26th May 2010 - Jan Minihane (Jam Consulting) gave us a few interesting pointers towards Working Smarter particularly for those working alone at home, this was followed by our new Mini Masterminding Session facilitated by Cathy Landau (Mindforce Dynamics Coaching and Consultancy) and it proved to be a great success and well worth including in our future meetings. The amount of information and ideas shared in such a short time was facinating and of enormous benefit to the originator of the question - difficult to describe briefly to you, so come along and share the experience.

28th April 2010 - So near to the General Election, we were pleased to welcome Paul Kalinauckas to speak to us about Co-operative Enterprise. As the Chief Executive of a Community Development Finance Institution involved in small business lending and Chair of Co-operatives West Midlands, Paul is well placed to give us a very interesting talk. I think we all thought we knew about Co-operatives, but there was much to learn and Paul left us all feeling better informed.. Paul Kalinauckas is the Labour and Co-Operative Party Parlimentary Candidate for the Wrekin, although this particular session was not to be a party political discussion.

31st March 2010 - Following on from the Planning session at our last meeting, each member of the group described their most recent Marketing Strategy, whether it had been a success and what had been learnt, this made for a fascinating discussion and told us much more about each other and our businesses.

24th February 2010 - Our speaker Denise Evans gave an inspiring introduction to 'Dreams, Visions and Goals', setting goals for your future, Maggie followed on with a starting point for drawing up your five year plan - those attending went away with plenty of 'food for thought'.

27th January 2010 - Our speaker Liz Thursfield gave us all a great introduction to the benefits of Twitter and we know that most of the people at the meeting had been twittering by the end of the day Liz pitched her talk at just the right level to enable all of us to understand and take notes.