News & Events - Connect Dacorum

Dragons Apprentice Finals

Dragon-KL school The end of March saw the final of the Dacorum Dragons Apprentice Challenge for 20134/14. Ten teams finished the challenge and raised over £11,000 in total for their charities.

The awards ceremony was held at Shendish Manor Hotel and was attended by the Deputy Mayor of Dacorum Cllr Alan Lawson, teams, school representatives, parents, friends, charities and business Dragons.

All the teams were invited on stage to present their cheques to their charities and were applauded by all. Six teams were invited to do a 5 minute presentation to the audience and all did very professional presentations. The Super Dragons (judges) then went to deliberate before the Deputy Mayor of Dacorum presented the prizes for the awards.

Most Money Earned - Kings Langley School
Most Innovative Product/Service or Business Idea - Ashlyns School
Best Example of Close Co-operation with your Charity - Adeyfield School
Best Poster Display Panel - Hemel Hempstead School
Individual Achievement - Chloe Staines from Astley Cooper School
Overall winner - Kings Langley School

Prizes were generously donated by The Snow Centre, Dacorum Talking Newspaper, Shendish Manor Hotel, The Professionalism Group, Costa Coffee and Radio Dacorum. The trophies were generously donated by Hemel Trophies and Jewellers.

Back on top, FFEI regain quiz crown

FFEI Logo 300dpi A triumphant team from world-beating imaging technology firm FFEI have another success to celebrate - but this one is a little bit closer to home than the firm's prized Queen's Award for enterprise.

The Maylands-based firm can once again claim to employ Dacorum's best brains after their team took top spot at the annual Connect Dacorum/Community Action Dacorum event at Shendish Manor on Thursday.

The team of Ian Crawforth, Georgina Hutchinson, George Hutchinson, Kevin Radcliffe, Bob Wilson, Andy Cook, Helen Cook, Roy Smith, Julian Payne and Stephen Meek successfully negotiated 10 tricky rounds of questions set by Gazette editor John Francis, which included rounds on the First World War, commercial sponsorship and famous beards.

An they held their nerve during the final accumulator round, which can see back-markers surge through the field to score a last-gasp victory. Lasr year FFEI, winners in 2012, were pipped at the post by Furnell Transport on the final question.

Big Business Quiz

quiz Would you like to be known as the Brightest Business in Dacorum? Then why not book a table for 10 for your staff, friends and customers to enjoy a great evening out on Thursday 20th March at Shendish Manor Hotel.

This is a fantastic opportunity to team build and network, whilst raising money for Community Action Dacorum and Connect Dacorum in the process. Not only that, but the title of ‘Brightest Business in Dacorum’ is up for the taking too!

Last year’s event was a great success, so book soon to avoid missing out.

There are only 20 tables of 10 available and already some of last year’s Quizzers have booked for this year.

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Next Networking Lunch

Enviro Connect Dacorum's next networking lunch will be held on Thursday 13th February 2014 at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead from 11.30am to 2.00pm. The topic will be on The Environment.