Support our social enterprise and buy your Christmas cards from ‘The Ark @ L’Arche’!  These cards are designed by adults with learning disabilities and all profits are reinvested into our project.

The Christmas Card packs contain 8 cards (2 of 4 designs)  and there is a choice of 2 packs – Pack 1 and Pack 2.  They are £3.75 per pack plus £1 p&p.  Please email orders to liverpool@larche.org.uk or telephone 0151 260 0422.

L’Arche Liverpool is a registered charity providing residential support, work opportunities and learning services for adults with learning disabilities and has been established in Liverpool for over 32 years.

Our objectives are to support people with learning disabilities to reach their full potential by offering opportunities to grow, learn and develop personally, interpersonally, creatively and spiritually. We also aim to encourage people with learning disabilities to create possibilities for themselves that excite them and to help them take the steps necessary to make that possibility a reality.

Our members (people with learning disabilities) live in houses and flats in the Fairfield, Kensington and Tuebrook areas of Liverpool. The houses are mainly family-sized where some people choose to live together sharing the common areas and facilities, others opt for a flat on their own with support from L’Arche.

Our social enterprise ‘The Ark @ L’Arche’ is a not for profit company that aims to provide employment, training and volunteering opportunities for people with learning disabilities.

Find out more about L’Arche here

Thursday, 5 November 2009
8.45am – 1.45pm

Sponsored by Halliwells

Supported by Learning and Skills Council

Location: Formby Hall Golf Resort & Spa, Southport Old Road, Formby, Southport L37 0AB

This event is planned to provide technical information and skills needed to keep you up-to date and ahead of the game. In 2009, this is more important than ever, as we face the most difficult economic environment for many years. This event will be insightful, informative and have a real practical focus.

Topics and presenters will include:

• Fraud awareness – hot topics and latest fraud issues – Alex Marsden, North West Fraud Forum
• Corporate recovery – what you need to know – Matt Dunham, Grant Thornton
• The importance of training your workforce – funding available locally – Helen France, LSC
• Corporate transactions the issues today – valuations and funding – Sue Russell, Halliwells

We are pleased to announce that Robert Elstone, Chief Executive of Everton Football Club, has very kindly agreed to be our keynote speaker this year.

Refreshments will be provided, including a buffet lunch with wine.

Tickets for the event which is open to all cost £50 (plus VAT). To reserve a place contact Alex Pilkington on 01925 594 284 or email Alex.Pilkington@icaew.com

Invitation To A Free Businesss Workshop

Tuesday 17 November 2009

At Liverpool Chamber
One Old Hall Street
Liverpool, L3 9HG

If you are considering growing your business in the USA and aim to ‘catch the wave’ as America emerges from recession, where do you start in such a vast, complex, IT savvy country?

This ‘Profit in Virginia, USA’ workshop will focus on how Virginia provides the ideal East Coast springboard for your business and how the state’s capital Greater Richmond (two hours south of Washington DC) offers free assistance and practical advice to UK firms.

The workshop will be led by Greg Wingfield, President & CEO of the Greater Richmond Partnership Inc (see www.grpva.com) and includes:

• Analysis of US East Coast locations and geographical, legal, economic and practical considerations
• A ‘start up in the USA’ model that enables you to plan and budget for your US growth
• An explanation of Greater Richmond’s key sectors including ICT, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, food production, chemicals, financial services and logistics with key players DuPont, Rolls Royce, Capital One, Philip Morris and many more
• Examples of UK firms that have chosen Greater Richmond and why
• A detailed explanation of GRP’s free visit service that provides tailored meetings for UK firms with potential contacts and partners
• Q & A session to answer your immediate questions

To book your FREE places - please contact by 9 NOVEMBER 2009:

export@liverpoolchamber.org.uk

telephone 0151 224 1872 or 0151 227 1234

Book online here

Programme

09.00 for

09.30  - Registration and tea/coffee

10.15  - Welcome from Liverpool Chamber of Commerce

10.30  - ‘UKTI Here to Help UK Firms Prosper’ presentation by David Booth, International Trade Advisor, UKTI
10.45  - ‘Profit in Virginia, USA’ presentations by Greg Wingfield, President & CEO, GRP, Gene Winter, Senior Vice President, GRP and Toney Hall, Marketing Director, Henrico Economic Development Authority

11.15 - Tea/coffee break

11.45 - Part 2 plus Q & A

12.30 - Networking lunch

One-to-one Confidential Meetings

From 13.30 there will also be one-to-one meeting slots available to discuss your individual needs.  To reserve a place  (first come, first served), please email export@liverpoolchamber.org.uk or telephone 0151 224 1872 or 0151 227 1234 or book online here

In the Window – 1 - 30 November 2009
Thomas Hill

The Bluecoat Display Centre are delighted to preview a new selection of work by Thomas Hill. Tom has been represented on our gallery stand at Collect in London and SOFA Chicago and has attracted an international audience for his wire ‘sketches’ of birds and animals.
Tom’s new work will be available to view and buy via our website www.bluecoatdisplaycentre.com from early November.

‘I have been a full-time artist since leaving college in 1994 and make pieces both for exhibitions and for corporate, public and private commissions. My pieces are made using mild steel wire, with additions of steel or copper sheet and copper meshes. I consider myself to be both a draftsman and a metalworker. My three-dimensional pieces are based on drawn studies of birds and animals in motion. I find that the steel wire I use behaves in much the same way as a quickly drawn line, and thus I am able to create, in effect, a three-dimensional ‘sketch.’ 


In this new group of pieces I decided to make a series of cut outs; fanciful drawings that build up ‘stage sets’ where the 3-dimensional pieces are displayed as if in a tableau vivant.’

For further information contact Samantha or Maureen at the Bluecoat Display Centre by email crafts@bluecoatdisplaycentre.com
or by phone +44 (0)151 7094014

Bluecoat Display Centre, 50-51 the Bluecoat, College Lane Entrance, Liverpool L1 3BZ UK.