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Some of the Boddy Mathews team enjoyed the joint Reigate Offices Christmas outing starting with cocktails at Urban 9, followed by authentic tapas at Carmona’s Tapas Bar restaurant with a few festive colleagues finishing the night at the nightclub….

Boddy Matthews Solicitor supporter Jerry Clarke delighted with his prizes at the Reigate Business Guild tombola at the Christmas Fayre, Reigate High Street. The £300 of Employment Law Advice had already been won by another lucky contestant!

ELA’s annual lecture this year celebrated The First 100 Years of Women in Law – and the Second – with an eminent panel including Dame Janet Gaymer DBE QC (Hon), Harini Iyengar, barrister at 11KBW and Linden Thomas, President of Birmingham Law Society amongst others. There were some very amusing anecdotes of yesteryear, while looking forward to see how the workplace needs to change for everyone over the next 100 years to allow gender equality to be fully realised. Even in 2019 you see articles with titles such as “Can you be a mother and a senior law firm partner?” and women are underrepresented at partner and QC level. Boddy Matthews partners Helen and Kate broke the glass ceiling some time ago having been senior equity partners throughout the 21st century!

Helen Boddy very much enjoyed the action packed agenda of this full day seminar in Chancery Lane, which provided a workshop based around the key topic of worker status and also focused on thorny practical issues around calculating pensions loss, unfair dismissal, the scope of legal privilege, tips for investigations and defining PCPs.

Partner Helen Boddy participated in this debate in relation to a Consultation on the economic profile of the area, which is the biggest piece of research undertaken to date into the economy and the area’s potential. The ensuing analysis will inform the local industrial strategy to be negotiated with government early next year and, when published, will prioritise intervention and investment in the local area.

The British Franchise Association hosted an inspirational event Empowering Women in business in Oxford. Kate Matthews represented Boddy Matthews as one of the delegates benefitting from insight into the incredible personal journeys shared by guest speakers Grace Harding of Ocean Basket franchise and Sara Winckless the former Olympic Games Medallist in rowing.  Penny Haslam was the award winning motivational speaker and former BBC presenter who engaged the audience with her thoughts on banishing imposter syndrome for women and how to be the best you can be to succeed.

Boddy Matthews Solicitors hosted clients at a very special and unique exhibition: Hogarth: Place and Progress at Sir John Soane’s Museum. The exhibition united all of Hogarth’s surviving painted series for the first time and demonstrated how Hogarth married the idea of progress with the moral geography of London. One highlight here was ‘Humours of an Election’ which given the timing was very apt! With the museum being lit by candlelight and an accompanying gin and tonic a great cultural evening was had by all.

Kate Matthews hosted a successful November Meeting of EWIF (Encouraging Women Into Franchising) in her role as South Chair. MetroBank Orpington kindly hosted the event for EWIF with Franchisors, Franchisees and affiliate consultants, bankers and lawyers all attending. Guest speakers presented financial overview for 2020 and software choices for franchising and how to keep passwords and systems secure with IT ever developing.

The Vineking Tasting Rooms were the perfect informal venue to learn about the lifesaving actions to take for heart attacks and cardiac arrest. Kate Matthews attended the Reigate Business Guild event courtesy of Francis Fernandes and his wife, to learn about these life saving techniques and the location of local defibrillators and hear about the miraculous event and the actions of those who saved Francis’ life.