The future of Business in Nottingham

Exclusive members-only lunch network for the business leaders of tomorrow.

Prime networking opportunities

Membership of an exclusive business lunch network

Nottingham Post press coverage

Public relations support

Aspirational Magazine features

Access to exclusive LinkedIn and Facebook groups through which you can communicate with fellow members

Use of the Future40 logo in company literature and collateralThe future of Business in Nottingham

IN ASSOCIATION WITH HART’S

The future of Business in Nottingham

www.future40club.com/notts

The future of Business in Nottingham

The Future40 Club is Nottinghamshire’s most prestigious business lunch network. Comprised of the county’s most influential businesspeople under the age of 40, it puts a new twist on a Great British institution, the business lunch.

Members will convene on a quarterly basis at Hart’s Restaurant, Nottingham’s premier eatery, for a fine luncheon and to hear thought-provoking keynote addresses from some of the country’s most prominent business leaders and industry experts.

The club was founded to bring together our most dynamic young business talent and to give them an environment in which to exchange ideas and forge new relationships. In doing so, we intend to strengthen the business community with the future very much in mind.

The Future40 club is national in its scale and ambition. Membership will connect you not only to the local elite but also to the cream of the UK business community by way of broader regional and national events as well as the Future40 website and forum.

We believe the future of business in Nottinghamshire, and further afield, lies in encouraging the key decision-makers to work together in the common interest. In focusing on those currently establishing themselves among the vanguard of business, we hope to make major in-roads into reaching that goal.

By stimulating the flow of ideas and by providing the cream of our business community the opportunity to build ever stronger relationships, the Future40 Club brings renewed energy and verve to the business lunch.

There is no finer place to do this than the multi award-winning Hart’s Restaurant.

Future 40 Club – The Future of Business in Nottingham

Matthew Hayes, MD Champions (UK) plc

“By singling out and bringing together the

brightest and best young business talent in the county, the Future40

Club will celebrate those with the most potential and help them build solid and lasting relationships that strengthen the Nottingham

business community and prepare it for an even more prosperous future. The nature of the club will ensure those links are extended throughout Britain

and our members will have access to the very best talent this country has to offer. We want to

celebrate your success and connect you with like-minded people. We want to recognise your abilities and connect you with those

who share your drive and flair.”

Behind every successful enterprise, large and small, are its people. People provide the passion and inspiration, people deliver the success.

”“

Exclusive Membership

Membership Benefits

BENEFITS

Our members have been identified as belonging to a select group of up-and-coming, young business prospects in Nottingham. The talent they have shown and the capabilities they display set them out as a high-level leader of the future.

The Future40 Club was founded in order to hook people of your calibre up with others in the area who possess similar abilities. We have created a stimulating lunch environment, ripe for the exchange of ideas and loaded with potential.

The Future40 Club is strictly invite only but, as an esteemed member of the group, you will be entitled to nominate a limited number of individuals you feel have the requisite qualities.

Nominations can be made through our website, www.future40club.com/notts, and will be evaluated to ensure club membership remains highly select.

Successful nominees will then be invited to join and take full advantage of this unique opportunity and the dynamics at work at our quarterly networking lunches.

In addition to the benefits of regular, high end local and national networking opportunities, individual members and their companies will gain in a number of other ways.

Members will receive the public relations support of Champions (UK) plc and will benefit from the Nottingham Post’s press coverage. We will also extend members the opportunity to enjoy feature and advertorial coverage in Champions’ own in-house periodical, Aspirational Magazine, the East Midlands’ leading lifestyle publication distributed to over 20,000 high net worth individuals and companies.

• Prime networking opportunities at local and national lunches and events

• Membership of an exclusive national business lunch network

• Opportunity to hear and learn from elite keynote speakers

• Access to regularly updated web articles and blogs from key business figures

• Opportunity to add your own content to the national Future40 website forum

• Regular e-newsletters on club events and news

• Nottingham Post press coverage

• Public Relations support

• Aspirational Magazine features

• Use of the Future40 logo in company literature and collateral

• Access to exclusive LinkedIn and Facebook groups through which you can communicate with fellow members

Members will not be charged for membership or the costs of any food and drink at the club’s quarterly events and will benefit from the opportunities afforded them by their involvement. They will also receive regular news from the club and Hart’s Restaurant, keeping them up to the minute on special offers, exclusive announcements and invitation-only dinners and functions.

The club is the brainchild of Matthew Hayes, Managing Director of Champions (UK) plc and a multiple award winning entrepreneur.

