Preview evenings

Another really progressive couple of days. Mainly about finalising designs for various pieces of print and promotional products we need, paying bills (yuk!) and sorting the final bits of the Worldpay application.

We have heard that the MEN Venture Awards will be decided on 7 December, and we should know the results shortly afterwards. But in the meantime we are meeting Venturepoint team to go and have a look at their office space at Venture Space in the brand new massive business park in Manchester call Central Park. We are definitely going to use one of the rooms there for our Manchester preview evening in January. So the preview evenings all booked, and everything more or less ordered for them. Now I just have to plan what I’m going to say and what we’re going to ask them!

We are collating the invite list, which is proving to be quite a mammoth task. Trying to ensure we target as many influential people as we can, so we can get their comments and start the ‘word of mouth’ process going.

We have also been in touch with the local childminders’ associations and children’s information services around Greater Manchester. They all deal with communications to their childminders in slightly different ways, and some will be easier to contact than others. Obviously, because of data protection and privacy laws, we can’t be given the contact details of the childminders directly, so we are working with other agencies who may be able to inform them about these preview evenings.

Going to see Lee Evans tonight, for a bit of light relief!

Then next week, besides meeting with Venturepoint, I’ve also arranged to meet up with Jen our London Regional Manager again. Looking forward to updating her on everything that’s been going on and seeing how she’s doing.

Must get some more content entered…….!

Kirsty