We carried on having weekly practices in the cubs church hall and did our first evening for them on Friday!

It went SO unbelieveably well!!! We were all so enthused afterwards, and went for dinner to celebrate and decide how to start and end next Friday’s evening with them.

We’ll hopefully start with another Viking story, then go to the activity tables for them to do the ones they didn’t get a chance to do the first week, and finish off with some feedback time. I love it when plans come together :)

Here comes the boring business-y nuts and bolts part…
Caroline is being SO helpful it’s just awesome! I’d spoken to Andy and Miriam previously about business plans, registering the company vs self-employed, business bank accounts and insurance and it was practically dismissed. Caroline brought up all these points without even seeing my notes and I think that made it hit home a bit harder to them as our “homework” this week is research on all of the above! YAAAYYY!!!

Caroline also said that she knows an accountant who should take us on, and advised us to bank with HSBC. Me having previously researched this stuff and knowing about all their small business initiatives had already thought them to be the best option. I was just SOOO glad to have someone neutral agreeing with me on major issues that were being ignored before :D

End business-y rant.

So yeah, all is going so well I can’t believe it!!! I just hope we can all look through the options and ultimately decide painlessly :S That’s my only worry. Either way, we’re really getting there now. It’s just so good to be able to see it all coming together after like a year of planning, buying and making!