The inaugural Chemicals Northwest Awards was held on Thursday 14th May 2009 at the Hilton Manchester Deansgate with over 270 chemical industry professionals. The event was hosted by Guardian writer Guy Browning and the evening commenced with welcomes from Chemicals Northwest Chair Dr Tony Bastock and NWDA Deputy Chair Vanda Murray

Chamber member RS Clare & Co were announced as the Winner of the Chemicals Northwest  SME Award, sponsored by Business Link Northwest.

Well done to them, another success story for local business!

The RNLI are raising funds for the Hoylake Lifeboat Appeal to provide a new all weather lifeboat for the volunteer crew at Hoylake.

On Thursday 16 July 2009 at 7.30pm in Liverpool Anglican Cathedral they have An Evening with Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE - The world’s greatest living explorer.  Sir Ranulph at the age of 65 has just reached the summit of Everest at the third attempt.

During his career Sir Ranulph has led more than 30 expeditions. Among his achievements are becoming the first man to reach the north and south poles by land unaided and climbing the north face of the Eiger in 2007.

Four months after major heart survery in 2003 he ran seven marathons in seven days on seven continents.

Tickets cost £25 and are available from Liverpool Anglican Cathedral shop on 0151 702 7255 or from Hoylake Appeal Office tel. 0845 650 3999.

For further information contact Audrey_farr@rnli.org.uk or 07767 310 829.

Il Forno on Duke Street are once again teaming up with Enotria wines to host an exclusive evening of wine tasting accompanied by a sumptuous five course dinner created by Il Forno’s head chef, Paolo Cillo.

From the Alto Adige, through to Tuscany, Sicily, Sardinia and the Pedmont region, these wines have been specially chosen to show the diversity of the Italian grape.

Managing partner of Il Forno, Vince Margiotta, said: “This is the fourth time that Il Forno has held the wine event. Our head chef has created an extensive special five-course menu for our guests. We hope this will be as successful as the previous events”.

This fabulous event takes place on Tuesday, June 16th at 7.30pm prompt. Available for £45 per head, for a superb evening you will never forget.

For more details please visit www.ilforno.co.uk

Thursday 11th June

Beechers Suite, Queen Mother Stand, Aintree Racecourse, L9 5AS

The Learning and Skills Council Greater Merseyside has announced they have £9.8m to deal with redundancy, £4.8m available to businesses facing restructuring as part of the recession with a further £4.5m available for staff training through the SkillWorks program.

Please join Paver Smith and The Learning and Skills Council Greater Merseyside, to find out how we can help your organisation survive the recession.

This event is open to Merseyside-based employers looking to improve the skills and competitiveness of their workforce.

Join Steve Smith, Britain′s most successful high jumper, to find out how you can give your organisation a competitive edge.

Format

There will be a breakfast buffet and refreshments as guests arrive and register.

The event will consist of presentations by:

Helen France, Director of Area, Learning and Skills Council Greater Merseyside

Steve Smith, Olympic medal-winning British high jumper

We will invite all guests to make the Skills Pledge – a voluntary commitment to training your staff. Through the Skills Pledge, you can access the advice of a Skills Broker who can help identify your training needs and where your business is eligible for funding.

Registration & breakfast
7.45 am

Event starts
8.30 am

Event ends
9.45 am

Places are limited and restricted to a senior member of each organisation.

To reserve a place please register online at www.allmerseyside.net/liverpool
or contact Jennifer Edwards at Paver Smith.

Tel: 0151 237 2815
Email: rsvp@paversmith.co.uk

Claire House, the Choldren’s Hospice who do such excellent work, are in desperate need of your help…

Helen Carlson says:

This is plea for help!  I hope some of you can help.  I am desperate for some volunteers at a couple of events we have coming up. If you or anyone you know could help I would be internally grateful!

Although we do have fantastic volunteers at Claire House, a lot of them live over on the Wirral and are reluctant to travel over to Liverpool.  I am desperate for some help on 3 dates over the summer at events and I am hoping I can get some of you or your friends and family to commit to helping me for a few hours.  Most of the work is simply and involves marshalling at events, giving out information / directions and being general helpers.  I will be more specific for each of the events below.

