9/26/19: The new brochures are here! If you missed the deadline, you can sign up or renew now to be in the next brochure! We typically print brochure batches every 3 or 4 months.
If your town clerk's office doesn't yet have the KACC brochures, contact us so we can get you some to give them. Our brochures are distributed as far as the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport where travelers are able to pick up a brochure at the information desk.
We'd like to welcome our newest members: MEI-Travel & Mouse Fan Travel, Toast on Fire Toastmasters, Contoocook QuiltWorks, 5 Acres Lawn, Garden and Pet, Elijah Sproles, Alan Shepard Project, Contoocook Railroad Museum, Pandoras Locks, The Awakenings Craft
SCORE Workshop - Social Media Landscape
Thursday, October 24, 2019 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Pillsbury Free Library
18 East Main St, Warner, NH 03278
Join Heather Turner as she leads the first in a series of four workshops dealing with social media marketing. Workshops will be held every other week. The first workshop will be an introduction to social media channels for business. Space is limited so register early. To see upcoming SCORE events, please follow this link.
Fall For BITS
Sunday, October 27, 2019 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Back in the Saddle Equine Therapy Center
334 College Hill Road, Hopkinton, NH
Our October Business After Hours is a Halloween FUNdraiser for Back In The Saddle Equine Therapy Center. There will be music by "Peabody's Coal Train". Wear a costume. There will be fun and games, an apple pie baking contest, a pumpkin hut on the haunted trail, and pony rides. Mingle with the miniature horses! This is a family event and all are welcome. Proceeds benefit BITS ETS to help them with their therapy mission. Cost for the public is $8, members of a local chamber $5, families of 4 or more $25, and children 5 years and under are free. Contact BITS ETC for more info.
KACC Open Doors
Saturday - Sunday, November 2 - 3, 2019, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Warner Town Hall
5 East Main St, Warner, NH 03278
KACC is partnering with NH Open Doors to provide a venue for artists and craftspeople to show their talents and optionally sell their products. After visiting the artists and artisans at the Warner Town Hall, please check out the other participating artists and artisans at the Warner Historical Society's Upton Chandler House Museum, MainStreet BookEnds Gallery, and Summit House Press. If you'd like to be listed on the NH Open Doors marketing material, please use their sign up form. Cost is $20/table for both days. Tables space can be purchased online at http://store.KearsargeChamber.org. The fee will be waived if you have registered with NH Open Doors or join KACC by Nov 1.
SCORE Workshop - Using Facebook for Marketing
Thursday, November 7, 2019 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Pillsbury Free Library
18 East Main St, Warner, NH 03278
Join Heather Turner in this series of four workshops dealing with social media marketing. Workshops will be held every other week. This workshop will deal with marketing on the Internet using Facebook for Business, Facebook Groups and Ads. To see upcoming SCORE events, please follow this link.
Mt Kearsarge Holiday Festival and Business Expo
Saturday, November 9, 2019, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Magdalen College
511 Kearsarge Mtn Rd, Warner, NH 03278
We had such a good time this past year, we're going to do it again! This is a business showcase for all our members to show the local communities how many products and services can be found locally and to start the holiday shopping season. There will be door prizes!
This is event is FREE for the public to attend.
Registration is open to any Kearsarge area business, professional, artist, or artisan; each display space is 10x10 (double booths available). Limited number of tables are available. The registration fee for members of a local chamber is $10 and for non-members the fee is $50. Anyone that joins KACC between now and November 9 will have their fee waived. Register online at http://store.KearsargeChamber.org. All registration fees support the Warner Area Food Pantry.
Additional information is available here.
SCORE Workshop - Using LinkedIn for Marketing
Thursday, November 21, 2019 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Pillsbury Free Library
18 East Main St, Warner, NH 03278
Join Heather Turner in this series of four workshops dealing with social media marketing. Workshops will be held every other week. This workshop will deal with marketing on the Internet using LinkedIn, covering personal profiles, groups and business pages. To see upcoming SCORE events, please follow this link.
SCORE Workshop - Using Youtube, Pinterest, and Twitter for Marketing
Thursday, December 5, 2019 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Pillsbury Free Library
18 East Main St, Warner, NH 03278
Join Heather Turner in the last of this series of four workshops dealing with social media marketing. This workshop will deal with marketing on the Internet using Youtube, Pinterest and Twitter. To see upcoming SCORE events, please follow this link.
Spring Into Warner
Saturday, May 16, 2020, 9am - 3pm
Warner, NH
Warner's Annual Arts Celebration. Arts & craft demonstrations, music, farmer's market and much more. Spring Into Warner, Spring Into the Arts is an event that highlights Warner's unique place in the world. Beautiful Main Street opens up and we host truly unique and amazing artists and artisans, musicians, and farmers. Warner is lucky to have a thriving agricultural industry, so many talented artists, musicians, and spot on artisans! It is a great day. Join us for a quintessential small town Main Street event. Check out their Facebook Event Page. Please download and fill out the multi-use application form if you are an artist, musician, or vendor and wish to participate.
- Three months membership extension for each new member referral
Business After Hours are usually scheduled for the third Thursday of the month from 5:30pm - 7:00pm. Business Before Hours
are usually scheduled from 7:00am - 8:30am. Use our contact form to let us know if you'd like
to be a host. You can also let us know in person at any of our meetings.
2019 BAH Dates:
- Jan 22, 2019 - Lakehouse Tavern, Hopkinton NH - Tri Chamber Mixer
- Mar 21, 2019 - The Village Cafe, Bradford NH
- Apr 18, 2019 - A Better Image Promotions and Marketing & New Hampshire Telephone Museum, Warner NH - 2nd Annual Taste of Spring
- May 14, 2019 - Fisher Cats, Manchester NH - Business at the Ballpark multi chamber mixer
- May 23, 2019 - Lumber Barn, Bradford NH - Lake Sunapee Region Chamber of Commerce event
- June 6, 2019 - Hennker Brewing, Henniker NH - Tri Chamber Mixer
- Sep 26, 2019 - MKIM, Warner NH - Twilight Tasting
- Oct 27, 2019 - BITS ETC, Hopkinton NH - Fall For BITS
- January - KACC Annual Meeting
- March - Kearsarge Maple Festival, Webster, Warner
- May - Spring into Warner Garden & Arts Event (3rd Sat), Warner
- June - Art On The Porch, Contoocook
- July - Mt Kearsarge Indian Museum Pow Wow, Warner
- August - Wilmot townwide yard sale (3rd Sat)
- September - Hopkinton State Fair, Hopkinton, Harvest Moon & NatureFest, Warner
- October - Warner Fall Foliage Festival, Warner; Pumpkin Carving & Lighting, Warner
- November - Bradford Turkey Raffle
- December - Starry Starry Weekend, Contocook; Warner Hometown Holiday, Warner
- Area 23 - Trivia Tuesday, Thursday Darts
- Everyday Cafe - Taco Tuesday, Trivia Wednesday 7p-9p
- KACC Board Meeting - 1st Friday of every month. See calendar for location
- KACC Contoocook River Business Club - 1st and 3rd Friday 8am - 9:15am at Contoocook Depot
- Schoodacs - Original Music Series every Sunday 1:00pm - 3:00pm
