The Power Circle

Qasim popped into my workplace today still suffering from the "man flu".

He came by to review progress on our next charity event - "The Power Circle" and finalise the numbers for the event.

We both started this event in 2009. We kept coming across some real cool and up and coming and successful entrepreneurs, artists,and professionals who wanted to get away from the normal rat race type of gathering but just meet up with like minded others to chill, grab a drink , have a bit of fun and may be eventually even do business with each other.

Me and Qasim came up with the idea of the Power Circle to get everyone in one place and have some fun ourselves at the same time. So last year we got Jabbar Khan from Lasan to host the first event. It was a tremendous success. Everyone came away from it feeling good and we also had a fab meal, drinks and a laugh. After the event Qasim, myself and some friends all popped over to the Jam House to chill out until late evening.

It is an exclusive invite only private party. We charged to cover the cost- normally £10 and we figured that if the guests could not stump up that much they didn't deserve to be there.This time round because we are raising money for a good cause we raised the ticket price to £20.

We set the criteria of who would be invited and that remains between us.. suffice it to say , invitees would be down to earth and not there to push their own agendas or business cards... it is a nice environment to be in.

Anyway since the success of Lasan on winning the the "F Word "... it has been fully booked since last September so we have moved the event to Itihass. The founder Raj Rana has agreed to host the next event on the 9th March 2010. The venue and food promise to be excellent.

Qasim has something planned to make the evening interesting. Jean-Luc will give a brief talk about the Lench's Trust and the charity , and the Team Kilimanjaro members will be floating around if anyone wants to chat about the trek.

I have already started getting calls from people about why such & such was not invited , some have tried to invite themselves.. they are likely to be disappointed at the door because if they are not on the guest list they are not getting in..