Events

With intense media coverage, it is now accepted that we are damaging the planet with the overuse of fossil fuels, with landfill and with plastic. It is perhaps less appreciated that we are also damaging the very areas that are directly responsible for our health and wellbeing. The pollution of the seas and oceans affects the fish we eat, the meat we eat is treated with antibiotics and hormones, the quality of the air in towns and cities is having a drastic effect on the health of both the young and the old and our crops are treated with fertilisers whose effects may be less obvious yet more insidious on our long term health.

Speakers

Lauren Wiseman, environmental manager, WWF

Amandeep Khasriya, senior associate solicitor, Moore Barlow

Claire Leigh, owner, Two Ducks

Mel Hemmings, founder, Bare & Fair

Fammia Pather, CEO, Your Sanctuary 

The conference is presented by Woking Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by Moore Barlow.

 5.00 per head of the fee will be donated to Your Sanctuary supporting women suffering from domestic abuse

 Speaker details to follow shortly

We are offering appointments of up to an hour with one of our experienced solicitors to discuss any legal issues relating to your business.
For example:-
• Are you setting up a business and require assistance with your terms and conditions of business, employment contracts or website policies?
• Are you in business or starting a business with others and need some help with a shareholders agreement or partnership agreement?
• Are you having a dispute with your co-shareholders or directors?
• Are you looking to buy or sell a business?
• Do you require any assistance with an agency, distribution or consultancy agreement?
If you wish to discuss any matters of a business nature please contact:-
Marc Mediratta on 01483 746369 or at marc.mediratta@mtg.uk.net
https://www.mtgsurrey.co.uk/

Website: https://www.mtgsurrey.co.uk/

We are offering appointments of up to an hour with one of our experienced solicitors to discuss any legal issues relating to your divorce or separation.
For example:-
• Are you thinking of getting divorced or has your spouse said that they intend to divorce you?
• Have you started a divorce online but do not know where to start with dividing the finances of the marriage?
• Have you started mediation but are not sure of the legal implications of agreeing to certain matters?
• Have you received court papers asking you to take action and are unsure what to do next?
• Are you separating from your partner but unsure of your legal rights in respect of the home you live in?
To book your appointment please contact:-
Rachael House on 01483 746 370 or at rachael.house@mtg.uk.net

Website: https://www.mtgsurrey.co.uk/

First, it’s helpful to become familiar with the meaning of mindfulness, as well as how it relates to meditation. Mindfulness is the quality of being present and fully engaged with whatever we’re doing at the moment — free from distraction or judgment, and aware of our thoughts and feelings without getting caught up in them. We train in this moment-to-moment awareness through meditation, allowing us to build the skill of mindfulness so that we can then apply it to everyday life. In teaching the mind to be present, we are teaching ourselves to be live more mindfully — in the present, taking a breath, not beholden to reactive thoughts and feelings — which is particularly helpful when faced with challenging circumstances or difficult situations.

8 WEEK PROGRAMME

The Mindfulness Now 8 week programme is a fusion of key elements from Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. These are evidence-based programmes developed to combat stress, anxiety, re-occurring depression and much more. What is mindfulness ?

The Mindfulness 8 week programme includes
A detailed individual assessment: every participant receives an individual detailed assessment, carried out through informal discussion over the phone.
8 x Group mindfulness sessions lasting up to 2 hours
An eight weeks teaching and support programme
Dedicated audio recordings for participants to listen to between sessions
Access to the trainer between sessions for the duration of the course
WHAT DOES THE 8 WEEKS LOOK LIKE ?
Week 1: Waking up from automatic pilot (mindful breathing + mindful eating)
Week 2: Awareness of our bodies (body scan + walking meditation + the breathing space)
Week 3: Focus of the body (mindful movement + breath and body)
Week 4: Choosing your reaction (mindful walking + sounds and feelings + negative thoughts practices)
Week 5: Being with what is difficult (exploring difficulty meditation + 3 step breathing space)
Week 6: Making meaning out of thoughts and feelings (visualization + sitting full sequence + resilience and mindfulness)
Week 7: Accepting silent space (The lake meditation + doing something pleasant + nourishing activities)
Week 8: Love and compassion (Loving kindness meditation + body scan + staying mindful)

The answer is yes there is homework although the word homework is daunting this is all part of an improved you so the more practice you get in the better. Home work will consist of daily meditations, readings and keeping a journal of thoughts.

