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BNI - The Business Referral Organisation Belfast City Chapter - News New Leadership Team BNI Chapters traditionally change their leadership teams every six months, in April and October. Belfast City welcomed in our new team for the next period. Chapter Director is Bill Ellison, Membership Coordinator is Al Chada and Secretary/Treasurer is Joe Carey. (April 08) BNI Fencing Night Engarde - BNI Fencing Tournament.
10 members of Belfast City participated in a corporate fencing night
run by Stormont
Fencing Club in the Queens Leisure Centre, Holywood. The evening
was organised by member Web
Designer David Cunningham who fences with the club. The format
for the evening involved a training session to acclimatise members
with the safety and ways of fencing. Some footwork followed by some
blade work was done with BNI participants each pairing off with
a club member for some 1-2-1 training. (March 08)
HBK Architects, represented in Belfast City by business owner Stephen Salley, have just completed their move to new promises in Lisburn at the new Garvey Studio on Longstone Road. At a recent meeting Stephen thanked the many members from BNI that had helped him over the process of the move. "Having so many companies able to help us in BNI took a lot of the worry out of the move. I knew when someone said something would be done that it would be and that left me, and the HBK team, free to continue to focus on our client and current projects." We all wish Stephen and the team at HBK best wishes in their new premises and look forward to visiting them in the weeks and months ahead. (July 07) The power of Business Network International pictured are
Jerzy works for Theso, an IT and internet software firm based in Warsaw and had joined one of the new BNI chapters launched in Poland in the Spring of 2006. Using the find a chapter tool of the BNI web site, Jerzy contacted Ryan Hay, Director of Belfast City BNI and arranged to visit the chapter. So on a cold frosty Thursday morning in Belfast, Jerzy arrived at the venue for his first ever visit to an overseas chapter and the first BNI member he met was Trevor Bradfield from Unity IT, the type of business he originally set out to target! Needless to say the two ‘IT techies’ soon got talking and Trevor immediately set up a meeting with his company for later on that day to explore the possibilities for linking up with each other. So a classic example of how BNI reaches beyond your own town,
city and even country. (November 06) Evan Morton and Concept Advertising and Marketing Move Concept Advertising and Marketing have moved into their new premises at The Courtyard, 7 Elmwood Avenue, Belfast,BT9 6AZ. We all wish Evan and the team at Concept best wishes in their new premises. (November 06)
Todd Kelman of Xpress printing has recently
taken up a new full time role as general manager of the Belfast
Giants Ice Hockey Team. Todd has been a member of BNI for several
years and is switching his category to enable him to continue with
BNI and to represent the Giants.
Todd came to Northern Ireland to play for the Giants since there
first game in Sweden in 2000. Todd commented that "...his
posting to General Manager of the Giants is a dream come true.
I always wanted to get involved in Hockey Management and where
better to be than with the Belfast
Giants." (November 06) New Members Agnew Corporate Ltd - Ian McAvoy The chapter welcomed 2 new member at the start of
the new term of leadership. Stephen
Salley, outgoing Chairman welcomed the new members at the start
of the meeting. It is good to see the chapter grow and go from
strength to strength. (October 06)
Liz joined the chapter early in 2003 and has been an active member over the years both as a member giving and receiving a lot of business, but she also held leadership positions over that period contributing further to the Chapter. Liz is leaving for non business reasons and in her farewell 60 seconds thanked members, many of whom are now personal fiends, and said she hopes to return to BNI in the future. Liz recommended BNI, as a business concept and tool, to anyone interested in growing their business and said she was sorry to leave. (October 06) New Leadership Team Thursday 5th October saw the twice annual BNI Leadership change. Leadership teams take on the roll for a 6 month period starting on the first meeting in October and April. The outgoing team of Stephen Salley, Natalie Mullholland and Bill Miscampbell were warmly thanks and praised by the new Chapter Director Ryan Hay. Ryan also introduced his new team of Ann Lees and Trevor Reid. Ryan also announced the new names of those taking up other rolls - these names can be found at the bottom of our home page. (October 06) Visitor Morning - 19th October 2006 Belfast City Chapter are holding a visitor morning
on 19th October - If you are interested in seeing how BNI works
then why not come along. Contact any member from the members
page or email and someone
will call you back. (Sept 06)
The chapter welcomed yet another new member. Conor Patton from NIBC has re-joined the chapter after an absence of just over a year. Obviously the benefits of BNI became clear when Conor left. It is good to see Conor back again and members made him welcome at his initiation morning. We need to do something about the hair style this time round! (Sept 06)
The chapter welcomed Oonagh O'Reilly as a new member. Oonagh has started her new business with husband, Stephen, as a franchise of the "Best of" web sites. Taking on the Belfast region Belfast with "Best of Belfast" web portal. Oonagh is looking for any business in the Belfast area who could benefit from increased exposure in the major search engines. (July 06) Some go to any lengths to write down a referral ! Pictured is John Kelly (Paint Pots receiving a referral from Scott Hay (Tradesman Inc) with Chapter Director Stephen Salley (HBK Architects) pinpointing to the details.
