Business Support Training
Join our free Innovation Training Programme
Our integrated programme offers help and support to innovative local businesses at any level of digital sophistication and aims to help them in a variety of ways: improving their digital skills, identifying ways to be more sustainable, being more innovative, improving customer service, and becoming more resilient.
Join our Networking Sessions in Windsor and in Maidenhead
Join our Networking Sessions
Join us for our in-person networking sessions exclusively for Windsor and Maidenhead small businesses.
Calling all local businesses! Are you:
An Independent Business?
A small business?
A local Windsor or Maidenhead borough business?
You are very welcome to join us for a special networking event.
Please SAVE THE DATE by clicking the links below for 10th March for Windsor and 11th March for Maidenhead (10am - 12pm). Learn more.
Our comprehensive business support training programme also features:
✅ 30 minute digital Breakfast Briefings with award-winning small businesses who will share their knowledge and expertise.
✅ A five-day Lunch and Learn digital courses offered at lunchtime (60 minute courses).
✅ Access to Engagement HQ, our engagement platform to support collaboration and information sharing across our business community.
Our programme features thought leaders and award-winning businesses from around the country whose stories will hopefully inspire you to innovate and transform our borough offering. We are building a community of businesses who network, share ideas and collaborate, we hope you’ll join us.
What you will need for our training sessions
✅ A digital connection (we use Zoom for our sessions)
Sessions are virtual and are delivered via zoom. Here's a handy guide on how to get started using Zoom. (It's easy!)
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Sessions At a glance:
Breakfast Briefings | Weds and Th at 10am
Lunch & Learns | Mon-Fri: 12pm - 1pm
Networking Sessions | 10th and 11th March
Training Resource Centre - watch videos of breakfast briefings and view all training materials.
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Please note: This scheme is currently closed for applications. Please refer to the RBWM Grants website for the most up-to-date information on the ARG updates.
If you’re considering applying for the ARG Innovation Grant Scheme, you can sign up for our Lunch and Learn digital courses offered at lunchtime (12pm-1pm) on the specified dates below using our calendar scheduling tool. Learn more about the Additional Restrictions Grant. Visit the RBWM website to view the complete ARG policy.
The Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) Innovation Grants Scheme is currently currently closed for applications.
Please refer to the RBWM Grants website for the most up-to-date information on the grant policy.
A business may qualify for an Innovation Grant where it attends at least 50% of our Lunch and Learn business support training sessions and achieves a score of 15+ points when reviewed for sustainability/resilience, digitalisation or differentiation.
Training Details
Breakfast Briefing: Excel Against The Odds
Supporting business owners with chronic illnesses to run a business that they love and which works well with your health
Networking Event: Maidenhead
Calling all Maidenhead local businesses!
Are you:
An Independent Business?
Small business?
A local Maidenhead business?
You are very welcome to join us for a special networking event, location TBD for our local business community. You will have an opportunity to network with fellow businesses and we will also have a short programme where we will hear from an inspirational business discussing their Sustainability journey.
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Tea, coffee and cake will be served
Networking Event: Windsor
Calling all Windsor local businesses!
Are you:
An Independent Business?
Small business?
A local Windsor business?
You are very welcome to join us for a special networking event, hosted at the Windsor Guildhall for our local business community. You will have an opportunity to network with fellow businesses and we will also have a short programme where we will hear from an inspirational business discussing their Sustainability journey.
Start time: 10am
End time: 12pm
Tea, coffee and cake will be served
Breakfast Briefing: Matt Pierri, CEO Sociability
Join us for a Breakfast Briefing with award-winning Matt Pierri, CEO of Sociability.
Sociability helps disabled people to find accessible places through our free mobile app.
Matt reminds businesses to: “Take the time to zoom out and look at your progress from a higher level.”
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
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Breakfast Briefing: Dr Rosie
Join us for a Breakfast Briefing with award-winning Dr. Rosie, who set up the Innovation in Mental Health Project CIC (IMHP) after becoming frustrated that her impact as a psychologist was limited to the number of patients she could see in a day (not many!). IMHP has three projects: Dr Rosie Psychology services provides 1:1 therapy and hypnobirthing courses for working parents. She’s also working on a podcast and low-cost online resources. She’s seeking funding to accelerate this.
Psychology Business School supports mental health professionals to set up impactful businesses through online courses and memberships. IMHP partners with In Mind Consulting to provide mental health training and consultancy to corporate organisations. Profits are used to provide low-cost mental health training for social enterprises, charities and care sector organisations.
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
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February Lunch and Learn 2
Join us for our five-day Masterclasses.
Lunchtime: 12pm - 1pm
These "Lunch and Learn" 60 minute sessions, will be offered every day at lunchtime.
