Chester Business Club

It was in September 1986 that six businessmen a solicitor, a newspaper editor, a building society manager, an hotelier, a butcher and a public relations consultant met over a convivial lunch at the Abbots Well (now the Mercure Chester East) Hotel. A germ of an idea developed to set up some kind of new business organisation but different from the existing ones where, for example, accountants, hoteliers, solicitors, estate agents, bankers and the like joined their respective institution associations and, in the main, did little to promote Chester beyond their organisations own terms of reference. The six Founder Members of what became the Chester Business Club wanted to create a new business grouping that business people wanted to belong to rather than the one they felt obligated to join. One of the principal activities over the years have been the Speaker Dinners. The principal aim of these events is to provide an impartial forum for leading commentators from Business, Politi...