(June 06) Guest Speaker - 17th May 2006 Ian White, Regional Director of BNI in Scotland, was recently in Northern Ireland to deliver a referral workshop. At Belfast City Chapter we had the pleasure of Ian's company the next morning at our weekly meeting when he shared his wisdom with us during the weekly 10 minute slot. He certainly generated some thought provoking ideas on how we can all get more business from out BNI colleagues and hopefully members will now move forward and benefit from the ideas he shared with us. Pictured is Ian White with Chapter Director Stephen
Salley New Team - 6th April 2006 This morning saw a change of leadership within the chapter. Every 6 months a new team takes on the roles and responsibility's of running the chapter on a week to week basis. The new team can be found listed at the bottom of our home page. In taking over Stephen Salley (new Chapter Director) paid tribute to the outgoing team or Orlagh Darling, David Cunningham, George Kyle and their team of happy helpers. Stephen will now lead the chapter forward to October 2006. Visitor Morning - 16th March 2006 All are welcome to our visitor morning on 16th March 2006. This is a must event for anyone wanting to expand their business and meet new contacts. Just come along to the Malone Lodge Hotel at 7am on Thur 16th March - the meeting will be over by 9am leaving you ready and inspired for a fully days work. Cost £5.00. New Members for Belfast City BNI Belfast City BNI Chapter Director, Orlagh Darling, has welcomed 3 new members in to the chapter over recent weeks. 1st in was Trevor Bradfield (Unity IT, Lisburn) at the end of February and then in March Ken Collins (Collins Electrical,Belfast) and Anne Lees, (The Job Spot, Belfast) were both welcomed into the Chapter. (Feb 06) BNI wins a trip to Monaco for Belfast City member.
Bowling Night Out - 17th February 2006 9 fun loving members attended a bowling night at the Odyssey. Ryan Hay (Independent Mortgages & Loans), who organised the event, managed to organise a victory for himself just piping his brother Scott (Tradesman Inc) to the winning score. It was all down to the last bowl. The night then continued at the Red Panda where banquets were the order of the night. A great social evening was had by all. bowling-hays.jpg The following members attended: Ryan Hay (Independent Mortgages & Loans); Scott Hay (Tradesman Inc); Stephen Salley (HBK Architects); Orlagh Darling (OMD Consulting); Natalie Mullholland (4th Dimension); Maggie Keown (Keown Solicitors); Evan Morton (Concept Advertising & Marketing); John Morrissey (Fusion Broadcast Ltd) and David Cunningham (Truska Enterprises). |
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The evening then progressed on to a competition. Fencing Foil and
using international rules a short tournament consisting of two poules
and a DE (Direct Elimination) was fought. The final eventually being
contested by 
HBK
on the move
When
Jerzy Rygier from Poland was given a brief from his employers to
identify strategic partners in Northern Ireland, naturally as a
recent recruit to BNI, he turned to the organisation for assistance.
Todd
skates to new role
We
say Goodbye to WPA's Liz Brown 
Scott
was working on fellow member, David Cunningham (Truska Enterprises),
house roof when his mobile rang. As a result he needed somewhere
to write down the details of the referral so the quick thinking
tradesman used the wood he was fixing the roof with. Luckily it
did not rain that night!!!!
Ryan
Hay (
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