JCI UK Annual report 2012

JCI United Kingdom Annual Report

2012

Welcome!

Solveig Malvik JCI UK National President 2012 Senator #70867 Outside JCI Solveig is a communication and organisational development consultant

Contents: 1 - Welcome from the President 2 - Welcome from the Deputy President 2 - Welcome from the Senate Chair & New Senators in the UK 3 - 2012 National Board 4 - JCI Barnsley 5 - JCI Belfast 6 - JCI Boston 7 - JCI Bradford 8 - JCI Cambridge 9 - JCI Leeds 10 - JCI London 11 - JCI Manchester 12 - JCI Portsmouth 13 - JCI Reading 14 - JCI Sheffield 15 - JCI Southampton 16 - New Chambers 16 - JCI Birmingham 17 - JCI Liverpool 18 - JCI Ignite London 19 - JCI UK National Convention 2012 20 - BJC Foundation 20 - Future Strategy Meeting 21 - Marketing Academy 2012 21 - LEAP with JCI UK 22 - TOYP awards 2012 22 - European Academy 23 - Inspiration Day 2012 23 - Local Leader Training 24 - New members in JCI UK

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Dear fellow members, Senators and friends, Thank you for an absolutely amazing 2012. I don’t know where to start, but instead of repeating all the good things that you can find in this annual report, I’ll try to pull together some of the highlights of the year.

We started the year with Inspiration Day in Birmingham. With 60 participants this was the largest Inspiration Day in the UK for a number of years. Not only did we inspire each other at the event, we also went outside on the streets of Birmingham to inspire people to join a new Chamber.

With more than 60 delegates attending European Conference in Braunschweig, Germany, we again beat numbers from previous years. I also think we must have beat some sort of Union Jackage record, with the whole delegation dressing up in red, white and blue.

You can see female members of the delegation on the first picture on this page. I think we can safely say that we made an impact on the conference, be it through full out Union Jack suits, our famous sparkly dresses, a Union Jack hat on an otherwise sparingly dressed International Director Tim Metcalfe or blinking Union Jack headgear at the gala dinner. Not to forget getting our Scottish and Irish friends to sing Rule Britannia with us...

This year one of my mantras has been our organisation and ties with importance as a our communities where we are. Our purpose and our soul as an organisation is local.

Helping make our local communities, no matter where in the UK, better.

With the theme of “Make a Difference”, I’ve encouraged Local Chambers to recognise members that make a difference locally through a “Make a Difference” award. The first such award went to Sheffield Local President Sandra Pilarcxyk for her help with hosting JCI President Bertolt Daems and organising Inspiration Day. I’m very happy to say that this award has been well taken up and we’ve been able to recognise a number of outstanding members all across the country.

Another project that stood out this year is the launch of JCI UK LEAP Programme (read more on page 21). LEAP is a programme that aims to develop excellent leaders in action in the UK and is in a sense our own rolling leadership academy, all organised and written by our own members.

We’ve worked hard this year as an organisation, but our engagement and enthusiasm has been through the roof. It’s been an incredible privilege

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to be the National President and get to represent all our amazing members and Local Chambers across the country and internationally.

I know that this enthusiasm will continue growing in 2013 with Emma Eastwood at the helm. It’s been an honour working with her this year and with the support of 2013 Deputy President Kate Senter I know JCI UK is in safe hands.

Thank you for providing me with this opportunity of being President in 2012. Its been humbling, exhilarating, sometimes frustrating but first and foremost an experience that will stay with me for life, and so will many of the friendships I’ve been privileged to make during the year.

Yours,

Solveig Malvik JCI UK National President 2012 Senator #70867

Inspiring Action in 2013 After such a brilliant 2012 I am so excited about what 2013 will bring. I'll be asking all members of JCI UK to take Inspiring Action throughout the year. I want to see every chamber try to identify a local community issue and run a project that looks to try and resolve it. I have been really busy building a team for next year's national board and I am confident that we can deliver an amazing programme of national events and also support for our local chambers. Solveig Malvik will be leading a Chamber Task Force to support our potential new organisations and identify potential areas for new ones to start.

National Convention at Oulton Hall in Leeds.

There will also be some great community projects running including a project to raise awareness of poverty by members being sponsored to live on a pound a day for a week and also regional events are planned to clean up areas of our local communities.

We will be kicking off 2013 with Inspiration Day in Cambridge on 26th January so get the date in your diary. Other events will include the Marketing Academy in February, Active Citizenship Summit in spring, Presidents and Deputies day in April in Barnsley, JCI UK LEAP in September and

Don't forget that I am taking the whole month of March off on 2013 to travel the UK and meet members and attend events. If you have any ideas of how I can use my time to good effect then I'd love to hear them and also if you are interested in joining the team!

Emma Eastwood is National President elect 2013

We will be working closely with the senate in 2013 and are planning a joint fundraising event. I am keen to hear about ways in which your chamber interacts with local senators and any ideas that you may have for how the experience of the senate can be drawn upon for support.

Greetings from the British Senate Julie Blakey British Senate Chair 2012 Senator #59106

The Senate is still very committed to helping and supporting JCI UK. Senators all over the country are offering their help and knowledge to members to help grow existing chambers and also to re-launch and launch new chambers.

Liz Walmsley is the Chairman for 2013 and has already started making plans and attending JCI UK events with a view to bridging the gap and making the Senate as ‘accessible’ as possible for the newer Senators and members alike.

We are also keen to bridge the gap between the current membership Senators (ie under 40) and the older Senators who are no longer active in JCI UK. We would welcome ideas from newer Senators on how they would like us to arrange events so that they can get to meet Senators who they will not know yet, but who could be of help to them and their Chambers.

I’m looking forward to seeing everyone in Belfast for a great conference. If any member has any questions that they think older ex members may be able to answer, please do not hesitate to contact one of us and we will point you in the right direction.

JCI UK welcomes its newest Senators # 70867 Solveig Malvik, London # 70882 Philip Cavalier-Lumley, Bradford # 70941 Mark Warner, Leeds # 70960 Andrew Morton, Hull # 71227 Paul Thwaite, Portsmouth

# 71228 Lorma Bainbridge, Grantham # 71229 Julia Goodfellow-Smith, Leeds # 71363 Catherine Louise Berry, Wakefield # 71411 Sarah Beckwith, London #71828 Tim Metcalfe, Leeds

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Good Luck to Solveig and Emma for a great year in 2012 and looking forward to 2013.

National Board 2012 “For me JCI is all about the amazing people you get to meet and work with. One of the best parts of being National President is to get to meet members all across the UK and learn how they make a positive difference in their local communities. We all share the same passion, working to make our communities and ourselves better.”

“I’ve really loved my first year on national board. My role as personal development director has been fantastic. I was lucky enough to see some of the up and coming trainers within the organisation develop. For me it has also been a great opportunity to work with some fantastic people. An unforgettable experience!”

Outside JCI Emma is Associate Director at Morgans City Living in Leeds

“It has been inspiring to see chambers pushing their boundaries and sharing their experiences. I have been especially inspired by one member’s vision for a leadership training course which turned into a reality when the pilot for JCI UK LEAP was launched in September.

This was an amazing course, and I was honoured to be invited to step outside of my comfort zone and deliver a module. It just goes to show no matter how long you have been a member, there is always something to learn.”

“For me, JCI is all about opportunities and this year I have enjoyed having the opportunity to contribute to the organisation on a national level; by supporting local chambers, enhancing our members’ experiences and helping to define the strategy for the future of JCI UK”

“I have really enjoyed being on national board this year and working with a team of passionate people for the benefit of JCI UK members. Anyone thinking about how they can further the impact they can make in their local chamber should think about getting involved with national board or a JCI UK project.”

“This year has been a fantastic experience and I have especially enjoyed working with the marketing representatives and presidents from across the UK to share best practice, swap ideas and generate action. I’ve learnt that working collaboratively enables us to generate much richer solutions!”

