… to Coffee and Connect

Coffee and Connect is an independent networking group for local business people on the Hampshire / Surrey borders. Our meetings are relaxed and friendly and we are very welcoming towards first time visitors. We have lots of smiles and great conversations at our meetings but don’t be deceived, lots of “proper” business gets done as well!

We have an evening networking group that meets once a month on a Tuesday evening and a morning group that meets once a month on a Thursday morning. Both meetings are held at at The Lismoyne Hotel in Fleet. 

Our 4th birthday celebrations

I set up Coffee and Connect in May 2008. Twelve of us met up for a coffee in Fleet at that first meeting and now around 40 local business people attend regular monthly meetings.

Our format is very simple – we each have a minute to introduce ourselves and our businesses and then we stay and chat afterwards. It’s as simple as that!

We cover a diverse range of business e.g. IT specialists, accountants, cake makers,  hypnotherapists, jewellery designers,  printers, solicitors,  etc. and come from Farnham & Camberley in Surrey across Fleet, Farnborough, Hartley Wintney, Hook and Odiham through to Basingstoke in  Hampshire.

If you run your own business or work in a local business in these areas why not come along and say hello. There are no membership fees to pay or forms to sign, you simply pay £3 in cash on the day, which includes your tea/coffee.

Feel free to come along, but please give me a ring or send me an e-mail to let me know, then I can look out for you when you arrive.

Mel

Melanie Wardle

If you’d like more information on Coffee and Connect then please contact me here. I’ll be pleased to help.

Check out my blog for tips on how to make networking work for you http://coffeeandconnect.co.uk/category/networking-blog/

Thanks to Sam for taking the photos; you can see more of her fab pictures on www.samanthafalconer.co.uk