Following on from the ITR Leading Women in Tax event, and our annual dinner, we’re holding an extra breakfast meeting – open to anyone who wants to come along (no need to book), not just those who are at either of those events!
Booking now: our annual dinner
Our third Annual Dinner will be held on Thursday 28 June 2018 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. The speaker this year will be Vanessa Houlder, a member of the Lex team on the FT.
For more details, and the link to book, see http://womenin.tax/event/annual-dinner-2018/
Annual Dinner 2018
Our third Annual Dinner will be held on Thursday 28 June 2018 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. The speaker this year will be Vanessa Houlder.
Vanessa, a member of the Lex team on the FT, has been with the paper since 1988 and spent over a decade as its chief tax writer covering a wide range of UK and international tax policy and avoidance issues. She has been the Lexis Nexis tax writer of the year and was one of the ITR’s Global Tax 50 in 2015.
Tickets are priced at £100 each and include a 3-course dinner with wine. A limited number of corporate tables are also available – please contact our Treasurer, Sarah Prior sarah.prior@pwc.com to book a table.
Thanks to sponsorship by Brewer Morris http://www.brewermorris.com/uk/ we are also able to offer a discount of £25 to the under-30s and anyone who is a student or works for a charity.
For any other questions please email events@womenin.tax or heather.self@blickrothenberg.com
Bristol Breakfast
A series of informal, pay-as-you-go drop-in breakfasts, an opportunity to network and meet other members of the Women in Tax network in Bristol.
Great to see you whenever you can make it! The breakfast meet-up will be held on every third Thursday of the month.
Manchester breakfast meeting
The monthly breakfast is back on the 2nd Wednesday of every month. Please pop in any time.
London – extra breakfast meet up
We’re adding in an extra breakfast meet up as the IBA conference is on in London and there are a number of international WiTs attending!
WiT Manchester – 1st Anniversary celebration
Join WiT Manchester at Albert’s Schloss on Peter Street, Manchester on Thursday, 13th July 2017 from 5.30pm onwards, to celebrate their 1st year anniversary. If you are going to attend the event could you please fill out this very short survey https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/9DJ9WJF .
Note: We will not hold the monthly breakfast on Wednesday, 12th July 2017 and instead will hold this event.
Leeds: Confidence in Meetings
Following the success of our last few skills based events, we are very pleased to invite you to our next interactive skills session which will again be led by Georgiana Head of Georgiana Head Recruitment.
The topic for the session is “Confidence in Meetings”. It will be hosted at EY offices in Leeds (1 Bridgewater Place) from 4:30pm onwards on Tuesday 11 July 2017.
Due to the interactive nature of this event, there are limited places available. As such, please could you contact Olivia Evans (oevans@uk.ey.com) to register your attendance by COB on Tuesday 4 July 2017.
This skills based training event will help you build your confidence and help with preparation for all manner of meetings – whether with clients, contacts, internal meetings, interviews or appraisals. As well as being a natural follow on from our last ‘Confidence in Networking event’, this can also be used as a standalone training session opportunity. Georgiana is a the founder of Georgiana Head Recruitment Ltd -with a background in tax she has built up a successful business with a client base which includes the Big 4 accountancy firms, the Top 20, a range of commercial law firms and an enviable list of household name businesses and PLCs. Georgiana will share such tips with us as to what she finds works when in a pitch situation and how to regain your poise when you are just having a ‘difficult day’.
The session itself will run for around 1 hour and there will be an opportunity for networking with some drinks and nibbles afterwards.
Please feel free to share this event with any colleagues and/or contacts who you think may be interested. Anyone working in or interested in tax in the region is welcome, regardless of gender.
We hope to see many of you on 11 July – if you have any questions about the event, please get in touch.
WiT Annual Dinner 2017
Our second Annual Dinner will be held on Thursday 29 June 2017 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. The speaker this year will be Allie Renison, head of Europe and Trade Policy at the Institute of Directors. Tickets are priced at £95 and include a 3-course dinner with wine. A limited number of corporate tables may be available – please contact our Treasurer, Sarah Prior sarah.prior@uk.pwc.com for more information.
Thanks to sponsorship by Pure Recruitment, we are also able to offer a discount of £25 to the under-30s and anyone who is a student or works for a charity.
For any other questions please email events@womenin.tax or heather.self@pinsentmasons.com
An evening with the Rt Hon Dame Margaret Hodge MP
Join Women in Tax for an evening with Rt Hon Dame Margaret Hodge MP discussing her new book, Called To Account. The book recalls her time as chair of the Public Accounts Committee, highlighting where government money is wasted and targeting multinational companies for not paying their fair share.
Tickets cost £20 and include a copy of Margaret’s book for you to take home.
Our Speaker Series of events are open to all (women and men) with an interest in tax.