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Over £5,000 now raised
Each year, we donate a percentage of our annual profits goes to a breast cancer charity to support them, albeit in a small way, continue their important research work.
This year's cheque takes our total contributions to over £5,000.
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Now in 25 cities
In April 2008 we succesfully run our first ever event in Southend - the twenty fifth UK city where you can now enjoy our brand of quality Speed Dating.
Following the successful launch, we will now run regular events for all age ranges in Essex.
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Online Dating goes live
Our Online Dating site launched succesfully in March. It offers you detailed profiles of thousands of potential new partners and provides you a sophisticated auto-match function and full messaging capabilities.
Click on the image to register for FREE.
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Your very own personalised invite
Our recent personalised novelty "comic strip" email was a huge success with many people customising the message and sending it onto their friends.
This email enables you to select your friend's name, their sex, where they live and their nearest event city.
It's
so easy to send your
friend a personalised email now
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A busy night for Cupid
On February 14th, we ran a record number of Valentine's Night Specials throughout the country.
With all events sold out and some very positive feedback from our customers, Cupid must have been busy on the night!
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Successful Speed Dating
Our techies have done some number crunching and have worked out that there were an incredible 43,516 matches as a result of Slow Dating events held throughout the UK in 2007.
No surprises that this has led to many
successful relationships, and some nine marriages last year; well nine that we know about anyway!
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Doing our bit for charity
Every year, a percentage of our annual profits goes to breast cancer charities to support them, albeit in a small way, continue their valued and specialised work.
Here we are presenting our latest cheque.
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Now in 24 Cities Across the UK
In September 2007 we succesfully run our first ever event in Norwich - the twenty fourth UK city where you can now enjoy our brand of quality Speed Dating.
Following the successful launch, we will now run regular events for all age ranges in Norwich.
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Celebrating Four Successful Years
Over 200 people drank, chatted and danced away at our recent fourth
birthday bash.
As well as joining the mini Slow Dating sessions,
and a rather large Photo Wall, many people had fun trying their Locks and
Keys hoping to claim some of the £500 worth of prizes that were given
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Twenty Twentysomethings
After the success of our 'Twenties Only' events last year, we will now be holding more of these events.
During September 2007, there will be a choice of events across our twenty three cities
exclusively for those in their twenties.
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Yet another wedding
Congratulations to Jason and Sarah, who found love at one of our events
and were recently married.
As with all Slow Dating introduced
weddings, we sent the bride a sterling silver heart keepsake box from
Harrod's.
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Love Unlocked
Our London Summer Party was a huge success with nearly 200 fun loving
people exchanging details whilst trying to get their locks and keys to
match.
The Photo Wall at the party was a hit, with almost everyone
having their picture added to the wall. Over 600 flirt cards were given
out by our daters.
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Caribbean Wedding
For all Slow Dating introduced weddings, we send the happy couple a
Harrod's sterling silver keepsake box.
Here is Mr and Mrs Hill, who met at one of our events, looking very happy having just
tied the knot on a beach in the Caribbean
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Europe's Favourite
It's official - we now run events in more cities than
any other speed dating company in Europe.
We are thus able to offer you more choice and more matches than any
other speed dating company
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Liverpool Launch
In March 2007, we successfully launched Slow Dating in Liverpool.
Forty daters enjoyed spectactular romantic views across Albert Dock throughout the evening. Liverpool becomes the twenty third city where we run our brand of successful, fun Speed Dating.
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Still no phone booking surcharge
While
other speed dating companies charge you up to £2 per person for telephone
bookings, we choose not to.
Although the vast majority of our
bookings are made online, there are no booking fees or surcharges if you
prefer to book over the phone with us
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Great New Venues
We strive to provide the most suitable venues in each of twenty two cities we run events in.
Recent new bars for us are:- the oh so trendy Al Duomo in Brighton, Tiger Tiger in Leeds, The Spot in Swindon and in London, Alibi in the City and Bar 101 in the West End, recently described as "the perfect place to pull".
