Connect Gazelles, the friend of small firms, hits the 300th-member mark

A YORKSHIRE-based organisation which is helping the region’s small firms to stay ahead of the competition has secured its 300th member.
By The Newsroom
Published 23rd Nov 2015, 18:00 BST

The Connect Gazelles group was established in 2011 to provide ambitious entrepreneurs with top-level mentoring.

Connect Gazelles is a not-for-profit organisation that puts entrepreneurs in touch with people who can help their business to expand.

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The Connect Gazelles programme includes ‘masterclasses’ which are delivered by a host of entrepreneurs in residence; leading business figure who know what it’s like to start a business from scratch, and how lonely it can be at the top. The entrepreneurs in residence include Deirdre Bounds, who started up a business, i to I, from a bedsit and turned it into the world’s biggest gap year company. The latest members to join include Leeds Vacuum Formers, DB Signs of Chesterfield and the York Hand Made Brick Company.

Connect Gazelles’ chief executive Nick Butler said: “Passing the 300th member mark is a tribute to all of our team, who work tirelessly to recruit new members, and provide excellent service to our existing members.

“Our members get unrivalled value for money from our entrepreneurs and partners and I am confident we will have 400 members by the end of our next financial year in March 2017.”

For further information visit connectgazelles.co.uk.

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