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Dear Members and contacts,
Welcome to the new season of BCCD-BIU activities. We hope you have all had a good summer break and are ready to participate in some of the many different events we are arranging from September onwards.
The secretariat had a very busy spring and pre summer period settling everything into place after the merger of BCCD and BIU. We hope that all members from both organisations are happy with the service we are providing. Don't forget to send us a mail or call if there is anything we can improve or help with.
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Duggie Fields Fernisering on Saturday 6 September 14.00 at Galleri Gl. Lejre
This will be our first cultural/social event of the season. Bring your family and friends along to see the preview of this British pop-artist's first exhibition in Denmark. Duggie will be there and an art historian will tell us more about the perspectives of his art.
This will be our first cultural/social event of the season. Bring your family and friends along to see the preview of this British pop-artist's first exhibition in Denmark. Duggie will be there and an art historian will tell us more about the perspectives of his art.
"His childlike playing with colours and shapes shows us the best in life - that we only enjoy the fun we ourselves create."
More information on the website via the link below.
Friday 19 September 12.00
We are pleased to announce Professor Steen Thomsen, Copenhagen Business School as our guest speaker at the first lunch meeting of the season. He will talk to us about "Corporate governance in Denmark in a European perspective"
We will also be using this opportunity to present two Danish students with BCCD-BIU scholarship awards in support of their studies in the UK during 2008-2009. More information on the website via the link below.
Please also put Friday 24 October and Friday 14 November in your diary for lunches in the autumn. Interesting speakers have been invited and should be confirmed very soon. Details will be announced in future newsletters and put onto the website.
Thursday 11 December 12.00
This will be a joint lunch event with the Danish American Business Forum. Please see their membership at: http://www.dabf.dk/Default.aspx?ID=23
We will be welcoming Commissioner Mike Bowron of the City of London Police as our guest speaker, talking to us about
"Current thoughts and initiatives on keeping the City of London safe".
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"On the way home" / Gå hjem meetings
We will be continuing this popular series of meetings on topical issues useful to a wide range of members. The first is being planned for late September and more details will be sent out soon.
Topics that are likely to be covered in the autumn are:
Social innovation and entrepreneurship
Networking
Who needs an office?
- Social and cultural events
Seasoned members will have noticed that the "Autumn Ball" does not appear in the calendar this year!
We are currently taking a look at this event to see if it still fits with members' interests and will probably announce a revised event later this year.
We are however planning an exclusive theatre evening for BCCD-BIU members and guests in October and there will be our traditional Christmas reception hosted with UKTI at the British Embassy in December.
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COBCOE (Council of British Chambers of Commerce in Continental Europe)
BCCD is a member of COBCOE to bring our organisation into a wider family of chambers with whom we can arrange joint activities and widen the network for our members in Europe. You can read more about COBCOE on their website: http://www.cobcoe.org.uk/
Their secretariat produces a newsletter twice a year called "Links". Read the latest edition.
Members of COBCOE are entitled to many benefits which thay can pass on to their own members:
- a newsletter to inform you of European funding opportunities. The latest of these can be downloaded here.
- a reduced membership fee for the Institute of Directors in the UK. More information is available on our extranet via the website.
- a reduced participation fee for the British-German Forum's Conference on European Monetary Policy and World Capital Markets in November. Information available on the extranet.
Another COBCOE member, The British Business Group in Macedonia, has contacted us to ask whether any of our members is interested in discussing partnership possibilities on IT, internet or software related issues with one of their member firms. If any member is interested in that opportunity, please contact us so that we can obtain further details and put you in contact.
BCCD-BIU is pleased that we will be hosting the first meeting of the COBCOE Nordic group of British Chambers on August 26 in Copenhagen.
British ITV1 are currently making a second series of ‘about British Ex-Pats who are considering moving back to the UK. They are keen to hear from Brits who are living abroad, but who are now thinking about returning permanently to Britain. If you are interested, please look at the news section of the website for more information.
Miller Rosenfalck: first Anglo-Nordic law firm to be awarded The Law Society’s Quality Practice Management Mark
Nigel Wright: major article in May edition of Recruitment International
Eye for Image: recently won a major contract with German SAP
Keith Gray (individual member): joined Taylor & Francis Denmark earlier this year, subsidiary of a the British academic publisher based in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
Graham Tully (individual member): as owner and managing director of Danish translation agency GT Translation, is making a major move into the Swedish market in a joint venture with Göteborg-based translation agency Entrance in a pan-Scandinavian initiative to provide quality translations to and from English, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian by professional native speakers with many years of experience.
- further information on the website under "news".
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New offers to Members from Members
Eye for Image: a special deal on their "klippekort" for stories - - further information on the extranet
angela B: lots of special English products for Business presentational gifts - further information on the extranet
Passebæk Golf Club: are making a special offer on membership for the remainder of 2008 (September 1 - December 31) to BCCD members. Please take a look at the extranet for full details of the benefits of what they offer.
Corporate logos:
You may have noticed that in the process of upgrading the website, we had to delete many of our corporate members' logos from their profiles, because the quality of the graphics file we had was not adequate for the new site. Can we please ask all corporate members to check whether their logo is on their profile and if not arrange for a good quality graphics file (jpeg, gif or similar) to be sent to the secretariat.
Lunch charges:
The charge for lunch at the SAS Royal Hotel for those members who do not have these included in their subscription package for this season, will be DKK 275 including moms. The same amount will be charged for any guests which members invite. Non-members, who are not guests of a member or the secretariat, will be welcome to attend at a charge of DKK 300 including moms, but there will be a limit on the number of times a non-member can attend during the season.
Membership subscriptions:
We are reorganising our invoicing of membership subscriptions to a January cycle, to make our administration simpler after the merger. This means that members due for renewal of subscriptions from September onwards will receive an invoice for the rest of 2008 plus the whole of 2009 and then not be invoiced until January 2010.
Passwords for the extranet:
All members should by now have received a login for the extranet on the upgraded website. If you have not had an e-mail or a letter with this information, please contact us.
Full list of members:
This list on the extranet should include all individual members and representatives of our corporate members with which we have had contact. Please check that you are listed with the correct information and contact us to amend the information if necessary.
Members news, member to member offers and member events:
We welcome receiving news from members of significant developments, awards, contracts etc. and will place an article on our website if you provide text or a link to the information. We will also announce it briefly in the next newsletter.
Members are welcome to make offers to other members on the special extranet section. These should however be something that is either exclusive to BCCD-BIU members or being offered at a reduced rate, special package etc. than it is normally available to normal clients and contacts. We can not be involved in any administration of the offer, other than placing relevant text on the website.
We can also place information from members on the "other organisations events" section of the website. These do not need to offer any discount on the attendance fee. We may also be willing to do a special mailing to all members or specific categories of membership with details of a specific event or invitation.
Direct mailings to members
We would like to remind members that to safeguard all members being drowned with unwanted e-mails, all requests and offers to the membership must be directed via us. We do not permit members to use the e-mails given in the members' list for anything other than individual contact. If you are seeking employment opportunities, we are willing to place a brief background for you in the relevant section of our newsletter together with your contact details. Members and other contacts on our mailing list will then be able to get in touch directly with you if your profile is of interest to them.
Penny Schmith
Administrator
August 2008
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