“Being RGC has certainly been a challenge which I have enjoyed immensely! One of the highlights was the South Region Debating Training day where we had representatives from all chambers in the south.

It was fantastic to see attendees go from being a little apprehensive to debating with passion! For me this is what JCI is all about - learning by doing!”

“Being on National Board has taught me that passionate, active people can make a real difference in their local community and further afield. It has also given me the opportunity to meet a diverse group of individuals from different countries, something which would not have been possible without the global reach of JCI.”

“This year JCI Yorkshire has seen over 100 events run in the area. I was particulary pleased to see the active participation of members at the regional extempore and public speaking competitions.

It was an honour to see the growing interest in JCI across the region. I am especially proud of JCI Yorkshire members not only making an impact in their local chambers, but also at regional, national and international events.

“Being the JCI UK Web Manager has been my biggest challenge to date and at times I felt way out of depth!! Having a great mentor and learning about a totally different subject has definitely kept my grey cells active.”

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JCI Barnsley This year has seen JCI Barnsley celebrate our 60th anniversary and my main objective for the year was to increase membership and to spread the word locally about the benefits of just what JCI could offer the people of Barnsley. Membership growth has been fantastic with the chamber increasing by 125% in 2012 and 1300% new member growth compared to 2011. Our members are engaged and participating at events on a local, regional, national and international level which makes me so proud as President to be able to reflect on their growth and development.

We had members attend European Conference in Germany this summer and a group are ready to descend on Belfast for UK National Convention.

Members have thrown themselves into Extempore and Public Speaking competitions and to be honest, any other opportunity that JCI has offered them. For the first time in many years we launched a full personal development programme for members and the people of Barnsley, centring around building confidence through a number of key training sessions on (to name a few), networking, setting goals, top 10 tips for confidence and public speaking.

The sessions have been well attended and given us an opportunity to work with local trainers who have donated their time to deliver these sessions.

JCI Barnsley is the social chamber - we love to have nights out and our pub of the month events. Our annual pub/train crawl was attended by 22 people this August with some of those already wanting to book for next year! This year’s new annual event, JCI Triathlon was a huge success and fiercely fought between Team President and Team Deputy, with the 3 sporting events followed by a good old fashioned social night out, 12 hours later members arrived home! Team President triumphant!

This year has also seen the chamber launch an attack on social media, promoting our events through Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. We’ve targeted our followers on these platforms to engage them, and had direct results with attendance at events and also new members!

We were also privileged to be invited to meet HRH Duke of York as part of the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations, and presented with a certificate to commemorate our 60th anniversary.

This was a fantastic event and we were 1 of only 3 local businesses to be presented to HRH so a very unique JCI experience!

I would like to thank all our members, senators, past presidents, patrons and the local community for supporting our campaign this year. I would also like to thank the BJC Foundation for supporting us with a grant to help us achieve some of our objectives this year, to build the chamber and make it stronger for another 60 years to come.

We have been actively involved in community work this year as always.

We held a 24 hour ironathon to raise funds for Nothing But Nets and have been raising funds for our 2012 chosen charity Help for Heroes. We are also running Yorkshire's Hidden Heroes, searching for a local hero nominated by the general public and all the entries will be displayed in The Civic gallery in Barnsley town centre in October.

Pictures: 1. JCI Barnsley is recognised for its 60th anniversary by HRH Duke of York 2. Personal Development programme launch 3. JCI Barnsley’s Diamond Jubilee Dinner 5

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For 2012, JCI Belfast has offered its members alternating Members’ evenings and social events each month with ad-hoc training events throughout the year, providing a range of opportunities for personal and professional development.

he gave a special training workshop on “Business networking and sex, Not what you think!” The workshop addressed topics such as effective communication with the opposite sex and how to read between the gender lines and was a great night for all.

In January, we kicked off the year with a JCI Open Night and Networking event, where we were joined by over 50 potential new members.

In February, we hosted our most well attended social ever, where over 75 members and friends joined us for an evening of ‘cocktails and dreams’ at the VIP bar in Café Vaudeville.

Finishing off the year with our second New Members’ Evening, in September, we were pleased to have JCI Belfast member and local digital marketing consultant, Paul McGarrity, speak on “Online Branding for Professionals”.

This session explored the importance of being highly visible online and outlined tips for creating and promoting your professional brand.

At our March Members’ evening, we had a special presentation by Oxford Economics, which provided JCI Belfast members with an overview of topical and current issues related to the Northern Ireland economy, providing insights to its recovery in uncertain times.

Also in September, JCI Belfast participated in the 2012 Alzheimer’s Society Memory Walk.

Between the pub quiz and charity walk, JCI Belfast has raised nearly £1,000 for the Alzheimer’s Society and we would like to thank all of those who have supported us.

April featured one of the highlights of our social calendar, the annual JCI Belfast Charity Pub Quiz, all in support of the Alzheimer’s Society, JCI Belfast’s chosen charity of the year. It was during April as well that we hosted a visit by Solveig Malvik, JCI UK National President, who on her whistle-stop tour of the city, visited Titanic Belfast as well as the conference venue for the 2012 UK National Convention, all before she joined us for the quiz later that evening. Solveig has proven to be an excellent ambassador for the city as well as our own chapter.

For October and November, we have one final Halloween social planned and of course the event of the year, the JCI UK National Convention scheduled to take place over the weekend of 30th November – 2nd December.

In May, JCI Belfast was proud to co-host, in partnership with the Northern Ireland Young Solicitors’ Association, the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ireland and the Institute of Directors, the inaugural Young Leaders NI Conference “Inspiring Leadership” which attracted more than 200 delegates.

Also in May, we held a Members’ Evening, which featured a seminar on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). This presentation by Arlene Creighton, Private Sector Manager at the Prince’s Trust, introduced JCI Belfast members to CSR and what it means to businesses today, how the phenomenon has evolved beyond simple philanthropic activities and has for some companies become an integral component of their business operations.

For a bit of June fun, JCI Belfast members were offered the opportunity to ‘tee off’ and ‘swing into summer’ at the local CitiGolf, Belfast’s premier indoor golf and games facility.

In August we were delighted to host President of JCI Mayo and JCI Trainer, Derek Reilly, where

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In addition to our Members’ evenings and social events, JCI Belfast has been devoting time in 2012 to establishing key partnerships aimed at not only raising the profile of our local chapter but also increasing our membership base.

Through our two new Corporate partnerships with Brightwater Recruitment Specialists and ASM Chartered Accountants, we have gained 7 new members and through our partnership with Young Leaders NI, we have gained access to a tremendous network of colleagues and friends as well as potential new members.

Overall it has been a great year for JCI Belfast and we look forward to finishing it off with a bang during the 2012 JCI UK National Convention.

Pictures: 1 & 2. Inaugural Young Leaders NI Conference 3. 2012 and 2011 Local Presidents at the Memory Walk

JCI Boston JCI Boston started 2012 by celebrating the success of 2011 with Tracy Anderson (The 2011 President) President’s dinner. Madame National President, Solveig Malvik, Yorkshire RGC and presidents, members and senators from the Yorkshire and Cambridge chambers came to support JCI Boston. The dinner had a “Mad Hatter’s” tea party theme. Tracy recognised both the chambers’ and individuals’ achievements in 2011. The event raised £122 for the Lincolnshire Air Ambulance with a special adaptation of Heads or Tails.

JCI Boston continued to support the Nothing But Nets campaign by organising their 3rd clothes collection in conjunction with company bag2thefuture. The company collects bags of unwanted clothes; for this collection more than 50 bags have been collected. Bag2thefuture then converts these bags of clothes into cash.

In July, JCI Boston commenced their 6 month personal development programme. This was a brave step by the chamber which hoped it would encourage member engagement and new members. Trainers were sourced through our network of JCI trainers and by asking on Linkedin. The training sessions have included Corporate Social Responsibility, Neuro Linguistic Programming and social media.

