Welcome

Welcome to NewarkBusinessClub.co.uk, the online home of Newark Business Club.

Based in Newark, in the East Midlands, Newark Business Club has regular attendances of over 100 businesses at its monthly meetings, which attract visitors, guests and speakers from Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire – and offers a truly remarkable business networking opportunity. For the date of our next meeting, see alongside; and to see the agenda, please click here.

For more information about the club, please explore the site – ‘About the Club’ has full details on the format of our meetings, how to become a member – and how to sponsor a meeting. Our various committees, and their work,  are detailed under the Committee tab – and Links gives you access to a wide variety of organisations of use to businesses of any size.  Our Events page shows details of things taking place in and around Newark, which we feel will be of interest to our members – if you have a suggestion for inclusion, please share it with our members by following the link on that page.

Of course, all of our members are listed in a Members’ Directory, available for anyone to search – you will be able to search by business type, by member or business name (or even part of the name, if you don’t remember the full name!) or by location.

If you’ve not been to one of our meetings, come along – it’s only £5 on the door  – and we assure you of a warm welcome!  Parking is not a problem, and we meet adjacent to the A46/A1 in Newark, so access is easy for all.
 

Vision Statement

To help create and sustain an economic environment that will make Newark a vibrant and rewarding town to live and work in and to visit.

  • News from Newark Business Club - March 2012

    Newark Business Club Diary - March 2012 meeting Stress balls at the ready Steve Morris of Nottinghamshire Fit For Work Service made one thing clear at the start of his amusing and interesting pitch to Newark Business Club’s 7am March meeting: “I’m not trying to sell you gym memberships,” he said. “That would be an insult from someone my size.” Arguably the earliest of all the early birds out to catch worms that morning, Steve rose at 4.30am to drive from the other side of Derby carrying an unfeasibly large cargo of stress balls. He may be no more stressed than the rest of us but he had a box of balls and pens to give away to publicise the Government-funded service, which is free and which helps staff who are on sick leave to get back to work. His serious point was that UK business lost £15b to sickness absences last year, and the biggest impact is felt by SMEs – small and medium enterprises. But the Fit For Work service is not an employee-bashing outfit pushing the sick back to work before they’re ready. With 75 per cent (!) of absences related to mental health issues such as stress or depression, it’s also about giving[...]