30th June Meeting Notes

The meeting notes from the network meeting on the 30^th June are now available on the SIA website and can be found at:

http://www.the-sia.org.uk/home/licensing/sb_network.htm

The notes also include responses to the written questions that were submitted on the day as well as copies of the presentations given. There is a link to the Small Business Network Blog. (Please note that the SIA is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.)

Feedback from 30th June meeting.

Thank you to all the delegates who filled in their feedback forms: 60% of the delegates completed these. Here is a summary of the results.

Did you find the meeting useful? - Yes = 100%

Are you interested in attending future meetings? - Yes = (100%)

How often would you like future meetings to be held?
3 months: (52%)
6 Months: (48%)

Should future meetings be?
National meetings (various locations): 16%)
Smaller regional meetings: (11%)

Both: (73%)

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Meeting Feedback

Thank you to all the delegates who took the time to fill out the questionnaires we distributed at the meeting on 30th June.

We will be analysing the data in detail, but below are some of the headline results:

• 95% of the respondants found the meeting useful (the other 5% left that box blank),
• 100% would want to attend a future event,
• As to the frequency of future events, there was a 50:50 split between quarterly and semi-annual meetings and
• 73% of respondents wanted both national and smaller regional meetings.

Meeting Report