Social events have always been a big hit with our members and this year’s events have included the Retford Fake festival, a local comedy evening and Chinese culture.

Members of JCI Boston have been known for getting in their cars and supporting events throughout the UK. In particular in 2012, 45% of the membership attended the Yorkshire Big supper in Barnsley, Tracy Anderson graduated from the JCI UK Marketing academy and Jen Curtis graduated from JCI presenter.

Pictures: 1. JCI UK Communication Director Kate Senter giving a training to JCI Boston in why doing good is good for business 7

2011 JCI Boston President Tracy Anderson with member Jen Curtis Members:

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JCI Bradford, now in its 53rd year, has had a busy year. We have held three new members’ evenings; two of which have resulted in recruiting two new members.

All Bradford's members are involved in planning and organising events and activities. We are aiming to focus on growing our membership and providing them with the training opportunities to develop a sound leadership team so that we can implement succession planning for the future. JCI Bradford is unique in that it has a small membership but each member is active and supportive.

The President of JCI Bradford, Philip Cavalier-Lumley braved it through the JCI Yorkshire Regional Pubic Speaking final and the JCI UK National final to compete in the JCI European Public Speaking final in Braunschweig, Germany in June. Later this year he is attending the Bradford Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner in November, speaking at Bradford Grammar School about JCI and the Secret Santa Appeal and he is attending several local business networking events to promote JCI Bradford to potential members.

In his spare time Philip has been supporting the JCI UK Leadership Excellence in Action Programme (LEAP) team developing the programme and the JCI UK Website Manager, Soraya Bowen by designing web banners for the JCI UK website.

As we approach the start of the 23rd Secret Santa Appeal in November, we already have a local sponsor, 5 Rise Shopping Centre, Bingley which is an amazing start and support for the appeal is already growing.

We have the foundations to build on and we are confident that the opportunities offered by JCI Bradford and JCI UK are second to none and will 'bear fruit' over the forthcoming 12 months.

iPctures: 1. Philip about to take part in European Public Speaking Competition 2. New member Jessica Nixon finds out what it is like to be a bee keeper 3. Kate Senter JCI trainer delivers a session on Public Relations to Bradford 8

JCI Cambridge We set out this year to make JCI Cambridge a more active force in the local community, build its reputation and presence among businesses, highlight its position to senators, national and international JCI organisations and generally be fabulous.

Our aims were to creative positive change in the community by starting up an active charity programme; reestablish broken ties with international twinning chambers; grow our sponsorship base; and build on award-winning public relations campaigns carried out previously and further engage its members.

We now have a very active charity programme, with many social events raising money for our carefully selected charity of the year. Sky dives, pub clubs, a charity of the year and a Community Director.

Following research into JCI Cambridge’s past, we have established ties with our former twins JCI Tammerkoski from Finland; JCI Rhein-Ahr from Germany; JCI Genk from Belgium; and JCI West-Friesland from the Netherlands that we will host in the near future. We now have three generous sponsors and financial backers for our upcoming Inspiration Day business weekend, being held in January. The support of these sponsors means we now have a monthly magazine published and printed at no cost to the JCI Cambridge budget.

The monthly magazine “Engage” is an enormous addition to the chamber.

It’s a publication members and the greater business community can read and forms a crux around which the rest of the chamber now hangs. We document events better, write up and publicise the chamber more. It is such a welcomed addition.

Membership has been maintained, having lost a handful in the second quarter of the year, but gained new enthusiastic members who joined us over the summer. We had 7 attendees at the European Conference and will have 13 at the National Conference (17 including senators). The ties made back to the Senate was a big part of the year too, with members being assigned the task of looking into JCI Cambridge’s history and as a result, we were at the Senate Annual Gala Dinner in September and have been looking to next year and the possibility of a pantomime!

Overall, an excellent year for JCI Cambridge and with a great succession plan in place the same will be true for 2013

Pictures: 1. JCI European Conference in Braunschweig, Germany 2. Community event 3. JCI Cambridge Skydive 9

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2012 has been a difficult year for JCI Leeds, with no Deputy President last year to make preparations, this year has been about pulling together and regaining strength. With a few core council members and lots of support from Past Presidents, we have managed to gain momentum throughout the year and are now gathering pace and new and engaged members.

for nothing but nets in a highly entertaining fashion.

Our programmes have been of a very high standard, the social programme for example, doubled in volume this year to two events a month, the strategy being that this is the easiest way to bring people in and relate to them before getting down to what JCI is all about. Janita, the Social Director, is one of our youngest members but has pulled out all the stops to make an interesting and varied calendar, this has included chocolate tasting, cocktail making, belly dancing, to name just a few.

Closer to home we are re-establishing links with local business and organisations. Leeds Chamber of Commerce has brought us back into their inner circle, we are now recognised by them again which is great for our profile. Marketing Leeds is also keen to support us in our endeavours going forward which can only boost our profile further.

Our existing relationship with Walker Morris and KPMG have been supported, in fact KPMG kindly hosted JCI UK AGM in September. We have made a new partnership with the Marriot hotel in Leeds who have been kindly sponsoring us in the form of free meeting rooms all year for our council and training sessions.

Our business programme has also been varied and of a high calibre. It was kicked off with a Ladies Networking Lunch to raise funds for Oxfam, this is being repeated in December for Cash 4 Kids. A tour of Drax power station and a tour of Leeds Grand theatre is also pending. We had an excellent seminar with Amar Latiff, a blind Entrepreneur who gave us inspiration on not letting limiting beliefs prevent us from developing.

Amar won JCI TOYP back in 2005. Our business programme will peak with the business Lecture in October, we have 5 high calibre speakers to tell us about developing for success.

This year the Casino Night Summer Ball was resurrected, a summer black tie event to get together and have fun with a mock casino and a 1920 theme. This was hard work to organise and promote but the JCI Leeds team really brought it together and learned a lot in the process, which is after all what JCI is all about. We also managed to raise over £200 to go towards working capital to help JCI Zambia re-establish.

I was very proud to be the Chief Delegate for JCI UK at the Africa and Middle East conference in Casablanca representing JCI UK and JCI Leeds.

I am also proud to be the only non African of the JCI Zambia re-establish team. JCI Leeds is historically twinned with JCI Lusaka and I used to live there, so I am very very proud to be part of this fantastic initiative. In a country where 88% of the young people are unemployed, there more than anywhere an organisation like JCI can make an impact.

Also on an international front, our very own Tim Metcalfe is International Director for JCI UK and definitely made his presence felt at European Conference in Braunschweig. Apart from organising 60 UK delegates and making sure we all had an excellent time, he also stripped down to the bare essentials and raised over 1000 euros

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We are also re-establishing links with our twins, with Lusaka in Zambia as mentioned and our existing ones, Glasgow, Dublin and Dortmund as well as a potential new one in Finland, watch this space!

Our success this year in building partnerships is set to continue into next year, I’m very excited that we have formed an alliance with Leeds Met University who are providing us with events management students to organise some of our events, while the rest of council can focus on other core and value added activities. This is a great leap forward in working with and supporting the local community and empowering young people. We are also in discussion about working with MacMillan Cancer Care next year as well as some international projects.

A great team and forward planning is making JCI Leeds stronger by the day. We are focusing on building our core strength next year, succession planning is key for the continued success of JCI Leeds. This has been strengthened by the fact that we have won the bid to host JCI UK National Convention next year. This will be at Oulton Hall and will be a very English country manor house experience. We hope to really put Leeds on the map both nationally and attract lots of international members.

With our key event the Annual Dinner in November at the Marriot hotel, all our members, past, present and (hopefully) future, will get together to celebrate a great year and look forward to a stronger future.

Pictures: 1. JCI Leeds weekend away at Lumley Fee, Cumbria in Aug 2012.