Monday: Go Digital (Social Media Basics)
Tuesday: Branding Matters (Focus on the Why/Purpose driven companies/Ethics/Sustainability)
Wednesday: What Makes a Great Campaign
Thursday: Design and Build your Website/includes SEO
Friday: Building resilience as a business - save time on social media with these tips and tricks
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February Lunch and Learn 1
Join us for our five-day Masterclasses.
Lunchtime: 12pm - 1pm
These "Lunch and Learn" 60 minute sessions, will be offered every day at lunchtime.
Monday: Go Digital (Social Media Basics)
Tuesday: Branding Matters (Focus on the Why/Purpose driven companies/Ethics/Sustainability)
Wednesday: What Makes a Great Campaign
Thursday: Design and Build your Website/includes SEO
Friday: Building resilience as a business - save time on social media with these tips and tricks
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Breakfast Briefing: Workplace Worksafe
Workplace Worksafe
Workplace Worksafe is a major supplier of workplace PPE, accessories, branded workwear and corporate wear. We are the UK’s biggest independent distributor of Mascot workwear and supplier of other workwear brands including JSP, Centurion, 3M, Miller, Capital Safety, North Face, Gore-Tex, Himalayan, Helly Hansen, Deb, Gojo, Pulsar, Polyco, Globus, Caterpillar, Regatta, Skylotec, Granberg, Ansell, Dunlop, Dr Marten, Dickies, Craghoppers, Sprayway, Jack Wolfskin, and many more.
Established in 2005, they now sell more than 60,000 different products to a range of construction and engineering clients across the UK and Europe, as well as individuals and public sector organisations.
Join us as we interview Rhian Parry, multi-award winning founder and inventor of Workplace Worksafe.
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
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Breakfast Briefing: Masala Masters
Ruchita Green, Masala Masters
"Cooking has always been a passion. I started cooking at a young age, but the real excitement started when I moved to Manchester.
Indian food in restaurants, although very tasty, was far removed from the dishes I had grown up with. I yearned for the taste and simplicity of my grandmother's cooking, my mum's fresh rotis, and the chaotically delicious street food from vendors lining the footpaths of my hometown. I realised very quickly, that if I wanted to eat that food whenever I fancied, I had to learn to cook it myself.
Memory is a magical ingredient in every dish that we have on our menu. The taste, as I remember it, the events that occurred when I first remember eating it, and the people who created the original dish - all play a vital part in its journey to your table."
Join us as we interview Ruchita Green, multi-award winning owner of Masala Masters.
For foodies or for those who love to cook, learn from this chef, instructor and author on Wednesday, January 19th at 10am.
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
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January Lunch and Learn 2
Join us for our five-day Masterclasses.
Lunchtime: 12pm - 1pm
These "Lunch and Learn" 60 minute sessions, will be offered every day at lunchtime.
Monday: Go Digital (Social Media Basics)
Tuesday: Branding Matters (Focus on the Why/Purpose driven companies/Ethics/Sustainability)
Wednesday: What Makes a Great Campaign
Thursday: Design and Build your Website/includes SEO
Friday: Building resilience as a business - save time on social media with these tips and tricks
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Breakfast Briefing: Salamandra
Join us for a Breakfast Briefing with Christine MacKay, CEO of Salamandra. We are thrilled to have this opportunity to hear from this award winning independent business.
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
Salamandra are visual problem solvers, with animation studios in Eton, Dundee, and recently opened in San Francisco. They convey complex messages for their B2B clients using animation on any platform, in 2D, 3D, AR, VR, Motion Graphics, Stop Motion, and live film footage.
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Breakfast Briefing: Lucy Claire Events
Join us for a Breakfast Briefing with Lucy, who has worked in event planning for more than 15 years. Having cut her teeth learning from the best with three leading events companies, in 2016 she followed her dream, struck out on her own and launched Lucy Claire Events, and hasn’t looked back since.
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
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January Lunch and Learn 1
Join us for our five-day Masterclasses.
Lunchtime: 12pm - 1pm
These "Lunch and Learn" 60 minute sessions, will be offered every day at lunchtime.
Monday: Go Digital (Social Media Basics)
Tuesday: Branding Matters (Focus on the Why/Purpose driven companies/Ethics/Sustainability)
Wednesday: What Makes a Great Campaign
Thursday: Design and Build your Website/includes SEO
Friday: Building resilience as a business - save time on social media with these tips and tricks
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Breakfast Briefing: A Wee Pedal
Join us for a Breakfast Briefing with the fantastic Leanne Farmer, multi award winner of A Wee Pedal.
