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:
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Behave
no worse than the Chairman |
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Abuse not
the Chairman |
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Attend
lunches or send apologies; a year of silence brings rustication.
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The Club issues an informal newsletter from time to time under
the title 'The Lunch Times' in which can be found the dates
of future lunches. Copies of these newsletters can be found
under 'The Lunch Times' tab.
Sponsorship
Each lunch is normally sponsored by a member of the Club at
two different levels:
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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 |
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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) |
Further information from Alastair
Richardson: :
(01279) 815518 or 07850 295109
Past Sponsors include:
AGN Shipleys (2004)
Andrew Cohen Associates (2005)
Anglia Business Resources (when no sponsor available)
Barclays, Stansted (2002)
City & Country Group (2006)
DC Poulton & Sons (2000)
D Honour & Son (2002)
Essex Bloodstock (2007)
GE Sworder & Sons (1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006)
Innovations Unlimited (2000, 2003, 2004)
KUA Consulting (2006)
Liz Lake Associates (2005)
Martin West Associates (1998, 1999)
NatWest, Harlow & Bishop’s Stortford Business Centre (2001)
Nigel Holland and Jim Barrie (2001)
NLP Solutions (2003)
Nockolds (2002)
North & West Essex Community College (2003)
Popcorn Web Design (1999, 2005)
Pothecary & Barratt (2000, 2004)
Stansted Parish Council (2001)
Stansted Stort Valley Rotary Club
The Bareham Overy Partnership (1998, 2004)
The Bishop's Stortford Chamber of Commerce (2006)
The Bishop’s Stortford High School (2007)
The Cricketers’ Arms, Rickling Green (1999)
The Radisson SAS Hotel Stansted Airport (2006)
The St James’s Place Partnership (2007)
The Village Music Club (2004)
The Wellness Chiropractic Centre, Ware (2001)
Uttlesford Crossroads (2004)
Weston Business Centres (2003, 2005)
Weston Homes (2000)
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