2. Our first council meeting after nominations a voting for 2012 Council.

3. JCI Leeds’ Annual Dinner 2012

JCI London As members of a voluntary organisation like JCI, we all know that is one thing.

Actually idea… is something else.

applicant is. And for them to gauge whether their membership fee will be a worthwhile investment!

So, our theme for JCI London in 2012 has been . After all, only by making to happen do we stand the slightest chance of making a difference.

Combined with timely running of the ‘Discover JCI’, feedback from team members on the engagement of new members is extremely positive, with several members of the ‘2012 intake’ now actively involved in key chamber projects.

Needless to say, all active members of the chamber have come up trumps this year. The sheer scale and variety of activity has been staggering.

While it’s temping to focus exclusively on the positives, it’d be misleading to suggest there haven’t been mistakes made and lessons learned - chiefly by the Chamber President!

From our business social media series (Ricky Kothari & Alekhya Mukherji) to our community team’s ‘Invitation To The Boardroom’ (Soraya Bowen) … from our monthly networking drinks (Alex Illsley & Marlies Kunnen) to a workshop on how to manage your finances (Mehnaz Siddiqui & Frene Angeli) to our new partnership with children’s charity KIDS (Soraya Bowen)… from an evening with the Professional Speaking Association to record turnout of more than 70 people at our two ‘Meet The Members’ nights (Jason Sender), with a third event still to come! from the Waterways Clean-Up (Community Team again!) to TOYP (Sofie Sandell) to Public Speaking Club (Mihai Taraipan & Trang Tran) to the shock and awe of finally (!) having our new banner – thanks to the hard work and persistence of Sandor Kovacs.

Experimentation on new membership processes has at times been perhaps a little too ‘impulsive!’

Running five events in a single week may be impressive in terms of run-rate, but the downward impact on average turnout per event is irresistible.

As we go to press, the Special Projects Team, led by the indefatigable Dexter Dash, is in the closing stages of organising the first ever TEDx conference hosted by a JCI chapter in the UK – TEDxSquareMile on the theme of: ‘The Future Of Work – The Power To Make A Difference.’ Oh, and there was an Olympic Games as well. J

Truly an action-packed year.

Perhaps the hottest topic for discussion in Council has related to membership engagement – specifically, the process by which new people access and join the Chamber. All felt strongly that membership should be about more than just ‘turning up’ to events. Being active was central.

Striking the right balance between being active and being… ‘hyper-active’ remains a challenge for a chamber of this size and with this depth of commitment and talent among its members. As for the verdict on the new Batchbook network database, a Presidential initiative designed to ensure the retention and transfer of chamber contacts from one year’s Council to the next, well, let’s just say the jury’s still out!

What can be in no doubt, however, is the energy, commitment and enthusiasm of so many members of the London Chamber. For all of us, JCI is something we do outside and beyond our day-job – whether running our own business or working within an organisation. To do it unpaid while achieving the levels of professionalism seen in the 2012 events calendar is, put simply, extraordinary.

More importantly, in ways both seen and unseen, the members of this Chamber – supported by the national organisation and by our international network - can feel proud to have made a difference to this great city.

Pictures: 1. TEDxSquareMile 27th October 2. JCI London TOYP Winners including global winners Katherine Sparkes and Bobby Kenshah 3. JCI London cleans up the Thames

In experimenting with some changes to the process, some things we got right, others less so.

But one thing is certain: ‘raising the bar’ even slightly for prospective new members has benefited the chamber in terms of greater engagement.

Today, prospective members must send an email outlining their reasons for wanting to join. A telephone call is then scheduled with an appropriate member of the Council, to provide an opportunity for us to gauge how serious the

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JCI Manchester 2012 - wow what a year!

I am pleased to report that from January to September JCI Manchester has seen a rise in membership of 25% and in the week this is written I am aware of 5 emails that have been received from prospective individual and corporate members. In addition to members, JCI Manchester has a number of young professionals who attend events and opt for a pay as you go arrangement.

The rise in JCI Manchester members and the engagement of young professionals through pay as you go, can be attributed to the dedication and hard work of the board. The board have organised an eclectic programme of events and have proactively built relationships with young professionals at and after these events.

The 2012 programme for JCI Manchester has included training and business events, social events and charity events, a sporting charity challenge and a timetable of training sessions.

In addition to this there has been a new members evening, a past presidents dinner and JCI Manchester will soon host the biggest event of the year the Manchester Young Talent Awards.

Charity and Community Engagement JCI Manchester’s charity challenge will see 21 individuals take part in Tough Mudder a 12 mile army obstacle course, running through fire, swimming in freezing cold water and wadding through a lot of mud. A weekly bootcamp class has been organised by JCI as well as monthly challenges to help facilitate team building, enhance problem solving skills and increase leadership skills.The individuals taking part in the challenge will be sponsored to raise money for the Halle (JCI Manchester’s chosen charity) and the money raised will be used to help disadvantaged school children and the elderly in the local community. In addition to the sporting challenge a series of events have taken place to raise additional funds for the Halle, the events include a charity quiz, blackjack or bust, a Mexican ‘Cinco de Mayo’ party to name but a few. Members and non-members have also been to a Halle concert and have volunteered to help raise money at the Halle Tatton Park Picnic concert and Firework show. The charity events have enabled members to give back and engage with the community and have provided the opportunity for networking.

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Social Events and Networking There have been a series of social events throughout the year with an average attendance of between 50 and 60 people, with the exception of the new members evening which had an attendance of 150. The social events provide a fantastic opportunity for young professionals to network and learn more about what is happening in and around Manchester.

A few examples of social events include A lovely bubbly social, a summer BBQ, speed networking and our upcoming Spooktacular social.

Personal Development With regards to personal development we have delivered a range of business and training events including but not limited to; an inspirational sales and marketing talk, mentoring accreditation, an introduction to community awareness, communication and presentation skills training, and I have to mention our upcoming panel event which will explore how businesses take their brand global.

Partnerships JCI Manchester’s corporate partners include Grant Thornton, KPMG, Brown Shipley, William James Recruitment and Irwin Mitchell.

The corporate partners host our business and training events and contribute speakers.

It is worth noting that a couple of our events have been organised in partnership with CING (Creative Industries Networking Group) to diversify attendees and develop new and existing relationships.

Recognition of Local Talent The biggest event of the year is the Manchester Young Talent Awards. The glittering awards dinner will recognise up to 10 outstanding young individuals who exemplify the best attributes of Manchester’s young people. The ceremony will be a celebration of each winner’s career so far and it provides a platform from which they can inspire young people in Manchester. It is expected that 150 people will attend the event on the 22nd November.

JCI Manchester 2012 it’s been a pleasure, I have learnt a great deal, built some fantastic relationships, found a new job and had a lot of fun!

I look forward to seeing JCI Manchester grow in the following years.

JCI Portsmouth 2012 has definitely been a year of development and growth; not only as a chamber but as a committee. One major highlight of our year in JCI Portsmouth has been ensuring the continuation of the chamber. At the start of 2012, we weren’t sure JCI Portsmouth would still be in existence by 2013. Within six months, we had a dedicated committee and team in place, including a Deputy President, which confirmed that JCI Portsmouth would definitely still be around in 2013. We then set to work on making 2012, our most successful year yet.

We are very proud of our outstanding programme of personal development and training events, including public speaking, CV writing, boosting your confidence and starting your own business. We have seen first-hand the help and guidance these events have given to attendees and we are pleased with how these events have helped people in our local community improve their knowledge and skills.

This year we have partnered with The Rainbow Centre as our local nominated charity. The work they do with children and young adults with neurological disorders is very inspiring and so far we have raised £130 for the centre. We know JCI Portsmouth will make a real difference to this charity and we are so excited to work together in the future.

Additionally we supported the local Race for Life event and hope to make this an annual JCI Portsmouth project with lots more charity events and fundraising opportunities planned for the remainder of this year.

