Maximising benefits for companies from rugby sponsorship, transferable skills for business from the sport and the upcoming Six Nations were hot topics at the second Bath meeting of the Rugby Business Network.
More than 60 guests attended the event, which followed the inaugural meeting in Bath last September of the world’s largest business networking community revolving around the rugby.
The event was supported by Nine Feet Tall, Aldemore Bank and Mogers Solicitors and timed ahead of the Six Nations – with guest speaker Nigel Redman, Bath, England and British Lions legend and coach and businessman since his retirement, on hand to provide some insight. 
Also speaking were Sophie Morris, founder and MD of Millharbour Marketing and an expert in rugby sponsorship and grassroots rugby, and Caryl Thomas, inclusion manager at Bath Rugby Foundation and current Wales international and 2014 Six Nations squad member.
Huw Jones, partner at Nine Feet Tall and Bath RBN organiser, said: “Bath is a great rugby city and it is hard to have a successful business that doesn’t have a connection with the sporting scene. We love talking rugby at Nine Feet Tall and if we can help others we meet in some way that is great. Sport has many transferable skills for business and sometimes for the players we meet we find that their challenge is not in not having these but knowing what they are and making employers aware of how it can benefit their business.
“We have an international hockey player and an ex-professional cricketer in our team and players from Bath Rugby doing some work experience with us and it brings great energy and new perspectives to our work. As Nigel Redman highlighted, rugby is a team game and you can’t win on your own. That is so very true for business success and building a great team with local talent is what we are trying to do in our business.”
Pictured: Sian Swift, of Guyers House Hotel, Nigel Redman and Huw Jones of Nine Feet Tall
