Monmouth Big Breakfast 2019 is the not-to-be-missed business networking event of the year!

Our relaxed and friendly Monmouth Big Breakfast event held at the spectacular Monmouth School pavilion, makes networking to win new business fun and easy. Engage with inspirational speakers, network with like-minded people and enjoy a hearty breakfast whilst overlooking the surrounding countryside, affording spectacular views up the Wye Valley.

Don't forget to bring plenty of business cards; You will need them!

• 7:00am - 7:30am Arrival & Registration
• 7:30am - 7:45am Guests seated and the Monmouth Big Breakfast is underway.

  Welcome and a few introductions from our sponsors.
• 7:45am - 8:30am Breakfast buffet open and brief 20 seconds introductions. This year, microphones will be available on every table.

  Breakfast is served as a hot and cold bufffet. Veggie option available along with tea, coffee and fresh juices.
• 8:30am - 9:00am Guest speaker - Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards

  Michael Edwards is a world-famous skier who proves that failure can bring its own success. Eddie the Eagle Edwards is a great motivational speaker who presents insights to his audience about what he has learned from his Olympic ski-jumping experiences.
  
  
• 9:00am - 9:15am Networking sessions
• 9:15am - 9:25am Guest speaker - Patricia Carswell

  Patricia Carswell is a freelance journalist, copywriter, speaker and award-winning blogger. She has written for a huge variety of national newspapers and magazines and is the book editor of the Women's Institute magazine.
  
  Patricia started her career as a commercial barrister but after 10 years she'd had her fill of stiff collars, pink ribbon and black suits and moved to Monmouth, where she now writes for a living. She has faced huge stumbling blocks along the way - career-ending illness, family complications and recession, among other things. She will be talking about how to find opportunity in adversity and why even cancer can't hold her back.
• 9:25am Business card prize draw!

  This year we are raising money for Cancer Research Wales with some great prizes.
  
  Cancer Research Wales is based at Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff and is a completely separate entity from Cancer Research UK. It funds some of the most innovative cancer research in the world, all of it taking place in hospitals and universities in Wales. The research covers many different cancer types, including breast, prostate, colo-rectal and blood, and looks at why and how cancer cells grow, invade and spread, and why some resist treatment. One in two of us will be diagnosed with cancer in our lifetimes, so this research is vital.
  
• 9:30am Close of Monmouth Big Breakfast. Open networking with tea & coffee