JCI Portsmouth hosted our first ever Open Evening and was very excited to have local Olympian Katy Sexton as our keynote speaker. We also welcomed UK National President Solveig Malvik on her first visit to JCI Portsmouth where she inspired almost 40 attendees with all of the passport stamps she has collected during her JCI career. We

were also very excited to welcome two Local President: JCI Southampton members to the Open Evening which exemplified the network that JCI in the South can offer and is Members: hopefully the start of a fabulous coalition between JCI Portsmouth and JCI Southampton. We are confident that the Established: success and momentum of the Open Evening will carry on throughout the year and into next year as there was a truly amazing buzz from all those involved.

We really owe a great deal of our success this year to a passion and drive from the committee and our emphasis on Social Media. While we can always develop, we are proud of the strides we have taken with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, website blogs and even some YouTube videos. We aim to use our member’s strengths with different social media in order to continue spreading the word throughout Portsmouth.

JCI Portsmouth will be taking at least 4 members to 2012 National Convention and is looking forward to representing the South in Belfast. The committee also participated in Inspiration Day, Presidents and Deputies training weekends and Debate training.

2013 promises to see continued success with stronger relationships with our sister chapter in Southampton, consistent membership growth, partnership building with The Rainbow Centre and forging alliances with the Hampshire Chambers of Commerce.

Pictures: 1. JCI Portsmouth supporting Race for Life 2. JCI Portsmouth Speed Networking event 3. JCI Portsmouth Open Evening with Olympian Katy Sexton and JCI UK National President Solveig Malvik 13

JCI Reading Local President: Members: Established:

JCI Reading’s focus has expanded this year to include more community activities with a view to do more in our community but also raise our profile. This has been exciting and challenging for us, allowing us to plan and participate in a variety of events as part of our programme. We decided to adopt a charity for the year and chose Guide Dogs for the Blind.

When choosing our charity we wanted a measurable goal - something Guide Dogs gave us with their 'Sponsor a Puppy’ scheme. The charity had knowledge and resources in place for us to draw on. And so we settled on raising £5,000 to name a puppy, and train it during the first year of its life. Talk naturally moved to what we would call this puppy - 'Jaycee' of course, and in the same way that JCI makes such a different to its members, JCI Reading would change the life of one blind person in the country, by sponsoring Jaycee! You can imagine the celebration we are going to have when we achieve this target and the pride we have in meeting Jaycee and starting him out in his career.

As well as a tangible goal, Guide Dogs offer our members a whole range of opportunities, not only in fundraising. Guide Dogs have a number of current campaigns including raising the awareness of the increasing dog attacks upon Guide Dogs, leaving the dogs and owners physically and mentally scarred. The charity also has other opportunities for members, for example, completing the Guide Dogs ‘My Guide’ qualification as sighted guiders.

As with many of the events we have held as part of the overall Guide Dog campaign, our first project had an additional community focus.

One member of our chamber was interested in recycling. The recycle and resale project she set up continues, the ethos being that with a little bit of effort, unwanted things need not be dumped, but can be reused or resold with funds going to Guide Dogs.

We have raised just over £130 by collecting unwanted clothing and selling it to companies who pay by the kilogram-the very first collection included 34 dustbin bags! Added to this, by sorting the clothes and identifying better quality items, eBay sales have made at least 99p an item and often much more! This project continues at this time and is adding constantly to our target.

Additionally we collect stamps, DVDs, CDs, good quality bric-a-brac and books. It was this collection of books which saw a 'first' for JCI Reading - a stand at the established and

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popular East Reading Festival in June. We ran a popular second hand book stall and also engaged with the local community by running a Sponsored ‘Go Walkies’ event for members of the public to join us, and retired Guide Dog 'Oatey' on a sponsored walk. The event was a huge success, not just raising awareness of JCI Reading in the community but also working with members of the local Guide Dog branch.

One of our members later joined the branch in August to help run another book stall at a local show. Currently we are planning our JCI Reading stand at the upcoming Guide Dogs open day at their headquarters near Reading.

We’ll be raising funds through stalls and competitions as well a talking to members of the public about JCI membership and the opportunities it offers.

Our sell-out pub quiz earlier in the year saw quiz teams come from all over Reading, raising some £600 in just one evening through donations, tickets and a raffle, raising funds for Guide Dogs as well as spreading the word of JCI Reading to new audiences.

Our members have been inspired to give to the project - harnessing their individual hobbies and skills. We are excited to have a budding author in our midst, who after writing a children's story book for his son and nephew, has decided to market it with profits to the charity. Members have formed a team with him and are planning a children’s event next spring to launch his book, liasing with the charity over branding and marketing. Another member who makes cards sells them in her workplace for the project and is planning a sponsored 10km run next year as a goal for her personal fitness – exciting times!

And so we turn our thoughts to autumn. As well as the Guide Dog project, we are currently finalising our programme of personal development workshops and our new members event, all planned to get under way in October. Creativity and working more productively is our theme, seeing trainers coming in, both from within JCI itself and from our community contacts.

Pictures: 3. JCI Reading goes to 'Go Ape' with members Faisal, Lynda, Clare and her husband Luke.

2. Steve receives his 'My Guide' Community Sighted Guider Qualification Certificate from another of our members, Lynda, who trained us and works for Guide Dogs.

3. JCI Reading stand at the East Reading Festival

JCI Sheffield In its 85th anniversary year, JCI Sheffield started preparations for 2012 in October 2011, which meant we had a clear plan of action and a fully formed council team of 11 directors.

Our motto for 2012 is ‘Impact of One’. Our main aim this year is to engage as many members as possible to make a positive impact in our local, national and international communities.

We started the year with a structured marketing approach which included the launch of our new website, branded materials (T-Shirts, Business cards) and clear social media strategy which included JCI Ducky on twitter, a bimonthly email publication to all members and the launch of a Facebook page, which resulted in not just new members but we also engaged a wider community of potential new members and business partners.

JCI Sheffield had the great pleasure to host the World President Bertolt Daems in February 2012an action packed two days which gave us the opportunity to show to our members that we are not just a local organisation but part of an international community.

We were very keen to engage members on a regional, national and international level, which meant that we had 8 members travelling to JCI UK Inspiration day, 4 members participating in the JCI UK Marketing academy, 8 members travelling to JCI EC in Germany, 5 members participating in JCI UK LEAP and a total of 4 members participated in the regional extempore and public speaking competitions, with both competitions won by JCI Sheffield members Ilona Alcock.

So far JCI Sheffield has organised a total of 21 personal development events with a total number of attendees of 278, 4 business events with a total of 45 attendees, 4 official social events in addition to the monthly ‘Networking Wednesday’ with a total of 60 attendees, 2 new members nights with a total of 76 attendees and 6 community events with a total of 52 attendees.

Community events were at the heart of this year’s activities: A strong relationship was formed with the Cathedral Archer Project with a storage clean up day, a sleep out raising £ 1000.00 for the Archer project, the Edinburgh marathon team raised $146 for Nothing but Nets, over 800 Easter Eggs were delivered to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital and the flag project engaged members from different communities. The flag project team now meets on a monthly basis to tackle community issues in our city: A car park clean up and a blood drive are next on the agenda.

JCI Sheffield is very proud to have successfully formed a twinning arrangement with JCI Mayo. We have monthly Skype meetings to share best

practice and support each other at events, with JCI Mayo’s president hosting a training session for JCI Sheffield members and 3 JCI Sheffield members travelling to JCI Irish Convention, hosted

by JCI Mayo.

JCI Sheffield members also attended many civic events this year: The Sheffield Law society annual dinner, Master Cutlers Feast, Lord Mayors Inauguration, VIP reception to welcome the Olympic torch and we were also invited to a Royal reception hosted by HRH The Duke of York.

