The Business Magazine & Guests from this Years's Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards raises money for the Rainbow Trust

On behalf of us all at Rainbow Trust thank you to everyone at The Business Magazine for choosing Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity to be the beneficiary of The Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards 2008 on Thursday 20th November. It was a fantastic night and I was delighted to address the guests and tell them about the work of Rainbow, I think it made a huge difference to the funds raised. The money raised on the night totalled an amazing £2,364.90!

This money will allow us to continue to be there for families with children with life threatening or terminal illnesses that turn to us for help every day.

“When your world is turned upside down by having a child who is ill, sometimes you just need a friend and I count Rainbow Trust as very good friends.”

Our vision is that every family in the UK who has a child with a life threatening or terminal illness should have a Rainbow carer alongside them at times of crisis.

We are now caring for over 1,000 families through our network of Family Support Workers and at our respite homes in Surrey and Northumberland, however, there is an ever-increasing demand for our services. The care for each of these families is tailored to meet their own individual needs and is maintained for as long as they need it, sometimes over a number of years.

“I would like to thank all the people who give money to Rainbow because that means that you too are travelling by my side and other young people like me.”
Corrie-Anne, Age 18, Post Cancer Treatment

Thank you, we really do appreciate your support to the charity.

Kind regards

Louise Bingham
Corporate Fundraiser
Louise.bingham@rainbowtrust.org.uk
01372 220023

Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards 2008

This year's event at the Royal Berkshire Conference centre was a great success.

CONGRATULATIONS to all of our winners and finalists and many thanks to all of you who came along.

To see your photos from this year, please scroll down and you can view those by clicking on the thumbnails below. If you would like any photos these can be purchased at a cost of £15 for one photo or £25 for three photos. Please contact Laura Smith to order your photos quoting the numbers of the images you would like. Laura can be contacted on 0118 974 5339 or email laura@elcot.co.uk

We hope you had an enjoyable evening and look forward to seeing you again in 2009!

Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards Part 1

Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards Part 2

The Business Magazine website sees over 280,000 hits during September

The Business Magazine’s website has seen a significant increase in hits – with the regularly updated news coverage attracting the most readers.

In September, the site had more than 280,500 hits. A total of more than 33,000 pages were visited and the number of visits was just below 10,000.

On average, readers were accessing between three and four pages of the site per visit.

The latest news section was viewed by many visitors, but also popular were pages on the Deals Awards and Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards.

The site, www.businessmag.co.uk, carried news from across the south.

Recent headlines have included:

Sussex - Companies under threat in downturn
South - Company cars on way back, says Jaluch
Thames Valley - Businesses buck downturn trend
Eton - Harris Cartier hosts Europe trade seminar
Oxford - Darbys lawyer wins award
Dorking - Kuoni acquisition advised by S&B
Banbury - Brethertons shortlisted by Law Society
Reading - Pitmans acts on Telecom FM buyout
Reading - Boyes Turner shortlisted for award
Guildford - Stevens & Bolton shortlisted for award

Gatwick Deals Awards 2008

Law South East - The definitive south east guide to law firms and lawyers, their expertise and their specialisms

Law South East is the new publication being published by The Business Magazine. With a circulation of 31,000 and reaching 90,000 readers across the South East, it's not to be missed. Each issue will contain in-depth features and interviews plus law firm profiles and listings.

To be published twice a year in March and September reaching directors and senior executives within companies throughout The Thames Valley, Solent and South Central region and Gatwick (covering Surrey and Sussex).

A number of advertising and editorial opportunities are available within this new publication so please contact us now for more information or if you would like to book your space.

Email tanya@elcot.co.uk or call 0118 974 5308

Thames Valley Deals Awards 2008

The Thames Valley iFestival

Promoting, inspiring and connecting innovators, technology companies and entrepreneurs

The Thames Valley iFestival will be a leading event in the region's business calendar - and THE event for locally-based technology companies.

With involvement from leading businesses such as Microsoft, Cisco, Siemens, Research in Motion, etc, this is a key festival - grouping together events ranging from an innovation conference to an investment showcase, from an awards evening to networking gatherings.

The official publication for this event is being compiled by The Business Magazine and will be available to all delegates.

The iFestival publication will be the programme for the event - but it will also be a celebration of the technology sector in the Thames Valley.

As such, it will be circulated with the November 2008 issue of The Business Magazine to be seen by 45,000 directors and senior business executives across the region.

This is your key opportunity to promote the work of your company:

A full-page feature on your company (compiled by you): £1,500 (Written by our journalists) £1,900.

A full-page advertisement (complete artwork supplied): £1,900

A half-page editorial (compiled by you): £950 (Written by our journalists) £1,100.

A half-page advertisement (complete artwork supplied): £1,100


The Thames Valley iFestival is organised by Thames Valley Economic Partnership - as part of its vision for the Thames Valley to be one of Europe's most successful and innovative business regions.

Share in this vision.

10,000 visits a month on our website

It's interesting to see a big jump in both visits and unique visitors to our website, www.businessmag.co.uk , suggesting that more and more of our readers are accessing business information from us online.

With regular news updates appearing on the site, businesspeople in the south are looking to the site for leads that will help drive business.

Check out the news service. It's free!

Where to eat

Restaurants change hands, chefs come and go, bistros and brasseries get overhauled. Yesterday's great eaterie is today's missable event, and vice versa.

To keep up to date with where to eat and entertain corporately in the region, read Dining & Your Business.

It's out with the September 2008 issue of The Business Magazine - and it's free to our Thames Valley readers.

The publication will also be available for free download from our website.

There's still time to get your restaurant into this full-colour guide. Contact Kelly Baker on 0118-9745587 or email kelly@elcot.co.uk

More on Credit Crunch

Manufacturers in this area are saying there's no downturn.

99% of businesses surveyed by EEF South, the regional manufacturers' organisation, said they had a stable or growing order book, with demand overseas particularly healthy.

So that's one important sector not experiencing the crunch...so far.

Credit Crunch: real or not?

"We are going to ignore the Credit Crunch."

That's what one firm of business advisers told us this week, claiming that the Thames Valley was as busy as ever.

"There's no point in your head going down and thinking it's all doom and gloom," said this firm. "We are still going for it in a very positive way."

Contrast that to the views of another firm of advisers, who said, to paraphrase: "No-one's doing decent deals at the moment - and if they say they are, they're telling porkies. It's pretty quiet out there on the deal front, and there's every prospect of these choppy seas getting rougher - even into next year."

What's your view. Is the Credit Crunch biting. Post a blog and let us know...

Thames Valley Deals Awards

Nominations are open now. For your chance to win one of the most prestigious awards in the Thames Valley region, enter now.