Marketing West

12/11/2024

Marketing West and everyone involved with the Poole Business Awards support this wonderful initiative from Waste Not, Want Not in Poole. The more we can all do to help the better. What a lovely thought from Erica and her team.

11/11/2024

From today entries and nominations for the Christchurch business Awards are now open. We've created a short video with the details of how to enter, the categories, six tips to a winning entry, the sponsors and the key dates. Here's the link to view it.

Details about the 2025 awards and how to enter.

11/11/2024

Thanks to Keri at This is Alfred, Shaftesbury's local radio station, for the coverage of next week's Shaftesbury Business Awards.

The judging is now completed and we are ready for the awards next Thursday lunchtime at the Shaftesbury Arts Centre.

Here's the link to hear the article:
https://lnkd.in/eTxCW5ty

05/11/2024

Open to enter at the moment in our local are Bridport, Dorchester, Gillingham, Sturminster, Bournemouth and Wimborne so remember if you live in any of those towns you can show your appreciation by recommending/nominating any local business you love. Please do as they are what make our towns all so different and unique www.marketingwest.co.uk

31/10/2024

If you want to see who our winners are this year in the watch the awards live from 1pm today - Just follow this link https://youtube.com/live/3KL37bBqGuA?feature=share

23/07/2024

Great response to our bigger awards across Dorset i.e. North Dorset, West Dorset and East Dorset where the winners in each of the town awards in the areas go through to be judged again and give us our regional winners. With thanks to ActionCOACH UK Farnfields Solicitors Dorset Tech Dextra Group Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show Gavin Dixon Finance Solutions Ltd What's next we ask ourselves😁🏆👍 Heres more on the recent North Dorset Awards

Find out the winners of the North Dorset Gold Awards

16/07/2024

The award winners are just about to be announced here at 1200 - private until then so if you get that message just stay on ActionCOACH UK Gavin Dixon Finance Solutions Ltd Dextra Group Farnfields Solicitors Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show Dorset Tech https://youtu.be/9Trca-1lPDA

04/07/2024

The Ferndown Biz Awards open today for entries so go to the website for all the info you need to enter or nominate a local business. Even more chance to win this year with our new gold and silver awards/ www.marketingwest.co.uk/ferndown-business-awards

01/07/2024

Read about the awards last week in courtesy of Dorset Biz News https://www.dorsetbiznews.co.uk/news/4th-annual-poole-business-awards-celebrate-the-backbone-of-the-uk-economy/

28/06/2024

Great to meet so many inspiring and business owners at the recent Poole and Christchurch awards. The dates for the rest of the year for awards and business networking exchanges. Get in touch if you'd like more info

12/06/2024

Busy few weeks coming up with Christchurch Awards next Thursday and Poole Business Awards the following Tuesday - we now have even more winners with a gold and two silver in every category. Great to see just how many really fantastic businesses we have in Dorset. A constant surprise that we get entries from businesses we have never heard of. In one of these awards there was an entry from a local business with just 10 employees that has built a turnover in excess of £12 million in the last 10 years. Very impressive.

05/06/2024

Big thanks to our lead sponsor ActionCOACH UK for supporting the awards right across Dorset and for helping so many on their journey to success

21/05/2024

Who knew dogs get hay fever - little Eric walked through the long grass and buttercups this morning and then sneezed non stop all the way home. Bless you Eric

15/05/2024

Trip to the seaside at last week to meet some of the great local businesses that make it such a lively place to visit or to live. Have a look here

What local businesses think of the awards. Key dates, the sponsors and how to become a sponsor.

13/05/2024

Felt we had to share this message from our friend Erika Sloper Poole Waste Not Want Not - please will you take a few minutes to read it and see if you can help in any way. They can only do the great work they do if they get support from local businesses, organisations and individuals.

We are a local social supermarket and community coffee shop in Poole. Unique in our area we support households on low income, who struggle to buy food due to financial hardship, we are a step between crisis and our local supermarkets.

We work closely with crisis i.e., Poole Foodbank, BCP council crisis team, and social services.
However, we are a charity also supporting our community to build resilience, develop skills, and improve mental well-being, We help households money manage and buy essentials at a price they can afford, 50/75% cheaper than any other shop… but as demand grows, our stock depletes.
We work closely with Poole Job Centre to support work placements and help build CVs, to return to the workplace. Our six staff members have the support of our amazing volunteers,(32 in total)

I am reaching out to you today to discuss any opportunity for your business to help in any way!
Our mission to reduce food poverty. We believe working together, we can make a significant impact and create positive changes in our community.

A few ideas of how your business could support our cause:
1. Stocking our shop, with donations of food to ensure our households can assess the basics they deserve. Children get a nutritious breakfast ( we offer clothing support via Cash for Kids)
2. Essential hygiene products, many wash hair in washing up liquid as it's cheaper…. We need to ensure they can afford or give free sanitary products. If you can’t afford food, you don’t buy cleaning produce, we need to support hygiene, as this is a vital part of health and well-being.
3. Promoting staff charity days – and or volunteering their time to support local. If everyone brought in a box of cereal/ long-life milk… cost them £1.50 it could go towards feeding so many in our community
4. Any stock clearance we could collect from you to reduce food waste

We truly believe that by working together we can make a difference in the lives of those who struggle, your support would demonstrate your commitment to corporate social responsibility and community involvement.

If you are interested or would like to discuss this further, please feel free to contact me on 07968903063 or by email. I would love to show you around or give you more information.