The recent swelling of the club’s membership means that, even in the quiet days of August, there were nonetheless 15 businesses represented at today’s meeting.

For our 5 minute “infomercial”, John Horton of Lawn3, who provide lawn care services in Leighton Buzzard and the surrounding areas, gave us his personal story of how your health can change when you least expect it, and gave us all a couple of simple methods to check if someone is having a stroke:

– Face: has their face fallen on one side
– Arms: are they unable to raise one or both arms
– Speech: is their speech slurred or slow
– Telephone: if they answer to any of these is yes, call the emergency services

Another quick diagnosis method is simply to ask the person to stick out there tongue straight – if they can’t do that, again the best course of action is to dial 999 straight away.

We then had an excellent 10 minute presentation by David Harrison of Sunrise Solutions, who provide team building in Milton Keynes and further afield.

David gave all the group an accelerated learning session, focused on teaching us all to juggle in just a few minutes. As we all experienced in the 10 minute session, it’s not just what you’re taught during the session, it’s the way that David & his team manage the training that makes the difference. The atmosphere created & ways of getting everyone to work and support the team are what David is great at – something we all enjoyed in the all-too-short session.

We then retired inside again for referrals and testimonials, with 10 referrals this week in spite of the reduced numbers.