NCBC Membership

Membership costs £95 per year

Members receive a £12 discount off the price of each monthly lunch, and discounted prices for other events.Corporate Membership now available

February 21st - Speaker: Emily Hancock

Emily Hancock, project manager of Impacting Business by Design (IBbD) will be joining us as guest speaker for our event in February.

De Montfort University has joined forces with Nottingham Trent University and Brunel University to create a specialist programme known as Impacting Business by Design (IBbD) – working with SME’s in England to develop and commercialise new product ideas and innovations.

Emily is a trained product designer and in her role at IBbD, she manages a portfolio of over 90 business collaborations to facilitate the value of design and new product development being embedded into SME organisations across England.  

Why not take advantage of our special 95th anniversary membership fee which is currently £95 for a limited period of time. Members then receive a £12 discount off the price of each monthly lunch, and discounted prices for other events.Corporate membership also available.

Tickets for the event cost £27.50 for members and £39.50 for non-members. 

Guest and members are invited to continue their discussions at The Castle Pub afterwards. NCBC members receive 10% discount with their Castle card.

March 20th - Speakers: Sam Preston & Henry Franklin, 

Nottingham Roosevelt Scholars

Two scholars from the Nottingham Roosevelt Scholarship will joining us as our guest speakers on Friday 20 March 2020.

Henry Franklin, a chartered mechanical engineer and graduate from Nottingham University, will be speaking about his experiences of the Nottingham Roosevelt Memorial Scholarship where he spent six weeks in the States completing a project examining the adoption of prefabrication in the construction sector.

Joining Henry will be Sam Preston, a behaviour change officer at Nottingham City Council. After reading geography at Durham University, Sam received an Experiencing China scholarship at Tsinghua University where she specialised in the environment, before starting a placement at Nottingham City Council (NCC) coordinating the new sustainability plan. Following some public engagement work in London around recycling, she returned to NCC on their graduate programme, running behaviour change initiatives for staff, businesses and citizens.

At our event, Sam will also be talking about her recent trip to the US as a travelling Roosevelt Scholar where she researched the sustainability stories of 11 US cities, taking lessons home to help shape Nottingham’s transition into the UK’s first carbon neutral city. 

The Nottingham Roosevelt Memorial Travelling Scholarship is awarded annually to young men and women aged between 21 and 35 working and/or living in the City or County of Nottingham and being primarily engaged in trade, commerce or the professions.The Scholarship consists of a gift of money to enable the successful applicant them to visit the USA for a period of between six weeks and three months.

The object of the Scholarship is to promote study and to obtain further education and in particular of the history and way of life of the American people by granting scholarships to young men and women of distinction and ability in commerce and industry to enable them to visit the United States of America.

Tickets for the event cost £27.50 for members and £39.50 for non-members. 

Why not take advantage of our special 95th anniversary membership fee which is currently £95 for a limited period of time. Members then receive a £12 discount off the price of each monthly lunch, and discounted prices for other events.Corporate membership also available.
Guest and members are invited to continue their discussions at The Castle Pub afterwards. NCBC members receive 10% discount with their Castle card.