This week’s Essex Business Forum meeting was busy and bustling with lots of members back from holiday. With 22 members in attendance. Brian Painter of Pilgrim Hypnotherapy (standing in for Aidan Squire of Quality HR) chaired confidently. Guiding us all through the proceedings. We had apologies for absence from Aidan Squire, Matt Barry, Carmel Jane,…
Good turnout, 22 in all. We inducted the Flying Bee in the guise of Alan Heggie, his first day as a member. Welcome Alan. Terry Maylin, still standing in for Scott Griffiths, announced the winner of the Performance League this month and by way of a very pleasant change it was Jill Willis; congratulations Jill…
At last a good turnout in August, 22 members present with 3 visitors. Sharon Conway from the Flying Bee whose application to join the group has been accepted – congratulations Sharon. Two first time guests, Paul Hughes from Commercial Energy and Suzette Howe from Triple Windows. The Ed Slot was once again this week courtesy…
Chairman’s Blog, Thursday 18th August 2016. Again decimated by holidays it was nonetheless a turnout of 18. Also once again it was a very successful meeting. I will avoid making sartorial comment this week. Turning up as I did in shorts sporting a knee decoration that looked very much like a rare steak I will…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog Thursday 11th August 2016. Despite holidays dominating the attendance we had 17 members present and Alan Heggie as a third time visitor looking to join. The Ed Slot was delivered by David Plumley himself, whose topic was how to structure the 10 minute presentation. A useful reminder to us all of…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog Thursday 4th August 2016. Another holiday affected meeting which benefited from being held in the small room behind the restaurant which, through its reduced accommodation, provided an intimacy and intensity that led to very effective and amusing meeting. There were 17 members in all and 2 visitors Alan Heggie, a chauffeur…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, Thursday 28th July 2016. This week we were hit by holidays. 7 Members absent through holidays which coupled with one or two business demands left us with 14 members present but our numbers boosted to 17 by Aaron Noakes and Ed Blackburn from H&G Recruitment Solutions and Sophie Kohl a party…
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog Thursday 21st July 2016. A slightly cooler morning than yesterday’s scorcher brought out members in plenty. 24 in attendance and 1 second time visitor Paul Durrant. Whenever the meeting has 22-25 people there is a buzz that is missing otherwise. It also brought out the usual summertime sartorial successes. There were…
Our excellent photographer member Carmel Jane recently completed some work for us and captured the meeting in progress. I’ve selected just a few of these photos for you to add your captions to in the blog comments. Each photo is numbered, so when you leave your comment please tell us which photo it refers to……
Chairman’s Business Networking Blog, Thursday 14th July 2016. A relatively small turnout. 15 members were there at the start of our short form meeting designed to finish at 8.a.m. so that we were able to get over to SNAP for a guided tour. Clearly several members saw it more as a safari and tuned up…