Local leading enterprise agency for Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, Wenta, are launching their new women’s business network, ‘Sapphire’, on the 1st October at Champneys – Tring. 

Helping over 1000 people to start up their own business every single year, Wenta is a not-for-profit organisation with over 30 years of experience in helping local people to start-up and grow their own businesses. 

The Sapphire women’s business network offers much more than just your standard business networking group. As well as providing a supportive and learning environment for local women in business to make new connections, members will be given 2.5 hours of individual business coaching from Wenta as well as access to Wenta’s award-winning training courses and online business advice.

Sapphire network hosts, Thea Bloyce and Sharon Gaffney, are not only expert business advisors, they also have experience of starting and running their own businesses themselves. Thea said: 

“We are very excited to be launching this women’s business network which not only brings local businesses together, it also offers business training and a member’s business directory which will be shared with over 11,000 businesses on Wenta’s database.”

The FREE launch event will provide more information on the new networking group. Speaking at the event will be Google Adwords expert, June Cory (My Mustard), and Helen King (Autorama). There will also be the opportunity to network with other like-minded business women.

Although not specifically aimed at bloggers, this event could prove very useful if you're interested in launching your own business or want advice on how to take your blogging business to the next level, make sure you book a place!

The launch will be held on Thursday 1st October (9.30am – 12pm) at Champneys Tring, Chesham Road, Wigginton, Hertfordshire, HP23 6HX.

To book your FREE place or find out more visit: 

www.wenta.co.uk/sapphire-business-networking 

T: 01923 691 364 

E: training@wenta.co.uk

For years we've been saying to ourselves "why aren't there any groups around for bloggers in Hertfordshire", "why do we always have to spend loads travelling to London to attend bloggers events?", "I wish we could meet other bloggers that are nearby". So after a recent event in London, we decided that it was a good idea to start a page ourselves! 

Let me just introduce 'us'/'we'.. We're bloggers from Soeurs de Luxe blog, Jasmine and Kirsty. We live at opposite ends of Ware, and have previously lived in Hertford and Wareside, along with other counties and countries. We're aged 22 and 24 and have been blogging for 4 years on and off. We've recently decided that we should make more time to blog, so have set on a path we hope not to stray from. Despite growing up and working/studying in London, we tire from travelling for over an hour to attend events and have wished upon more local events and with bloggers closer to us. 

We love blogging and love meeting new people, so why not start a site that combines the two! If you're based in Hertfordshire or the surrounding areas such as Beds, Bucks, Essex or North London, we'd love to have you join our database so we're able to update you on local news and invite you to our events!

We've arranged a few events in the past and as I (Jasmine) do a lot of event planning at work, I've found myself to be quite good at it! Hopefully all these events will help me gain good experience too and each event will help me learn for the next.

We really hope you sign up and then would love to meet you at our first ever Herts Bloggers event, which is soon to be announced!