We suggest around 30 mins practice per day.

Homework is not mandatory and we will not check it, the choice is yours.


Mindfulness by Jasper offers a fusion of mindfulness based approaches including evidence based, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). The latter, developed by Dr Mark Williams and colleagues of the University of Oxford and the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, offers a breakthrough in the clinical treatment of depression, anxiety and emotional trauma and is recommended by ‘NICE’ as a treatment of choice for depression.

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1990) described seven attitudinal qualities that underpin Mindfulness practice, which are both the stance we bring to the practice and a consequence of it. He later added two more. These qualities are brought to the heart of the interaction between teacher and participant in a mindfulness session. The qualities are listed below:

Non-judging
Patience
Beginner’s mind
Trust
Non-striving
Acceptance
Letting go
+

Generosity
Gratitude

Our 8 week programme offers enormous, evidence based, benefits. The methodologies we use have been subject to rigorous scientific research. We can therefore confidently state that our mindfulness training:

enhances focus and attention
improves confidence
enhances creativity
increases self-awareness and the awareness of others
raises levels of resilience and emotional intelligence
strengthens cognitive effectiveness
become more active listeners
be more emotionally aware
communicate more effectively
have clarity of thought
focus more precisely
empathise more easily
have a superior level of wellbeing

Website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/8-week-mindfulness-course-learn-to-live-a-mindful-life-zoom-tickets-118916571667

Register for this event at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/8-week-mindfulness-course-learn-to-live-a-mindful-life-zoom-tickets-118916571667

Other dates available on request.
You can contact Nicky on 07802 256523 or email nicky@woodhaven.space or Admin@Guildfordfirstaid.com for more information.

Website: www.woodhaven.space

Register for this event at: nicky@woodhaven.space

Many business owners wrongly think that site security isn’t something they need to worry too much about because their sites are small. This is a big mistake. A small website is just as likely to fall victim to a security breach as a larger site, often more so. We regularly help clients whose small sites have been hacked. Putting a hack right after the event is much, much more work than ensuring that the site is secure in the first place.

WordPress sites can be particularly vulnerable because WordPress is so widely used, so hackers put a great deal of effort into uncovering methods of breaking into them. With that in mind we’ve put together this webinar specifically focusing on how owners of WordPress sites can improve the security of their sites.

Why site security is so important
The risk of losing access to your site
Damage to SEO if your site is not secure
Loss of customer trust
GDPR and the potential of a data breach
Why your WordPress site is at risk
How themes, plugins and core WP are exploited
WordPress malware
The most common causes of site breaches
Internal threats from within your organisation
External threats from outside your organisation
Simple ways you can improve your site’s security
Knowing who has access and limiting login
Two factor authentication
The importance of backups
Running the latest versions of your theme, plugins and WordPress
Overview of auto-update features in WordPress 5.5
Web application firewalls
Changing the WordPress database prefix
Plugins that can help
What to do if you’ve been hacked
Questions

Who should attend?

This webinar is designed for anyone who has a WordPress site and wants to learn more about how to improve its security.

Website: https://www.awesometechtraining.com/event/improving-the-security-of-your-wordpress-site/

Register for this event at: https://www.awesometechtraining.com/event/improving-the-security-of-your-wordpress-site/

Used effectively, Google Analytics enables you to turbocharge your digital marketing, helping you understand where your website traffic comes from, which of your marketing activities is working and which is not, and how well your website generates new customers for your business.

Join us for this webinar during which we run through the elements of Google Analytics that are most useful for small businesses.

Installing Google Analytics on your website
The audience for your website
How many visitors is your site getting?
Where in the world do your visitors come from?
What devices do people use to view your site?
Where your visitors are coming from
How do people find your site?
Which of your marketing activities generates the most traffic to your site?
How people behave when they’re on your site
Which pages do they arrive on and leave from?
How long do they spend on your site?
Which pages hold their attention and which do not?
Tracking how your website traffic converts into customers for your business
What counts as a conversion for your business?
How can you track conversions in Google Analytics?

Who should attend?

This webinar is suitable for anyone wants to learn more about how to understand and improve the performance of their website as a marketing tool.

We work with WordPress so we’ll be using WordPress examples during this webinar but the bulk of the content will be equally relevant to any other website platform so you certainly don’t need to have a WordPress site in order to benefit from attending this webinar.

