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What our members say!

• Meet the Chamber - Loved this event! Dynamic, range of business people and 20 second pitches great fun! Great idea to merger and cover all of Hampshire....More of this please Sue Stokes  
• Just to say a big Thank You for organising the Speed Networking Event at the Solent Hotel today.  Both Lee and I found it enormously productive and made some great contacts.  It was particularly well run, a really flawless event - well done to you all!  Claire Hatherall, Commercial Controller, The Coast
• I just wanted to say thank you so much for yesterday, the team came back to the office buzzing.  The turn out was brilliant and despite having hand cramp I have just finished inputting all of the business card info that we collected.  Aeriel Telephones
• Just a short note to say how much I enjoyed the visit to the ERF at Portsmouth on Tuesday, great venue, well organised, super opportunities to network with fellow Chamber Members and very interesting to see the process. Please thank on my behalf the people at Veolia for their hospitality, and also of course thanks to you and the Chamber for the opportunity. Best regards Nick Brown, Azure Partners Limited

 

• I particularly appreciate what is in today's world, a strange phenomenon - that is when one of your colleagues does not have the information I seek to hand and he/she promises to phone back - they actually do phone back - as I have said, this is an unusual, but very pleasing phemomenon in today's business world. Brian Hunter, Director, K & B Marketing Ltd

 

• It was a pleasure to welcome so many Chamber members to our Museum so early in the morning and we have had some very positive feedback from a number of the guests.  It certainly demonstrates the usefulness of briefing sessions. Peter Taylor, Mary Rose Trust 

 

• A3M Designs enlisted as a member of the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Chamber of Commerce towards the end of 2008 and proudly; after slight delay took receipt of their prized "Certificate of Membership" as a fully-fledged Member of the Chamber. I would like to say thank you to all of our new customers due to Chamber of Commerce Network, The response to A3M Designs becoming a member of the chamber has been fantastic with business going in both directions.  Steven Willett, A3M Designs (http://www.a3m.co.uk/)

 

• We are very happy with our membership and I have used the Chamber HR services on numerous occasions. It's a huge help to our organisation. Maria Turner, Dunstan Thomas

 

• Thank you for running our "Free yourself from the Childcare Stress" article in September 2008 Business News. We track all our enquiries and I am very pleased to say we have secured a client as a direct result of this editorial. After meeting the family in their own home days after receiving their call we are now in the process of organising a nanny for afternoon care. This has given me great confidence in using the Business News as a form of media for advertising and I will most definately be taking this route again in the future.  Thanks again for all your help.   Fran Cooper, Freedom Childcare

 

• I am very pleased we joined the Chamber as we are making good contacts through you.  Moore Associates Hampshire Ltd

 

• Being an independent type, when I first started out in business, I foolishly thought I could just do it all on my own, but it became quickly clear to me that joining the Chamber was such a great way to learn business skills from others who are already experts in the field and who generously offer their advice to beginners. Hope I can do likewise for others in the future. Gill Vigus, Butlers2Go

 

• I have seen the December edition of Business News magazine and it all looks very impressive.  Just a quick email to say thank you for featuring the Chelsea story - it looks great and provides an interesting article for your readers. Ben Adcock, Marketing Manager, Bishops Printers

 

• it has been very good to work with you and the Chamber over a number of years, and on a wide portfolio of projects and initiatives. I have always found your input to be positive and informative, and I am sure we would not have collectively achieved so much success in projects to regenerate the City without your input. Jane Hurdley, Regenration Manager, Portsmouth City Council

   
• Meet the Chamber Event

Having been a Chamber member for two years I thought it time I attended a 'Meet the Chamber' event. Armed with lots of business cards I put my best foot forward to Lakeside 1000, North Harbour which was sponsored by Regus.

The parking was easy. The entrance was an impressive huge glass atrium. The event itself was held in one of the bright modern conference rooms which overlooks a lake.

I've been running my company for over two years and it was the best event I've been to for a long time. I met lots of new people, have many more contacts and even managed to pick up a job. Not bad for an afternoons work.

Well done to the Chamber for a professional, memorable first rate business event.

Samantha Farrow, Director, Farrow Creative
 

Meet & Match Exhibition

• Just a quick note to thank you and all for the excellent and well organised event at the Hilton on Thursday last. Both Martin Breen, my MD and I were very impressed by the quality of organisation, attendance and general atmosphere of the the day.  We successfully made a number of new contacts and enjoyed the opportunity to exhibit our wares and services to other members and such like. We look forward to engaging in further events and activities across the coming year. Terry Driscoll, MPM2 Limited
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  Just a quick note of thanks for the organisation behind Thursday's Meet & Match Exhibition. It was very well organised and promoted. Link Resources were all delighted with the interest shown at our stand and we did not stop all evening! We will definitely book again for next year.  Lorraine Parkinson, Link Resources

Mentor Magic

• "I was delighted to be named as the winner of heat 2 of MentorMagic last night and really enjoyed the whole experience. Thank you very much for hosting this wonderful event - apart from the opportunities that winning the heat has given me, I gained a great deal of information and valuable advice." Jackie Pool, JPA Associates
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  Dear MentorMagic team, thanks so much for all you did last night - I had several very positive comments from people; those who had been before said it was the best ever, by far. Working with the Chamber has made it a much better offering, and I look forward to working with you on the remaining heats and dinner, so that it becomes as high profile as it deserves. Lizz Clarke, LCM 
  
• Thank-you for the great opportunity that Mentor Magic provided us with last night. We picked up some great insights through this forum and it deserves its continued success. I would be grateful if you could forward this email to the members of the panel and the people involved from the Chamber to pass on our thanks. Kind regards. Steven Mason, The Green Store
  
• Went to Mentor Magic last night and was very impressed with the whole evening. The evening was well organised and the presentations were very impressive, all of the feedback and suggestions given by the panel and audience were very constructive and I am not sure were else you could learn this information. Very well done to all those involved in putting this together I look forward to the next one in July. The Disc Directory
  
• I thought last night was a great evening and very informative and engaging. Well done. Nick Harland, Flagship Training           
• I'd just like to thank yourself for organising, Lizz for hosting and all the panellists for their excellent advice at last night's Mentor Magic event. The evening was really enjoyable and above all so useful for Butlers2go - we've got a huge list of to dos now!. So glad I joined the Chamber!  Gill Vigus, Butlers2Go

Fareham College Networking Lunch Jan 09

• I really enjoyed the meeting today. I have long admired Johnny Ball and he exceeded my expectations. What a marvellous speaker and inspiration to us all.  David Vane, 247Virtual.com

• I want to thank you for yesterday's event at Fareham College. This was my first Chamber event and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Johnny was amazing and certainly gave me some food for thought. I was very encouraged by your speech, and at long last heard somebody say what I have screaming at the TV news about for months. Andrew Prisnall, Hants Wight Searches Ltd