St Austell Bay Chamber’s 3rd Crunchy Breakfast meeting this morning has enjoyed our largest attendance so far.
A grey day in December did not put off 55 business people who attended the breakfast held in Heligan’s tearooms. The Crunchy Breakfast is about bringing in good speakers, generating questions and enabling discussion on hot topics that affect businesses in our area.
“Crunchy breakfasts are currently bi-monthly,” says Jacky Swain committee member from CEG, “We started them as St Austell’s Chamber initiative to improve local business networking opportunities. We’re absolutely delighted and amazed how quickly the popularity and reputation has grown”.
This morning’s speakers were: Andy Parsons from the South West Lakes Trust. Andy presented on the work the Trust carries out on our lakes and the facilities they provide.
Jess Ratty from Crowdfunder who inspired us 'how crowd funding works' with case examples and her six steps to crowding funding success: Team, Story, Crowd, Rewards, Target, Shout! So far Crowdfund Cornwall have helped 162 projects raise in £2,291,294 in total to fund their ideas. The third speaker, Mark Thayre, Cornwall Fund Manager for SWIG, told us how South West Investment Group is able to help local businesses when they have not been successful in getting help from their bank.
Our thanks goes to Lorna Tremayne from Heligan and the team who provided a splendid spread with every breakfast favourite from steaming porridge to a hearty English choice that ranged from hash browns and hogs pudding to bacon, scrambled eggs and beans and everything in between.
The next Crunchy Breakfast will be held at Wheal Martyn Museum on 5th February 2016 with Malcolm Bell from Visit Cornwall as the main speaker.
If anyone else would also like to present at this meeting, or reserve a place, please get in touch with Caroline secretary@staustellchamber.co.uk
