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The Women In Business Organisation is a forum established as a networking platform to empower economically marginalised women to empower themselves. This platform is for the purpose of information sharing amongst groups of entrepreneurial diverse women. Through this platform Women are encouraged to take control of their businesses, to set their own agenda's and timetables, to gain skills and knowledge, for the purpose of increasing business confidence, facilitating equal access to economic and productive resources, and to facilitate poverty eradication, utilising gender empowerment principles.
Women in Business is a registered Section21 Company - 2008/027853/08

Women In Business Turns 5 !!!!!! July 2009

New Office Location

Julie Anne, the Secretary of Women In Business has moved office location, into the Acutts Real Estate Agents premises in Nottingham Road. A big thank you to Acutts for sponsoring this office space.

For further information on this leading Estate Agency and their property portfolio please contact Liz McBrearty on 0842077776.

JULY BREAKFAST FORUM - LIONS RIVER POLO CLUB - 8TH JULY
GUEST SPEAKER PROFILE

Bridget Ringdahl is the national coordinator of Wessa/WWF Eco-Schools Programme in South Africa. Now in its seventh year, the programme provides support for environmental learning and management at over a thousand schools.
After completing an honours degree in environmental and geographical science at the University of Cape Town, Ringdahl won a scholarship to study a master's in environmental sciences at Lund University in Sweden.
Ringdahl has also coordinated environmental education projects in five Southern African Development Community countries, developed resource material for Wessa and volunteers at the Duzi Umgeni Conservation Trust.
But Ringdahl is better known as the Blonde on a Bike, following the success of two volumes of her traveller's tales about her epic cycling trips through Asia and South America. She downplays the challenges of the months she spent pedalling through remote regions of the world. "The most scary thing about it, is deciding to do it," she says. To book your seat :

MONTHLY BREAKFAST JUNE FORUM

Thanks to Ingrid Roberts for inspiring us all at the breakfast forum held on the 10th June at Fernhill Hotel. She left us with this inspirational poem.........

Mother Teresa's Anyway Poem

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES - MEMBERS ONLY
WIB WEEKLY ADVERT
Emailed to database of 1400 contacts

Emailed every Wednesday * Cost R250.00 per advert
Email marketing@womeninbusiness.org.za for more information & bookings

NEWSLETTER
Women In Business distributes an electronic newsletter, weekly, to a databse of over 1500 contacts.Members are encouraged to contribute to this publication as part of the networking and marketing platform that Women In Business offers.
Please let us have any information, hints, tips, marketing material etc by the Thursday prior to the newsletter being circulated. Remember to keep it brief and send in MSWord format
Email editor@womeninbusiness.org.za

UPCOMING EVENTS.....

2009 Dates	Event	Venue
14 January	WIB January Forum with Helen Gooderson - Get to know yourself networking function. Limited to 40 ladies only!	Harry Jacks
11 February	WIB Forum	Old Prison Hall
12 February	WIB Raisethorpe Forum	Willowton Palace
5 March	WIB Raisethorpe Forum	Coconut Grove
7 March	CANSA Shave-a-Thon	Nottingham Road Hotel
11 March	WIB Forum	White Horse Function Room (Pmb)
21 March	Patricia Glyns' Presentation "Footing with Sir Richards Ghost"	Maritzburg Golf Club
8 April	WIB Forum	Hilton Hotel
9 April	WIB Raisethorpe Forum	to be confirmed
7 May	WIB Raisethorpe Forum	to be confirmed
13 May	WIB Forum	Ishona Langa Ashburton
30 May	Walk up Sani Pass	Sani Pass
10 June	Women In Business Monthly Forum - Lauren Maltby of Shepstone and Wylie " From Wedding to Will - What Women Need to Know"	Fernhill Hotel Howick
11 June	WIB PMB East Forum - Karen Valley from Old Mutual Presents "Financial Freedom for Women"	Mozana's
8 July	Monthly Forum - Bridget Ringdahl, Blonde on a Bike	Lions River Polo Club
1 August	PMB East 1 Year Celebration, Moulin Rouge Evening, Ladies Only	Arcadia Room, City Royal Hotel, Burger Street
12 August	WIB Monthly Forum, hosted by PMB East Branch	Msunduzi Hospice
21 August	WIB Underberg Forum, Sister Abigail from Clouds of Hope	The Duck and Doolittle, Underberg
30 August	Walking with Women - join us for the celebration of Being Alive	Nottingham Road to Howick
4,5,6 September	Underberg Branch host a Ladies Introduction to Fly Fishing, 2 nights, all inclusive R1500 at the Sani Pass Hotel
9 September	WIB Monthly Forum - Lauren Malbty from Shepstone and Wylie, "What Women Need to Know from Wedding to Will"	Old Halliwell Curry's Post
14 October	WIB Monthly Forum, hosted by PMB Branch	Venue TBA
11 November	WIB Monthly Forum	Cranford Country Lodge
20 November	Underberg Branch Forum - with Jane Linely of ECR and Lisa Bobbit	The Grind Cafe, Underberg
4 December	WIB Christmas Function hosted by PMB East Branch	TBA

Women In Business currently has three branches, serving members on a geographic basis:
MAIN BRANCH - services KZN Midlands, contact secretary@womeninbusiness.org.za
PMB EAST - services the areas East of Pietermaritzburg, including Raisethorpe and Northdale, contact raisethorpe@womeninbusiness.org.za
UNDERBERG - services the Underberg and Southern Berg areas, contact underberg@womeninbusiness.org.za

If you are interested in starting a branch of Women in Business outside any of these areas, please contact our CEO Ali Engelbrecht

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes to do,
but in liking what one has to do.
- James Barrie