Our next Mid Wales Business Network Meeting is taking place in Welshpool, we will be joined by local businesses who will provide us with their stories.

Following feedback from past events this meeting will focus on the Skills Agenda in the region, and we have a number of key speakers to contribute. See the agenda below for details about these speakers.

Join us for an afternoon of networking and information-sharing at a welcoming event that's open to all.

Agenda

16:00 - Arrive tea/coffee/Biscuits
16:20 – Open and welcome from the organisers
16:30 – Guest Speaker - Nicola Thornton Scott, NPTC Group of Colleges - How courses are decided, Upskilling funding/SDIF opportunities and new Business engagement Enterprise roles in Newtown
16:45 - Guest Speaker – Jacky Jones, Careers Wales - Education Business exchange, working with schools and the careers festival 
17:00 – Guest Speaker – Jane Lewis, Regional Learning and Skills Partnership - Work of the RLSP and how it sits with the skills agenda in Mid Wales, how businesses can engage and feed in
17:15 – Questions for the panel
17:30 – Networking opportunity
18:00 – Close

Business Wales, Mid Wales Chamber, and Mid Wales Manufacturing Group have pulled together the idea of creating the new Mid Wales Business Networking. This aim is to be a platform for the businesses of Mid Wales to come together, share information, opportunities, learning and challenges, a forum where the business community, can support each other.

Register for the event here