Having set up the brand agency from home in 2003 at the age of 23, he has attracted scores of high profile clients by delivering clear, bottom-line results and has overseen exponential growth of the company – 889% since 2009 alone. Now operating from recently extended 13,000 sq. ft. offices on the Nottinghamshire/Leicestershire border, Champions are projected to turnover £20 million in 2015.

In 2014 Matthew was himself singled out as one of the UK’s most outstanding entrepreneurs aged 35 or under in Growing Business’ Young Guns ‘Class of 2014’ list, whose alumni include the founders of Agent Provocateur, MyVoucherCodes, Mixcloud and Huddle. In fact, he also scooped the prestigious haysmacintyre Top Gun award at the ceremony. It is safe to say Matthew embodies the Future40 Club spirit.

Future40 is brought to you by

The Champions agency is dedicated to delivering the very best creative brand management solutions to its clients and is focused on increasing the market share and profitability of the businesses with which it works.

Working with organisations from a variety of sectors - covering everything from large multi-nationals to small start-ups and from universities and public bodies to celebrities and luxury lifestyle brands - Champions recognises each client has its own unique characteristics and needs.

With five in-house departments working seamlessly together under one roof, the agency deals with every aspect of brand services. Teams cover creative design, marketing, PR and events and celebrity management and the company increasingly makes waves on the after dinner speaking and entertainment circuits.

Membership of the Future40 Club will allow you and your company to make the most of the PR and branding services Champions deliver day-in, day-out.

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Hart’s Restaurant

www.hartsnottingham.co.uk

Hart’s is a busy 80-seater restaurant which has for some eleven years claimed the title of Nottingham’s most successful up-market eatery. Hart’s provides a thoroughly professional blend of skilled service and modern British cooking in a stylish and comfortable interior.

A dream location, Hart’s Hotel is situated next door just 5 minutes’ walk from Nottingham city centre in a cul-de-sac without through traffic. On one side there’s a quiet courtyard, on the other views over the whole city and a secluded garden.

Hart’s Restaurant has been Nottingham’s most successful up-scale dining place since 1997.

The à la carte menu is strong on fresh fish and game and the wine list is a tour de force.

Hart’s Upstairs is situated above the restaurant and is the city’s favourite meeting point for private parties, weddings and business meetings with a capacity up to 100 and just the right ambience for everything the Future40 Club aims to achieve.

Business, when you boil it down, is ultimately about human interaction. The links between companies and organisations are established and maintained by people and it is people who make things happen.

“Networking is marketing. Marketing yourself, marketing your uniqueness, marketing what you stand for.” Christine Comaford, 5 time CEO and tech advisor to Clinton and Bush administrations.

Networking has long been recognized as a powerful tool for businesspeople and professionals. It allows people to grow their circle and extend their reach. Research shows that people who are well networked are three times more influential than people who are not.

That influence is based on the social capital we develop by building relationships with the people in our network. It takes time and, most of all, opportunity. The Future40 Club delivers on both counts.

The club will help members build their network in an environment full of like-minded people, with similar experiences, aspirations and a shared interest in businesses prospering together.

The Power of Networking

The insights of our elite business speakers will act as catalysts for communication, stimulating conversation and fostering a sense of belonging between you and your fellow club members.

“The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.” Keith Ferrazzi, US author and strategy consultancy founder.

Our members will have the chance to promote their company’s brand, along with its products, services and wider offering, plus the opportunity for their company to sponsor one of the lunches and benefit from interviews and highly favourable coverage in the Nottingham Post, who have agreed to work in partnership with the Future40 Club.

Sponsors will also receive valuable exposure, in the form of interviews and profiling, in Aspirational Magazine. The East Midlands’ leading lifestyle publication is targeted at businesses and high net worth individuals and showcases many of the world’s most prestigious brands.

There is also the opportunity to provide quality content and personalised features for the Future40 Club website, which will connect you to a nationwide network of your peers, the future leaders of business in the United Kingdom.

The future of Business in Nottingham

Champions is launching the club with gusto in the autumn of 2015. Our first lunch is set to take place at Hart’s on Tuesday 17th November and will give members an early opportunity to experience the club environment and connect people on your level.

Our guests will be welcomed by our excellent team and, having enjoyed a fantastic meal, the Future40 Club will deliver its first dose of inspiration. We’ve lined up one of the most original, up-and-coming motivational speakers, a young woman who is currently making waves at high profile business events – Bonita Norris.