Website: https://www.awesometechtraining.com/event/introduction-to-google-analytics-2/

Register for this event at: https://www.awesometechtraining.com/event/introduction-to-google-analytics-2/

WordPress is the most widely used content management system in the world, used by almost 35% of all the websites in the world. However, other content management systems (CMSs) such as Wix, Squarespace and Weebly are available and may, at first glance, look more user friendly than WordPress.

Perhaps you already have a website on another platform and you’re considering moving to WordPress, or you’re building a website from scratch and want to learn more about whether WordPress would work for you.

Join us for this FREE webinar to learn more about WordPress, how it works and whether it’s right for you.

What is WordPress?
How WordPress compares with other platforms across the key areas you need to consider when building a new site
Cost
Security
Usability
Support
Flexibility
Customisation and functionality
Questions

Who should attend?

This webinar is suitable for anyone wants to learn more about how WordPress works and whether it would be suitable for their own website.

Places on this webinar are free but numbers are limited so book now to secure yours.

Website: https://www.awesometechtraining.com/event/why-choose-wordpress-2/

Register for this event at: https://www.awesometechtraining.com/event/why-choose-wordpress-2/

2020 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Raphael and to commemorate this significant event, exhibitions are being staged around the world to celebrate one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance. The Lightbox is the only gallery in the UK to be mounting an exhibition about Raphael in 2020.

The exhibition relays the fascinating story of Prince Albert’s passion for Raphael and his creation of the Raphael Collection at Windsor Castle. It reveals how Raphael caught the imagination of the Prince Consort, who embarked on a pioneering research-based project into the work of the Renaissance master, making copies of his work using the newest technology available - photography. The exhibition will reveal 500 years of reproductive techniques used to emulate Raphael's work, not only in photography, but also in a variety of mediums including engravings, original wood-block printing and lithography.

£7.50 Day Pass | Lightbox Members Free | Under 21s Free

Website: https://www.thelightbox.org.uk/raphael-prince-alberts-passion

What we will cover

Setting up your account and structuring it correctly

Ensuring your analytics data is safe – controlling access to your account

Making sure you’re seeing the right data – overview of views and filters

Using real time data to check your analytics account is configured correctly

Understanding the terminology of Google Analytics

Why there’s no point measuring ‘hits’

Understanding how Google defines sessions, users and page views

Identifying the metrics that are really driving the success of your business

Making sure you’re measuring the right thing

Knowing where your web traffic is coming from

Understanding the difference between channels, mediums and sources

Making sure your campaigns have trackable URLs so you can measure their success

Identifying the most successful activities so you can make better marketing decisions and stretch your marketing budget further

Understanding what people are doing on your website

Knowing which pages people arrive on and leave your site from

Identifying the most popular content on your site as well as pages that aren’t working so well and need improvement

Tracking the way users interact with your site using Events in Google Analytics

Tracking conversions from your website

Deciding what counts as a conversion for your site

Setting up custom goals to measure the conversions that matter to you

Identifying the sources of traffic and campaigns that generate the most conversions

Setting up custom dashboards and reports so you can easily monitor your success over time

Using the Google Analytics segment feature to view a particular subset of your traffic

Filtering out unwanted traffic to get a clean view of your site’s performance

Who should attend?

This training is suitable for anyone who wants to learn more about core elements of Google Analytics functionality. You may already be using Google Analytics but be unsure of how you can use the data to really drive your business, or perhaps you’re new to Google Analytics and want to get a solid grounding in what it is and how it works.
How will the session work?

This is a live hands-on training session delivered over Zoom. The trainer will demonstrate elements of Google Analytics, covering the content listed above, and practice exercises will give you the chance to put into practice what you’ve just learned using real data from a Google Analytics demo account. You’ll be able to ask questions via the chat and Q&A function within Zoom.

You’ll need to have a Google Analytics account set up with access to the Google Analytics demo account that we’ll use for the training. We’ll send you instructions on how to do this before the session.

We’ll record the session and you’ll have access to the video afterwards so you can watch back any bits you want to see again. You’ll also get a pack of written training materials containing all the exercises we’ll work through during the session.

