February 25th 2011 – Europe Debate

The Whipper-In, Oakham was the venue for the biz club member’s debate. The proposal for the debate was: ‘This house believes that future generations are best served by the UK being a member of the European Union’. A full house welcomed our guest speaker Nigel Farage who opened the evening with a few words on […]

January 21st 2011 – Informal Political Luncheon (IPL)

The year started on a high with a significant number of luncheon guests including many new faces. Geoffrey Pointon introduced David Lloyd who is the Chairman of the Newark Conservative Association. David had been encouraged to attend one of the biz club lunches as he had heard how they combined both business and politics. The […]

Biz Club Archives 2008-2010

The Biz Club archives from 2008, 2009 and 2010 are available to downlaod below in PDF format: Biz Blog 2008 Biz Blog 2009 Biz Blog 2010  

2010 – Robert Wills – Uppingham

Robert received the award because he promotes the interests of the local community via: Second largest employer after Uppingham School (100+ people) Rescued Don Paddy’s and has created a very special atmosphere. Chairs Uppingham First which produced a 25 year plan for Uppingham and has negotiated a £25k broadband grant to improve Uppingham’s communications. Robert […]

2009 – Rutland Telecom

In 2009 the biz award initiative was launched. To mark the launch of this exciting project Alan Duncan presented David Lewis of Rutland Telecom with the business of the year trophy in recognition of his ground breaking achievement in bringing high speed broadband to Lyddington. Rutland Telecom kindly announced that they will be the award […]