Set up as a cycle tour company in April 2019, A Wee Pedal was busy until March 2020. They then pivoted and started to teach kids and adults to learn to ride. Now, and only through word of mouth, they are fully booked and taking bookings as far ahead as March 2022. They now employ guides to do their tours whilst Leanne teaches. She has 4 seasonal part time staff helping out as demand is so high.
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
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Breakfast Briefing: Sociability
Please note, this breakfast briefing is being rescheduled.
Thank you for understanding!
Join us for a Breakfast Briefing with Matt Pierri, CEO of Sociability.
For more than 1 billion disabled people worldwide, poor accessibility poses a significant barrier to social inclusion, equal opportunity and quality of life.
Indeed, whether you’re disabled or, elderly, or pushing a pram or simply with someone who is – knowing the accessibility (or lack thereof) of a venue in advance makes a world of difference. With the right planning, obstacles can be overcome, stress can be avoided, and everyone can be included.
By making it quick, easy and free to find detailed & reliable accessibility information, Sociability helps disabled people find accessible places and enjoy greater social inclusion.
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
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Breakfast Briefing: Swap Shop
Join us for a Breakfast Briefing with the multi-award winning Rachel Hayward, founder of the Swap Shop. Rachel is the founder of Ask The Chameleon – writing winning words for small business and charities to gain new business and exposure through successful bid and funding submissions, as well as award applications. Alongside several prestigious awards including the Queens Award for Voluntary Services, over £12m in funding has been secured to date.
One of the revolutionaries behind The Swap Shop, Rachel has co-created a supportive place for small businesses and charities to swap skills, talents and services, tested during the first lockdown in Derby and now available UK-wide.
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December Lunch and Learn 1
Join us for our five-day Masterclasses.
Lunchtime: 12pm - 1pm
These "Lunch and Learn" 60 minute sessions, will be offered every day at lunchtime.
Monday: Go Digital (Social Media Basics)
Tuesday: Branding Matters (Focus on the Why/Purpose driven companies/Ethics/Sustainability)
Wednesday: What Makes a Great Campaign
Thursday: Design and Build your Website/includes SEO
Friday: Building resilience as a business - save time on social media with these tips and tricks
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Breakfast Briefing: Badass Mother Runners
Join us for a Breakfast Briefing with the amazing Badass Mother Runners (BAMR), an award winning sportwear brand, targeted at mums who run. Originally founded as a ‘side hustle’ by marketer and mum of 2, Beverley Logan. The brand now boasts an extensive award-winning product range as seen on celebrities such as writer and mental health campaigner Briony Gordon. BAMR is online retail based and sportwear is shipped all over the world.
With a huge online following, BAMR has become a global online community platform where women support women every single day. Women are empowered in their running journeys and all sizes and abilities are celebrated! This helps inspire women to believe in themselves and has a positive effect on their mental health. The brand and product range have grown extensively from simple hoodies and casual tees to a full technical running kit catalogue.
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
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Breakfast Briefing: Cucumber Clothing
Join us for a Breakfast Briefing with award-winning Cucumber Clothing. Led by Nancy Zeffman and Eileen Willett, Cucumber Clothing is a fabric led fashion brand. They use the latest technical fabrics to make nightwear and leisurewear that keeps women cool and confident as they go about their busy days. Long lasting and easy care fabrics in seasonless designs with everything designed, sampled, graded, manufactured and warehoused within a 5-mile radius of their London base.
Pieces created to take you from bed to barre, from pilates to dog walking, from coffee with friends to informal work meeting and then back to bed again.
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
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Breakfast Briefing: Body Back Up
Join us for a Breakfast Briefing with Robin Lansman, Clinical Director of Body Back Up of Maidenhead.
Robin Lansman recently appeared BBC news and radio and appears often as an expert on musculoskeletal health.
In this recent news segment featuring Robin’s patient Eithne, a long-distance runner, Robin speaks to BBC correspondent Tom Edwards about the move back to commuting after two years of lockdowns, the effect on people’s bodies and how to stay safe and healthy.
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
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Breakfast Briefing: StoryPrez
Join us for a Breakfast Briefing with Maidenhead-based, award-winning local business owner Stacia Keogh of Story Prez.
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
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November Lunch and Learn 2
Join us for our five-day Masterclasses.
Lunchtime: 12pm - 1pm
These "Lunch and Learn" 60 minute sessions, will be offered every day at lunchtime.
Monday: Go Digital (Social Media Basics)
Tuesday: Branding Matters (Focus on the Why/Purpose driven companies/Ethics/Sustainability)
Wednesday: What Makes a Great Campaign
Thursday: Design and Build your Website/includes SEO
Friday: Building resilience as a business - save time on social media with these tips and tricks
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Breakfast Briefing: Hello Lamp Post
Join us for a Breakfast Briefing with award-winning Hello Lamp Post CEO Tiernan Mines.
