Event Details
Energise, Strategise Thrive! Fuel your Mind, Body and Business for 2025.
Get ready for the year ahead with this day-long event, connecting entrepreneurs and small business owners from across the Midlands to kick off the new year with focus and ambition. Open to all, not just FSB members, it’s a great chance to experience the FSB community.
After a sell-out in 2024, we’re back at The Woodlands on the Leicestershire/Northamptonshire border. Enjoy practical talks, a magical setting, outstanding refreshments—including a two-course lunch and smoothie station—and network around the Tipi fire with marshmallows.
Agenda
8-9am Breakfast networking session. (please ensure you book this session along with your bootcamp ticket) Included: Breakfast refreshments.
9:30-3pm Bootcamp: Enjoy interactive sessions with likeminded business owners, to get inspired, informed and prepared for a great year ahead. Included: 2-course lunch plus networking and refreshment breaks throughout the day.
Business support exhibitors area
The speaker lineup will be announced in stages—check out who we've revealed so far and follow our facebook and LinkedIn for updates!
The Bootcamp will feature expert speakers sharing practical tips to help you strengthen your mind, body, and business in 2025. During breakout sessions, you can explore the Business Support Expo for local advice, network over refreshments, and even make s’mores by the Tipi fire. We encourage all small business owners to share their knowledge, join roving mic discussions, and connect using #FSBBootcamp on social media.
Your host
Jennifer Thomas MIED
Jennifer manages the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) across Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Rutland, supporting 4,500 members, organizing events like Bootcamp, and holding board positions to represent SMEs locally. FSB provides essential business services and advocates for fairness on key issues like tax and regulation for 150,000 members and the wider small business community. Passionate about helping small businesses thrive, Jennifer encourages members to volunteer, share expertise, and act as ambassadors for the small business community.
2025 Bootcamp Sessions
Alastair McLeod – Business Doctor
Achieving FREEDOM: 8 steps to increase your business value
Alastair has 25 years’ experience in business leadership roles and now runs Business Doctors in Northamptonshire.
Founders spend many years diligently and painstakingly building their businesses, but when they finally try to realize the value of their efforts (e.g. selling or handing over), often are disappointed in resulting valuations. To avoid this, owners should understand what factors drive value in the eyes of buyers, and ensure they are working to optimise these as they develop and grow their enterprise. So – start the year by taking practical steps towards increasing your business value and provide the means for future FREEDOM … to do what you want, when you want!
Remy Clarke
Remy is a specialist in customer relationship management (CRM) working with brands like Watford FC, Sk:n clinics, Comparethemarket.com and Loughborough University.
Remy will talk about why Better Customer Knowledge = Profitable Business Growth and what you can do in 2025 to increase your leads, conversions, margins and average spend, and Grow your business and profits.
Campbell McLean - Sales Geek East Midlands Ltd
Campbell uses his years of experience as a sales leader to help businesses deliver more sales and increase their profitability. Specialising in creating sustainable strategies and ensuring they deliver tangible results, Campbell has a proven track record of driving growth and success for various companies.
Campbell will lead an interactive session where you’ll discover practical strategies to help your business thrive, even in an uncertain economy. Expect an engaging session filled with practical advice and plenty of actionable insights to help you navigate and succeed in challenging times.
Rupert and Angela Turton - ActionCOACH Oakham & Kettering
Rupert and Angela have been providing business coaching for over five years and during that time have supported 100+ local businesses through one-to-one coaching, group coaching, strategy days, team alignment, planning days, and interactive workshops.
Before you invest in marketing and selling your product or service, your business needs to have the foundations in place to ensure you can deliver and retain your customer. Angela and Rupert will explain how you get the biggest impact from your cash, ensure your clients buy from you time and time again, and focus your efforts to best effect.
Panel and roving mic: Tips for getting your Body and Mind ready to drive your business
A panel of member experts as well as interactive discussion on your tables, sharing advice on how to make sure you're looking after your health and wellbeing to keep energised and ready for the year ahead. Including tips on nutrition, habits and hacks, physcial fitness, and mental health and resilience.
A resilience warrior for your corner of the world
Dr Mish has always had an interest in the resilience, wellbeing, and self-care of others, so much so that she's built her business around it! She's particularly interested in women wellbeing entrepreneurs who want to 'hack the juggle' of life and work and be resilient in both. Dr Mish has worked across several roles within the helping professions since the late 1990's, she became a psychotherapist in 2008 and more recently added coaching to her skills. She runs a successful therapy, coaching and consultation practice in Kibworth, Leicestershire.
Panel and roving mic: Planning and Preparing for the Year Ahead
A panel of member experts from Cyber, leadership, marketing and tech as well as interactive discussion on your tables, sharing advice on how you can keep competitive, connected and work smarter in 2025.
Enhance your Bootcamp day with these optional extras!
SWAP Speed Networking Breakfast (8-9am)
Get ahead of the game and fill your address book before Bootcamp even starts with this speed networking session run by Amanda Bourne from FindABiz networking. The SWAP speed networking system enables you to swap details with everyone in the room, no repeats. Speed networking tickets include breakfast rolls and hot drinks. Places are limited, secure your spot now and maximize your networking time for the rest of the day!
Exhibitor Stands
Want to grab the spotlight on the day? Can you support businesses to succeed in 2025? Why not book an Expo stand! Stands are discounted for FSB members but all businesses and business support organisations with a quality offer for SMEs are welcome to exhibit. Reserve your expo stand here.
Tickets
Please choose your ticket buy selecting the "Book Now" button. Ticket options are:
Speed networking breakfast only (8-9am):
FSB member £10 + VAT
Non-FSB member £15 + VAT
Combined Ticket - speed networking breakfast and bootcamp (8am-3pm):
FSB member £25 + VAT
Non-FSB member £40 + VAT
Bootcamp only (9am-3pm)
FSB member £15.00 + VAT
Non-FSB member £25 + VAT
Contact us if you're interested in joining FSB as a member for the members' discount as well as a huge range of other membership benefits – we'd love to have you on board.
Car parking : Complimentary car parking is available at the venue.
Please note, dietary requirements cannot be guaranteed for bookings made after Monday 22 January.
Interested in our Bootcamp series? See our full programme of Bootcamp events here.
Event Contact
Please contact Amy Gillespie for any further information.
