West One

Thank you to everybody who made Visitors’ day such a success with 10+ visitors drawn mainly from the legal profession, property and surveying sector and health and wellbeing. I think…

First of all we welcome Juliana as West One’s Hair and Beauty Therapy expert. Juliana’s business is based on the Brompton Road SW5 and we have Jon Henwood to thank for introducing her to our talent pool. Juliana already has someone in mind who she wants to introduce to West One. Clearly we have made the right impression! She will be attending the next New Member Orientation course which will help equip her for what I hope will be a long and fruitful association with West One.

A few years have passed since I last had the chair at West One (this is my fourth time around in 12 years) so it was nice to accept the challenge again (or poisoned chalice, whichever way you look at it)…

This will be my first and last report as Chapter Director of BNI W1 as my 6 months is almost up.

It’s been a very eventful 6 months with lots of changes. Even before I had chaired my first meeting of BNI West One I received the warning that we would have to move from our prestigious BAFTA location. When you are located in the West End of London this is a nightmare as places that will provide a meeting room and a breakfast for an all inclusive £10 a head are hard enough to come by.