A truly remarkable young lady, Bonita is not afraid of setting herself tough goals and then going out and achieving them. Aged just 22, she reached the summit of Mt. Everest in 2010 and announced herself to the mountaineering community as the youngest ever British woman to stand on top of the world.

She has guided charity treks to the summit of Kilimanjaro, skied to the geographic North Pole and led assaults on other Himalayan mountains, such as Ama Dablam, Manaslu and Island Peak and plans further record-breaking expeditions for the future.

With an old head on her young shoulders and with a serious set of life experiences already under her belt, she has a fascinating repertoire and a real ability to convey ideas. She is at her best energising people, pushing them to push themselves to the limit in their quest for what is possible.

This is a prime opportunity, reserved solely for the cream of the under 40 business crop. You’ll meet like-minded people and bond with highly capable leaders who, like you, want to drive Nottinghamshire forward into the future.

Inaugural Future40 Club Lunch – Hart’s Restaurant, Tuesday 17th November 2015

Visit: champions-speakers.co.uk/bonita to find out more or to book Bonita for your own event.

Timings:12.30 meet 12.45 sit down for lunch1.30 Bonita Norris 2.30 return to office

This November’s inaugural lunch will kick the club off in style but we’re already planning 2016’s quarterly events.

As one of the UK’s foremost after dinner speaker agencies, Champions have access to the very best business and motivational speakers.

Introducing great keynote speakers to Future40 events will add an extra dimension of inspiration and bring powerful new ideas to the fore.

The fresh and independent perspectives of quality speakers can change the scope and direction of broader conversation and highlight excellent parallels found in other fields.

We intend to make next year’s club lunches both challenging and wide-ranging and to encourage open discussion and new ways of thinking.

Here’s just a flavour of the keynote speakers we will deliver to inform, stimulate and inspire Future40 Club members.

Gareth Davis is one of the most successful CEOs of all time, voted 13th best on the planet by the Harvard Business Review. After 35 years at Imperial Tobacco, he went on to become Chairman of William Hill, Wolseley PLC and DS Smith. Unrivalled commercial experience.

GARETH DAVIS

PETE COHEN

Pete Cohen is one of the UK’s most influential corporate performance and motivational coaches and has presented workshops and seminars to the likes of IBM, Pfizer and Royal Bank of Scotland. He has also helped world class sporting stars and teams reach peak performance, including Sally Gunnell, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Ellen MacArthur, Roger Black and Arsenal FC.

ROGER SAUL

Roger Saul created the renowned Mulberry brand back in 1971 from a £500 21st

birthday present from his parents. Over the next decade he grew the business as both

designer and entrepreneur to be one of the leading accessory designers in the country.

This man knows retail inside out.

JO FAIRLEY

Jo Fairley built Green & Blacks confectionary from a £20,000 start-up to a brand worth

£100 million in less than 20 years. One of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs, she has stuck to her ethical sourcing principles and has

maintained the brand’s luxury profile. Jo is very knowledgeable about retail and strong on

corporate social responsibility.

Potential Keynote Speakers for 2016

www.champions-speakers.co.uk

Wayne Hemmingway MBE made his name as the designer behind the now global brand Red or Dead. Starting out as a simple market trader in Camden, Hemingway has since shown his expertise in retail and business management. Quite simply one of the most well respected retail speakers in Britain.

WAYNE HEMMINGWAY MBE

DEREK REDMOND

Derek Redmond is a former World, European and Commonwealth 400m champion and a former British record holder to boot. He went down in sporting history at the 1992 Olympics after he completed the 400 metres semi-final despite a badly torn hamstring. He is now one of the UK’s most prominent motivational speakers.

CLAIRE BRUMBY

Claire Brumby is co-founder of Scrubby’s Crisps, the UK’s best gourmet vegetable

crisps. Already popular in and around the Grimsby area, Scrubby’s came to the

attention of the nation in 2014 when Claire appeared on the BBC series Dragon’s Den.

MARK FOSTER

Mark Foster is one of the UK’s longest-serving swimmers, breaking the short course 50m freestyle world record no fewer than four

times. He competed at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games and at the World

Championships and has made a splash since turning his hand to motivational speaking.

The future of Business in Nottingham

www.future40club.com/notts

The future of Business in Nottingham

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To take up your membership of the Nottingham Future40 Club, in association with HART’S, please contact:

tel: 08453 31 30 31 intl tel: +44 1509 85 29 27 email: info@championsukplc.com web: www.championsukplc.com