Saturday morning at the crack of 9:45 I arrived at Prestwold Hall to meet Beverley Hooper of Core Purpose who won the Motor Racing Thrill day at our last  Network Midlands lunch at Mallory Park (see here). Having taken a slight detour on the way, I was fully expecting Beverley to be waiting with a certain amount of impatience. However, when I got there, there was no sign of her. Quarter of an hour later she arrived - confessing that she'd had to go back home to get her driving license.

After signing in, she headed into the briefing room followed by a couple of sighter laps as a passenger in an Audi. The sighter laps over (one of the girls in the car was overherd saying "it was a little scary"), Beverley collected her crash helmet and we headed over to the paddok where a beautiful Aston Martin DB9 was waiting for her (I'm not jealous at all, not not a bit, ever!). I took a couple of shots of her posing beside the car - my one disappointment was that they hadn't kitted Beverley out in racing overalls - oh well, can't have everything. Then off she went. You should have seen the grin on her face when she got back - oh you can - see the photo below and those on facebook.



I've had to split the video into two parts because Youtube won't allow anything longer than 10 minutes so here's the first bit, from getting in to the car through to the end of lap 2


and here's the second bit from lap 3 through to arriving back in the pits

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Beverly Hooper (Corepurpose) and Debbie Skelton (Everyman Driving Experiences)

Congratulations to Beverley Hooper who won the Motor Racing Thrill day kindly donated by Everyman Driving Experiences at our recent event at Mallory Park.

Labels: competition winner, Mallory Park, news

NCH, the children's charity invites you to advertise and support A Night with the Stars Event, Leicester's upcoming glamorous networking event in partnership with event consultants BDI. The night is being hosted by a group of local business men and women who have formed Leicester's first NCH Volunteer Group to raise much needed funds.

The event is a star studded fashion show linked to the world of movies including both Hollywood and Bollywood.

Several celebrities (tbc) & special guests will be taking part including the Lord Mayor of Leicester. There will also be over 200 representatives from a variety of businesses category ABC1's. The fashion collections start with lingerie evocative of the '30-'50s moving through to the present day including a mixture of higher end brands at John Lewis and Debenhams through to bespoke haute couture and including the well known Asian fashion designer Arinder Bhuller. The evening will include an auction, envelope draw, luxury goody bags and conclude with an impressive fireworks display.

NCH's objective is to raise awareness and much needed funds.

The event takes place at the PORSCHE CENTRE, Leicester at 7.45pm on 9th October 2008.

The venue has been offered free of charge in order to raise as much as possible on the night.

Over 25 leading financial, property, construction and legal firms will take advantage of 'Night with the Stars' unique client entertainment and networking opportunities.


How your company can get involved;

• Advertising

• Build your customer image - 86% of consumers agree that they have a more positive image of an organisation which does something to make the world a better place (Source: Business in the Community).
• Enhance the profile of your company with excellent branding opportunities
• Exposure to a senior management and director level audience
• Excellent networking opportunities
• Media and PR opportunities
• Associate your company and products with one of the most talked about events of the year.
• Excellent event to use for corporate hospitality or to reward staff

NCH, the children's charity

NCH helps children achieve their full potential. Though our services we support some of the most vulnerable and excluded children in the UK. We work in partnership to run nearly 500 services for more than 178,000 of the UK’s most vulnerable children, young people and their families affected by poverty, abuse and disability. For further information visit, please visit www.nch.org.uk.

Our aim is simple but ambitious - to help the UK's most vulnerable children and young people reach their full potential. Through our work and through speaking out, we seek to break the cycle of deprivation. We challenge injustice and empower children to overcome the obstacles in their lives that hold them back. We tailor our work to local circumstances, in partnership with children and young people, families, communities and local organisations.


The money raised will go towards our work with vulnerable children. NCH runs 45 projects across East Midlands and East England supporting some 17,000 children, young people and their families. Local projects in Leicestershire include;

1. Leicester Family Intervention Project - works intensely during an 18 month programme with local families at risk of homelessness due to anti-social behaviour. The project workers build close relations with families and help change behaviour patterns. They are re-housed, given one to one and group support, helped to remove their children off the 'at risk' register and back into school.
2. Leicester Children's Fund - works with disadvantaged five to thirteen year olds socially excluded.
3. Braunstone Children's Centre, St Matthew's Children's Centre and Highfield's Children Centre - work to give children up to the age of four the very best start in life through helping and supporting them and their families.

• my-wardrobe.com
• Eddie Stobart
• Cinema de Lux
• Creative Ape
• Porsche
• TRX Europe
• Ravi Wines
• HSBC
• Balfour Beat
• Alliance and Leicester
• Arinder Bhullar
• John Lewis
• Hotel Maiyango
• Lord Mayor of Leicester
• Virgin
• Mallory Park
• Travis Perkins
• Debenhams
• Hammersons
• Leicester Tigers
• Leicester Cricket Ground
• Leicester City FC
• Everyman Racing

The directory will be a highly finished glossy publication. Size A5


Full page Advert £ 300.00
Half page Advert £ 200.00

Payment required with order by either BACS or Cheque

All Cheques should be made payable to: The Detail Company
The Chapel, 1 Mainstreet, Humberstone LE5 1AE

Bacs information: LloydsTSB, The Roundway, 284a Humberstone Lane, Leicester, LE4 9JN
Sort Code: 30-18-69 Account No: 1524699 Account Name: The Main Street Detail Co. Ltd


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Company.....................................................................................................

Address.......................................................................................................

Contact............................................................Tel:......................................

Requirements Half / Full page

Advertisement Artwork deadline - Friday August 29th

Artwork submission requirements:

Please email your advertisement artwork to NCH@thedetailcompany.co.uk

Full page artwork should be supplied at A5 size plus 3mm bleed (154 x 216mm)

Half page artwork should be supplied at 138mm x 98mm plus 3mm bleed (144 x 104mm)

Please make sure artwork is at 300dpi resolution and CMYK. Hi-res PDF or TIFF file format is preferred but we can accept all usual industry standard file formats.

Please contact us if you have any queries.

Labels: charity event

Today we tried a new venue for us, the Dunchurch Park Hotel. In excess of 40 people turned up - not bad considering it is the start of the school holidays and a little out of our normal area. However, we did have a first - no no-shows!

Many people commented on how good the venue was, so it's pretty certain that we'll be going back there some time. I'll post some photos when I get them from Sheila Lashford.

Labels: networking events