WATERSTOCK House Training Centre, near Thame, will be holding an open lunch and networking event on Thursday, May 12.
This will be a great opportunity to visit and sample the standard of catering in this local venue for business meetings: see www.Thame.net, and click on ‘Venues’.
Enjoy a delicious lunch and meet your colleagues. Invitations have been sent to all Thame businesses, and many based in Oxford.
Free: RSVP hmw@waterstock.fsworld.co.uk
YOUNG business people needed for an opportunity of a lifetime ? Rotary Group Study Exchange to Australia, October 2005.
The Rotary Club of Thame are looking to sponsor young business men and woman for a Rotary Group Study Exchange to Canberra, Australia in October 2005 for a period of between 4 and 5 weeks. This is an opportunity of a lifetime and involves no cost to either employee or employer. The GSE programme provides a unique opportunity for four young business and professional men and women , aged between 25 and 35, to explore and develop their vocations, experience and leadership skills in a foreign country. To qualify for the generous grant involved, candidates must work or reside in Berkshire, Oxfordshire or Buckinghamshire. There are many benefits to the employer as the GSE scheme is widely recognised as the best management training that money CAN?T buy! It provides an excellent opportunity to develop top performing up and coming young leaders and helps those destined for the top to gain valuable international experience. The personal development of the employee cannot fail to benefit the employer.
The GSE programme has become popular enough for some employers to actively encourage their staff onto it. This applies in particular when senior management has already benefited from having a GSE Team Member.
The next GSE programme for the Thames Valley Rotary District in October 2005 is to the Australian Rotary District of which Canberra is the centre. This region with the Australian capital city Canberra has an economy, industry and cultural development that is so varied that candidates proposed for selection by the Rotary District Board are invited from the widest range of professions and businesses.
All the direct costs of each GSE visit are borne entirely by Rotary International. Companies and organisations are thoroughly recommended to promote participation of members of their staff in this unique opportunity.
Interviews of all potential candidates will take place during June so the deadline for the submission of completed applications is May 31st 2005.
For further information, please contact either Cecil Wiggs, the Secretary (tel: 01844-213327) or Erroll Bateman, the Foundation Chairman (tel: 01844-212230) of the Rotary Club of Thame or alternatively e-mail Thame.rotary@bucksnet.co.uk
Handling disputes in the workplace
Does your business comply with the new rules?
New regulations introduced by the DTI on October 1st 2004 require all employers to use a 3-step procedure for handling disciplinary, dismissal and grievances at work.
By attending our seminar, having a hearty breakfast and investing two hours of your time you will
? find out how the new rules affect you and your staff
? be updated on basic employment rights
? be guided through the legislation
? be advised on how to maintain good relations with your workforce
Join us on Tuesday 26th April 2005 at 7.30am for breakfast. Seminar 8.00 ?10.00am
Venue ? Conference Suite, Spreadeagle Hotel, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 2BW
Book your place no later than Monday 18th April 2005. Cost
WINDOW and Office Cleaning business in Thame area; With on-going contracts – To be sold as a going concern. Excellent annual turnover. For further details contact 01844 218833
The future of Pubwatch will be discussed at a special conference in High Wycombe next Wednesday,April 6.
The conference, called ?Pubwatch: The Future?, has been organised to address issues raised by the introduction of the Licensing Act 2003.
The new legislation has introduced significant changes to the way premises that sell and supply alcohol to the public are licensed.
The conference will provide a forum to examine, debate and clarify issues surrounding the new legislation, so people in the industry can work in partnership to put successful strategies in place for implementing and conforming to the requirements of the new law. It will also include workshops on topics such as forming a Pubwatch, designed to encourage non members to join.
Representatives from Thames Valley Police, National Pubwatch, The Home Office and Yates pub company will all be present and some will address the conference.
Speakers include Justice of the Peace Phil Garside, who will give a talk about exclusion orders; Simon Leach from the Home Office, who will speak about an alcohol misuse enforcement programme and Thames Valley Police Assistant Chief Constable Mick Page, who is the last speaker of the day and will make some closing remarks.
The venue for the event, which has been jointly organised by The John Grieve Centre for Policing and National Pubwatch, will be The John Grieve Centre for Policing and Community Safety at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College in High Wycombe, from 10am to 4.15pm.
EMERGENCY Planners at Oxfordshire County Council are making plans to maintain communications via satellite in the event of a terrorist attack on local telephone exchanges.
Learning lessons from the 9/11 attack in New York when communications were lost after masts were destroyed in the blasts, the County Council?s Emergency Planning team is working with local firms, Calkin Communications of Tackley and eXcelerate Technology LTD to ensure uninterrupted communications.
Special equipment has been installed on a vehicle used by emergency planners so that they can communicate by voice and email via satellite broadband if local telephone exchanges are damaged.
Mark Calkin of Calkin Communications said: ” I am very pleased to be working on this project with my own County Council and this will be the first installation in local government.”
John Kelly Emergency Planning Officer at Oxfordshire County Council said: “I?m very pleased that we are able to use a local firm with expertise in this field. We need to plan for a catastrophic disruption to the communications network and this equipment will give us a go-anywhere capability which will have uses outside the emergency field.
“This new equipment will meet the preparedness duties required of us under the Civil Contingencies Act. I?m sure that this initiative will be of use in other areas of the UK to guard against failures in the landline communications system.”
CCTV cameras could be installed in Thame town centre by the end of November.
South Oxfordshire District Council will be discussing its 2005/6 Budget at its meeting tonight, and is expected to approve
RATES relief for small business will be available from April 1, this year.
Businesses with a rateable value below
STUART and Sharon Rogers, the proprietors of the Thame Dry Cleaners, Mr R, in the Cornmarket, have sold the business.
The shop will remain as a dry cleaners however, under the management of the Multi-national Johnson Cleaners, who recently bought up the remaining Sketchley shops for a token
RETAILERS and other Thame businesses are being invited to donate one hour of their takings to the Tsunami Disaster Appeal.
The Thame Chamber of Commerce has suggested that each business donate money taken between 11am and 12 mid-day, on Saturday, January 8.
Cheques should be made payable to “Oxfam DEC” and can be taken into the the Thame Oxfam shop, in Cornmarket, where the Manager, Jane Greig will give them a proper certificate which they can submit for off-setting against tax.