The Hub for Media and Creative Professionals in and around Tunbridge Wells.
About
The world of media has changed unrecognisably over the past two decades. Gone are the days when journalists and designers put the latest issue to bed and spent the rest of the day – and most of the night – down the pub. What was lost along the way was the chance for creatives to exchange ideas, sources, latest industry news and gossip.
Writers, artists and other creative types have never clocked in and out of the office. They are often found at their desks at 10pm at night and in spite of the occasional four hour lunch still manage to hit their deadlines.
The aim of Meeja Hub is to bring back a bit of that old school ethos – especially for creatives who, disheartened with the pressures of the larger publishers and agencies, have struck out on their own. Both online and in real time, Meeja Hub will provide a forum for creatives to share information, leads, expertise, advice and anything else deemed useful or amusing.
Meeja Hub is a pro-active, niche networking group for media and creative professionals. First and foremost it provides a social forum – a chance to meet like-minded people who know a good pun when they read it and can recognise a great logo at ten paces. Based in Tunbridge Wells – but open to creatives wherever they are based – the group will officially meet monthly (normally at Hotel du Vin, Tunbridge Wells).
New media is integral to Meeja Hub, both in terms of the membership and the group’s own website. Based on an interactive ‘Facebook’ style, without the sheep-throwing application, the Meeja Hub site will allow members to publicise their work, share information and ask other members for input.
WHERE?
There are an ever-increasing number of networking groups in the UK business community, both operating in virtual and real time. West Kent and Sussex borders is well served – targeted at businessmen and businesswomen, helping them network over breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Some of these groups are very sales-orientated, others have a more relaxed approach. None, as yet, centre on a specific industry.
Twenty years ago, if you wanted to make your mark in the media or creative world you had to be London-based. As working patterns have changed with the advent of the internet, so have the locations where creatives and small to medium-sized agencies can be found.
Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding area (equidistant between the media centres of London and Brighton) has its own creative industries. A number of newspapers and magazines are locally-based, as are small/medium agencies, publishers, photographers, film editors, artists, illustrators, designers and writers. There are also many London media employees who live in the TW area, likely at some point to give up the commute and create their own business opportunities.
WHO?
Meeja Hub has been created by three media professionals: Gaynor Edwards, Jez Timms and Stephen Fleming.
Writers, artists and other creative types have never clocked in and out of the office. They are often found at their desks at 10pm at night and in spite of the occasional four hour lunch still manage to hit their deadlines.
The aim of Meeja Hub is to bring back a bit of that old school ethos – especially for creatives who, disheartened with the pressures of the larger publishers and agencies, have struck out on their own. Both online and in real time, Meeja Hub will provide a forum for creatives to share information, leads, expertise, advice and anything else deemed useful or amusing.
Meeja Hub is a pro-active, niche networking group for media and creative professionals. First and foremost it provides a social forum – a chance to meet like-minded people who know a good pun when they read it and can recognise a great logo at ten paces. Based in Tunbridge Wells – but open to creatives wherever they are based – the group will officially meet monthly (normally at Hotel du Vin, Tunbridge Wells).
New media is integral to Meeja Hub, both in terms of the membership and the group’s own website. Based on an interactive ‘Facebook’ style, without the sheep-throwing application, the Meeja Hub site will allow members to publicise their work, share information and ask other members for input.
WHERE?
There are an ever-increasing number of networking groups in the UK business community, both operating in virtual and real time. West Kent and Sussex borders is well served – targeted at businessmen and businesswomen, helping them network over breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Some of these groups are very sales-orientated, others have a more relaxed approach. None, as yet, centre on a specific industry.
Twenty years ago, if you wanted to make your mark in the media or creative world you had to be London-based. As working patterns have changed with the advent of the internet, so have the locations where creatives and small to medium-sized agencies can be found.
Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding area (equidistant between the media centres of London and Brighton) has its own creative industries. A number of newspapers and magazines are locally-based, as are small/medium agencies, publishers, photographers, film editors, artists, illustrators, designers and writers. There are also many London media employees who live in the TW area, likely at some point to give up the commute and create their own business opportunities.
WHO?
Meeja Hub has been created by three media professionals: Gaynor Edwards, Jez Timms and Stephen Fleming.
Jez and Gaynor own and run Torpedo Juice Ltd, a full service design and marketing agency based in Tunbridge Wells - Stephen has a copywriting company Copy That Works in Hawkhurst.
All three also have experience of networking groups in the area. Jez and Stephen launched West Kent Networking in 2007, while Gaynor spent three years on the Women In Business committee and editor of their newsletter.
The trio decided to launch Meeja Hub for purely selfish reasons – they miss the level of banter that you only find in creative environments.
They made the decision to charge for premium membership, so that they have funds to book exciting events, perhaps one day employ someone to handle the boring admin and because people tend to value and stay involved more with groups they have paid to join.
Meeja Hub was not created as a money-making venture, but a non for profit group that is paid for by it's membership base. First and foremost the group’s aim is to be fun – it’s a social club for anyone and everyone with the same mindset involved in the field of media, from aspiring agency PAs to established novelists.
Contacts:
Tel: 01892 677700
Email: accounts@meejahub.co.uk
All three also have experience of networking groups in the area. Jez and Stephen launched West Kent Networking in 2007, while Gaynor spent three years on the Women In Business committee and editor of their newsletter.
The trio decided to launch Meeja Hub for purely selfish reasons – they miss the level of banter that you only find in creative environments.
They made the decision to charge for premium membership, so that they have funds to book exciting events, perhaps one day employ someone to handle the boring admin and because people tend to value and stay involved more with groups they have paid to join.
Meeja Hub was not created as a money-making venture, but a non for profit group that is paid for by it's membership base. First and foremost the group’s aim is to be fun – it’s a social club for anyone and everyone with the same mindset involved in the field of media, from aspiring agency PAs to established novelists.
Contacts:
Tel: 01892 677700
Email: accounts@meejahub.co.uk
Last updated by Jez Timms Jul. 17, 2009.
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