Chairman’s Business Networking Blog Thursday 1st May 2014. 22 members attended, apologies for absence from remaining members and the sad news that due to an increase in business Chris Van Sadler no longer feels he can fill the photographer slot. Our best wishes to him for the future. We had 2 guests, Richard Pond from…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog Tuesday 29th April 2014. A really excellent turnout, 21 of our current 23 members. Apologies for absence from the 2 missing and one of our regular visitors Dean Caldon from the Brentwood Group made up 22 in all. Before I start on the details of what went on, please Jim, I…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog Thursday 24th April 2014. A timely reminder by the Meeting Secretary on Wednesday 23rd April 2014 of member’s obligations to attend meetings regularly brought out one or two faces we had not seen for some time. One of these I had thought was dead. I will not mention names if only…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog Tuesday 22nd April 2014. Our smallest meeting for some time, with 7 apologies for absence; An intimate group of 13 sat around the breakfast table. Even the fact that those of us at the meeting had robust appetites, as a group we were unable to cope entirely with the Burstead Golf…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog Tuesday 15th April 2014 If this wasn’t the best meeting to date of our relatively newly formed group I can’t remember which one was. It all started inauspiciously when most of us found ourselves scraping the ice from the wind screens of our cars before setting off for our weekly Tuesday…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog Thursday 3rd April 2014. A reasonably good turnout – 20 in all. Everyone was anticipating the return of Ed Crocker and it was not for want of trying. Following the meeting Terry Maylin has been able to report to us of his accident at a Toll Booth approaching the Dartford River…
The Ministry of Justice has confirmed it will go ahead with a series of changes to court fees from 22 April. Fees for compensation claims between £5,000 and £10,000 will increase by 81% from £245 to £445, with an extra £200 fee added to all claims up to those in excess of £300,000, which are…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog Tuesday 1st April 2014 All Fools Day; I was on the lookout for April fool’s day jokes but was largely disappointed. To start with every member turned up, apart from Iain Douglas and Robert Mayes both of whom sent their apologies. We had two guests, Chris Adams returned following an earlier…
Alan was desperate to stop smoking. He was approaching 40 and he said that he was not as fit as he used to be. His wife was expecting their first child and that was another powerful reason to stop. Alan had tried just about all the quit smoking products on the market but none had…
Alan was desperate to stop smoking. He was approaching 40 and he said that he was not as fit as he used to be. His wife was expecting their first child and that was another powerful reason to stop. Alan had tried just about all the quit smoking products on the market but none had…