This July, I am taking on the 150 Mile Weighted Walk (20KG/44lb Weighted Vest) to raise vital funds for veterans. 🥾 Last year I travelled to Belgium to the World War I battlefields and graves, and this year to France to the World War II beaches and battlefields of the D-Day landings. A stark reminder that many who lost their lives were as young as 16 and 17 years old, and many more have made the ultimate sacrifice in conflicts since. Every day, thousands of veterans are facing their toughest battles yet. Painful injuries. Mental trauma. Disability. Poverty. Isolation and more. It's an injustice that veterans don't get a fair deal from the country they risked everything for. Whether you donate a lot or a little. Anything helps. With your support, we can help rebuild lives by making every mile matter. Thank you for your support. 💙 Craig https://help-for-heroes.sync.giving/fr/cr-6q0r168mnd11m

Most managers don't fail because they're lazy. They fail because nobody ever taught them how to lead. They were promoted because they were good at their job, then suddenly found themselves responsible for people, performance, difficult conversations, conflict, accountability and results. That's accidental management. I know because I've spent over 35 years working with managers, leaders and business owners across multiple sectors, and I've seen the same pattern again and again. That's why I wrote Mastering Leadership: From Accidental Manager to Inspirational Leader. This isn't a book designed to make me rich. At £10 delivered through Amazon, it's probably one of the least profitable things I've ever created. I wrote it because I wanted practical leadership guidance to be accessible to the people who need it most. More importantly, it's not really a book. It's a workbook. A field manual. Something to write in, reflect on, complete the exercises and apply immediately. No fluff. No management jargon. No theories that sound good but don't work in the real world. Just practical tools to help you: ✅ Lead with confidence ✅ Handle difficult conversations ✅ Build trust and credibility ✅ Improve team performance ✅ Avoid common management mistakes ✅ Become the leader your team deserves In fact, I'll make you an offer. If you buy the book, complete the exercises, leave an honest review on Amazon and can genuinely show you've worked through it, I'll personally refund the cost of the book. That's how strongly I believe the value is in doing the work, not simply reading the pages. Because leadership is not learned by reading. Leadership is learned by applying. If you're a new manager, aspiring manager, business owner or someone who has been "figuring it out as you go" for years, this book was written for you. Amazon link 👉Mastering Leadership: From Accidental Manager to Inspirational Leader:

Hi all! I'm Carrie from Commodore Finance Ltd. I am a Mortgage and Protection Advisor based in Prestatyn, North Wales. Looking forward to the Hashtag event in St Davids Hotel tomorrow, if any of you will be there?

Hello everyone, great to be here! I'm Rebecca! I'm hoping to network with those in and around Chester, Cheshire and the wider Northwest who would be open to hearing more information about supporting Cancer Research UK's life saving work in the area. Feel free to message or connect on LinkedIn: Rebecca Graham | LinkedIn Look forward to connecting soon!

Hiya, Petter here, co-founder of Aida. Some of you will recognise the name from events, some won't have a clue who I am yet, either way, wanted to come and say it properly rather than just drop a link and disappear. We've opened Aida to the public. It's not the finished article. We're still building bits of it. But the core works, and honestly, I think a fair few of you in this group are exactly who it's for. Quick version of what it does: it builds a "brain" for your brand — learns your voice, your style, the way you actually talk about your business — and then uses that every time you create content, instead of starting from scratch like ChatGPT does every single time you open it. If you've ever bashed out a caption with AI and thought "that's just... not us" — that's the bit we built this to fix. Why I'm posting it here specifically: this community is full of small business owners who are already doing their own marketing, already using AI tools, already wearing 10 hats. You're exactly the people we built it for, and exactly the people whose feedback will actually make it better. So — genuinely — come have a go. It's free to try, no card needed. Tell me what's rubbish. Tell me what's useful. I'll be in the comments. PS: Aida has a lot of features and a lot of use cases and its built for security, meaning Aida is yours, your intelligence, your data, your prodcut - you dont train any others model. I will tell more about all this in the coming weeks. 👉 theaida.ai free to try - no credit card needed to sign up