Six colleagues from the UK’s community bank, Metro Bank, burnt off all their Easter Egg calories by undertaking a mammoth charity cycling challenge at Metro Bank’s Southend store in aid of the Little Heroes ASD Support Group.
Colleagues from the Eastbourne Metro Bank will be chatting to school children and their families about a potential career in banking at Eastbourne’s Big Futures Show on April 26th.
In celebration of the Sikh New Year festival, Vaisakhi, the Hammersmith Metro Bank donated bags of food to the Gurseva foodbank.
In celebration of the Sikh New Year festival, Vaisakhi, Leicester Metro Bank has donated over 100 food items to the Guru Ravidass temple.
Northampton entrepreneurs and business owners are welcome to a breakfast networking event being hosted by Northampton Metro Bank from 8.30 – 10am on Thursday April 28th
Metro Bank’s Watford store will host its last Friday of the month, face to face network event with Watford & West Herts Chambers of Commerce on Friday April 29th at 10am.
Freddie Guilmard, Managing Director, The Red Thread Partnership will be the guest speaker at a complimentary networking event being hosted by Milton Keynes Oakgrove Metro Bank from 5.30 – 7pm on Thursday April 28th. Freddie’s talk entitled Hybrid Working – Myth & Reality will explore the changing environment of work. Freddie has a wealth of experience in leadership and management development with a particular focus on behaviour change. He will be looking at the current and future work environment and the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Funding, networking and mentoring are keys steps to growth for the burgeoning UK tech scene according to Metro Bank, as Manchester is named the top UK destination outside of London for tech companies in CBRE’s 2022 UK Tech Cities Report.
In the spirit of celebrating International Women’s Day, Oxford Metro Bank will be hosting a seminar organised by Oxfordshire Women’s Forum. The seminar will focus on imposter syndrome, understanding the different ways that it can manifest itself in everyday life and sharing tools to combat it. The event will take place on Tuesday 15 March at 6pm in Metro Bank’s Queen Street store.
Post pandemic, women in business are proving very resilient with higher numbers than ever starting new businesses - 145,200 all-female founded companies were created last year, and this figure is growing by over a third each year (37.3%). It means that in total over 20% of new firms are now led by women - a record high
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