Networking & Referrals

Fun Thursday/Business After Hours

These networking events are held most every month and are hosted/sponsored by a Chamber member business. The host/sponsor provides food and beverages beginning at 5:15 p.m. in the afternoon. This networking opportunity is open to all Chamber members, and is free to attend.

Fun Thursday hosts include:

• January – Main Street Bartow
• February – Spath Jewelers (Chocolate Charms & Chamber event is a Chamber fundraiser)
• March – Frost van den Boom & Smith, PA
• April – Bartow Community Healthcare Foundation, Inc.
• May – Madrid Engineering Group, Inc.
• June – Open
• July – Open
• August – Peace River Country Club
• September – Lilly, O'Toole & Brown, LLP 
• October – Badcock Home Furniture & More/Bartow Store
• November – Bartow Regional Medical Center
• December – Community Southern Bank

Special Events

The Bartow Chamber’s many special‑events provide access to other business members and community business leaders such as the Annual Meeting, Chamber Golf Scramble, Taste of Agriculture, Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast, Community Relations Diversity Luncheon, Teacher of the Year Breakfast, ribbon-cuttings, groundbreakings and the Just Say No luncheon and more!

Referrals

The Bartow Chamber of Commerce fields more than 12,000 requests for information on our local community and businesses. Only Bartow Chamber members are referred.