Volume 02 · Thursday 13 August 2026 · Ewloe

The Digital
Social Club

Where digital expertise connects

Volume 02. Thursday 13 August. Be in the room.

After a full house for Volume 01, the Digital Social Club returns. An evening for everyone working in digital across North Wales, Chester and the borders: mini pitches, a proper talk and the conversations worth turning up for. Thursday 13 August 2026 at Village Hotel St Davids, Ewloe. Tickets are £15, with £5 from every ticket going to a local charity.

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Thursday 13th August.
Village Hotel St Davids,
Ewloe.

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This was Volume 01.
Volume 02 is yours.

The first one sold out and filled the room in Wrexham. Just over a minute of it below. Then grab your spot for 13 August.

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The Venue
Village Hotel St Davids
St David's Park, Ewloe, Flintshire CH5 3YB
Village Hotel St Davids - the restaurant with moss wall, booth seating and floor-to-ceiling windows
Village Hotel St Davids - the Pub & Grill bar with sports screens and craft taps Village Hotel St Davids - lounge and entrance with copper lighting, looking through to the bar
"A relaxed, light-filled bar and lounge, made for conversation"
Free on-site parking · Easy reach of Chester, Wrexham & Deeside

Volume 02 moves to Village Hotel St Davids in Ewloe, just off the A55 on St David's Park. The Pub & Grill bar and lounge is a relaxed, modern space with an exposed-wood ceiling, soft seating, high tables and floor-to-ceiling windows looking out to the trees. A proper social setting, not a strip-lit function room.

Plenty of room to mingle, a full bar, and free parking on site, central to the digital community across North Wales, Chester and the borders. Exactly the kind of place Digital Social Club was made for.

The Next Gathering

Volume 02 · The Return

The Second Gathering
Thursday 30th July
Date
Thu 13th August 2026
Time
6:00pm to 10:00pm
Venue
Village Hotel St Davids
Address
St David's Park, Ewloe
£15 a ticket · £5 to a local charity

Volume 01 sold out, and Volume 02 picks up where it left off. £5 from every ticket goes to one local charity, with the rest covering the cost of the night. Volume 02 supports Hope House Children's Hospices.
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The Evening
6:00
Doors Open

Doors open. Grab a drink. Find your people.

7:00
Welcome & Intros

Quick intro. Why we are here. What happens next.

7:15
Mini Pitches

Five people, one minute each. Who you are, what you do.

7:30
The Talk

One speaker, twenty-five minutes, on something worth your attention. Speaker TBC.

8:00
Open Conversation

The real reason you came. Conversations, connections, bar.

10:00
Close

Last orders and goodnight.

About the Club

North Wales needed a room where digital people could meet properly. So we made one.

Digital Social Club exists because the people shaping digital across North Wales and the borders, many of them leading digital for national and international brands, running established agencies, or building products used by thousands, deserve a regular, low-pressure way to connect. Creative directors, brand strategists, UX leads, data scientists, SEO consultants, developers, digital marketers, analysts, email marketers, videographers, e-commerce managers, social media strategists, copywriters: they are all here, working on serious things, often without knowing each other.

This is not a room full of your competition. It is a room full of people who understand the work and will challenge the way you think about it.

When SEO specialists and creative directors end up at the same table, there are no clients in the room to compete over. It is practitioners exchanging ideas, comparing notes, and sharpening each other's thinking. Along the way, the brand strategist discovers the data scientist down the road. The developer meets the UX lead they have been looking for. Those connections happen naturally when the right people are in the same room.

Each event opens with five quick mini pitches so you get to know some of the people in the room, then a single twenty-five-minute talk. Not a TED talk, not a sales pitch, not a forty-slide slog. Something you will actually think about afterwards. Then open conversation until closing time.

The talent across North Wales and the borders is not lacking. What has been missing is a platform. Somewhere to share the work, hear what others are building, and hold each other to a higher standard. Digital Social Club is that platform.

The bar and lounge at Village Hotel St Davids, Ewloe - exposed-wood ceiling, high tables and big windows
The format is simple. Arrive, connect, leave inspired.
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Eight reasons to attend

Why it is worth your evening

1

Practitioners, not pundits

Five quick mini pitches to put names to faces, then one twenty-five-minute talk from someone leading the work, not selling it. No panel fatigue. No filler.

2

Conversation, not card-swapping

This is a bar on a good night, not a conference breakout room. Nobody will ask for your elevator pitch. Just honest talk between people who do similar work.

3

Make local talent visible

The skills are here. The problem is nobody can see them, including each other. Digital Social Club puts the area's best practitioners in one room. When local expertise becomes visible, it gets harder to overlook.

4

Stay ahead of what is coming

AI, automation, platform shifts, changing data landscapes. Most people are navigating these alone. Regular contact with sharp peers means better decisions, faster.

5

Everyone is welcome

Twenty years of experience or twenty minutes of curiosity. Agency, freelance, in-house, or still figuring it out. No gatekeeping, no hierarchy. If your work touches digital, you belong here.

6

A rising tide lifts all boats

When experienced practitioners share knowledge and steer each other well, the bar rises for everyone. Better work, better opportunities, and a growing digital ecosystem that the next generation can enter with confidence rather than leave to find elsewhere.

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A bar, not a conference room

A relaxed bar and lounge with proper seating, a full bar and big windows. Somewhere you would choose for a drink and a chat, not a sterile, strip-lit meeting room.

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£5 from every ticket to charity

Volume 01 was free. From Volume 02, tickets are £15, and £5 of every one goes to a local charity. Your bar tab, of course, is your own.

Where the money goes

Five local charities. One per event. £5 from every ticket.

One cause per event, on rotation. Volume 02 supports Hope House Children's Hospices. Here are all five.

Volume 02
Hope House Children’s Hospices
Children & Young People

Palliative care for babies, children and young people with life-threatening conditions. Serving over 750 families across North Wales and the borders, including 75 in the Wrexham area.

hopehouse.org.uk →
Advance Brighter Futures
Mental Health & Wellbeing

Wrexham-based since 1992. Suicide prevention training, peer support, one-to-one coaching and Mental Health First Aid. A safe space so nobody facing mental health challenges ever feels alone.

advancebrighterfutures.co.uk →
Pwrpas
Men’s Mental Health

Founded in Wrexham to protect the physical and mental health of men. Pwrpas (Welsh for “purpose”) provides Mental Health First Aiders, awareness campaigns and signposting to support.

pwrpas.org.uk →
DASU
Domestic Abuse Safety Unit

Over 30 years supporting people experiencing domestic abuse across North Wales. 50 refuge spaces, crisis intervention, advocacy and specialist children and young people support.

dasunorthwales.co.uk →
Wrexham Foodbank
Community Food Support

Eight centres across Wrexham providing emergency food and tackling the root causes of financial crisis. 73% of food donated by the local community. Running since 2012.

wrexham.foodbank.org.uk →

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