The Women In Business Group is celebrating 15 years of providing a networking forum for business women who work in and around North Hampshire and they want YOU to come and help celebrate with them!

To commemorate their 15th Anniversary, they are organising a Champagne Reception on 27 September 2007 at Audley’s Wood Hotel, Basingstoke, from 6.00pm onwards.

If you are interested, please contact Katie Russell to book your table and reserve a place: Katie Russell, LD Property Management, 1 Wote Street, Basingstoke, RG21 7NE (Telephone 01256 332971).

The champagne reception will be followed by a special guest speaker, befitting the occasion. Barbara Harmer will be talking about her experiences as being one of the minority of women pilots who flew for British Airways and the only woman who qualified for and piloted Concorde.

All guests will take home a goodie-bag of gifts, solely supported and provided by businesses who work in North Hampshire. A raffle will also be held with the proceeds going to “The Women’s Refuge”.

If you are a local business and are interested in including a gift, business discount voucher or you wish to make a donation to the raffle, please contact Maria Booker, Visual Impact, Power House, The Street, Old Basing, RG24 7BY. (Tel. 01252 317137).

So whether you know the Women In Business Group, have heard about them, or just have a passing interest in what they do, now is your chance to go and see what they’re all about.

Sue Brown, current President of WIBG, commented,

The Women In Business Group was founded 15 years ago in September 1992. Affiliated to the North Hampshire Chamber of Commerce, the response to starting a separate business group specifically for women was quite overwhelming, confirming the need for such a body within the Basingstoke and surrounding business community, to provide a regular forum for business women to meet and network.

We look forward to welcoming past members, current members and hopefully introduce some new members to our Group. We are a friendly, business networking group, who firmly believe that ‘women who talk together do business together’.