Celebrating Our Connected100: Highlights, Wins & Words to Carry Into 2026
- Dec 29, 2025
- 4 min read
As we look back on 2025, one thing feels crystal clear, our Connected100 Business Club is full of incredible people doing meaningful, impactful work across Brighton & Hove and beyond.
This year has been about growth, courage, creativity, community and showing up, even when things felt challenging. We asked our Connected100 members to share their personal or business highlight from 2025, along with a motivational quote that inspires them, and their responses perfectly capture the heart of this community.
Here’s a celebration of just some of the brilliance within our Connected100.
Pockett Marketing
2025 highlight:
Celebrating my business’s third birthday in the same month as becoming a Legend with the Wix development community, and expanding to 70+ clients across the UK — most of whom are in our beloved city of Brighton & Hove.
Words to live by:
“Concentrate on being the best version of yourself and improving at your own pace. Keep showing up as yourself and progress and success will come to you.”
See more about Pockett Marketing via their website: https://www.pockettmarketing.com/
The Unconventional Weightloss Coach
2025 highlight:
Becoming an Amazon Number 1 Bestseller with my debut book, Your Weight Is Not The Problem.
Words to live by:
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” — Seth Godin
See more about The Unconventional Weightloss Coach via their website: https://www.theunconventionalweightlosscoach.com/
Rise Brighton
2025 highlight:
Rise Brighton, Littlehampton & Worthing are now working with 100 care homes across Sussex, supported by a team of 10.
Words to live by:
“That there’s still a lot of love among usAnd there’s still a lot of faith, warmth, and trustWhen we keep on keepin’ on”— Keeping On, Curtis Mayfield
Find about more about Rise Brighton via their website:
Bird & Blend Tea Co.
2025 highlight:
Delivering 96 brand activations and events during 2025 — many of these being collaborations with our amazing wholesale partners.
Words to live by:
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
See more from Bird and Blend:
The Community Kitchen – Brighton & Hove Food Partnership
2025 highlight:
Since 2018, people living with dementia and their carers have had life-changing experiences at our fortnightly sociable cookery group, Time for Tea. From April 2025, NHS Sussex withdrew their funding. However, we have continued this group through our own fundraising events, grant applications and individual donations from kind people — while continuing to campaign and challenge this decision.
Words to live by:
“We are greater than the sum of our parts.”
About The Community Kitchen: https://bhfood.org.uk/cookery-school/
Maxwell Grant Consultancy Limited
2025 highlight:
Going to Australia for the British Lions tour.
Words to live by:
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Find out more about Maxwell Grant Consultancy Limited via their website:
Jane Edwards Coaching
2025 highlight:
Actually starting my business in 2025. Coaching and counselling are my absolute passion. I am not a new therapist, but I am new to being self-employed — and it’s a lifelong dream.
Words to live by:
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — Mary Oliver
Find out more about Jane Edwards Coaching here:
Bozboz
2025 highlight:
The work itself has been a real highlight this year. Launching the new site for Action for M.E. stands out — supporting them with strategy, branding and their website has made a tangible difference to the organisation and the people they support.
At the other end of the spectrum, working with Britton & Time, one of the fastest-growing law firms in the country, allowed us to combine a confident, polished front end with serious technical complexity behind the scenes.
We’ve also seen the longer-term impact of earlier projects — including one ecommerce client who has grown from under £120k turnover to around half a million in revenue since launching their new site.
Alongside these larger stories, we’ve spent a lot of time solving everyday problems for smaller teams — often the quieter work makes the biggest difference. Winning the Mansell McTaggart website project and Brighton & Hove Food Partnership’s website were both directly helped by introductions made through Connected100.
Words to live by:
“Do great things, for great people, make some cash and have plenty of fun along the way.” — Jon Kennett (2025)
Find out more about Bozboz via their website: https://www.bozboz.co.uk/
Together Co
2025 highlights:
Seeing our Connection by Letter project — which connects people experiencing loneliness and isolation with pen pals — featured on BBC One’s The One Show.
Working with businesses and an army of volunteers to pack and deliver 250 Christmas hampers to people who are lonely and isolated in Brighton, with the project also featured on ITV News.
Words to live by:
“Community isn’t built by everyone being the same. It’s built when we choose to show up for one another with compassion and kindness.”
“The world is full of kind people. If you can’t find one, be one!”
Find out more about Together Co via their website: https://togetherco.org.uk/
Looking Ahead to 2026
Reading through these highlights, one thing stands out, this community is built on people who care. About their work, their city, and each other.
The Connected100 isn’t just about business growth. It’s about encouragement, collaboration, resilience and shared belief, and we can’t wait to see what this incredible group creates in 2026.
Want to Join the Connected100?
If you’re a Brighton & Hove business owner looking for real connection, meaningful collaboration and a genuinely supportive business community, the Connected100 Business Club might be for you.
Here’s to another year of showing up, supporting one another, and celebrating success, together!
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