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Heart Warming
All of our Valentine's Day 2007 Specials were incredibly successful with a staggering 87% of people getting at least one match
With our enhanced matching engine, daters can contact their admirers immediately by email, phone or text.
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Your pod or mine?
To ensure that love was in the air at our Valentine's Day launch in York, we hired the Yorkshire Wheel for the night.
44 daters were treated to bubbly on arrival and enjoyed spectacular romantic views across the city from their individual pods.
We will now be running regular Slow Dating events in York with a variety of age ranges throughout the year.
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Four minutes is all it takes
Our
techies have done some number crunching and have worked out that there
were a staggering 37,456 matches as a result of Slow Dating events held
throughout the UK in 2006.
No surprises that this has led to many
successful relationships, and some seven marriages last year; well seven
that we know about anyway!
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No email - no worries
Just
a reminder that anyone without email can easily join in the fun
Slow Dating.
All they need is a mobile, and our FREE SMS text
alerting service will automatically send details of matches direct to
their mobile the instant any admirers match with them.
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Award Winners
We
have once again been awarded "UK Speed Dating company of the year" by the
acclaimed International Dating Society.
They stated our emphasis on
quality, our friendly hosts, our customer service and our unique matching
system makes us the best speed dating company in the UK.
Thanks
Guys.
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Now in Cardiff
In October 2006, we successfully launched in Wales - demonstrating yet again we
are the fastest growing speed dating company in the UK.
Cardiff
becomes the twenty first city where you can enjoy our successful fun
events.
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For a good cause
A
generous 10% of our annual profits goes to three breast cancer charities
to support them, albeit in a small way, continue their valued and
specialised work.
Here we are presenting our latest
cheque.
Click on
the image if you want to do your bit too.
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Third Birthday Bash
Our third anniversary party was a great success with 200 singles enjoying a great party.
This year's line up included Karaoke, a Red
Room with Cupids who hand delivered flirty and dirrty messages; a White Room wih mini Slow Dating sessions and a Blue Room
where mobile phone fanatics "toothed" one another messages of lurrve.
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Photo Upload Enhancement
Our
latest site enhancement lets you upload your photo to help the people you've dated
remember what you look like !
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Top to Toe Makeover Winner
Congratulation
to Yorkshire lass Claire who won one of our recent competitions. She is
off for a top to toe makeover and a full days pampering at Champneys
health resort.
Here she is receiving her prize envelope from our
ever wonderful Leeds host Denise.
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Invite a friend
Our
latest web site enhancement gives you the ability to easily forward on
details of a Slow Dating event that interests you to a friend of
yours.
Naturally the message to your friend contains a link to
enable you both to easily book onto your chosen evening.
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Let's go shopping
Now
fully live, our online store lets you buy a variety of merchandise. Choose
from a wide range of cheeky designs, including some customisable
options.
The online shop is of course fully secure.
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Azzurri United
You
may remember our recent offer - book for any event this summer and if your
country wins the World Cup, we will refund your money.
We would
have happily refunded the thousand or so English people who booked with us
last month, but as we know, Sven let us down and England came home
early.
So instead, we are refunding eight happy Italians.
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Free wedding present
We often get emails from people who have found love at
one of our events, telling us about their forthcoming weddings.
So,
being the generous folks that we are, we have decided that for all future
Slow Dating introduced weddings, we will send the bride a sterling silver
heart keepsake box from Harrod's.
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New books in bookshop
We
have expanded the books section of our web site, bringing together in one
place all sorts of dating and relationship related books.
Expect
to see incredibly cheesy titles, such as "How to increase your marriage
potential" and "How we're different and what to do about it" but you may
well find something that tickles your fancy - check out the range
now.
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Wedding bells
We
often get emails from people who not only enjoy our events, but find love.
During May we heard from four very excitable men who were each bubbling
away at the news that their new sweethearts had agreed to their marriage
proposals.
