Fresh Start event focuses on helping businesses and individuals achieve their goals

CHESTER, U.K. - Jan. 5, 2015 - PRLog -- Healthy-lifestyle online community The Green Pages is holding a Fresh Start January event on Wednesday 14th January from 10am until 2pm. The free event is sponsored by healthy snack manufacturer 9bar and Cheshire West and Chester Council and will take place at the Riverside Innovation Centre in Chester.

The event is open to both local businesses and members of the public who are interested in health, wellbeing and a greener way of life and offers a great opportunity to meet and connect with local green healthy lifestyle businesses from across the North West. It will feature a number of speakers including former Team GB kickboxing champion Annette Khepri. Annette is the creator of ‘Black Belt Thinking’, an approach that focuses on achieving social change and personal goals by embracing a mind/body/spirit way of life. She will be aiming to inspire people to achieve their goals and New Year’s resolutions with her talk ‘The Art of Magical Heart and Mind – Creating your Most Conscious, Audacious and Healthy New Year yet’.

There will be holistic health professionals on hand to offer advice and tips to attendees as well as workshops, presentations and green healthy lifestyle exhibitors. Guests will have the opportunity to network and do business with like-minded people, enjoy a healthy lunch and take home giveaway prizes and goody bags.

Founder and director of The Green Pages Svitlana Bulava says, ‘We want to help people get inspired to have a healthy, happy and well balanced 2015! We are extremely grateful to our sponsors Cheshire West and Chester Council and 9bar for allowing us to offer this event completely free of charge to anyone who would like to come along.’

The event will be showcasing ‘Findit’, Cheshire and Warrington councils’ new procurement portal which aims to boost the local economy by providing businesses with support and advice as well as assistance in bidding for contracts.

Peter Beswick, Economic Development Officer for Cheshire West and Chester Council, says, ‘We’ve worked in partnership with The Green Pages to promote their services to local suppliers using the portal. In fact, it’s given them the chance to promote this event to a wider business community. We look forward to demonstrating Findit at the Fresh Start January event and showing attendees the benefits of signing up to the web portal.’

The Green Pages launched in May 2013 and is an online community bringing together healthy living resources across north-west England and north-east Wales. It also organises and hosts various events to promote healthy living to the local community while supporting local businesses. These include health and wellbeing fairs, wellbeing conferences and monthly Green Networking meetings.

For further information visit Green Pages’ website www.mygreenpages.co.uk or contact Svitlana Bulava at svitlana@mygreenpages.co.uk.

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Notes to editors:

The Green Pages provides the latest information on natural health, nutrition, fitness, personal growth, wellbeing, sustainability and green living. It also promotes the products and services of local healthy lifestyle businesses via its business directory. In addition, the website provides information on relevant local events and offers as well as advice from professional health advisers.

Green Networking is the first networking group designed to target the green community in the North West by bringing together healthy lifestyle businesses with shared values. Since it launched in January 2014 over 200 local independent businesses have joined the Green Networking community.

Annette Khepri is a published author and poet, singer/songwriter, speaker and multiple black belt holder. The former team GB kickboxing champion is the first UK female Master Instructor to design and build a holistic personal development martial arts academy around eastern wisdom, Feng Shui and cutting edge mindset principles. Annette has taught, performed and spoken to thousands of people internationally over the past twenty years.

Wholebake (WB) owns the 9bar brand. They are a rapidly expanding British company that manufactures and sells healthy snack bars under the Wholebake, 9bar and Seedstacked brands to customers including Tesco, Sainsbury, Waitrose, ASDA, Holland & Barrett, EH Booths, Boots as well as to independent health trade accounts and via direct online sales.

A photograph of Peter Beswick(Economic Development Officer for Cheshire West and Chester Council), Svitlana Bulava (Director of The Green Pages) and Peter Bulmer (Sustainability Manager at Cheshire West and Cheshire Council) is available if required.