Key Contacts: Business Events in London

Key Contacts is a networking company in London regularly hosting business breakfast events, at the magnificent Carlton Club, based in the St James’s area of Central London. For those of you who attended, thank you so much for your support, and for all your individual contributions in helping to make the morning the success it undoubtedly was. For those that were unable to be with us for one reason or another, unfortunately you missed a hugely motivated and an extremely enjoyable morning! But now we hope to see you in the future.....

We had the pleasure of welcoming a number of brand new delegates who were attending keycontacts for the very first time, whom together with our dedicated attendee members, made an excellent mix of attendees.

As announced at the recent event, we are one of the pioneers of Speed Networking, which we call ‘Corporate Speed Dating’ (as can be seen on our website, www.keycontacts.co.uk where we have video of a live event, plus an edited film with audio version, of the CNN Global televison programme made about our unique concept, shown on TV last January 2005) we have decided to hive off the Speed Dating part of our programme into a separate evening event, to be hosted at the well known London West End night spot, The Sugar Reef bar and restaurant, located in Great Windmill Street London W1.The private restaurant area has an ideal layout for the actual corporate speed dating , and the private bar on the lower ground floor is perfect for general networking and refreshments.

To make this new and exciting venture attractive to all types of companies and professional organisations, ones with generous marketing budgets, but also ones with limited budgets, we are keeping the cost of attending affordable to all, and without any membership commitment.

The costs of attending a Corporate Speed Dating networking evening, are £39.00 + vat. Included are wine (up to half a bottle per person) and a tasty food platter to keep the hunger pangs away! A full bar selection is also available for purchase throughout the evening. The events will be early evening affairs, commencing at 6pm until 8.30 pm, enabling delegates to perhaps combine attending keycontacts, with a later social happening in London? Or for those delegates who commute in from the suburbs or Home Counties, to be able to get home at a reasonable hour.

Following the launch date of May 9, further dates of June 6 and July 4 are also now bookable. And remember, the cost of attending any keycontacts event, morning or evening, is a business expense, and can be offset against corporation tax. The launch of the evening corporate speed dating is part of the continuing development of the very successful keycontacts brand, which will enter its 7th year at the end of next month.

If you did not receive or did not get a chance to read one of our recent Newsletters, we will reiterate some of the main points of the objectives to this now monthly publication, which will always follow the live event.

Unlike the previous publications, we will publish the newsletter on the keycontacts bulletin board, accessed via the keycontacts website, to be published on the public open forum, which is available for everyone, members and non- members alike, to view and comment upon. The board also consists of a private members forum, including private messaging facility, for which access has to be authorised by keycontacts. It is a simple procedure; just follow the registration link on the forum page of the website. If already registered just go the log - in link, and enter your user name and password.

We will also email the newsletter to all in our keycontacts address book, which we hope will attract more interest in your products and services, far beyond the people who attend the keycontacts events.

We will not divulge the attendee’s full company address, business telephone number, or email details on the newsletter. However if a non attendee recipient of the newsletter wishes to find out more about a particular company or wishes to make direct contact with one of the attendees, they can request to do so via our offices, and their contact details will be given only if the attendee has authorised us to do so. Or they can post a message on the open forum keycontacts bulletin board.

For the interest of people reading this who have not recently attended a keycontacts event please note the following. Every attendee receives a comprehensive Delegate list of all those present on the morning, of which includes a brief description of one’s business/professional activity, plus full company address, telephone number and the commercially valuable email address.

The attendees on Thursday 23 February were as follows:

Jeffrey Sloneem of Harold Everett Wreford, London W1 – Chartered Accountants.
Jeffrey has been a member of keycontacts for 5 years and is a regular attendee at the events. Jeffrey is a font of all accountancy knowledge, and his expertise on the UK tax system, current and historic is second to none. In his spare time, amongst many interests and hobbies, Jeffrey is a judge at the Brit Awards!

Kim McAusland of The Savvy Club, London SE7 – Executive Club
Kim as a keycontacts member, attends the business breakfast on a regular basis. Kim runs a fascinating and most valuable organisation that caters for the busy executive by arranging superb events for a very discerning audience.

Ian Wood of GWH, London W1 – Advertising and Marketing
Ian is one of our long standing members, and has been consistent in his always superb presentations over the years. Ian’s talks are professional and entertaining. Ian has established good business relationships with a whole host of current and passed keycontacts members, and is a great example of how to nourish keycontacts relationships over the longer period.