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Never get lost again
Our
new enhanced mapping service lets you find your way to the venue easily.
As well as enabling you to zoom in and out and move around the
map; with our special print function, you will only print the map details
- there will be no annoying adverts on our print-outs.
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Come on you Lions
Here's
an amazing match winning offer - book for any event this
summer and if England win the World Cup, we will refund you your
money.
Not English? Choose you who think will win, and if they do,
then you will get the cost of your speed dating refunded.
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Still no phone booking surcharge
While
other speed dating companies charge you up to £2 per person for telephone
bookings, we choose not to.
Although the vast majority of our
bookings are made online, there are no booking fees or surcharges if you
prefer to book over the phone with us.
It is all part of the
quality service we offer you.
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Another great new venue
We
strive to provide the most suitable venues in each of the twenty cities we
run events in.
Our most recent new London bar is called Number 5,
which is oddly enough at Number 5 Cavendish Square - just a few minutes
walk from Oxford Circus tube station.
Formerly the Spanish
Embassy, it has been imaginatively converted into a stylish and chic
space.
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Instant answers
So
far this year we have successfully handled over four hundred customer
enquiries via our online real time chat system which enables you to ask
any question you have and receive an instant reply from the ever wonderful
Anna and Nicola.
No other UK Speed Dating company offers
this.
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Attracting the right people
Leading
Life Coach, and one of our Brighton hostesses, Lisa Mitchell invites you
to sign up for a full day
interactive workshop and discover how to attract the right people, how to make your relationships work and how to be truly
magnetic.
Lisa assures us that at the end of the day, you will be a
changed person.
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Adding ticks
Our
latest system enhancement lets you not only see who has ticked you, but
also gives you a second chance to add an extra tick or two.
It
means you will never be caught between two minds again with the added
bonus that you will probably get an extra match or two as well.
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Continued growth
During
March, we successfully launched in two more cities - Reading and Leicester
- demonstrating once again we are the fastest growing speed dating company
around.
You can now enjoy our events in twenty cities throughout
the UK.
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Great new venues
We
strive to provide the most suitable venues in each of the eighteen cities
we run events in.
Recent new bars for us are:- the ever trendy
Tiger Tiger in Manchester; Bushwackers in Birmingham, recently described
as "the perfect place to seduce"; and Bar Ice in Southampton, which is, as
the name suggests, a pretty cool place.
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On the radio
With
all the recent kerfuffle surrounding Valentine's Day, we made a number of
media appearances in February.
Here's MD Carl popping up live on
BBC Radio to chat about how Slow Dating can lead to true lurrve.
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Sneak preview of our online shop
Take
a sneak peak at an early version of our online store, where you can now
buy a range of Slow Dating merchandise.
There is already a choice
of cheeky designs, with loads more to come.
The online shop is of
course fully secure and although the prices are high, so is the quality
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No email? - no worries
Just a reminder that any of your friends who don't have email can easily join in the fun Slow Dating.
All they need is a mobile, and our FREE SMS text alerting service will automatically send details of their matches direct to their mobile the instant any admirers match with them.
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"Calm Down, Calm Down"
Ever expanding, we expect to bring our brand of quality speed dating to at least TEN new cities during 2006.
First to benefit from the Slow Dating phenomenon this year will be those ever loveable Liverpudlians.
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Learn all about "Dating Confidence"
Respected dating expert, and our popular Manchester host, Tony Wrighton, has just released a unique dating tips CD - "Dating Confidence in 30 minutes".
It's an easy listen and full of top tips - and it's also available for fast download in various formats from Tony's Science of Dating web site.
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See who has yet to tick
Although our system automatically chases up people to enter their ticks after an event, our latest system enhancement enables you to see who has yet to enter their choices.
This will make the wait for your matches to come through more exciting and less nerve jangling.
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Instant Answers
Over the past year we have successfully handled over a thousand customer enquiries via our online real time chat system which enables you to ask any question you have and receive an immediate reply from the ever wonderful Anna and Nicola.
