How was 2025 for you?
A little video to share some of the useful, enjoyable and fundraising things that we got up to in 2025. Why not join us next year?
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Choosing Private Medical Insurance: Key Points for UK Professionals
Following a successful career as an Estate Agent, new NCF member Joshua Allen became a Healthcare Partner with WPA Healthcare two years ago. At a recent networking meeting, he took some time to tell us what attracted him to this new opportunity and shared some useful tips for anyone thinking about taking out private medical
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Start-ups: 8 Steps to Avoid Failure & Build a Blueprint for Success
Networking Chandler’s Ford were recently pleased to hear from Mike Duff of Empiric Partners. He joined an online meeting to share his very useful advice for start-ups, although all our established small business members found what Mike had to share helpful, too. For those who weren’t able to join us, or as a reminder for
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Charity Calendar now on sale
Networking Chandler’s Ford are delighted to confirm that their superb 2026 Desk Calendar is now on sale! It would make a stylish and useful present for anyone who knows our area AND will be supporting a really worthwhile local cause. It started with an idea… Earlier this year, our member Ainslie, the Print Lady, was
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What are the benefits of joining Networking Chandler’s Ford?
For over a decade, Networking Chandler’s Ford has provided friendly small business networking for our local area. Compared to other networking groups, we are relatively informal but that’s what works for our members and it certainly doesn’t stop us building useful contacts and passing valuable referrals. If we had to summarise the benefits we get
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Tips on Smarter Networking
Many of you reading this will be seasoned networkers so most of the following – hopefully! – will be second nature to you. But, if you’re new to business networking or just feel it would be helpful to refresh your habits, please read on. Networking Chandler’s Ford has been around for over a decade (not
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Health & Safety Essentials for Small Businesses
Networking Chandler’s Ford were delighted to welcome Will White of Hampshire Health & Safety Limited as our guest speaker this morning. After more than 15 years working in a range of health and safety roles for a variety of organisations, Will has recently set up on his own. Now a small business himself, Will is
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Eat cake for a good cause!
Post Event Update! Thanks to everyone who baked, bought and ate cakes: we had lots of very tasty offerings to tempt people to part with their money! We raised £246.85 in donations, which NCF decided to ’round up’ to £300. This has now been passed on to Wessex Cancer Support and we received this lovely
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One Community: working together to help our community flourish
NCF were delighted to welcome a familiar face as our guest speaker this morning. Gail Bloomfield had been an operations and HR professional before working freelance and joining the local business networking circuit. Since she retired a few years ago, Gail has been using her time wisely as a Trustee of local charity One Community.
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Buy cheap and you get what you paid for: lessons from a career in insurance
After more than 30 years working in insurance, first learning the ropes in large corporates, now working as an independent broker and consultant, it seems to NCF member, Adam Penny, that some things never change. People wanting a bargain without understanding the consequences – or perhaps being naïve enough to think “it’ll never happen to
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