LADIES Club
£35.00 per person
Venue: Baloci, 18 Highfield Rd,
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 3DU
Date: 11th August 2026
Time: 12pm – 2:30pm
About Baloci
Baloci celebrates the rich culinary heritage created through the meeting of cultures. Inspired by the legendary Merchants of Venice and the journeys of Marco Polo along the Silk Route, the restaurant brings together the elegance of Italian cuisine with the bold, aromatic flavours of Persia and South Asia.
Every dish reflects a passion for craftsmanship, quality ingredients, and the spirit of discovery, creating a dining experience that is both refined and distinctive. Blending tradition with innovation, Baloci offers guests a unique celebration of flavour, culture, and hospitality in an elegant setting.
Event hosted by
Tessa Rhodes
About the Event
The Ladies Lunch is a curated networking event designed for professional and entrepreneurial women who value genuine connections and meaningful conversations. Held in stylish venues across Birmingham, each lunch offers a relaxed yet purposeful setting to expand your network, share ideas, and gain inspiration.
Attendees benefit from engaging discussions, new collaborations, and the opportunity to build lasting relationships in a supportive, female-focused environment.
Whether you’re looking to grow your business, find new opportunities, or simply connect with like-minded individuals, the Ladies Lunch provides the perfect balance of professionalism and warmth, over delicious food and drinks.
Meet our Speaker Dee Ladva
With over 20 years of experience working in people-focused industries, Dee is passionate about helping individuals gain clarity, build confidence, and realise their potential. Through her work, she supports people to navigate change, overcome self-doubt, and develop the self-belief needed to create fulfilling careers and lives. Known for her ability to connect deeply with others, she creates supportive spaces where people feel empowered to explore new possibilities, embrace their strengths, and take meaningful action. Her work is driven by a genuine commitment to helping people grow, thrive, and become the authors of their own success
Dee doesn’t just help people grow; she helps them see themselves differently
Charity Partner, QE Brain Tumour Fund
The QE Brain Tumour Fund is dedicated to supporting vital research and patient care at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. With brain tumours remaining the leading cause of cancer-related death in people under 40, yet receiving only a small proportion of national research funding, the charity is committed to making a difference.
Through fundraising and awareness, it helps advance critical research initiatives while providing essential support to patients and their families during challenging times.
Starters
Sharing starters
BREAD SELECTION (V)
Rosemary focaccia and fresh sourdough, served with your choice of salted or marmite butter
OLIVES (V)
Bella di Cerignola olives with sun-dried tomato
ARANCINI DELLA VIA (V)
Sweet potato and Parmesan crispy risotto balls with chilli sauce
Mains
GRILLED STONE BASS
With spicy cannellini beans, lemon butter sauce
ORZO AL POLLO
Creamy orzo with grilled chicken, mushroom sauce, celery and truffle oil
LASAGNE VEGETARIANA (V)
Smoked aubergine with rich tomato sauce, creamy oregano and nutmeg sauce
Sides to share
HERITAGE TOMATO SALAD (VE)
PARMESAN POTATO TERRINE (V)
Business Owner Benefits
- Personal Profile: as an individual professional, you will raise your own profile in the industry and business in general. You can connect with other leading professionals and start to get both your name and your skills known.
- Career Drive: as people start to get to know you, you might find that they start recommending you for job vacancies that they have within their own company, or a fellow business owners company. You will also hear about more vacancies and businesses that are looking to employ, giving you a head start in the job search.
- Industry Leader: again, as people start to get to know you and your skills, these will start to think of you as to go-to person, by sharing your knowledge and ideas you could become of the industry leaders.
- Knowledge and idea sharing: networking is a great way to learn from other people, both the knowledge they have about the business and ideas that they have had to impact their business positively. Not only will this give you a better understanding, but you can adapt the ideas and knowledge you learn to suit your current role, to make you more successful within it.
- Support: is a fantastic thing to have in the business. By cultivating relationships with other professionals, by offering them guidance and help, you will in turn receive their support.
- Confidence: you need to be confident to succeed in your role, to get your voice and your opinions heard and to make a good impression during meetings and future interviews. Networking and speaking to new people will help you to develop upon your confidence.
Individual Professional Benefits
- Free welcome drink and a 2 course meal, depending on the venue, PLUS drinks on the table.
- Network: the opportunity to network with other professionals and business owners, to make connections and expand your business network and potentially your company itself.
- Knowledge-sharing: sharing knowledge of business in general, as well as industry-specific business, is a fantastic way to learn and grow as a business owner, after all, nobody has all the answers, yet.
- Idea-sharing: learn from other business owners about what has worked for them and see if you can apply that to your company.
- Branding: show yourself as the face of your business and become synonymous with your company name. Doing this establishes trust in your business and develops on the awareness of your company in the industry.
- Confidence: confidence is key in business. To sell your product/service, to sell yourself to future investor and employees alike. Networking can help develop upon that confidence.
If you would like to benefit from our networking event, book our Ladies Club now through our booking form. If you are interested, but you aren’t sure that the Ladies Club is for you, then take a look at our other two events. Held at a different time and in different locations to the Ladies club, we also have other Clubs, which might suit your availability and business needs better.
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Arrival drink of either Prosecco or non-alcoholic alternative
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