Beckenham Business Day 2025

About this event

Please join us for a day of inspiration and motivation through talks from guest speakers, workshops and round tables from industry experts, conversations and purposeful networking with local businesses, all designed to help you to further your business.

Beckenham Business Day brings together local businesses for the benefit of each other and the wider community. By connecting, contributing and collaborating, we can all help each other develop and grow.

Stronger Together

This year’s Beckenham Business Day theme is: Stronger Together. In a world saturated with AI and digital noise, connection is more than a buzzword - it's a strategy for resilience, creativity, social well-being and sustainable growth. Beckenham Business Day 2025 will explore how real human connection fuels innovation, builds stronger communities, and helps businesses thrive in an age of rapid change.

By building genuine connections, sharing stories and collaborating on bold ideas, we can collectively cultivate a more resilient and vibrant local business community. It's more than just networking - it's about creating a support system, where business owners feel a sense of belonging and optimism for the future.

Who should attend?

The event is aimed at all businesses in and around Beckenham, but you don't have to be based here to come along.

It’s ideal for small businesses and retailers, both start ups and well-established businesses. And, if you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, why not come along too? Whatever stage of business you're at, you'll be sure to make useful contacts and get invaluable advice throughout the day.

Speakers

We're thrilled to welcome back Mercedes Yearley of Quest Soul Theatre as our EmCee for 2025.

We have a fabulous line-up of speakers this year:

• Sam Bowden, Enjoy The Journey - ‘Connect to Reset - How to Give and Find Joy in Customer Interactions’
• Helayna Jenkins, Principal Loneliness Champion at London Borough of Bromley - 'Loneliness in the Workplace'
• Richard Jones, Fearless Speakers - ‘The connecting power of TEDx’
• Cheryl Huggins, FaceClays & The BossWoman Podcast - ‘Creating space to reconnect - one conversation, one ritual, one breath at a time’

And our workshop / TableTalk hosts:

• Greg Micallef, Gregory Micallef Associates - ‘The Practical Use of Microsoft Copilot: Driving Efficiencies via Copilot Studio’
• Anne Barrett & Elodie Baran, Climate Confidence - ‘The Circular Economy - Together for a Desirable Future’
• Ewan Buck, Contingent Works - ‘Why where we work still matters’
• Louise Black, Keller Williams - 'Beyond Business Cards'

Plus, of course, our Chair Jane Rogers will open the event by introducing this year's Stronger Together theme.

All talks will centre around our Stronger Together theme. Further details of our speakers, workshops and table talk hosts are on our website here. Do keep an eye on our social media too.

Exhibitors

We have a variety of exhibitors, covering different business needs:

• Andrew Copeland Insurance 
• Barclays Bank 
• Chartwell Cancer Trust
• FaceClays / The BossWoman Podcast
• Federation of Small Businesses
• Gregory Micallef Associates
• Improve My Search Ranking
• Judge & Priestley Solicitors
• Newgence Web Solutions
• Radfield Home Care - Bromley, Orpington & Beckenham
• Right At Home Bromley
• Simon Bryant Financial Planning
• Start Up Bromley
• Unique Image Photography

For more details on all our exhibitors, speakers, workshops and TableTalks, visit our website here.

Sponsors and Supporters

With thanks to all our sponsors and supporters, without whom we could not put on Beckenham Business Day for the business community: