LUNCH Club
£35.00 per person
Venue: Smoke+Ash, 12 Greenfield Cres, Birmingham B15 3AU
Date: 27th February 2025
Time: 12pm – 3pm
About the Venue
Smoke + Ash is an independent pizzeria dedicated to serving exceptional Neapolitan-style pizzas, complemented by a curated selection of quality wines.
The menu also features seasonal twists on classic cocktails, offering a unique and flavorful dining experience.
Networking Lunch Club
Held on the last Thursday of every month, the Lunch Club is held at a different venues in and around Birmingham City Centre, offering a variety and injecting some excitement into the event. This networking Lunch Club includes a welcome drink and a 2 or 3-course meal. Held between 12 pm and 3pm, however, you are usually able to stay longer and continue to network beyond this time – it depends on the venue.
The Lunch Club is an informal event which we have opened up to all professionals and business owners across all industries and specialities. At this Lunch Club you will be able to meet new people, establish a business relationship, find and maybe even create your own business opportunities and potentially even find partners for future ventures either related to your business.
Introducing Gary from Networkfour, our Charity Partner
With over 28 years of frontline experience in criminal justice and vulnerability engagement, Gary is deeply committed to building a safer, stronger, and more caring city for everyone. For the past 16 years, he has led and developed Networkfour, an award-winning charity that delivers transformational impact through three flagship projects to have cared for over 56,000 vulnerable lives:
- Lifelinefour: Providing support for over 275 offenders and vulnerable individuals each year.
- Life & Sole: Has distributed over 36,000 pairs of free preloved footwear to the 1 in 5 vulnerable children and families heading to schools throughout our city and wider Midlands wearing ill-fitting, worn-out and broken shoes.
- Birmingham Pastors: Volunteer on-street intervention and care teams have for last 6 years support over 2800 lives at-risk or in need of a safety-net in moments of great vulnerability each year.
Under Gary’s leadership, Networkfour has now launched a growing dual university social impact faculty student internship program. that has successfully educated and trained over 275 student interns, contributing more than 193,000 on-street volunteer hours to support Birmingham’s most vulnerable residents and our city.
More recently, Gary has channelled his passion alongside the charity to develop Retreads Ltd, a groundbreaking sustainable social enterprise focusing on ESG principles, and with a vision to create an innovative, circular, reuse, repurposing, and recycling. Through this work, Gary combines sustainability with social care, addressing Birmingham’s worst homelessness crisis in two decades and providing vital support and hoped for employment opportunities to both recycle discarded lives and discarded broken and worn footwear materials into 100% recycled range of product and jobs for those far from employment markets.
Gary’s efforts extend beyond individual care, forging creative partnerships with emergency services, the Birmingham City Council Community Safety Partnership Group, and the city’s five Business Improvement Districts. To deliver innovative solutions, developing safety nets and compassionate support systems for those in their most vulnerable moments.
Faith-driven and community-focused, Gary invites your find out more of Networkfour and our held vision for a safer, stronger more caring city to Birmingham’s most vulnerable residents.
Benefits of this Lunch Club for business owners
- Free welcome drink and 2 or 3-course meal, depending on the venue.
- Networking with other professionals and business owners, making connections with other people which could have a positive impact on your business.
- Sharing of ideas that will enable you to problem-solve and aid in the success of your own business.
- Sharing of knowledge, general business-related knowledge and industry-specific knowledge, that could help in improving your own company.
- Becoming the face of your business, so that people start to recognise you and your company.
- Connecting with other business owners is a fantastic way to increase your support network, you can offer help to other business owners and vice versa.
- Public engagements like this can boost your confidence, helping you in future meetings and presentations.
Benefits from Lunch Club as an individual professional
- Raise your own personal profile by connecting with other leading professionals.
- Potentially drive your career forward, by speaking to other professionals you could find that you are rewarded with other job opportunities, and even if you aren’t, your profile will be raised making you more appealing to prospective employers.
- Become of the industry leaders.
- Share thoughts, ideas and knowledge with other professionals, which could help you in your role and/or in your future career.
- Provide and benefit from the support of other professionals in the industry.
- Boost your confidence.
Book our Networking Lunch Club now through our booking form.
Not available? Then you should look at one of our other networking events. Hosted at different times, on different days and in different locations. Read more about our other Clubs.
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