WOW! Queens is turning one year. What a historical year this has been – as for other businesses all over the globe. And like the most powerful ones, the members of the Queens had to be creative in new ways, far above our original plans.
By Anne Solheim
Two different Rotary projects have been accomplished, and the third one is ongoing. The fourth project is totally different, which has turned out to look more and more like a fraud case in one of the networks we, as individuals in Queens, have been involved in, Wibes, which is still an ongoing issue. These projects bring valuable experience. Contrary to business organizations in general, knowledge about being an entrepreneur of ideal organizations in Spain is beneficial. But both those projects are not yet closed and need to be concluded related to all the members in Queens.
2021-09-18: If you are interested, a link to updates about Wibes is below in this blog post.
The preliminary plan, developing the second phase of Business Queens Network (Queens) as a business platform in ACTA, now may deliver products through a net-based sales funnel is also completed.
Read on if you want to know more about the work the first year in and “around” the Queens’ constellation during a pandemic. The page on the website called Partners, projects, and news shows a snapshot of it too. Here you will find the status of partners, the projects decided to expose, and other relevant updates.
The first Rotary project the member of Queens became a part of is called Torrevieja Fundraising. That one was to help the local community’s weakest in and around Torrevieja in Spain, literally to save lives. This touches upon the startup of the second one in the frame of the Rotary. And with great help from our father clubs in Rotary in Sweden and Spain and especially the district governor in Spain, we in Queens as individuals maintained our three personal memberships in one of the largest network organizations in the world, which is Rotary. This is appreciated. And to those who did not know, that work turned out to be the third Rotary project: an establishing project to try to realize the second international Rotary club where we, as individuals in Queens, are founding members. This is pretty rare in a Rotary context, I (Anne) think.
The groundwork for the future Rotary club establishment is done in two different projects, with the plan that the second one of these would end up with a new international Rotary club in Spain. The name of the second phase of this work is Rotary Club Orihuela Costa International. And at the same time, we in Queens wished our “old” Rotary club – Club Rotario de la Zenia Internacional the best for the future. The largest club ever in the history of Rotary Spain by the chartered time. A club I represented on two stands at EXPO, Torrevieja, and in Norway in Jessheim Rotary Klubb. But we are so sorry to tell you that it looked like it had significant and escalating problems, which we could not do anything to prevent. Because of that fact, we decided to try again in another constellation. And as mentioned above, the fourth project, related to a network we established some years ago, Wibes, is also ongoing. The four mentioned projects above took a lot of time and focus in many months.
The original plan for 2020 was to develop Queens further, from Phase 1 to Phase 2, by establishing relevant products that Queens can advertise and deliver professionally, resulting in more business in the future. This plan is called Queens – Phase 2, conducted hand in hand while building a functional organization and finding a suitable office. And when the talk is about the organization, the experience is: It is time to discuss values. And Rotary’s values for that global network are a good starting point. So, the value keywords for Queens have become Service, Fellowship, Diversity, Integrity, and Leadership. An available physical network meeting place was established too at Best Office in the area where the Queens project was launched. In parallel, the network was also growing through cyberspace meetings. Day-by-day work during Queens development, the first year during the pandemic, has been accomplished through gatherings and meetings in cyberspace across country borders in Europe. So, cyberspace became a gift. This made it possible to maintain and develop the necessary strength to accomplish what has been done, including Queens – Phase 2.
In the work frame to save people’s lives and reach the goal for Queens – Phase 2 parallel while doing the groundwork for a new Rotary club, much-clarifying-work in the Wibes case became more than planned. Conducting those projects simultaneously during a relatively short period without the opportunity to meet in a physical space serves the definition excellent, I think.
In addition to the abovementioned work, Gunnel Thunstöm had another type of work, golf. In parallel, Christina Berardi managed the podcast called Varför Spanien? which she founded. And I, Anne Brit Solheim, have worked in ACTA, a Norwegian company I established.
Okay, just some glimpse of what we as individuals and a team have done during a pandemic as entrepreneurs.
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2021-09-18 Updates on the previously mentioned fraud case, the Wibes case.
