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New Mills Business Network: Next meeting on Tuesday 21 September, starting at 07:30 in the Library at New Mills Business and Enterprise School, SK22 4NR. The subject and speaker is yet to be confirmed. There is no charge, but if you would like to attend please Email Carol Sumner or phone on 01663 743284.

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Simply better work experience July 2010

Simon Belt, a web and computer support consultant, was asked by New Mills School Business and Enterprise College to provide work experience in July 2010 to school students so they could gain practical experience of writing articles for publications. As it is difficult for young people to gain commercial experience of journalism and writing for the web, I was more than happy to help them prepare and write-up some work for the New Mills Web on local businesses and organisations by way of them doing work experience.

Here's a timeline summary of what they did and achieved. Wish I'd have got them to work on my own website now..

Volunteer centre welcomes young people

We've spent the last two weeks visiting and writing about local businesses, so we thought we'd take a look at a voluntary sector organisation. Where better than New Mills Volunteer Centre!

Upon arrival we were greeted by Cynthia and some of the other pleasant and enthusiastic staff and were offered a teacake and a cup of tea, before our interview took place. Located on Union Road, the Volunteer Centre is a bright and airy building where everyone is made to feel welcome.

A trip to Rick will do the trick!

Autotech Whaley Bridge All of the small businesses we've interviewed have surprised us with how passionate they all were to promote their businesses and how they genuinely care for their customers. Although garages and mechanics aren't really mine and Molly's thing, we took on the challenge to find out about and write about Rick Maxwell's business.

Rick's business, Autotech in Whaley Bridge was chosen by Simon Belt, our taskmaster boss for the week, as his wife chats to Rick's girlfriend on the train to and from work - an example of informal business networking if ever there was! It turned out though that it wasn't completely random as Rick also helps New Mills school students with work placements and apprenticeships.

Marrying dresses to dreams

Georgia Howarth As the 2010 prom season comes to an end, and year ten students are soon to become year elevens, the thing on every girls' mind , including ours is prom dresses! It's always a girl's preoccupation to look good and have their perfect dress - be it for their prom night or their wedding day. Writing articles about local business for our work experience, the business which appealed most to us was 'Cavendish', the bridal House in Hayfield.

We chose Cavendish Bridal House as we're already starting to think about our prom next year, and we wanted to make sure the dresses we choose are right for us and our shapes. So to find out more about matching dresses to special days and making sure those dresses or outfits would be right for the special lady we phoned Georgia Howarth to arrange an interview then set off with questions and notebooks in hand. The experience certainly helped us understand more of what's involved in the selection process and how someone with experience, passion and a sixth sense for these things can help make the right choices.

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