Social media has become increasingly effective for emergency services and public sector to communicate with the public. This course explores the strengths and weaknesses of the various social media platforms, as well as the tools to effectively filter and aggregate the news that you need.

The day course combines theory and practice, suitable for complete novices or seasoned users, to develop skills communicating and engaging with target audiences. Delegates will be able to confidently apply the skills in their workplace after devising strategies to suit their business/service needs and resources.

For more information on joining the course please contact Bob Wade on either 0121 354 8223 or email bobwademedia@live.co.uk.

Book your next conference at The Priory Rooms to enjoy the delicious new breakfast menu, specifically designed to make you feel wide awake and ready for the day ahead!

Breakfast has been scientifically proven as the most important meal of the day. The Priory Rooms have now ensured they offer guests a healthy and varied breakfast choice, which provides the essential vitamins and minerals needed for a busy day of meetings.

Eating a healthy breakfast of varied food groups helps to increase your alertness, concentration and mood; vital for those training days or important conferences. Breakfast also helps to stabilise blood sugar levels which regulates your appetite and energy, and in the long term decreases your chances of developing high cholesterol and diabetes.

The new Priory Rooms breakfast menu includes colourful fruit bowls, including apples, bananas and oranges. Fruit helps to improve memory and keep you feeling fuller for longer. They are also low in calories and provide sugars, fibre, and vitamins which are essential for a healthy lifestyle.

Conference users can also enjoy low calorie cereal bars and high-fibre cereals with semi-skimmed milk. Cereal is a low-fat breakfast option which provides iron, B vitamins and zinc with the milk adding calcium and protein to your diet.

For the conference users who would prefer a treat for the day away from the office, The Priory Rooms offer freshly baked bite-size danishes, pain au chocolat, pain aux raisins, croissants and blueberry muffins.

Accompanying the menu is freshly filtered coffee, a range of flavoured fair trade tea and iced orange juice. All served in the bright and spacious Atrium, a relaxing environment to enjoy breakfast, meet with colleagues and check emails.

Book your next conference or meeting at The Priory Rooms to taste the new breakfast menu. To enquire contact the Booking Team on 0121 236 2317 or email enquiries@theprioryrooms.co.uk.

Image: Chili con carne served at the Priory Rooms for Great British Beef Week

Supporting Charities

The Priory Rooms Team support charities by offering discounts on their meeting and conference facilities, hosting fundraising events and promoting them on their website and Twitter page. This April, the Team has been raising money and awareness for the charity R.A.B.I. They coincided the fundraising with celebrating Great British Beef Week an annual celebration of the British Beef Industry. Great British Beef Week not only highlights the range of recipes and tastes of British beef, but also aims to encourage more consumers to buy Red Tractor produce. Many within the farming industry, including the Ladies in Beef, focus on the hospitality industry and supermarket retailers’ responsibility to offer their consumers Red Tractor.

Image: Beef stew served at the Priory Rooms for Great British Beef Week

Helping farming families

This year Great British Beef Week took place from the 21st to 27th April and The Priory Rooms served their meeting and conference room users a variety of Red Tractor Beef meals. The menu included beef and horseradish, beef chili con carne and beef stew with dumplings, showcasing the taste and quality of the product. Delegates were asked to kindly donate to R.A.B.I if they enjoyed the menu and wished to show their support to the charity. R.A.B.I helps farming families in financial difficulty, with all of their work funded by public donations, fundraising events and support from businesses and community groups. The recent harsh winter affecting British farmers’ produce and life stock has highlighted the difficulties the community can face and the importance of financial support.

The Priory Rooms Team would like to thank all of their kind meeting and conference room users who donated to R.A.B.I. They hope that the fantastic feedback and support will inspire other companies to fundraise for charities. More fundraising events will be held at The Priory Rooms throughout the year.

The Priory Rooms are hoping to raise funds for R.A.B.I, a charity which helps farming families in financial difficulty. We hope our tasty beef meals will encourage delegates to generously donate to the cause. All of the R.A.B.I work is funded by public donations, fundraising events and initiatives and support from businesses and community groups. For more information about R.A.B.I visit their website www.rabi.org.uk.

The Priory Rooms lunchtime menu is prepared by our long-standing caterers Just Good Food. Just Good Food has been trading for 19 years, building a reputation for creativity, reliability and diversity. The team’s passion for food is infectious, going that extra mile to adapt menus and concepts to offer customers diversity and choice. They can cater for businesses, corporate events, weddings and private parties. For more information about Just Good Food menu’s and services contact Louise Martin on 0121 772 2288.

To get involved at home, purchase Red Tractor Beef and cook your own delicious beef meals. Ideas for recipes including “Beef Canapés” and “Beef Blazing Burgers” and events supporting the campaign are available on the Ladies in Beef website www.ladiesinbeef.org.uk.

So start celebrating Great British Beef Week! Share your recipes and find out how much money we raise for R.A.B.I by following us on Twitter @theprioryrooms.

For information about our meeting and conference facilities call 0121 236 2317.

On Thursday 11th April, Patricia Cresswell & Associates are bringing their highly praised Personal Development Course to The Priory Rooms.

The ReNew You Course offers attendees the opportunity to reflect on what they wish to achieve this year and discover the inner self confidence and belief to achieve these targets.

Patricia has herself over 25 years experience in delivering motivational courses and The Priory Rooms is delighted to have been chosen as the calming and inspiring venue.

For more information on joining the course please contact Patricia on 0780 1171792 or courses@patriciacresswell.com or visit her website http://www.patriciacresswell.com/index.cfm.

The Priory Rooms are proud members of Social Enterprise West Midlands and Think Venue. We are delighted to promote their latest campaign Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is.

The Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is campaign is promoting the procurement of third sector and social enterprise conferencing and hospitality services. BuySe, SEWM’s national Social Enterprise Directory, and Think Venue, the directory for third sector conferencing facilities, have partnered to make it easier to find and buy from local enterprise suppliers.

The Priory Rooms, as a not-for-profit meeting and conference centre, are helping to encourage awareness of the campaign and support for the many third sector hospitality suppliers available across the country.

If you would like to show your support by booking with The Priory Rooms, please call the conference team on 0121 236 2317.

You can find out more information about the campaign on the Social Enterprise West Midlands website www.socialenterprisewm.org.uk. Or see the campaign progress on Twitter by following @PYMWYMI_SocEnt.

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The Priory Rooms have always encouraged visitors to reduce their carbon footprint by travelling on public transport to our city centre venue. In an exciting step forward, The Priory Rooms have invested in Electric Vehicle Charging Stations outside the venue and are even offering delegates a free fill up as a reward to investing in environmentally-friendly electric vehicles.

At the launch was Kevin Cummins from Birmingham City Council’s Sustainability, Transportation & Partnerships Department, who praised The Priory Room’s contribution to reducing Birmingham’s carbon emissions. As a representative of Birmingham City Council’s efforts to improving the sustainability of Birmingham’s transport for future generations, Kevin was delighted to showcase The Priory Rooms’ new chargers by filling up and taking a member of Bull Street Premises Committee, William Waddilove for a spin in an electric car.

Take a look at photographs from the launch on our Flickr page: www.flickr.com/photos/theprioryrooms//

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If you would like to discuss working together on your next successful meeting, conference or event then give Beth a call on 0121 2362317 or email beth@theprioryrooms.co.uk.

We would like to wish all of our customers a Happy Christmas & a Joyful New Year from everyone at the Priory Rooms