JCI Sheffield’s president Sandra flew the JCI Sheffield flag not just in the UK by travelling to JCI Boston, JCI Bradford and JCI Barnsley to train local members, but also had the great pleasure to be an outdoor trainer at JCI European Academy in Sweden.

JCI Sheffield’s IPP, president and deputy president also were actively engaged in organising a JCI UK national project- JCI UK LEAP. LEAP saw 18 delegates from across the country graduating in Sheffield, supported by 10 JCI UK and JCI Netherlands trainers.

Recognising the success of a firm progression planning, JCI Sheffield has already started the strategic planning of 2013,with a deputy in place, 2 applications for deputy president and interest from 2 further members to join the council team, in addition to 5 existing council directors who are interested in taking up a new role next year. JCI Sheffield also successfully supported IPP Kate Senter to take on the role of JCI UK Deputy President in 2013.

JCI Sheffield is now organizing the Annual dinner, a flagship event in the events calendar. We successfully secured 2 speakers: JCI Senator and businesswomen Sarah Brown and Past National President and entrepreneur Hugh Facey, MBE. We are looking forward to celebrating this year with around 70 members and local business people. Showing the strong relationship within the city, the annual dinner also welcomes the Lord Mayor of Sheffield, the Lord Lieutenant, The High Sheriff of Sheffield and the CEO of Sheffield Chamber of Commerce.

Pictures: 1. JCI Sheffield at the Cutlers Hall, hosted by the Master Cutler Pam Liversidge 2. JCI Sheffield council team at the Archer project sleep out 3. JCI Sheffield members and Senators at European Conference in Braunschweig

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Local President: Members: Established:

JCI Southampton Local President: Members: Established:

Now in its 53rd year, JCI Southampton has had yet another full programme of activities so far this year.

Mixing networking drinks, training dinners, business focus group workshops, speed networking events, community fundraising & fun social events the 2012 programme has provided JCI Southampton members & guests with an ideal platform to gain new business contacts, develop themselves both professionally & personally and indulge in some great social occasions.

A New Members Evening at the end of March saw 30+ attendees enjoy an evening of networking over drinks at Yuzu Lounge whilst finding out more about the JCI organisation & what benefits membership could bring both locally & nationally. The JCI Southampton team were joined by JCI UK National President Solveig Malvik who later accompanied Local President Drew Charman and other attendees for a Thai meal to continue sharing her experiences of the organisation & what she has personally gained from it.

April provided JCI Southampton with the opportunity to host JCI UK’s Presidents & Deputies Weekend - an event for all Local Presidents & their Deputies to come together (along with the National Board) to meet, share ideas, learn & have lots of fun. A packed two day schedule comprised of the first National Council meeting of 2012 plus various training sessions & social events designed to provide a 2nd quarter springboard for the Presidents & Deputies to carry on into their year of office. The weekend was busy but everyone finished feeling engaged & enthused – no doubt helped by the weekend being a very special one for Southampton as its football team was promoted to the Premiership on Saturday afternoon. It was fantastic to see the city celebrating in true style on Saturday evening as we held a dinner for 30 people in Oxford Street. The atmosphere out on the town & indeed in the restaurant was electric & something our colleagues from across JCI UK will not forget in quite some time!

July witnessed the holding of the inaugural Solent Business Ball. Held at St Mary’s Stadium, home to Southampton FC, this major event saw four local networking organisations, led by JCI Southampton, come together to put on a fabulous gala

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dinner extraordinaire attended by over 300 young professionals. Great atmosphere, great food, great music, great people & over £1,000 raised on the night for local charity Wave 105’s Cash For Kids – what more could you ask for?

August’s Summer Charity Event took place on Southampton Common with over 40 attendees taking part in a fun rounders competition & American-style BBQ. Despite succumbing to our summer’s disappointingly mixed weather all the attendees had a great time whilst raising money in support of the valuable work undertaken by the President’s nominated charity, Gift of Sight. Based at Southampton General Hospital the charity funds world-class research into the prevention and treatment of blindness, helping people across the UK to regain their independence.

Of course, we can’t possibly forget one of JCI Southampton’s biggest achievements of 2012 – the launch of the Costa Academy.

The Academy is a £29,000 joint project between JCI Southampton & Costa Coffee the building of a dedicated training centre creating a host of apprenticeships & training opportunities for young people who may have exited secondary education without the required qualifications needed to gain employment. The venue also provides a meeting & training room for other local community organisations & clubs to utilise.

The Academy’s apprentices are able to join JCI through a funding scheme - allowing them to access the wide network of young professional members and business partner organisations both in Southampton and across the UK. This was a major initiative for JCI Southampton & the first of its type across JCI UK. With more training dinners scheduled this year, a couple of charity quiz nights, a Christmas social dinner & drinks event plus our monthly Turbo Thursday networking drinks, JCI Southampton members and guests can look forward to a full end to the year.

Pictures: 1. Launch of JCI Southampton and Costa’s Academy 2. JCI Southampton Summer Charity event 3. The Solent Ball

New Chambers in JCI UK JCI UK has chambers in 20 towns and cities around the UK. We are always looking to start up new chambers. If you think that your area would benefit from having a JCI chamber, please contact JCI UK’s National President for more information.

JCI UK includes England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Who can start a JCI chamber?

Benefits to you and your team You’ll learn and accelerate skills such as leadership, project management, sales, decision-making etc; create positive change in your local community and build your local business network. And what better legacy could there be to leave to your community?

Getting help and support while starting up Funding is available from JCI (EDC MiniGrant) and JCI UK (Foundation Grant and New Chamber Funding). Contact JCI UK for more information.

Anyone who is 18-40, with the enthusiasm and passion to bring JCI to their town/city, can do so. You probably have some entrepreneurial spirit, too.

JCI Birmingham what the members feel they would most benefit from and also to get involved within the local community.

Building a solid membership base will be key to the success of JCI Birmingham and in order to do this, it is crucial that members have time to 2012 JCI Barnsley President Kirstie get to know each other and Barnett will be taking over the reins in network/socialise throughout the year.

It would also be fantastic to see JCI 2013 to re-launch JCI Birmingham.

With previous president’s experience Birmingham represented at national under her belt Kirstie plans on running events in 2013 including Inspiration Day and National Convention. new members evenings to give the people of Birmingham an opportunity 2013 will be all about putting JCI to meet up, talk about what they would like to see from their JCI back on the map in the Midlands and chamber and a chance to spread the long may it continue.

JCI word. The plan will be to run a Picture: number of personal development sessions across 2013, built around JCI Birmingham's launch night 17

JCI Liverpool Kai Graf von Pahlen is the Local President of JCI Liverpool. JCI Liverpool aims at affiliating formally with JCI UK at the National Council in Belfast in December 2012

JCI Liverpool was re-established in November 2011 with a strong and committed management team. We are organising a number of networking, training and volunteer projects, working together with the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, the Liverpool District BID, the Liverpool City Council, the Liverpool Lord Mayor, Liverpool law firm Hill Dickinson and City Central. Our projects have included a training session on psychometrics, evening drinks, networking events in foreign languages and a tour of the Cunard Building (one of the “Three Graces” in Liverpool).

We are passionate about putting something back into the community in which we live and work and it is therefore not surprising that our first big project was a charity event. In May 2012, JCI Liverpool took part in the annual “Let’s Do It!” volunteer project (www.letsdoitworld.org). A team of over 40 volunteers gathered in the Commercial District on 13 May 2012 to take part in Liverpool’s first ever ‘Let’s Do It World!’ city clean up. The project was led by the newly formed JCI Liverpool and The Commercial District BID. Representatives from both organisations teamed up with staff from Hill Dickinson, Claire House, Liverpool Chamber, the UK Border

Agency and other local employers and took to the streets armed with cleaning equipment and giant wheelie bins. Specialist clothing, further manpower as well as a truck and driver was provided by Enterprise Liverpool who removed the huge amounts of discarded rubbish collected by the volunteers.

