BNI Tarporley

Chapter Director, John Warrington was profiled in the Chester Chronicle today when they featured an article on the Tarporley Chapter’s move to the Portal Hotel, and the benefits of business networking.

Chester Chronicle 11/06/09 (image courtesy Ashford Daly Photography)

BNI Visitor Day at the Portal Hotel, Tarporley

Over six weeks of planning and activity by its members culminated in BNI Tarporley holding its most successful Visitors Day ever on May 15th.

Despite torrential rain, over 50 guests had arrived at The Portal by 7am to find out how BNI networking might help them to grow their businesses.

The informal networking was going strong and the bacon butties had been replenished a number of times before the more formal part of the meeting started.

This was hosted by David Williams, Regional Director for BNI in Cheshire and North Wales and took the visitors through the structure of a BNI meeting, explaining the agenda and how this has been proven around the world to deliver real results to the members.

At the end of the meeting, a number of visitors submitted their application forms to join the Chapter, and subsequently six people have been approved by the Chapter Membership Committee to become members.

The current members of BNI Tarporley welcome their latest new members:

Ken Critchley, Mike Kerrich, Chris Jones, Sue Whaley, Robert Kisby, & Peter Humphries

Plus a number of other attendees are visiting the Chapter over the forthcoming weeks to experience a more typical BNI meeting.

If you want to find out whether membership of BNI Tarporley could help your business, fill in the Contact form or just call/email any member.

(All images copyright of Ashford Daly Photography)

On Friday May 8th, Tarporley BNI recognised the outstanding commitment and achievement of one of its members.

Mary Ashford of Ashford Daly Photography was presented with the BNI Notable Networker Award for her services to the Tarporley Chapter.

Well done Mary!

Every week, one member of the Chapter has the privilege of presenting their business to fellow members for 10 minutes. As a ‘thank you’ , that member provides a ‘Door Prize’  which is given to one member chosen by randomly selecting a referral slip (the more referrals you give, the greater your chance of winning!).

Last week, Jessica Byron of Peckforton Castle donated a very different ‘Door Prize’ - an hour with the birds at the Peckforton Falconry. And who better to win it than Mary from Ashford Daly Photography who was able to capture some exceptional souvenir images of her prize.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,….” - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Membership of BNI can mean a lot more than just your local Chapter as two of our members have proved, bringing together BNI Chapters in Tarporley & Madrid.

At the end of May 09, Greg & Mary of Ashford Daly Photography are going to Madrid with John Bendel of OH2 International, to cover John’s new Madrid office launch, and both businesses will be using the trip as a great cross-marketing initative , and to do some other commercial work whilst there too. 

Following his positive experiences as a member of  BNI Tarporley, John persuaded his Spanish colleagues to join the BNI Chapters in Barcelona and Madrid.

Ashford Daly will be visiting the BNI Madrid Chapter’s breakfast meeting with John during the visit, giving both businesses a great opportunity to show how a bit of time spent having 1-2-1 sessions, can achieve a lot if you think outside the box.

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The Story behind the picture : BNI Tarporley meets at the Portal Golf Hotel and Spa and we have just elected a new Chapter Director and to promote BNI a few of us joined John Warrington in a picture shoot.

We have been able to showcase the work of Ashford Daly Photography as they provided the images. This image shows John after one of our meetings stood on the first tee supported by some of the Chapter members - Sandra Maddock, Jessica Byron, Sharif Yousef and Craig Wright.