No other UK Speed Dating company offers this.
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For a Good Cause
A generous 10% of our annual profits goes to three breast cancer charities to support them, albeit in a small way, continue their valued and specialised work.
Here's our MD Carl presenting our latest cheque.
As it's breast cancer awareness month, consider clicking on the image if you want to do your bit too
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Celebrating two successful years
Over 200 people enjoyed our recent second birthday bash at award winning bar come club Escape.
There were a lot of sore heads, and sore feet, the next day as party goers were treated to complimentary cha-cha, merengue and salsa dance sessions, and for a few brave souls, belly dancing lessons.
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London Lives
Continuing our expansion, we are delighted to announce that, thanks to popular demand, we are now running more events than ever before in the Capital.
Yet more proof that Slow Dating does work!
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Lucky Thirteen
We pop up on TV from time to time, most recently on Grampian up in Scotland, on one of those "Things you have to do before you die" type programmes.
The show was presented by "Scotland's 13th most eligible bachelor". However, after an enjoyable Slow Dating evening in Edinburgh, he is no longer single.
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Always Improving
We have introduced a customer feedback survey system which will help us to further improve our offering to you.
This online survey enables you to provide feedback on the quality of the venue, the hosts, the web site and so on. It is is quick and easy to fill in and is available for all events that you have ever attended.
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Fancy a Roman Holiday ?
All
bookings taken throughout June and July will be automatically entered into
a draw for a romantic weekend away - for two - in the eternal city of
Rome.
The prize includes flights, accommodation and £100 spending
money.
As they say, you have to be in it to win it, and as we run
events for all age ranges in seventeen cities nationwide, there may well
be a suitable event for you
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Going on Seventeen
Following a successful launch in March, Sheffield has become the latest - the seventeenth - city in which we now run regular speed dating events.
In keeping with our policy of only using up-market venues, we now have a regular booking at The Halcyon - recently voted one of Europe's best bars.
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Wedding bells ?
We regularly get emails and calls from people who not only enjoy our events, but find love. During May we heard from three excitable men who shall remain nameless (at this stage) who were each bubbling away at the news that their new honeys had agreed to their marriage proposals.
Yet more proof that Slow Dating does work!
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How to succeed at Speed Dating
Leading relationship expert Clare McCann launched her book "How to Succeed at Speed Dating" at our event at The Paragon Lounge in London's West End on May 12th. All attendees received a free signed copy of the book and dating tips from Clare.
"How to Succeed at Speed Dating" is just one of the many titles you can buy at our online bookstore.
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At a loose end this weekend?
In co-operation with our new partner Twisted Martini, you could be doing all number of exciting adventurous things to spice up your social life.
Twisted Martini arrange all sorts of craaazy weekend activities including Tree Abseiling, Bog Snorkelling and Llama Trekking. Click on the image to get 10% off all adventure bookings.
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No Phone Booking Surcharge
While other speed dating companies charge you up to £2 per person for telephone bookings, we choose not to.
Although the vast majority of our bookings are made online, there are no booking fees or surcharges if you prefer to book over the phone with us.
It is all part of the quality service we offer you.
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Off to Prague
Lucky competition winners Jamie and Suzanne, who met at a Slow Dating event last year, will be enjoying a three night break in Prague this Bank Holiday weekend.
Our next competition kicks in soon - and all bookings in June and July will automatically enter you into a draw, giving you the chance to win a romantic weekend away for two in the eternal city of Rome.
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Instant matches by SMS text alert
You can now receive details of your matches direct to your mobile the instant your admirers match with you.
Our SMS text alerting service is a free service to you and is an easily selectable option in your preference setttings.
We are the first Speed Dating company in the world to offer this SMS text alert service!
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Waiting List
As you know, our events sell out quickly - so we now offer you a safety net with the introduction of the ability to join a "waiting list" for all our sold out events.
This enables us to get in touch with you if there are any last minute cancellations !
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