JCI Liverpool is now working together with the Liverpool Lord Mayor and the Little Heroes Cancer Trust and we’re organising a Charity Firewalk. Our Firewalk (including training, seminar and food) will take place at the Liverpool Cricket Club from 6pm on Wednesday 31 October 2012. Participants will be expected to raise a minimum of £100 in sponsorship. The registration fee entitles you to a confirmed place on the Firewalk, a training session, a Hot Pot supper and a photograph of you making your walk!

We are very pleased that JCI Liverpool has made a come-back and is making a positive contribution to the lives of the people in Liverpool.

The picture is from JCI Liverpool’s “Go Clean the world” project.

JCI Ignite London JCI Ignite London is run by Promise Campbell and Vassilios Dagiakidis

2012 shall be remembered as the year in which JCI Ignite London was launched!

The year began with a bang as the very first official JCI Ignite London event was a working breakfast with the 2012 JCI World President, Mr Bertolt Daems on February 10th. This was followed by the official JCI Ignite London launch party in Clapham Common at the ever-so-chic Loft in Clapham North on February 15th.

Attended by guests including a Deputy Mayor, Immediate and Past JCI Presidents, Senators, current members, other esteemed guests (and a magician to entertain us all) – the night was a huge success.

JCI Ignite London has hosted some great events, but we did not always act alone. We partnered with JCI London to hold some fantastic joint events as well. Examples of these were the “Going for Gold” pub quiz in April, Project Leadership training in June (facilitated by JCI London IPP, Sarah Beckwith) and a session on Confident Presence (facilitated by JCI UK President, Solveig Malvik) in July.

Of course, the most important aspect of JCI Ignite London is its mission – and that is to

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enable and create positive change. We undertook this through the Money Mentors Project which is run via Citizens UK. We held two separate events in the first half of the year (April and June) in which we raised awareness and invited JCI and non-JCI members to become a “Money Mentor”. This would involve taking a course through Citizens UK on how to improve financial literacy, draw up and manage budgets, as well as being paired with an individual to mentor them through their illspending habits.

JCI Ignite London also offered its time for voluntary activities in 2012. In September, JCI Ignite London volunteered alongside JCI London at the world’s largest duathlon in Richmond Park.

Furthermore, in late October, JCI Ignite London will be cleaning up the River Thames in conjunction with the Thames 21 Cleaner Thames Challenge.

2012 has been a busy year for JCI Ignite London thus far. Yet, although we are the new kid on the block, we are already winning awards – in September the team from JCI Ignite London was crowned winner of the Porchester Pub Quiz!

When is it?

30 November - 2 December 2012 Where is it?

Belfast, Northern Ireland · Conference Venue - Hilton Hotel · Gala Dinner Venue - Titanic Belfast Where can you register? http://jciukconv2012.eventbrite.com

On behalf of JCI Belfast and the 2012 Conference Organising Committee, we are very much looking forward to welcoming you all to Belfast and the JCI UK National Convention 2012. Over 150 delegates have registered for the entire weekend and we are expecting over 200 at our gala dinner.

If this will be your first visit to Belfast, I do hope you enjoy your stay as much as I have since I moved here just over four year ago. You will find the hospitality of Belfast like no other and we do hope that you enjoy the programme of events and activities that we have lined up for you.

Welcome to the JCI UK National Convention 2012 glitzy Black Tie gala dinner begins with a drinks reception overlooking Titanic’s original slipways followed by a 3 Course Meal in the famous Titanic Suite where guests will be able to catch a glimpse of the most talked about replica Grand Staircase. The evening will include the JCI UK National Awards as well as the Inauguration of the 2013 JCI UK National President, Miss Emma Eastwood, along with Traditional Speeches and Toasts and last but not least a good ole fashion disco.

We are expecting over 200 guests for what is certain to be an unforgettable evening.

Don't miss the spectacular RMS Titanic, White Star 1st Class Dining Experience at Titanic Belfast. The

Highlights from the programme: Friday 30th November 14:00 – Welcome and Opening 14:10 – Opening Business Lecture: “Preparing to catch the rising tide” 15:10 – Parallel Sessions · Princes Trust Mentoring Session · Public Speaking Competition 19:30 – Friday evening Social and Extempore Competition at the Ulster Social Reform Club Saturday 1st November 9:00 – National Council Meeting 10:00 – Belfast Guided Treasure Hunt 12:00 – Lunch 13:00 – Keynote Session: “Leading with Emotional Intelligence (EI)” 14:00 – Business Lecture: “Networking for Leaders” 15:00 – Debating Competition 19:30 – Drinks Reception and Gala Dinner, Titanic Belfast Sunday 2nd November 9:00 – Senate Breakfast 10:00 – Deputy President Training 12:00 – Farewell Session

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BJC Foundation Andrew Thompson Chairman, BJC Foundation

JCI-UK’s own funding Foundation is “open for business”.

At the 2012 Foundation luncheon on September 29th members were joined by three recent recipients of grant funding to explain the benefits that foundation grants have brought during last 18 months. Foundation grants totalling £6500 have supported projects in JCI Barnsley, JCI Manchester, JCI Liverpool and the JCI UK website. There are further requests or commitments for £2750 under consideration.

JCI UK National President Solveig Malvik and National President- Elect Emma Eastwood also shared their aspirations for JCI UK and the closer relationship being built with the Foundation. With all of this current and future activity, the time has come to start to promote increased membership of the Foundation and generate some additional funds in order to support the growth aspirations of local JCI UK activities.

provides an opportunity to put something back into the organisation to benefit and support the long term future of the organisation. When the Foundation was created, members donated £500 “buying” a membership. This money has been invested over the almost 20 year history of the Foundation to create a fund which the Trustees can disburse to worthy projects to support the growth of JCI UK. If you are interested in supporting the long term future of JCI UK by becoming a Member of the Foundation there are two payment alternatives to consider. You can either make the one-off donation or you can make a monthly payment from just £15 per month.

For details either look for the link on the JCI UK website or contact the BJC Foundation Chairman, Andrew Thompson on +44 7768 845 620 or email andrew.thompson@rollsroyce.com.

Membership of the Foundation is open to and

Planning the future of JCI UK Solveig Malvik JCI UK National President 2012

Our motto as an organisation is “Be Better” and this year JCI UK launched a process to understand how we can make our own organisation better. This included planning for and creating engagement around the future of the organisation, talking about some of the issues our organisation is facing and looking at how we can promote best practices and support our local organisations.

The process started with workshops with Local Presidents and National Board to get a picture of where we think the most important concerns are in the organisation. These workshops generated a number of headlines that were tackled at a full weekend in Sheffield in the beginning of July.

30 members, Local Presidents and Senators participated at the Future Strategy Planning weekend and some Chambers that weren’t able to be present sent in their thoughts via email.

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We started by looking at worst case scenarios, this didn’t make us very happy, but we got a picture of what could happen if we didn’t take things in hand. We then looked at the headlines from the workshops and generated mission statements for each one before we came up with plans of actions to tackle each of the areas. As most JCI members are doers that like to get down to the practical aspects of things, it was a challenge to keep things at a higher level the first day, but we managed.

At the moment, JCI UK National Board is going through the output from the weekend, which will be presented at National Convention in Belfast in December, to look at the feasibility of each item, what should generate new best practices, what should be suggested as resolutions to National Council and what might already be current practices that need to be reinforced.

Marketing Academy 2012 The JCI UK Marketing Academy was two days packed with snappy presentations from marketing and communication experts and practical, hands-on exercises. It was unbelievable just how much was fit into the two days.

The content was relevant and useful for both JCI board members and for anyone looking to develop their marketing skills for their careers.

As with all JCI events, it was great to meet with other members from around the country; people had travelled from far and wide to attend. At just £55, it was worth the travel!

