Venue: Welshpool
Date: Wednesday 15th May
Time: 11am - 1pm

Join Mid Wales Manufacturing Group, Mid Wales Chamber of Commerce, and Whittingham Riddell for an exclusive update from the Bank of England. Ian Derrick, the Bank of England’s Deputy Agent for Wales will give an off-the-record presentation, covering the Bank’s latest quarterly inflation report.

Ian will specifically outline the outlook for growth, including areas such as domestic consumption, net trade and investment, as well as prospects for inflation over the medium term.

RESERVE YOUR PLACE, Early booking is advised to avoid disappointment

Book Online here
 

Innovation & Skills for Manufacturing
Venue: Newtown
Date: 22nd May 2019
Time: 9am

How can we support your business?
As the economic benefits of innovation are realised through businesses, research, skills, workplace practices, and management, collaboration is critical to maximising the value of innovation.
Hear first-hand from EU funded operations ASTUTE 2020, METAL and M2A about the support on offer to help your business upskill your workforce, exploit opportunities for collaboration, and ultimately gain competitive advantages.
This free event will allow manufacturing companies to engage with highly qualified technical experts to understand what support and development opportunities are available for adding value to your business and helping Welsh technology and manufacturing businesses to grow.

Please register to attend the event here
Mid Wales Chamber Summer Ball
Come and join us at our Black Tie Summer Ball for a fun evening including a three course dinner,  live music and why not try your luck at the Casino. 

Date: 12th July 2019
Venue: Gegynog, Tregynon
Time: 7pm to 1am
Cost: £49+Vat-Members, £59+Vat-Non Members (10% Discount on tables of 10)

To book your place email sam@mwmg.org or phone 01686 628778

Opportunities

Brexit - no deal and data protection

Following Brexit, the rules about how personal data flows between the EU and the UK will change. The basis on which the UK will leave the EU has still to be decided. Organisations that rely on the transfers of personal data between the UK and the European Economic Area (EEA) may be affected.

Welsh Government offers further guidance here

Brexit Resilience Fund

Additional funds have been allocated to the Brexit Resilience Fund offering eligible businesses the opportunity to apply for funding of between £10,000 and £100,000 up to 50% of project costs.

For further information click here:
 

Support for SME’s to maximise the power of Data

Data science for business We want to help small companies to see the power of their data and to realise the wide-ranging opportunities that data science offers. Organisations of all sizes are now able to capture and store data in huge volumes. This data often capture features of organisations and activities that were never previously recorded. In business, analysis of this data can identify patterns and features that provide new knowledge about a current or future product, market or service. This can lead to increased productivity and competitiveness in the market.

Working with the DIA The Data Innovation Accelerator (DIA) has been established at Cardiff University to support small companies to apply data science for the benefit of the business. The DIA has been part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through Welsh Government until August 2021. There’s no cash cost to the companies we work with. As we’re publicly-funded, there will be some paperwork for companies to complete.

The project can provide two forms of support to companies: a) free ‘data innovation health checks’ b) collaborative research projects, typically of 3-18 months in duration.

The DIA’s six in-house Data Scientists are skilled in a range of research techniques; who will work with companies to explore the nature of their data, the potential uses and insights to be gained from it, and the best scientific techniques to exploit a particular opportunity.

Please find further infomation here.

2 Day First Aid Refresher Course
April 15th - 16th 2019
9.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.

1 Day Emergency First Aid at Work
12th June 2019
9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.