Important Notices

To reply, or for more information please contact cathy.breeze@smf.org.uk

SMF Subscriptions for the FY 2011 are now due. Thank you to all who have already paid.  If you have a Direct Debit in place, your £60 subscription will be taken from your account on 7 November.  If you do not have a DD in place and have not yet paid your subscription, please get in touch for other payment options.

Join in the SMF Twitter @engineersnbiz - all SMFs are invited to tweet under our banner, follow us and related organisations

Thank you to the 29 SMFs who have linked to the LinkedIn corporate page.   Any SMF who would like to link to our corporate page, please contact our PR Director, Althea Taylor-Salmon at althea@fortunepr.co.uk

Big thanks to all of you who volunteered to be mentors to the RAEng Leadership undergraduates.  We are still looking for a few more mentors, please get in touch if you can help.

What's Your Story?

SMF is currently putting together case studies which will form a high quality pack to be exported to the RAEng and other organisations to inspire young people to consider Engineering and Business as a career path.  These case studies will challenge the perception of what an engineer can and can't do.  We know you have an amazing story to tell, please get in touch and put yourself forward for this! We will follow up with an interview and write up your case.

Do you want to gain experience running a PR Campaign?

If so then here's an opportunity for you to liaise with national media by joining the SMF Communications Subcommittee.

New on the Website

We now have our first guest blogger, Chris Coopey, a Partner with Carpenter Box LLP, Chartered Accountants and Chartered Tax Advisers, comments on the 3,000 redundancies planned at BAE.  We hope to have regular guest bloggers as well as SMF bloggers, so if you feel passionately about a subject in our sphere that will interest others, please contact me.

Are You in Finance?

We hope to see more of you at our Finance networking events like the one we held in September with Catalyst Corporate Finance in London.  Mark Humphries gave a presentation on  "Private equity - in a world without debt is the model bust?

SMF Alpesh Amin commented: "Mark provided a great insight into what led to the phenomenal rise in the PE activities (during pre-credit crisis era) and the key reasons for the subsequent fall. His presentation was well researched and provided some key data points. The Q&A session allowed participants share their own experiences and overall the event was a great success!"

Future Events

Thursday 17 Nov 2011, The SMF New Members Welcome Dinner

Rubens Hotel, 39 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 0PS, Start time: 7.00pm - Come along and meet our new SMFs as well as some "old" SMFs.

Guest Speaker Andrea Rodney

Andrea is a Director of Hone-All Precision, a sub-contract machining company based in Leighton Buzzard.  Hone-All is a successful company with a vibrant and strong brand, recognised throughout the industry and regularly cited as an exemplar proponent of continuous improvement, regular investment, excellent training and team building.

Over the last 15 years, Andrea has been active in influencing the Government's approach and focus towards long term manufacturing success.  Has she given you any idea what she's going to speak about.  I think people will be interested in knowing?

Thursday 24 November 2011, RAENG Event -New Frontier: Engineers and the Global Energy Challenge - click image for link to full RAENG event flyer

Thursday 15 December 2011, The SMF Annual Christmas Curry

Celebrate the holiday season with Fellow SMFs at Millbank Spice Restaurant, 34-38 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V 2RY at 7PM.

And a date for your diary,

Thursday 17 May 2011, The SMF Annual Dinner at One Whitehall Place

Please do get in touch if you have any suggestions for guests to be invited.