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| Welcome to The Phoenix Business Group - Business Networking for Crawley and Horsham
website. The Phoenix Group is an association of Small and Medium Enterprise owners. The purpose of the group is to provide a support network for each other. This takes the form of both looking out for business for each other and also in the information and ideas shared at our weekly breakfast meeting. |
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Membership
The group is capped at 20 members to ensure that everyone will know all
the other members of the group well. The group operates a ‘lock’
on professions in order to avoid competition amongst ourselves. However,
we do allow members to have more than one profession – indeed some
members have three business interests or are changing their core business
focus (yes we can do buzz words if we have to).
Meeting
In order to ensure that we know each other, we have a mixture of individual presentations, one to ones and idea exchanges.
Our breakfast meetings run to an agenda, but are kept informal and the format changes from time to time in order to keep the concept fresh. We are not driven or rewarded for growing the group, rather our rewards come from the support that each member gets from the others.
There is a requirement to attend the meetings as members should want to attend for the value they get from that meeting, both for themselves and the other memberst.
Cost
Membership is the cost of breakfast plus a small surplus to help fund
the costs of running the group. In order to commit to each quarter, members
pay for breakfast quarterly in advance. No other fees are charged.
History
The Phoenix Group formed at the beginning of 2006. The name comes from
one of the two golf courses at the Cottesmore Golf and Country Club where
we meet. We could have been the Griffin Group, but that is how the votes
went initially.
If you are interested in joining the group, please contact me to discuss availability of places.
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