exclusive business growth event

Protect & Grow Your Business

A focused business growth event bringing together expert advice, practical insight, and meaningful networking for business owners across Suffolk and Essex.

If you’re running a business right now, you’ll know how easy it is to get stuck in the day-to-day.

Working in it.
Dealing with everything.
Rarely stepping back to properly work on it.

This business growth event in Sudbury is designed to give you that space.

A morning to step out of the noise, gain fresh perspective, and focus on how to protect what you’ve built while creating opportunities to grow it further.

What this event is about.

This isn’t just another networking event.

It’s a structured, purposeful morning built around real business challenges and real conversations.

You’ll hear from experienced local professionals covering key areas that every business owner needs to think about.

Everything is designed to be practical, relevant, and easy to apply back into your business.

Legal structures and business protection
Financial planning and safeguarding your business
Building resilience and long-term stability
Accessing support for business growth
Social media and visibility strategies

What you'll walk away with.

Clear, practical steps to strengthen and protect your business
New ideas to support sustainable growth
Greater confidence in your next business decisions
Meaningful connections with other business owners and professionals
Opportunities that come from real conversations, not forced networking

Who this event is for.

Whether you’re based in Sudbury, across Suffolk, or in Essex, you’ll be in a room with people facing similar challenges and looking for the same thing… progress.

Business owners and founders
Directors and partners
Local professionals across all industries
Anyone looking to grow, protect, or strengthen their business

Networking opportunities.

Real conversations with other business owners and professionals, designed to help you build relationships that can genuinely lead somewhere. Because often, one conversation is all it takes to open the right door.

Speed networking session.
Not awkward introductions.
Not surface level chats.

Why you should attend.

Learn from experienced, local experts
Gain practical business insight you can actually use
Connect with other ambitious professionals across Suffolk and Essex
Leave with ideas, contacts, and real opportunities

local business owners & professionals

Meet Your Speakers

Martin Treanor - Squiggle Consult

Wills & Estate Planning

Your host who will be facilitating this event is Martin, who dedicated over three decades to the international financial services industry, where he held several senior management positions and gained extensive experience in helping clients shape their financial futures.

Xandrina Allday - Allday Marketing

Social Media Consultant, Speaker, Trainer

Xandrina helps local businesses build a social presence with clarity, confidence, and creative thinking. With over a decade of experience, including leading in-house teams, Xandrina combines strategic insight with a practical approach to help businesses show up online in a way that feels authentic and purposeful.

Jamie Payne - Fidcucia Wealth Management

Technical Paraplanner

Jamie spent several years as a Money Broker prior to joining Fiducia. Working in a fast paced environment focused on negotiating, advising and facilitating interest rate swaps between some of the biggest names in investment banking. Working heavily in Emerging Markets, he built, maintained, and published yeild curves, as well as negotiating banks in and out of trades.

Ashton Carter - Fisher Jones Greenwood Solicitors

Partner & Head of Corporate and Commercial

Ashton is particularly interested in corporate, commercial, company and partnership work, including specialising in corporate transactions involving both share and assets sales/purchases, mergers, acquisitions and disposals, management buy-outs, drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, corporate reorganisations and restructures.

Nadine La Reine - Effective Business Network

Federation of Small Business Advisor

A multiple business owner, founder, and co-founder, everything Nadine does revolves around helping small business owners build solid, profitable businesses. Working with Federation of Small Businesses enables Nadine to offer further guidance and advice for business owners.

Local Business Owners & Professionals

Informative, Value Packed Sessions

Each speaker will share their knowledge and experience in fifteen minute slots. Long enough to provide you with valuable, useful insights. Short enough to avoid an information overload. You'll have the opportunity to ask relevant questions and also continue conversations during the networking session.