Most burglaries are carried out by opportunist thieves. In around 20% of all burglaries, they don’t even have to use force. They enter through an open door or window.

 

Select Basildon member Trevor Costa of Keylox offers some good advice.

We welcome Nigel of OffSite Digital to our Colchester group

A warm welcome to Romford's newest member, Paul Wilson-Smith.

Chelsford group  held a guest day last week which was very successful. How do we measure sucess?

 

Is your business part of the action? 

The Federation of Small Businesses has entered into an arrangement with Leonard Cheshire Disability, an organisation supporting disabled people in the UK.

Well all the speculation is at an end and we are delighted to confirm the Executives elected are as follows:-

Well done to Ann Tilman of Tilman + Co for swiming 1500 Meters in Royal Albert Doc on Saturday 9th August. Ann has raised more than £1,100 for the Essex Air Ambulance. We are all very proud of her.

 

Ann writes...

This is the week that the votes will be taken to elect the Chair & Secretary of each Select Group.

Nominations are now closed and we await the outcome of this week with considerable interest.

This month the various select groups will be choosing who will hold the positions within the groups of Group Chair & Secretary.

In order to stand, a candadate must have been a Select Member for 6 months. This is to ensure the smooth operation and standards of Select meetings continues at the high level the memberhip have come to expect.

A very warm welcolme to Mark Betteridge of Mark One Mortgages

A warm welcome to latest Select Member David Amos of Go Train.

David has been accepted as a new member of the Bishops Stortford Group.

Happy anniversary to Taylor Made Promotions

 Welcome to Andy Walker of WalkerReed who joins the Basildon Select Group. 01245 474098 

Our Membership Packs have arrived.

Welcome to Chris Jarred of JWW Solutions who is a new member to the Romford Select Group and Dave Parish of Cartel Client Review who joins the Chelmsford Select Group & our youngest honorary member Blake Peal-Shankar born on Sunday 22nd June!

 

Well we did it folks. Welcome to the new Select Network Web Site.

We hope our members agree this has been done sooner than many expected as the organisation started officially on 1st March 2008. Our holding page is gone. Now our new site, which we have been working on since April, has finally made it to the public domain.

Special thanks to Garry Mumford of Insight Associates for his time serving as Chairman to the Stortford Select Group. Garry did an outstanding job through what was a very difficult time for us all and Select would like it on record that we are delighted to have Garry as a member.

The Annual Select Network Black Tie Charity Ball will take place on Saturday 6th September 2008.

We have some fantastic entertainment lined up for this years event.

THIS EVENT HAS NOW SOLD OUT! Call 08450 76 77 80 if you would like to be placed on a cancelation list.

There will be two live singers, one of whom is a former member of Sole 2 Sole (Number 1 Sole band from the 80'S) Close up Magicians and a Deejay. There will also be an auction of some superb prizes (just a few items) as well as a Guest Speaker.

So go on ladies, buy that posh frock and go for it. Gentlemen - there will be a bar and a dance floor and no one will escape it!

With expected numbers of around 180 people this will be the Essex Society Ball of the year. Ticket Price is £60.00

The venue is Waterfront Place, Chelmsford and arrival is at 7.00pm for 3 Course Dinner at 7.30pm.

Sponsorship opportunities also available with all proceeds going to this year's Selected Charity which is the Multiple Sclerosis Society. 

 

The recent Guest Evening held by our Basildon group was a great success, with guests and members enjoying an evening of networking, food and fine ales. A special thank you to Mike Huggett of Cura (07950 393095) who provided the Ale Sampling. His knowledge of Ales was impressive and it was good to see what goes into producing such fine produce.

We will definitely host another of these evenings in October as it made a nice change to the normal meeting. There's nothing like Ale for relaxing people and allowing the networking to flow.