The National Self Build & Renovation Centre Employee Ownership Day – Business Masterclasses & Afternoon at the Races

FRIDAY 30th JUNE: 9:30am – 3:30pm

AM Session: Employee-Ownership Update & Business Masterclasses

NSBRC Update With Harvey & team

A whistle stop update on the first 6 months of 2017 and how we are progressing on our plans & aims outlined in January’s Partner Forum. We will also update you on the story of our employee-owned journey.

Marketing Masterclass With Rock Kitchen Harris – following their successful January masterclass

RKH Associate Director Ian Moore will cover how to get the best out of the Houzz App, the basics of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations), examples of Virtual Reality and be available to help with any marketing questions you may have.

Employee-Ownership Masterclass With Capital for Colleagues

C4C Partner Peter Matthews hosts a ‘Question Time’ style panel session featuring a number of EO businesses

Sales Masterclass With Re-Thinking

Re-thinking Director & Business Coach Stuart Whant hosts an interactive session on winning business. What are your biggest sales issues? What tactics have you tried already? Stuart will enable some group feedback and remind us all ‘how not to sell’.

Switch on to Swindon Update

The NSBRC is an ambassador for ‘Switch on to Swindon’. Even if you’ve never taken Junction 15 or 16 off the M4, or hopped off the train between Bristol and Paddington, it’s almost certain that Swindon has already touched you and your business Swindon is reaching out across the UK and beyond to make it even easier for ambitious entrepreneurs, innovative companies and talented employees to Switch on to Swindon..

12:30 – LUNCH: A special complimentary hot lunch with an opportunity to network with fellow attendees.

PM Session: Guest Speaker & Afternoon at the Races

Guest Speaker: Piers Taylor

Piers Taylor is a renowned award winning architect, broadcaster and academic. His major BBC Two series, which he co-presents with Caroline Quentin ‘The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes’ aired in early 2017. Piers has also co-presented three series of ‘The House that £100k Built’ on BBC Two which demonstrates to self-builders how to do more, with less. The opening episode drew close to 3 million viewers – a first for an architectural TV series. Piers also presents the hit spin-off series’, Tricks of the Trade and The Final Fix also on BBC Two. He was also crowned the winner of Celebrity Mastermind in December 2016, his specialist subject being Bob Dylan.

Afternoon at the Races – Charity Virtual Race Meeting

Help us celebrate EO Day with a fun hour of virtual horse racing. We will provide you with free ‘tokens’ to bet at our special race meeting. The final race will be the ‘Threshold Derby’ where real £ bets will be encouraged in support of our chosen charity for 2017, Threshold. There will be prizes for the winners!

CLOSE: 3:30PM (to enable you to beat the rush-hour traffic)