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Live Laugh Love
Ladies Club

Welcome

Hi everyone, I’d like to introduce myself to you all, my name is Linda Weeks and I am thrilled to host at two wonderful Live Laugh Love Ladies Clubs - In September 2016 we launched the Club ain Ringwood at the Lantern Cafe and that same month also took over the Club at the gorgeous Millstream Bistro at Walford Mill in Wimborne. The start of this year we move to a fabulous new Ringwood venue at the Elm Tree - Hightown Road, held in the Tythe Barn which has a wonderful atmosphere and will allow us to grow as a club. Both the Ringwood and Wimborne venues are renouned for their wonderful food and I am so delighted to bring lots of ladies together to meet and make new friends whilst enjoying a variety of interesting and inspirting speakers. I live in St Leonards now (having previously been in Colehill for 5 years) with my Husband Sid and I’m a proud Mum and a Grandma to our four gorgeous granddaughters. I initially met Michelle who founded Live-Laugh-Love whilst I was working with World Vision a worldwide charity helping to support children and families through child sponsorship. My life and career has been an interesting one,  I’m originally from Sheffield,  I came to Bournemouth for a holiday staying with my Auntie at the age of 17 – I was on my summer break from Secretarial College but decided to stay on and  started out as a secretary in Bournemouth in 1973….. 

Some – well just a few years later here I am, the years in between have been wonderful, a gorgeous family,  a career in social retailing that fitted around my family and offered me the freedom to work around them, always keeping them as my main priority – some wonderful travels – some very proud moments and also those challenges that come along when you least expect them!

The year 2001 was probably one of my biggest challenges when after registering to take part in the Playtex Moonwalk in aid of Breast Cancer – 26 miles around London starting out at midnight – I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer myself (4 days before the event) as you can imagine I was very determined to complete the challenge and went on to repeat the experience in 2004 just to illustrate that I had beaten this evil disease.  I’ve gone on to raise money for various Charities – with over £12,00 raised for CLIC Sargent and here I am now still focused and determined to live life to the full and treasure friends and wonderful memories that are made together every day.

I was thrilled when I heard of Michelle’s idea to create Live-Laugh-Love and so delighted that it has grown into such a great success for everyone involved, the greatest success is that it has brought together many ladies from across the county to grow and develop new friendships – to share and hear one another’s stories and journeys through life, hear some wonderful speakers and develop and build a comradery of support for one another within the community.

I couldn’t think of a lovelier thing to do than re-create the success that Michelle has built at Compton Acres in Ringwood and Wimborne or  more fabulous venues - The Lantern – like the club it’s the most special community who work together, support one another and really make a difference to people’s lives.

I really look forward to welcoming you to the group at the Elm Tree and the Millstream Bistro – do bring along your friends and let’s make a really special experience for you all to share and enjoy as you make new friendships and build on existing ones.

This last year has been  fabulous and I would like to thank all those who have come along and made it such a fun and successful time - we've had some very entertainng speakers since and I've had some great feedback which I always really welcome - this is very much about you and this is your Club so I really welcome hearing from you as to how we can improve and what type of speakers and subjects you would like to hear about. 

So here we are now in 2018 and a very Happy, Healthy New Year to you all - we have some exciting plans in place for the New Year and I'm thrilled to start the year with two fantastic speakers in both venues - do take a look and book yourselves in to catch up with everyone and hear from Seb and Kristian who will  be entertaining - enlightening us and inspiring us as we start the year ahead...  See you there......

Linda xx