Inaugural Meeting of the Aspinall Foundation Business Club

We had a great meeting last week at the first meeting of the Aspinall Foundation Business Club.

We had lots of noisy networking at the beginning followed by a presentation by the Scottish Wild Cat Keeper, Neville, that everyone found fascinating (although I also found out that one of our cats is bigger than a Scottish Wild Cat, which is supposed to be bigger than a domestic cat; time for a diet methinks!).

Neville was followed by Robert Boutwood and Spencer Phillips from the Aspinall Foundation who both talked about working closely with local business people to bring benefits to both the Foundation and the local businesses.

Jonathan Parker from Food4 gave a passionate presentation about local food supplied by Kent producers. On their website you can place a weekly shop just as you do with the big supermarkets and get it delivered; the main difference being that the produce is all from local suppliers. I can thoroughly recommend their service and the quality of the food having shopped with them a couple of times now. Food4 give 5% of their profits to the Aspinall Foundation.

Jonathan Rees then talked briefly about the Aspinall Pre-Pay debit card that gets you various discounts when you use it including with Food4Kent. M-Cube Media, who manage the cards donates its profits to the Aspinall Foundation to support the gorilla conservation work that they are famous for; did you know that they are the only people in the world who are putting gorillas back into the wild?

The Aspinall Foundation Business Club is going to meet once a month to enable local businesses to network and get behind the scenes at Port Lympne. There will be talks, VIP opportunities to meet the animals, chances to participate in volunteer working parties to build enclosures or help the animal park in other ways more suitable to your talents.

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