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civic · Thursday 27 August 2026 · 9:00am 
ABC Business Network Monthly Networking Breakfast
At Banbridge Enterprise Centre · Scarva Road Industrial Estate, Banbridge, Co. Down, BT32 3QD
At Banbridge Enterprise Centre · Scarva Road Industrial Estate, Banbridge, Co. Down, BT32 3QD
The ABC Business Network holds a monthly networking breakfast on the last Thursday of every month at 9am, usually at Banbridge Enterprise Centre. The next meeting is Thursday, 27 August 2026. It is a not-for-profit forum for business owners, sole traders and professionals across the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon council area, and Banbridge itself sits within Co. Down even though the network’s remit spans the wider ABC borough. Meetings mix a guest or member speaker with structured one-to-one networking over breakfast.
Each session follows the same format: arrival and informal mingling over breakfast, a guest or member speaker on a business topic, and a structured round of one-to-one introductions so attendees leave having actually spoken to people rather than just collected cards. Venues rotate around the wider council area, and this meeting is scheduled at Banbridge Enterprise Centre, on the edge of the town. The network is run for and by local business owners rather than a franchise chapter, and membership gives free entry to every monthly breakfast plus the wider calendar of ABC Business Network events through the year. Visitors are welcome to try a meeting before joining: entry for a visitor attending in person costs £10, or £5 for those joining online via Zoom, both payable through Eventbrite in advance. Contact details for the network are published on its events page for anyone wanting to check the exact venue before travelling, since it does vary month to month, and it is worth confirming ahead given the schedule sometimes shifts venue at short notice.
Banbridge Enterprise Centre is on the Scarva Road Industrial Estate on the edge of Banbridge, with free on-site parking. Banbridge sits just off the A1 dual carriageway between Belfast and Newry, which bypassed the town centre in 2003, making the Enterprise Centre a quick turn off the main road rather than a drive through town.
Banbridge grew rich on linen and is still cut in two by The Cut, the trench blasted through Newry Street in 1834 so mail coaches could get up the hill. There is more to see in Banbridge and across Co. Down.
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