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Stansted Lunch Club
In 1997 Alastair Richardson, at that time a member of the Stansted Mountfitchet Parish Council, founded Stansted Lunch Club, as a forum in which the Council could meet and maintain a dialogue with the business community; as a powerful networking opportunity for local businesses; and as a pleasant interlude in congenial and stimulating company. The Club is open to all local business people, both active and retired, so harnessing the wisdom of those who have been there done that'. Lunches are held every couple of months, usually on a Wednesday at 1300 hrs for 1330 hrs in a local hostelry or, when fortune shines, on the premises of a member. Rules are few: Behave no worse than the Chairman Each lunch is sponsored by a member at two different levels: First, there is a compulsory fee which earns the privileges of being warmly thanked; of generally being treated with respect; of having literature distributed with invitations; of speaking lightly and humorously on some topic associated with the member's business. But no overt sales pitches are allowed Second, there is an optional contribution towards the cost of lunch
which is a direct subsidy of the cost of each member's lunch; for this
the sponsor earns even warmer thanks and respect, the temperature of
the thanks being directly proportionate to the amount of subsidy (the
level of subsidy ranges between £5 and £10 per member attending
a lunch) Alastair Richardson - Anglia Business Resources
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