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Intouch Liverpool WINTER 2018 InTouch Liverpool www.cii.co.uk/liverpool I @insureLiv I The Insurance Institute of Liverpool WELCOME Well doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun! I’m now half way through my year as President of the Insurance Institute of Liverpool and our committee have been extremely busy over the past six months organising and hosting events for all our members. We are very lucky to have such a dedicated This is always a fun event to get us all in group of people on our committee. So the festive mood. If you haven’t booked much energy goes into providing support your place yet, please register through our for our members at a local level and a lot of website. it is done in the committee’s own time. January will see our annual dinner take The Insurance Institute Games got off to a place at the Crown Plaza in Liverpool. brilliant start with nine teams participating. Bookings are already being taken for this After the first two events Barnett prestigious event and we hope to see many Waddingham are at the top of our leader of you there in your Black-Tie regalia. board, with Quilter Cheviot and Pavis close behind. Lots of fun was had at our To mark International Women’s Day next school sports day-style event. Participants March, we’re hosting a special social event got to enjoy lots of types of sports, it was jointly with the CISI in Liverpool with an extremely competitive, and we’re pleased emphasis on diversity and equality. Plans to report that not one egg was dropped! are underway and it’s sure to be an event Our most recent event was Breakout with a difference. Liverpool, which was exhilarating and nerve racking. All teams managed to ‘break-out’ I’ll be handing over the reins to Emma except for the institute team! We finish The Lynch from Griffiths and Armour in April Games with a Christmas Jumper Quiz on as the incoming President. Emma is a very 27th November when the overall winners active member of our committee and I will be announced. know she will do an amazing job next year. We have plenty of interesting and varied That’s all from me for now. Please enjoy CPD events lined up over the next few this entertaining magazine that is compiled months, please see the back page of this by our committee members. magazine and our website for details (www.cii.co.uk/liverpool). We’ve tried to cover different technical areas for both General Insurance and Financial Planning as well as a few ‘soft-skill’ subjects for all. Please do get in touch and let us know if there are any specific topics you’d like us to try and cover. We’ve arranged various study support courses this year to help our members get through their exams. We plan to host more next year, including a coursework Carly Dunningham techniques session. Keep an eye on our President Insurance Institute Liverpool website and regular emails for details. On the social calendar, the Financial Liverpool Christmas Lunch is fast approaching. Insurance Institute of Liverpool Careers Day Peter Forshaw – Chair of Careers Committee JULY The fourth of July may be best known A number of throughout the world as American interactive sessions 4 Independence Day but closer to home, this were interspersed year at least, the day marked the annual with- Liverpool Insurance Institute Careers • a helpful introduction from our Day. Sixty secondary school and college President Carly Dunningham students from across the region attended the Crowne Plaza in Liverpool to hear all • an informative presentation from about insurance and financial planning. Greg Winter, graduate trainee from Pavis Financial Management about his route in Although some to the profession students may dream • a comprehensive talk by Tracey Fisher of being a Premiership of RSA on the opportunities available footballer or a celebrity to become insurance apprentices, and on ‘Love Island’ it was the benefits of ‘earning whilst learning’ Carly Dunningham and Peter Forshaw of There were of course serious messages the IIL councils’ job to to impart. persuade them that insurance was just as In the afternoon several local industry glamorous and rewarding. A tough ask! professionals from the financial, insurance and legal sectors gamely agreed to be The key message of the day was that the grilled by the students about their own insurance and financial services sector is careers, and organisations, via a session of one of the largest service industries in the speed networking. Swapping tables every country, and that it provided a huge array four minutes certainly helped our guests of differing professions many of which the work off their lunch! students would not have heard of. Special thanks to George Tsounias of the As well as the most popular question of CII and the representatives from RSA, “how much do you earn” there were many Aviva, AJ Gallagher, Griffiths & Armour, other questions from “what do financial Barnett Waddingham, Pavis Financial, planners, claims payer, actuaries, etc do” to Weightmans LLP and Medicash for helping the very encouraging “what’s the best way to make this happen. to enter the profession?’. The feedback from the students at the At the start of the day, many of the end of the day was extremely positive students would openly admit that they with one particular comment catching the had little or no appreciation of what risk, organisers’ eyes – “it was boss!”. insurance and financial planning involve. Spurred on by such praise, planning for next year’s event has already begun! Thanks to several fun and informative CII board games on Risk and Fortune, by If you would like to help, please let us the end they were well on their way to Carly Dunningham know Peter Forshaw – Chair of Careers becoming our next generation of insurance President Insurance Institute Liverpool Committee would be delighted to hear gurus or financial whiz kids! from you (www.cii.co.uk/liverpool). BOLD STREET TIME SLIPS Dan Clay – Author of James Cooke: Alien Contactee Everybody who has lived or worked in Caplan, the Lord Mayor who ran a wholesale Liverpool, will be familiar with Bold Street. business, but nothing definitive. Nestled between Central Station and St Luke’s ‘bombed out’ church, it provides an eclectic Even more disconcertingly, when Frank offering with outlets such as alternative approached Dillons bookshop, it had in a bookshop “News from Nowhere”, Lebanese matter of around 20 minutes, seemingly street cuisine, organic health foods and completely reinvented itself as a shop called everyone’s favourite, comic shop Forbidden ‘Cripps’ and was displaying handbags and Planet. shoes in its window. With the same sort of crawling sensation, we experience when we realise that indecorous email intended for our friend in Marketing has gone to the boss, Frank realised that all of the people around him were dressed up in old fashioned clothing as though they were staging some sort of wartime commemoration. Bold Street 1910 With sudden relief Frank saw a woman who was wearing modern clothing, entering the Whenever you find yourself in this intriguing Cripps shop. He followed her inside and part of the city, keep your eyes peeled, things in a Mr Benn shopkeeper type flash, the may not be exactly as they seem. Retailers interior reverted to that of Dillons. Frank there may find that the usual insurances approached the woman and asked her if provided for by credit cards and time she had witnessed the transformation. The specific warrantees on goods purchased, woman confirmed that she indeed had, having may not apply. The reason? Bold Street entered the shop thinking it was a new clothes and its connecting streets are a hotbed of shop. time slips. Just in case anyone is unaware of the phenomenon of time slips, they are the As recently as 2011, the Liverpool Echo experience a person from the present has of reported the experience of Imogen from being temporarily transported through time Garston who had travelled to town, hoping to before returning back to their own time. purchase some clothes for her baby niece. There have been countless incidents of this Imogen was pleased to see that a new nature reported on Bold Street over the Mothercare outlet had opened on the corner years. Probably the most notorious involved of Lord Street and Whitechapel. Entering an off-duty Policeman called Frank and his the shop, Imogen was delighted that the wife Carol and took place in the mid-1990s. bibs, mittens, babygrows and the like were They had travelled into town from Melling to all incredibly low priced. Assuming this was do a bit of shopping and had momentarily some sort of offer, designed to get the sales parted company while Carol went into Dillons for the new shop off to a flying start, Imogen Bookshop and Frank went to buy a CD from a loaded up her basket with these and went to shop in nearby Ranelagh Street. the counter. On returning to Bold Street, Frank noted that Things went a bit pear shaped when Imogen a peculiar muted quietness seemed to have passed over her credit card to make payment. replaced the usual hustle and bustle. To add The girl at the counter took the card, looked to his disquiet, a 1950s style box van then at it suspiciously and called her Manager nearly knocked him over, beeping at him as over. The Manager looked at it in a slightly he began to cross the street. The van had bemused way, shook her head and said ‘Caplan’s’ written on the side.
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