Cornwall Marine Network
About Cornwall Marine Network
Cornwall Marine Network (CMN) is a membership owned organisation: created by a small group of Cornish marine businesses in 2002.
CMN’s main aims are to improve and grow the prosperity of the Cornish marine sector, to maintain and increase marine job opportunities, to improve the skills of the workforce and to encourage networking between our members.
New initiatives include building links with schools and colleges to encourage young people into the marine sector. Our aims are reached with focused activities including:
- Training programmes and grants for developing skills
- Business directories and websites for creating awareness
- Events that encourage networking opportunities
- Business advice that supports profitable growth
- Sourcing funding to help businesses develop
Our recent key achievements include delivering a marketing grant scheme which supported more than 100 member businesses and created over 220 new full-time jobs, supporting 80+ member businesses to become self-sufficient at risk assessment, developing new national qualifications plus finding ways to overcome the barriers to training engagement which have enabled us to arrange and support training to over 1,000 marine employees. Membership Membership of CMN is split into two categories:
- Full membership (for marine businesses)
- Associate membership (for businesses who work with the marine sector)
If you’re a marine business in Cornwall we’d love to hear from you. Simply call us on 01326 211382 for a no obligation discussion about how we can help your business.
Meeting Venues & Conference Facilities for Hire
Brand new Meeting Venues and Conference Facilities available for hire, adding further value to CMN membership
Cornwall Marine Network is expanding, and as a result has brand new conference and training facilities available to hire. The bright and spacious rooms offer an impressive setting to stage both small and larger events and have been kitted out with the most up-to-date audio visual equipment. Located in central Falmouth, we are easily accessible from all areas of Cornwall and our friendly office provides a comfortable and flexible setting for a range of events.
Who’s Who at Cornwall Marine Network
On a day to day basis, twenty members of staff work for CMN. A board of directors oversees the running of the organisation, which consists of 7 people including a chairman and 6 elected non-executive directors.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Paul Wickes, Chief Executive Officer [email]
Clare Cocks, PA to CEO [email]
MARKETING
Tim Bowerbank, Marketing Manager [email]
Georgia White, Marketing Executive [email]
Freya Money, Marketing and Business Development Co-ordinator [email ]
Elizabeth Clark, Marketing and Business Development Assistant [email]
ACADEMY
Mark Beckett, Marine Academy Manager [email]
Michael Legassick, Academy Administrator [email ]
David Wickes, Academy Project Officer [email ]
John Kirman, Academy Consultant [email ]
Julie Pollard, Marine Academy Consultant [email]
TRAINING
Jayne Jenking, Centre Manager [email]
Geoff Wright, Tutor, Business Skills Lead IQA [email]
Charles Nesbitt, Tutor, ESOL and ITQ Assessor [email ]
Steve Richards, Tutor and Lead IQA [email ]
CONTRACTS & INFORMATION
Anne-Marie Sefton, Contracts and Information Manager [email ]
Bethany Allen, Contracts and Information Administrator [email ]
Michelle Rodgers, Finance [email ]
Lucy Harris, Strategic Executive [email ]
Cornish Marine Sector Facts…
Cornwall has a world class marine sector in which thousands of people work and thousands of others depend on its continued success.
- The Cornish Marine sector accounts for 1 in 7 marine jobs in the UK.
- Accounts for 8% of the UK’s total leisure marine industry turnover
- In Cornwall more than 14,000 jobs are directly or indirectly involved with the marine sector
- Cornwall has more than 5,000 moorings and is home to thousands of boat owners
- Cornwall hosts between 35,000 and 45,000 visiting yacht nights per year
- a massive 42% of Cornish marine businesses are located in and around Falmouth where Cornwall Marine Network is located, accounting for 181 businesses and almost 3,000 jobs
- Just under 1% of global leisure marine industry is based in Cornwall
Key Benefits
Benefits for full members (i.e. Cornish marine businesses) include:
- Training grants
- Entry into Cornwall's Marine Guide and Directory - the handy guide to Cornwall's marine industry
- Entry on www.cornwallmarine.com - Cornwall's online guide to get on, in and under our Cornish waters
- Entry on www.cornwallmarine.net - the marine sector's industry portal
- Marketing Business advice and support (from web to vehicle signage - we're here to help)
- Access to CMN's image bank - more than 9000 top photographs of Cornwall's marine environment, including one of the most up-to-date aerial image banks of our County
- Member Messaging - our online tool that allows you to email the membership base - ideal for news, product launches, and networking
- Access to marine networking events
- Access to best-practice workshops that help develop your business skills
- Apprenticeship programmes
- National Vocational Qualification programmes
- Skills for Life - increase your literacy and numeracy skills
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