Pay to network in our own business centre?

I couldn't attend the networking session on Friday (19th) whose idea was it to have it at that time anyway? (10.30-11.30am). I have to also question the need to pay to network in our own business centre. Did anyone attend? Care to post a review?

I would have thought with the abundance of bars, pubs (even boats such as the Henry Johnson parked ouside in the dock) that we have networking venues a plenty which would cost nothing at all to congregate and network in. All we need to do is pick a time (comment below if you wish to suggest suitable ones, but just after normal working hours is probably best) and pencil it in for a regular day like last Weds of each month or some such occurence... bob's your uncle - see you there! Hardly a difficult task eh? Who wants to volunteer be be chief networking guru?