26th June – anytime between 8am and 6pm.  It is the sefton triathlon on the 27th June and we need 6 fit and able helpers to assist with the setting up of the event e.g signage, cones, fencing etc.  The meeting place is Crosby Leisure Centre

27th June – 6am to 12pm OR 12pm to 6pm.  During the sefton tri we need 10 volunteers for both shifts to help out with marshalling, information, registering, litter picking (not the nicest I know) and handing out t-shirts etc.  Claire House is one of the main beneficiaries this year for the event but in return we do need to deliver volunteers to help out on the day.  If anyone can help or knows someone who can I would be very appreciative.

For volunteers who help at the above event, they will be invited to a free BBQ and entertainment that evening.

19th July -  Claire House is the sole beneficiary for the Mersey Tunnel’s Under and Over the Mersey Event in celebration of their 75th anniversary.  Again in return we need to help them in several ways, one being with volunteers.  We need to provide 45 for the following:

Finish line at King’s Square, issuing medals to walkthrough participants: 10

Welfare (catering) at Old Haymarket and Kings Sq messrooms: 8

Stewarding at vintage vehicle park at Kings Sq: 5

General support including litter picking at Wm Brown St and Kings Sq; 8  (4 at each location)

Information points at Kings Sq: 4

Market research: 10

Volunteers will be integrated into the overall stewarding/staffing resource on the day and will be managed by Pennine Events. Volunteers will be included in the catering/ rest break arrangements managed on the day by PE.

If anyone would like to help please contact me on this email address or on the below contact details.

Thanks you so much for your help, I look forward to hearing from you.

Warm regards

Helen Carlson

Phone:   0151 236 2933

Mobile:  07760 491818

Chamber member Rippleffect have had two projects shortlisted in the Best Marketing Project for the prestigious TMP Tourism Awards.

The Creamfields online personality game that helped boost ticket sales for the 2008 Creamfields Event and The Anfield Experience website that shows off the fabulous once in a lifetime attraction at Liverpool FC are the projects that the judges deemed worthy of shortlisted status.

The awards ceromony takes place at the BT Convention Centre on the 18th June.

Andrew Binns of Rippleffect said “…last year we had two projects shortlisted and didn’t win so we hope to go one better this time around…”

The b.TWEEN 09 Interactive Digital Media Forum is just around the corner (11/12 June at FACT in Liverpool). It’s a chance to hear some of the most influential individuals from across the media industries - from advertising, branding, broadcast, social media, tech, mobile, gaming and web

Featuring a superb array of speakers from Spotify, Orange, Ogilvy, Channel 4, Penguin, Aegis Media, Bebo, New Media Age, Sellaband, Endemol, Mint Digital, Tate Media, Holler, Culture 24 and Emmy award winners RAW TV

b.TWEEN is at the intersection of the new creative economy… can you afford to miss it?

You can find out the latest at http://btween.co.uk and you can book tickets here: http://www.btween.co.uk/pages/book-now

b.TWEEN forum is now in it’s 5th year,  and remains the only event of its kind where delegates have total access to the panelists, and can take part in the discussion in real time via live web chats and Twitter.

At b.TWEEN you will make connections and collaborations, engage with the minds shaping the future of digital media and seed the deals to bring in business for the coming year.

The full programme can be viewed here: Thursday 11 June / Friday 12 June

Just announced is the chance to Present at b.TWEEN 09! Tell us about yourself and what makes you tick - pitch to speakers and delegate. Submit your idea here: http://www.btween.co.uk/quickfire

b.TWEEN 09 Sessions include Brand Grenades, Sacred Cows with Morgan Holt (HUGE), Mike Bayler (Strategy Review), Thomas Benski (Pulse Films) & Jamie Conygham (Dojo Media). Exploring the myths about Brands as content commissioners, this session will ask what branded content is, what success looks like and how to start conversations with Brands.

The Case Against Advertising featuring Steve Taylor (Aegis Media) & Jonathan MacDonald (JMA) exploring the new consumer sees straight through advertising dishonesty: they expect integrity, not a glossy film of glitter. What can agencies do to create real consumer value and enable conversations? This passionate session presents two sides of the same coin, exploring what the industry might look like once the dust settles

Boom & Bust 2.0? With panelist Jon Mitchell (Spotify), Mike Nutley (new media age), William Owen (made by many) & Giles Rhys-Jones (Ogilvy). Online success has its cost. Social networks raise revenue from their communities in a number of ways, but do they really turn page impressions into enough hard cash to cover mounting costs?

What is the end game? Are we careering towards the next boom and bust?

Book now
www.btween.co.uk