Liverpool Shanghai Partnership (LSP), the 48 Group Club, and the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) invite you to an Icebreaker Lecture presented by Sir Terry Leahy, Chief Executive of Tesco.

At this prestigious event, Sir Terry will speak to an invited audience about the importance of education, skills and training, and the growing economic importance of China, its language and culture, for our schools and the workplace in the 21st century, from his perspective as Chief Executive of Tesco, one of the world’s fastest growing and most successful businesses.

We are privileged to be holding the event in Sir Terry’s home city of Liverpool at St George’s Hall and very much hope you will be able to join us for this unique evening.

The details are as follows:

The event takes place on  Tuesday, 30 October 2007  at  St George’s Hall, William Brown Street, (Access through the south entrance via the Heritage Centre on St George’s Place).

5.00pm - arrival and pre-lecture refreshments:

7.30pm - departure

RSVP by 19 October 2007:  to sirterryleahylecture@ssatrust.org.uk

Liverpool’s first lifestyle smartcard, LiveOne20, is the perfect Christmas gift for your hard working staff as Christmas gets ever closer and is now available for even less to businesses.

It’s the perfect reward and motivational tool for all your staff.

AND the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce has guaranteed you an additional 10% OFF all orders this Festive Season for all card orders made until the end of December!

Get your own cards early to assist with those pre-Christmas parties for clients and colleagues, or simply select the card as your Christmas gift to employees and allow them to benefit from a year’s worth of fantastic savings and offers.

The card offers employees a wide range of discounts to take advantage of in their day to day lives, with some of Liverpool’s premier names in health and beauty, food and drink, leisure and retail on board.

With this seasonal offer, cards are now available from as little as £9 each, are valid for a whole year and still offer savings of hundreds of pounds over the year to every employee.

LiveOne20 makes perfect financial sense and gives employees the choice of exactly how to use and enjoy their gift.

To find out more, visit www.liveone20.com or call Livesmart’s account manager Sam Hart on 0870 055 3472 or by e-mail at liveone20@livesmart.biz.

Our Young Chamber programme kicked into overdrive last week with our intrepid youngsters of the New Heys Executive Board visiting the Chamber of Commerce to work on their Events Challenge and attending an MEC Fashion show where none other than Phil Redmond was on hand to offer some words of advice.

The task was set to run an event that would benefit the wider local community. The Young Chamber board spent an afternoon here brainstorming ideas and producing a plan for how to make a profit - guided by the Chamber’s own Events Manager Sue Platt and Head of Membership Jenny Stewart.

The YC Events Board have decided to host their own talent show but with a budget of £150 and a pre-Christmas deadline, the youngsters need to work fast and are learning the real pressures of the business world!

Following a work session in the Chamber of Commerce, the YC students attended a Fashion Show at the Met Quarter where they were able to see some of today’s best clothing designs with other local creative entrepreneurs.

New Heys Young Chamber President Izzy Tyler said of the Event challenge “we’ve got a lot of work to do to deliver the talent show in a limited time but we’re really excited about having responsibility for running the entire thing. If this is a success we want to do our own fashion show next year!”

Make a healthy profit on the talent show and they may just get their wish!

Of the day, Head of Membership Jenny Stewart said “we couldn’t have found more enthusiastic, motivated young entrepreneurs. If only we could bottle that enthusiasm and sell it! They certainly kept us oldies on our toes!”

Young Chamber provides a framework for business and education to engage in a different way by allowing direct interfacing between schools and the business community across the Chamber membership. We believe schools and businesses can learn a lot from each other - get involved, and help shape your future workforce.

Chamber members and schools can Contact the Young Chamber coordinator Paul Cherpeau on 0151 227 1234 or email youngchamber@liverpoolchamber.org.uk for more information and to get involved.