The_Ealinger June-July 2017 Final Edition by Contactus magazines

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Ealing Business Expo special EALING TOWN HALL W5 > Ealing Business Expo & Networking Festival ‘chief welcomer’ Sophia Iwaniuk at the entrance to Victoria Hall, Ealing Town Hall, where the Contactus magazines event took place over two days: 9 and 10 June. More photos inside. (Click to view our video highlights: youtu.be/USVRKBQkHoo) @EalingBizExpo @ContactusEaling

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Victoria Hall in the Ealing Town Hall, venue for the business exhibition

Middle photo: Carol Sam, Ealing Council Regeneration manager, leads a panel discussion about shared workspaces (inset: project manager Lemuel Dickie-Johnson). Above: Financial Times journalist Yuri Bender hosting “The Ealing Advantage” panel.

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EALING W5 > We stared down a snap General Election – and still put on a good show. The 8 June election and its immediate aftermath threatened to unravel a year’s worth of planning and promoting begun essentially since the end of our last business event, the Acton Business Expo in June 2016. But the Ealing Business Expo & Networking Festival held its nerve, confident that it had the support of the Ealing business community, and went ahead on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 June at the Ealing Town Hall. Two full days of face-to-face networking, mixed in with a business exhibition, speeches, presentations, workshops and an enjoyable slot of live music were promised, and were duly delivered. In the end, 25 exhibitors attended the Expo, alongside roughly 200 visitors – a large majority of whom were based outside the borough. There were 15 presentations during the two-day event, which had been promoted during nine pre-Expo monthly networking meetups. The follow-up post-Expo meetup was held on Friday 30 June (see page 6). For details of the Expo schedule and list of exhibitors, have a look through the ‘Expo Guide’ magazine still available online at: issuu.com/contactusealing According to our post-event feedback survey, one of the highlights of the event was the visit by newly re-elected MP for Continued on page 5

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Photos by Nicola Gaughan, Iconic Creative (Official Expo photographer) Other photos by Carlene Bender, Joanna Dudzinska and Kirk Pickstone

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Top row: Fatima Rana on the Ealing Works stand; Zoe Angle and Joanna Dudzinska at speed networking. Middle row: Expo director Carlene Bender; Joanne Sumnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk. Bottom row: BoomZone, Chasing Deer performing; and Emily Fawell at Bridge to Health.

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Mayor of Ealing, Cllr Simon Woodroofe, visited the Ealing Business Expo on Sat 10 June. At left: participating in a Zen Shiatsu massage taster with Pascale Chaillet. Left below: the Mayor with his bottle of “Expo water”. Next to him are chauffeur Ayaaz Majothi and Cllr Dr Aysha Raza.

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Ealing Central and Acton, Dr Rupa Huq, who attended on the Saturday and gave a rousing speech filled in with warm cheers from the audience. Early on Saturday we were also fortunate to have had a visit from the Mayor of Ealing, Cllr Simon Woodroofe and his wife, Lady Mayoress Valerie Woodroofe, who toured the exhibition and even stopped for a taster massage at the Zen Shiatsu Therapy stand. Thank you to everyone who donated to the Mayor’s two charities, The Log Cabin, and Age UK (Ealing). There was plenty of positive feedback for both days’ speed networking sessions, for example: “The most useful part was the speed networking, it was great and I was able to meet lots of people!” If you would like to leave your own comments about the Expo (whether you attended or not), please do take part in our feedback survey at: surveymonkey.co.uk/r/DLSHP7W @EalingBizExpo

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The final round of applause

Photos from the second day of the Ealing Business Expo & Networking Festival. To find out about future similar events, sign up at ealingbizexpo.co.uk. The next Contactus magazines Ealing business expo is tentatively scheduled for March 2019.

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Networking: ongoing Sadly this is the last edition of The_Ealinger magazine, but we wouldn’t leave you bereft of some version of the Ealing Business Diary of local networking events! We started publishing the Diary on a weekly basis back in April 2014. However it turned monthly at the beginning of 2017, and now here is its latest “ongoing” format – see below. Check out the regular meetup schedule, and mark the dates in your own diaries. Keep your eye out for one-off events, plus any new events. Note that some of the meetups listed below will be taking a summer break, so connect via the Twitter contact before just turning up!

Joanne Sumner of The Athena Network speaking at the #EalingBizExpo follow-up meetup

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– REGULAR MEETUPS

> Every TUESDAY evening 8pm-9pm – online Ealing Hour: hosted in turn by Peter Prickett @PeterPrickett, Nicola Gaughan @iconiccreative, Hilary Nicholl @Barnabites, and Carlene Bender @ContactusEaling With occasional guest hosts. @EalingHour #EalingHour > First TUESDAY of the month 6.30pm-8pm – FREE Ealing Business Forum – each meeting at a different venue in Ealing @EalingBForum > First WEDNESDAY of the month 10am-12pm – £15 Ealing Connect: A Morning of Networking – at Charlotte’s W5, Dickens Yard, Ealing Broadway W5 2TD @EalingConnect > First THURSDAY of the month 5pm-7pm – £15+ Park Royal Business Group: Park Royal Social – at The CoClub, North Acton W3 6UG @ParkRoyalBG

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> Every other WEDNESDAY morning 6.30am-9am – £15 Ealing BoB Club: Business over Breakfast – at The Bridge Hotel, Greenford UB6 8ST @BoBEaling > Second/third WEDNESDAY, every other month 12pm-2pm – FREE Ealing Chamber of Commerce: Connect4Lunch – held at different venues in Ealing @EalingChamber > Every third TUESDAY of the month 12-2pm – membership/visitors (businesswomen) The Athena Network: Ealing Networking Lunch – at Duke of Kent W13 8DL @AthenaWLondon > Every third THURSDAY of the month 10am-11.30am – FREE Link 4 Growth: Link 4 Coffee – at

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Limeyard, Ealing Broadway W5 5DB @L4GNWLondon > NEW 6pm-8pm – £10 T&S Finance Events: FSB West London – at DoubleTree by Hilton, Ealing Common W3 3HN @matteoturi @Ruby_SweeneyTEH > QUARTERLY 7pm-9.30pm – FREE Ealing Business Partnership: held at venues in Ealing @EalingCouncil > OCCASIONAL 1-2pm – FREE Contactus magazines: Contactus magazines – each meeting held in a different venue in Ealing @ContactusEaling @EalingBizExpo @The_Ealinger Ongoing and everyday – online networking in both our Facebook groups: Businesses in Ealing and Businesses in Acton.

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Final edition until further notice; limited number of printed copies available at Contactus networking events. Read our back issues online at: issuu.com/contactusealing