Alain Takvor of The Abbey Court, London W2 – Hotel Management.
Alain entertains us with his always lively presentations, whether of a serious content or of a more humorous variety. The hotel has been a member and regular attendee at the keycontacts events for the past 2 years, and a number of members have sampled the delights of The Abbey Court with much satisfaction.
www.abbeycourthotel.co.uk & www.abbeycourthotel.co.uk

David Brazier of Saxon Marketing Finance, London N12 –Mortgage advisers
David is one of our longest standing members, who together with his colleague, Peter Saxon, was with us at the very start of this great keycontacts adventure. David approach to keycontacts sums up all the positive aspects of being a member. Always attends the business breakfast and gives highly informative and entertaining presentations, listen carefully to others, and makes sure he diligently follows up all prospective business leads

Allan Conway, Stanmore Middx – Consultant Graphologist
Allan is one of those rare human beings, who is not only the UK leading expert in interpreting an individuals handwriting, believes totally in his skills and best of all, loves every minute of it. We are privileged to have Allan as one of our long standing members, who attends the events on a regular basis, and has introduced many new members to our fold. His talks are so informative and entertaining, that listening to Allan is in itself worth paying the keycontacts delegate fee! Allan recently, with great success, appeared on Ready Steady Cook and was part of the winning team!

John Foster of ISL Business Services London W3 – The Document professional
John is a totally committed keycontacter, and has graced our events for a number of years on a regular basis. John is always one of the first to arrive at the events, is always in great form and is a leading light in promoting the philosophy of keycontacts. John is a great advocate and a real enthusiast for his excellent business products, and can also tell some very funny stories!

Julie Manz of Smith and Manz London SE22 – Design Partnership
Julie was attending for the 2nd time and is a very welcome addition to our forum. Julie’s presentations about her design partnership are interesting and most informative.

Stephen Sweden of Jannard Quadrant, Stanmore Middx. Insurance Brokers
Stephen attends the business breakfast on a regular basis and we are delighted about that. Stephen gave an excellent account of his company and of his industry in general. It’s always a pleasure to listen to someone who knows his profession inside out, and that certainly is the case with Stephen. As well as all that, Stephen is a bit of a wag, and can relate highly amusing stories in a very entertaining manner

Gerry Diebel of Direct Design London WC2 - Graphics and Branding
Gerry, a member of long standing, and a keen supporter of the forum. Gerry can be highly recommended for inventing a brand name for your company. After all, Gerry’s claim to fame is that he invented the name of our very own brand ‘keycontacts’!

The delegates attending for the first time, whose companies were also represented for the first time, were:

Vinice Thomas of Vynesscards
Vynesscards specialise in finest handmade cards.

Sarah Green of Tailored Time
Tailored Time is a bespoke organisation looking after busy people’s business, financial, social and domestic needs. Sarah is also involved in wine tasting events.

Emma Craig of Penni Black
Penni Black is a catering company that came highly recommended by Kim McAusland of Savvy Club.

Michael Strelitz of Data Safe Services
Michael has been attending Keycontacts for the past couple of years and his organization, which stores and protects valuable business data, is an important service in this day and age of all of us relying on our computers, and the data they hold. Michael has an amusing dry sense of humour and his presentations are always interesting and entertaining.

Hazel Sinanan of Porter Crossick Solicitors
Hazel originally attended representing her previous firm, and we are delighted to welcome her back representing her current one. Hazel is a devoted keycontacter, having won a business contract from her very first visit about 18 months ago. Hazel’s very positive and friendly manner is much admired at keycontacts, and she will gain many more clients and friends through her association with keycontacts.

Linzi Nygate & Emily Macdonald of Adecco
Adecco are now in their second year of keycontacts membership and have yet to miss an event since joining. Adecco are the largest recruitment company in the UK and are one of the largest in the world. Adecco have a Rota of colleagues who share the attendance. Emily and Linzi were both attending for the first time and both ladies made an excellent contribution to the morning’s proceedings

Tony Lorenz of CDT
CDT are established members of keycontacts, represented by the very personable Tony Lorenz. It was good to see Tony back with us again, having substituted other colleagues representing CDT at the December 2005 event. CDT is a leading company in the Graphic Design world and Tony is a great advocate of his brand.

The morning was hosted by David Mintz

If you wish to make contact with any of the above, please let us know, and we will request permission from that particular company or individual for their contact details to be given. Remember, conducting business with a keycontacts member must be a surer way of receiving a satisfactory outcome then looking up yellow pages or using a search engine on the internet. And although we do not take responsibility for any commercial activity between parties who have met via keycontacts, we do attract companies and individuals that really care about their business product and service and are always striving for excellence in every aspect of their commercial activity.

For more information please contact us via: www.keycontacts.co.uk