Part of the time was also used to gain some practical experience of creating a communications plan. In teams we created plans for chambers facing different situations, for example chambers with few members, chambers with lots of inactive members etc. It meant that not only could we put into practice what we’d learnt, we’d also developed plans which UK chambers could use. Boston are using theirs and I know in Sheffield we’ve put in place some of the ideas generated at the Marketing Academy.

Vicky Bulman JCI Sheffield Marketing Director 2012

From writing a press release to the best shots to use when creating small films; from how to be a whizz at social media, to the importance of consistent branding; from measuring marketing results, to stakeholder mapping – it was all to be found in the Marketing Academy!

LEAP with JCI UK The Leadership Excellence in Action Programme (LEAP) started out as a concept I had at the end of 2011 following my year as Personal Development Director for JCI Sheffield.

Objective:

In the first year we would deliver a pilot programme to develop the training content, the framework, gain tangible feedback from those attending and establish the team to continue the programme into the following year.

The national board were supportive of the vision and I established a project team of senators and members from across the UK. A series of meetings and workshops were run to deliver the course content, marketing materials and arrangements for the pilot programme.

LEAP took place in Sheffield on 21st September with training running from Friday through to Sunday. It was attended by 18 delegates from 6 chambers with 5 JCI UK and 2 JCI

Netherlands trainers delivering training. All delegates graduated from the programme and feedback was taken from them to help improve the programme for 2013. I can safely say everyone left the weekend feeling fully inspired to take action!!

A special thanks should be made to our supporters who all made this a great success; Insight Profiles (by Dan Lally and Dennis Ament), sponsorship from Joe Dilger (JCI Senator), Bag It Don't Bin It printed T-Shirts (by Sandra Pilarczyk), accommodation through Haveagreastay, printing from Phil CavalierLumley and admin from Irwin Mitchell (by Kate Senter).

The date has been set for JCI UK LEAP 2013 and we are now finalising the project team. I will be staying on the team to ensure we carry the learnings through and support next year’s team.

I have thoroughly enjoyed running this project, working with a great team and having the opportunity to turn a vision into reality! That is what JCI is about!

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Dan Senter is Deputy Local President for JCI Sheffield and Project Manager for LEAP - Leadership Excellence in Action Programme for JCI UK

TOYP Awards 2012 enthusiasm made this years TOYP a success.

Sofie Sandell TOYP Manager JCI London

Coming from humble beginnings, Bobby Kensah turned his hardships and experiences into motivation for future success. Bobby received the award in recognition of his extraordinary work with youth volunteerism and community action, Bobby was awarded the prize in the category of political, legal, and/or governmental affairs.

Read more about the winners: http://bit.ly/OJ5uuE JCI UK TOYP has been a huge success in 2012 and JCI UK has two nominees reaching world top ten. They will both be at JCI World Congress in Taipei in November to receive their awards.

Katherine Sparkes

Bobby Kensah

JCI London launched a local TOYP project in February 2012 and started the hunt for young talented people who are active in the London community. In the middle of April many outstanding individuals showed their interest and with help from two judges, eight people were picked for the London final.

Lots of research, spreadsheets and

Katherine started her career in journalism, then decided to take her enthusiasm and ideas on a new adventure creating Flamingo, a firm that provides charities with corporate clients capable of creating innovative, hands-on, sustainable community projects.

Katherine received the award in recognition of her extraordinary work in corporate social responsibility and community action.

Katherine was awarded the prize in the category of moral and/or environmental leadership.

European Academy Paul Widger is Deputy Local President in JCI Manchester

What did you do last summer? I spent a week with 75 Jaycees from across Europe, enjoying one of the best training courses and bonding experiences of my life.

Every year, JCI Gothenburg plays host to the JCI European Academy, a four day training course aimed at people rising through their local chambers. The objectives are for them to: - Develop a network of friends in chambers across Europe.

- Gain an understanding of self and others through Insights personality typing, as well as team skills and leadership styles.

- Grow as a person with the new skills, experiences and understanding of their behaviour.

In small groups, we were taken through trust exercises to get the team to bond. We then completed a number of projects and physical challenges under pressure, exposing our true capacities and behaviours. Ultimately, our team developed an intense trust. In the heat of the moment, each member threw in whatever they had and devoted themselves to what they had

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to do. Imagine getting a bit of that spirit in your local chamber – to be able to rely on each member to embrace their role and do what needs to be done for the common goal of the chamber.

Some of us commented that we had done team-building and trust exercises before, without much success. But this really worked.

And that was because the course was so intelligently put together, it was expertly run and everyone bought into it and treated it properly, in the spirit of JCI. My non-JCI friends say “it sounds like work!” but we Jaycees smile knowingly and reflect that it’s experience, it’s development, it’s making longlasting friendships and it’s fun. Sure, there was more preparation than sleep on the penultimate night (and more partying than sleep on the final night) but I am continually amazed how an organisation of volunteers can deliver courses of such superior quality and value. Please encourage your deputies and all other promising members to attend the next European Academy. I am already jealous of them!

Inspiration Day 2012 Inspiration Day is the first event of the year in JCI UK’s annual calendar. The purpose of Inspiration Day is to bring members, National Board and Local Presidents together to be inspired to kick off the year.

This year the theme of Inspiration Day was “Making a difference” and we looked not only at how we could put our plans into action but were also challenged to go out on the streets of Birmingham and do something about it.

The day started with an introduction by our National President 2012, Solveig Malvik, followed by introductions of opportunities in Marketing, personal development, and international coming up in the first half of 2012.

The key note speaker of the day was Noam Kostucki, who made some great points on how to "Turn Passion into Actions". Mr. Kostucki made us aware about how important it is to talk about what we didn't achieve last year and what we learned from it. Did we really want it in the first place? It's important to think about the next step, how can we take the next step?

Mr. Kostucki also spoke about how important it is not only to put your visions into words, but to actually be able to draw pictures of your visions. This will make your visions clearer and more concrete. It’s also important to share your vision with others in order to commit to it.

The big task of the day was to go out in teams and raise awareness of JCI in Birmingham, especially regarding the relaunch of JCI Birmingham. This was approached in different ways by each team, from flashmobs to Harry Potter impersonations and canvassing. Many people in Birmingham saw JCI logos and talked with current members of JCI about the work of the organisation which led to both new members and partnership opportunities for the budding Chamber.

Emma Eastwood is JCI UK Deputy National President 2012 and Personal Development Director on National Board.

Her motto for 2013 is “Inspiring Action”

The day ended, as JCI events often do, with a social dinner and late night out in Birmingham. The next morning, Local Presidents and National Board had to get up early for the first Local Leader Training of the year, learning about Roberts Rules of Order and leadership opportunities in JCI.

Local Leader Training When I first took on the role as a Local President, I was excited but very nervous. I had not been involved in JCI very long and had not been to many national events, so there was a lot I had to learn and I was nervous about doing something wrong.

help, ask questions or just share ideas. The training itself has also been a great opportunity for all the chambers to share what is working for them and also what is not working, so we can help each other find solutions.

When we had our first Local Leader Training with Solveig, I was comforted to see that everyone understood that we were all still learning about our role in JCI and Solveig had dedicated the time to help us be the best local leaders we could be.

It has been so positive to find out that it’s not just your own chamber that has challenges and obstacles to overcome, but every chamber faces their own challenges, as well as successes and it is really comforting, when you realise you are not alone.

As the year has gone on, I have found the Local Leader Training a fantastic programme!

It has helped me learn more about JCI, which I can feed back to my chamber. It has helped me develop my own skills as a leader and manage my team better, but it has also helped create a positive working relationship between all the Local Presidents throughout the UK!

Finally, the local leader training gives me and my Deputy President time to step away from the normal day-to-day running of our JCI chamber and focus on the future development and growth of our chamber. I have got some fantastic ideas from the trainers, Solveig and the other presidents, which have helped develop our chamber greatly and I would not have had them without the Local Leader Training.

I now have a network of other Local Presidents, who I can call or email to ask for

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