Meetings have been many and varied. Wednesday saw a get together of a small group of businesses at Wilton Centre aiming to launch a BNI chapter in the near future in Redcar & East Cleveland. There is now a small core signed up, largely thanks to the help of Russ & Craig from BNI, and things are now starting to push forward with a decent amount of business already passed between us even though we haven't started yet! I've got big hopes for this as a springboard to push forward all the businesses involved once we launch.
Thursday saw us getting some free business coaching from Jenny Evans of Rainbows End Coaching due to funding from Redcar & Cleveland Council. It's always good to have someone taking an external look at the business and after a couple of hours with Jenny we've got a few things to get on with and a clearer view of how to get to the next level. I'll be meeting up with Jenny again in a couple of weeks to take a further look at progress, it's been really useful.
On Friday I had a meeting with a representative of the Shaw Trust who organised a placement with us for Steve Walker as a Web Developer. Steve's been with us so far for 4 weeks working 2 days per week and doing a great job. We've got a few loose ends to tie up, but from the meeting we aim to employ Steve, initially on a part-time contract and, when our growth plans become successful, as a full-time Web Developer. Thankfully Steve already knows this as I know he reads the blog - wouldn't be the most direct form of communicating the news!
On Tuesday we had a tour of the full seafront development at Redcar. We've already had a tour of the Palace Hub, where we plan to move to in December, but not the other bits of the seafront. Whilst it's not complete yet it looks brilliant, I absolutely loved the seating area created to match the scars out to sea including colour and alignment. There's a lot of thought gone into it and I think the whole development can make a big difference to economic regeneration of Redcar and Cleveland, I'm excited to be part of it.
And that's about it. The Elcoate family are shortly off to Middlesbrough Rugby Club to watch Matt play for the Colts against a strong Huddersfield team followed, at least in my case, by a couple of pints of Black Sheep. Should be a good afternoon.
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