Online: Entrepreneurs’ Network Event – April 2021

Our free Entrepreneurs’ Network Event runs monthly and is aimed at Gloucestershire-based entrepreneurs and SMEs. Each month, we feature a different guest speaker and a change in theme.

These brilliant networking events offer a chance to gain valuable tips and insights from professionals and experts, and other start-ups and entrepreneurs.

You’ll connect and share skills, and hear about the support available to your new or growing business from Start and Grow Enterprise, University of Gloucestershire, and more.

This is an online event, held on Zoom. Get ready by Downloading Zoom to your computer. You’ll get an email to register and then a link to join the meeting. This online course involves exciting discussion, interaction, and practical activities with others in your shoes.

This Entrepreneurs’ Network Event is open to everyone. If you’re not already signed up with Start and Grow Enterprise, get your free ticket here.

Schedule

09.45am Enter Zoom waiting room

10.00am Event start time

10.20am Introduction to Start and Grow Enterprise

10.30am Guest talk

10.50am Q&A

11.00am Open networking & breakout rooms

12.00pm Event closes

Details of this month’s speaker…

Andrea Collins BA MBA MIEx, Managing Director at The Export Department, will be sharing her advice on how you can explore international trade for your start-up. Andrea will explain the importance of considering import and export in your business plans right from the start, and why this could be more profitable for you.

Andrea is incredibly passionate about international trade. Her driving force is optimising the success rate of UK Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) selling into foreign markets, and helping to raise the profile of UK products and services abroad.

Entrepreneurs’ Network events are offered by Start and Grow Enterprise, a University of Gloucestershire project with funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Start and Grow Enterprise supports the growth of Gloucestershire-based entrepreneurs and start-ups (trading up to 3 years) through free training, events, networks and resources.