Website: https://www.awesometechtraining.com/event/google-analytics-deep-dive-hands-on-virtual-training-session/?utm_source=WokingCham&utm_medium=WokingCham&utm_campaign=GoogleDeepDive&utm_term=Free&utm_conten

Register for this event at: https://www.awesometechtraining.com/event/google-analytics-deep-dive-hands-on-virtual-training-session/?utm_source=WokingCham&utm_medium=WokingCham&ut

Most small businesses are approached regularly by companies offering to help you appear higher in Google’s search results. Often they present SEO as a highly complex, technical process that requires a great deal of specialist knowledge, but in fact there are simple steps you can take to significantly improve the search ranking of your site yourself. Even if you decide not to do the work yourself, it’s useful to have an understanding of how SEO works when you’re dealing with SEO companies.

Sign up for this webinar and in just one hour we’ll give you an overview of how Google determines the rankings for sites and how you can use that understanding to improve the search performance of your own site.

Website: https://www.awesometechtraining.com/event/basics-of-search-engine-optimisation-for-small-businesses-2/

Register for this event at: https://www.awesometechtraining.com/event/basics-of-search-engine-optimisation-for-small-businesses-2/

Used effectively, Google Analytics enables you to turbocharge your digital marketing, helping you understand where your website traffic comes from, which of your marketing activities is working and which isn’t, and how well your website generates new customers for your business.

Join us for this webinar during which we run through the elements of Google Analytics that are most useful for small businesses.


Installing Google Analytics on your website

The audience for your website
How many visitors is your site getting?
Where in the world do your visitors come from?
What devices do people use to view your site?

Where your visitors are coming from
How do people find your site?
Which of your marketing activities generates the most traffic to your site?

How people behave when they’re on your site
Which pages do they arrive on and leave from?
How long do they spend on your site?
Which pages hold their attention and which do not?

Tracking how your website traffic converts into customers for your business
What counts as a conversion for your business?
How can you track conversions in Google Analytics?

Who should attend?

This webinar is suitable for anyone wants to learn more about how to understand and improve the performance of their website as a marketing tool.

We work with WordPress so we’ll be using WordPress examples during this webinar but the bulk of the content will be equally relevant to any other website platform so you certainly don’t need to have a WordPress site in order to benefit from attending this webinar.

Website: https://www.awesometechtraining.com/event/introduction-to-google-analytics-3/

Register for this event at: https://www.awesometechtraining.com/event/introduction-to-google-analytics-3/

Why is site speed such a critical issue for website owners?

How do you know if speed is a problem with your site?

What makes sites run slowly?

Understanding how WordPress pages are constructed

What the browser needs to do in order to display your pages

The importance of the ‘time to first byte’ metric

How can different elements of your page be optimised for speed?

Optimising image files – lazy loading, sizing your images and compressing them

Optimising your HTML and CSS files

Making sure your Javascript isn’t slowing down your site

The role that your hosting plays in determining the speed of your site

Overview of different hosting options

Speed issues that are specific to WordPress sites

Introduction to caching

What is caching and why should you use it on your site?

Free plugins that enable you to quickly and easily add caching to your site

Using a Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Questions

Who should attend?

This webinar is designed for anyone who has a WordPress site and wants to learn more about how to improve its performance and make it run as quickly as possible.

Website: https://www.awesometechtraining.com/event/improving-the-speed-and-performance-of-your-wordpress-site-2/

Register for this event at: https://www.awesometechtraining.com/event/improving-the-speed-and-performance-of-your-wordpress-site-2/

What you will learn on this webinar

Why a good supply of regular, high quality content is so important

The role of content in search engine optimisation

Understanding what Google considers to be high quality content

What poor quality content looks like and why it’s so damaging to your search performance and web marketing efforts

Busting the myth that site visitors won’t bother to read your content

Generating ideas for new content

Putting in place a proper content generation strategy

Ensuring a regular supply of new content

Getting out from under the grind of constant content generation

Getting maximum bang for your content buck

Slicing and dicing a single piece of content into multiple resources

Time saving tips for making the most of content you already have

Understanding what content your customers will find most useful

Using your website content to convert more visitors into customers

Copywriting tips – what works and what doesn’t

Questions

Who should book onto this webinar?

This webinar is aimed at anyone who wants to generate more traffic to their website and wants to learn more about how to put a successful content generation strategy in place. If you’re struggling to generate regular new content for your site then this webinar is for you.

Website: https://www.awesometechtraining.com/event/implementing-a-successful-content-generation-strategy-for-your-website-2/

Register for this event at: https://www.awesometechtraining.com/event/implementing-a-successful-content-generation-strategy-for-your-website-2/