Hi Everybody

Thanks to everyone for braving the 3 below weather this morning to get to the meeting, and commiserations to Karen whose car was broken into this morning, and her boot emptied including… her BNI folder!

Some inventive 60s this morning, Alex M pulled off her iPad extravaganza with aplomb! and Mike D had dentures in a box… which got into the hands of the one and only Donald T Lynch… guess where they ended up?

There wasn't a dry eye in the house after Kathy's 2 minute tale of second time around romance, death and penury… and  Paul Smith gave an eloquent 10 min account of the benefits of using his travel services rather than trying to organise yourself online.

No visitors today for the first time in ages, which felt strange, but gave time for a little more bonding I think, and we still managed a fantastic 61 referrals!

We have a couple of great social events soon, quiz night at the Greyhound tomorrow, and it looks like some formidable teams! and next week its curry night! apologies to those going to the same venue 2 days earlier for the Best of Richmond curry night! great minds etc!

Which brings me neatly to the one thing we didn't get to today, the idea of a joint stand at the Business Expo. A 2M wide stand will cost us, as BoR members, £395 plus VAT = £474, I don't expect the 4? of you who have booked your own stands to contribute, but if say 30 of us did, £16 each, for 20 it would be £23.70, I have heard from at least 8 via email or FaceBook that you are interested, so I really need now to get a commitment to a payment which would hopefully fall in that range.

The event would give us all some exposure and a great taste of what it might be like to do for your self, but at very little cost / risk. The plan is to promote awareness of BNI/ Tudor, and to push individual businesses as much as we can, displays etc to be worked out in due course.

In addition to money… we'd need a rota to attend the stand for the 8 / 9 hours its open. The Date is April 19th, Thursday, all details here http://www.richmondexpo.co.uk/ its at the Twickenham Rugby Ground.

Please get back to me this week and say 'Yes, I'm on board' or 'sorry, no…'

With kind regards