwanath, Chair of Thirsk & District Business Association spoke about the Association and its vision for the future, one of working together to benefit Thirsk and the surrounding areas, but also the individual businesses.
He went on to explain that the Association was about creating