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Wednesday Business Club Open Networking Meeting 23rd July 2025

Name: Wednesday Business Club Open Networking Meeting 23rd July 2025
Start: 2025-07-23T07:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-07-23T09:00:00+01:00
Location: Littlebury Hotel

From 23 July 2025 07:00 until 23 July 2025 09:00

At Littlebury Hotel

wbc_bicester@outlook.com

We are delighted to welcome Millie Smith / Suicide Prevention Project Coordinator, Nai's House as our speaker this month.

About Nai's House

Nai’s House CIO is a vital youth mental health and suicide prevention charity serving Bicester, Oxfordshire and surrounding communities. They provide life-saving support to young people aged 5-30 who are experiencing suicidal thoughts or self-harming behaviors. In the past year alone, their interventions have directly saved 11 young lives.

Nai's currently provide one-to-one support to 76 guests, while actively managing a waitlist of 290 individuals through regular check-ins and flexible appointments. The dedicated team operates Monday through Saturday, offering both scheduled support and crisis intervention services, including out-of-hours care.

In addition Nai's House have announced their #BeNice Festival

About the WBC

The WBC open meetings are just that, open to all business categories. In general we have an interesting speaker from the public or private sector and on occasion from a local charity. The event offers plenty of time for networking, both before and after the event and a great breakfast. These meetings are a great place to further improve your network contacts and build on the connectivity between businesses locally. Guests are therefore very welcome to attend whether new to networking or a seasoned pro, we always look forward to meeting you.

Itinerary

Meet and Greet

07:00 - 07:30

Meet up you for an early networking session amongst other business owners.

Guest Speaker & Questions

07:30 - 08:00

Join us to listen to our speaker this month who will be sharing lots of information about their business.

Breakfast

08:00 - 08:30

Join us for a great Littlebury Breakfast to help kick start your day and continue your conversation with like minded businesses.

Referrals and Guest Introductions

08:30 - 08:45

hear from our guests about their businesses and what we can help them with. We will also share referrals amongst the group.

Close

08:45 - 09:55

We generally close around 08:45am but guest are welcome to continue to network after the meeting.

Speakers

Millie Smith
Suicide Prevention Project Coordinator, Nai's House

In my position at Nai's House, I am responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing a variety of projects focused on suicide prevention. These projects include workshops, groups, training sessions, partnerships, and peer mentorship programs. I dedicate a significant amount of time to cultivating and managing partnerships, ensuring compliance with regulations, analyzing data, marketing initiatives, and delivering ASIST training.

Nai’s House CIO is a vital youth mental health and suicide prevention charity serving Bicester, Oxfordshire and surrounding communities. We provide life-saving support to young people aged 5-30 who are experiencing suicidal thoughts or self-harming behaviors. In the past year alone, our interventions have directly saved 11 young lives.

We currently provide one-to-one support to 76 guests, while actively managing a waitlist of 290 individuals through regular check-ins and flexible appointments. Our dedicated team operates Monday through Saturday, offering both scheduled support and crisis intervention services, including out-of-hours care.