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Spreading the net

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networkingIt’s often said that it’s not what you know, but who you know… And sometimes more to the point, especially in business, who knows you!

Let’s face it, where would we be without our different networks? Formal or informal, physical or virtual, professional or personal – we rely on them all in one way or another…

On this week’s show, the Girls Around Town take a look at networking in Newark, with guest Portia Green joining June and Sue to explore some of the options available in and around the town.

As marketing co-ordinator for 4Networking Newark, Portia will also be talking about how its fortnightly meetings support and motivate local businessmen and women and the organisation’s national celebration of its 10th birthday this month.

Tune in or listen online from 10am to 12 noon for the discussion, as well as all the usual GAT gossip, news and music to ease you through another Sunday morning…

Celebrating life events

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sarah willisPlanning a funeral may sound like a strange choice of subject for the Girls Around Town but, as this week’s guest Sarah Willis explains, a civil ceremony is first and foremost a celebration of the life of the person who has died.

As a member of the Institute of Civil Funerals (IoCF), Sarah has conducted literally hundreds of these ceremonies since she became a civil celebrant in 2007.

Described by the IoCF as funerals “driven by the wishes, beliefs and values of the deceased and their family, not by the beliefs or ideology of the person conducting the funeral”, they sit between a religious service and a humanist funeral.

It’s Sarah’s job to help the family plan the ceremony and work with them to choose the music, readings, poems and even slideshows. “At the heart of it all is a written tribute to the person who has died, telling the story of their life and celebrating their character, beliefs and achievements,” she says. “So a civil celebrant needs to be a good writer and storyteller, able to speak well in public and above all to be a good people-person.”

Sarah is also called upon to help celebrate other life events, such as naming ceremonies and renewals of vows – to find out more, tune in or listen online when Sarah joins June, Tina and Sue between 10am and 12 noon on Sunday…

Take hold – the offer expires at midnight…

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midnightMeet the Girls Around Town‘s first Fabulous After 40 guest on Sunday 31 January and find out how Ann Hobbs is living life to the full with her take on the well-known maxim, carpe diem…

“Every day is new and so are the opportunities, so take hold – the offer expires at midnight,” says Ann, who joins June and Tina in the studio to talk about gaining an MBA, going on a study tour of UN mine-clearing posts and refugee camps in Syria and Jordan, buying a house in France unseen and writing a children’s book.

Not to mention how a chance encounter with a man changing a flat tyre in a car park led to wedding bells…

“Did my life change in my forties? You bet it did and it continues to do so,” Ann says. To find out more about how she found her fabulous, tune in or listen online from 10am to 12 noon  – there’s an amusing tale in there too, about a rather strangely located loo!!