South Wales

Small country. Big ambition.

Welcome

The establishment of the South Wales branch is an exciting new opportunity to:

• Create new strategic partnerships which can only occur in a Wales/Welsh context, improve marketing networks in the Wales business community
• Establish The Institute in Cymru/Wales as the primary point of contact on any marketing-related issue for government, media and business within Wales
• Exploit new funding streams
• Increase membership and in particular redress the imbalance between North and South
• Increase the profile and take-up of The Chartered Institite of Marketing student membership
• Enhance ‘ownership’ of The Chartered Institute of Marketing by its members in Wales and empower those members
• Recognise the reality of devolved Government in Wales and actively engage with and influence the development of devolved decision-making
• Recognise and exploit the value of bilingual Wales

ProHelp in West Wales

Established in 1989, ProHelp is a UK network of over 600 professionals providing advice and support free of charge to community and voluntary organisations in their local area. Last year, ProHelp supported over 2,200 community groups, including schools, voluntary organisations and community groups, with £1.4m of free professional advice.

Mentoring/coaching others to allow for the effective dissemination of knowledge is a CPD activity and you can claim up to 21 hours per annum under this category towards gaining or maintaining your Chartered Marketer status.

The ProHelp network is managed by Business in the Community Wales, a business-led movement that inspires, engages, supports and challenges companies on responsible business through campaigns and initiatives.

If you would like to join this mentoring network or require further information, please email Catherine Palmer, Business in the Community's West Wales Co-ordinator.

Our activities

For details of our recent event on how the government can better support SMEs, please see 'related downloads'.