South West

Picture of Keith De Bruin CMBII, Chairman of South West Region

Hi, welcome to the BII South West region. If you are a licensee or connected with the trade based in Devon and Cornwall, we would like to hear from you. It may be that you have a question on the new licensing reform, a concern about employee regulations or have good business ideas to share.

The South West region is a large area and you will appreciate that both counties, although very much dependent on tourism, are quite different in terms of the people who work there and the way visitors are attracted. Exchanging ideas and information is the way we keep our members up to date and informed. We currently have 1,131 members across the South West region.

The regional council is made up of members from both counties and we try to get a representative cross section of our industry, meeting regularly to organise events that will involve and inform our membership. These range from social events to training initiatives and specific events planned to highlight changes on a national level.

BII also offers its members a huge range of benefits, including FREE advertising of your pub, hotel or restaurant to 100s of new customers.  This new benefit is for Full, Fellow and Companion members and you can go straight to www.biipubsearch.com to register your details today.  However, if you’re not currently one of these grades but don’t want to miss out on this fantastic opportunity, just phone Membership Services on 0800 783 9794/95 to see if you’re eligible for upgrading.

Other great benefits include some great friendly, informal meetings each year, ranging from daytime networking events to evening social events.

Check out the rest of the website and you should be able to find what you are looking for, but if not, contact me and if I can't help you I will find someone who can.

I look forward to meeting you soon.

Keith De Bruin CMBII, Chairman of BII South West Region

Email: southwest@bii.org