Team Argi

We needed a Project Co-ordinator; someone to pull everything together.  The idea of one lawyer with one lung on one bike cycling for 6th Walsall seemed appealing.  Local businesses were lining up to support the project and save 6th Walsall Scouts disappearing after their burglary.  They lost £7,000 worth of vital equipment and were threatened with closure as a direct result.  Instead of accepting defeat they decided to stand up and fight for their right to exist!
I had been on an entrepeneurs course in London with Richard Branson and Sir Alan Suger.  I had met Nigel Botterill, who set up The Best of Franchise.  I contacted The Best Of in Walsall but all they could do was to publicise the project on their website.  I had plenty of people pledging support - and talk is easy - but who would pull it all together?
I needed a person clued up in business and sympathetic to the core aims of promoting a caring community.

Sue Barker, from the Freedom Group, recommended Jae Alexander Linsey, the Bard of Bloxwich, who ran his own company providing Administrative Support to small businesses.  So we had a businessman and a poet as well - quite a combination!
Jae has done an enormous amount of work in editing and compiling the book of poetry by Walsall Scouts, entitled Our Olympic Heroes.  Not only did Jae do this but he also liased with the printers, Excelerate Print and secured sponsorship off them as well.  Jae enlisted the support off the following:
(1) Kris Burford and Damien McLeod - Impulse Marketing and management
(2) Paul daniels, President of Walsall saddlers Rotary Club (Paul wrote the prefacer to the book)
(3) The Mayor of Walsall, Cllr Dennis Anson (he wrote the forward to the book)
(4) Stephen Plant - musician
(5) Bruno Edwards - Manager at Bookmark Bloxwich.  He kindly agreed to 6th Walsall Scouts premiering their poems for the 2012 Willenhall Olympic Torch at the Youth Open Mic Night on 22nd June
(6) Dianne mansell - Urban Regenerration Officer for Walsall Council.  Dianne allowed 6th Walsall to have a slot on the Willenhall Olympic Stage on 30th June as the Torch came through the town on this historic occasion
(7) Mike Batchelor, Manager of Bridging the Gap in Willenhall.  This project spearheads the love and mission of Jesus throughout Willenhall and is supported by Churches Together in Willenhall.  Mike allowed us all to use their shop and counselling rooms for poetry workshops on 30th as the Olympic Torch came through Willenhall.
(8) Councillor Dianne Coughlan & Councillor Sean Coughlan - supporting 6th Walsall in their prescence at the Willenhall Olympic Torch celebrations
(9) Deputy Masyor & Mayoress of Walsall - kindly agreed to join us on the Willenhall Olympic Stage, read poems from the scout poetry book and do keep fit routines with Sue Barker and Krissy Griffiths
(10) Sue Barker - Freedom Group (www.freedomgroupforeber.com) distributors of Forever Living Products - world`s number 1 in aloe vera and bee hive health and nutrition products for day in, day out fitness. 
(11) Karen Tait, Taits Estates
(12) Neil Quinton, MBACC, MRCHM, Six Ways Clinic
(13) Steve Careless & Krissy Griffiths, Walsall School of Shotokan Karate-Do;
(14) Andrea & Sue, Walsall Mind & Body centre;
(15) Joy Wood, Willenhall Christian Fellowship;
(16) Tim Philpott, musician
(17) Rebecca Meneart, musician
(18) Carl Sciliano, Hair & Beauty
(19) Michelle Morris, Intwine Hair and Beauty
(20) Sangeeta Barracada, Podiatry Clinic, Boldmere, Sutton Coldfield
(21) Ian Bateman, Ancestral Manouvres Photography
(22) Gareth Rogers, SponSport Ltd, Sport PR
(23) Darren Fox-Hall, TogetherWikan.co.uk and Able2Sell.co.uk
(24) Pushpa Alexandra - Headz Up for Business - training, networking and conferencing specialists.
How would we have ever done this without Jae?  Thank you, Jae.