Hello Lamp Post is a playful, human-centric conversation starter that connects people to their town or city. By encouraging residents to chat with everyday objects in their local environment, Hello Lamp Post is making local information more accessible, whilst gathering valuable, real-time community insights, feedback and sentiment that can be shared with local decision makers.
Learn how Tiernan and his team is bringing cities and their citizens closer together. Hello Lamp Post has been deployed in over 25 cities around the world such as Vancouver, Singapore, London, Malmo, Summerside, Belfast, Mesa and Sydney.
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
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Breakfast Briefing: Caribe Coffee
Join us for a Breakfast Briefing with award-winning Caribe Coffee. Wilmer and Elle Carcamo import specialty green coffee direct from Honduras to manufacture and package to their retail and wholesale customers across the UK. Being from Honduras, the co-founder is passionate about supporting and celebrating the farmers through various campaigns and keeping them at the heart of everything they do. They are very focused on environmental sustainability both in the UK and with respect to their farmers and are committed to best practice wherever possible.
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
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Breakfast Briefing: DJV Boutique
JOIN US FOR OUR BREAKFAST BRIEFING
Join us for a Breakfast Briefing with Mandy Errington, owner of DJV Boutique. We will have an opportunity to hear from this multi-award winning independent business. Learn from Mandy’s first hand experience launching and leading owning her own successful fashion boutique.
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
About
DJV Boutique is a local independent business founded in 2012 by Mandy Errington. The fashion brand provides inspirational fashion lines both online and from their stylish premises. Despite the challenges they’ve faced, particularly during the pandemic - they’ve demonstrated agility and successfully kept their doors open for a decade!
DJV has been in the small business limelight by being selected as one of Small Business Saturday’s UK - SmallBiz100 2020. And in 2021. Mandy was personally selected as one of the top 100 female entrepreneurs in the UK #ialso f:entrepreneur campaign - Small Business Britain. Further accolades and media attention to date include an interview with Victoria Derbyshire on BBC News and also appearing on ITV News.
Further interviews and coverage include; the Guardian, BBC Online, 'YOURS' Magazine and Drapers amongst other industry publications. DJV’s mantra isn’t just about encouraging individuals to shop and support local business, it’s also about playing an important role and investing with local and regional suppliers especially smaller companies who can potentially benefit more directly - hence why Mandy uses local suppliers and services as much as possible.
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November Lunch and Learn 1
Join us for our five-day Masterclasses.
Lunchtime: 12pm - 1pm
These "Lunch and Learn" 60 minute sessions, will be offered every day at lunchtime.
Monday: Go Digital (Social Media Basics)
Tuesday: Branding Matters (Focus on the Why/Purpose driven companies/Ethics/Sustainability)
Wednesday: What Makes a Great Campaign
Thursday: Design and Build your Website/includes SEO
Friday: Building resilience as a business - save time on social media with these tips and tricks
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Breakfast Briefing: Jacqui Larsson Fine Jewellery
Join us for a Breakfast Briefing with Jacqui Larson, owner of Jacqui Larsson Fine Jewellery. We are thrilled to have this opportunity to hear from this award winning independent business.
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
About
Jacqui Larsson is an independent fine jeweller and a Board Member of the London Diamond Bourse. A trained gemmologist and diamond expert, she works closely with clients to create uniquely personal, and exceptionally crafted bespoke jewellery.
In additional to customised jewellery, the business sells exclusive ready-to-wear collections and specialises in re-imagining old or inherited jewellery. Jacqui also writes and presents interactive diamond masterclasses for corporates who host hospitality events for their premium clients.
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October Lunch and Learn 1
Join us for our five-day Masterclasses.
Lunchtime: 12pm - 1pm
These "Lunch and Learn" 60 minute sessions, will be offered every day at lunchtime.
Monday: Go Digital (Social Media Basics)
Tuesday: Branding Matters (Focus on the Why/Purpose driven companies/Ethics/Sustainability)
Wednesday: What Makes a Great Campaign
Thursday: Design and Build your Website/includes SEO
Friday: Building resilience as a business - save time on social media with these tips and tricks
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Breakfast Briefing: Valiant Lingerie
Eleanor Howie, CEO Valiant Lingerie
Join us for a Breakfast Briefing with Eleanor Howie, Founder of Valiant Lingerie. We are thrilled to have this opportunity to hear from this award winning independent business.
Format: Zoom
Duration: 30 minutes
About
Valiant Lingerie creates empowering lingerie to support women in feeling confident after a diagnosis of breast cancer.
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Lunch and Learn 4: Get Organised on Social Media
Save time on social media by getting organised. Getting your social media programme sorted doesn’t have to be a headache. This session will help you get organised and share the tools and techniques to plan and manage a successful social media programme.