Hello friends
I hope you all enjoyed our speaker Mark Francis last month (and his partner – buy one get one free!). I thought Mark’s trousers were fabulous so I bought a pattern to make some for my husband but sadly he wasn’t impressed. Saves me the effort, I suppose. Jo, you have a free pattern coming your way!
This Thursday February 8th
With thanks to Cherry for the recommendation, we are lucky to have secured Lucy Hodges to come and share her inspirational story. Lucy is an award-winning world champion sailor, mentor and disability sports ambassador. She is one of the UK’s most successful disabled sailors, being 3 times Blind Match Racing World Champion and two times World Blind Fleet Racing Champion. She has also been awarded an MBE for the work she does with Blind Sailing UK. Should be a really interesting evening.
Charity nominations
As you know, every year we support a charity with our raffle proceeds and the occasional fundraiser. Last month we included the money from the auction of unwanted gifts and were able to give Trinity £155. We will be voting for our charity of the year at our annual meeting in April so if you have a cause that is close to your heart that you would like to add to the voting slip, please let us know by email.
Resolution vote
Last month we voted on our choice of resolution to put forward. These are the results, and the ‘winner’ has been forwarded to Essex Federation.
Dental Health Matters 12
Impacts of poor housing conditions 21
Say ‘no’ to gambling advertising 10
Improving outcomes for women in the criminal justice system 5
Renewals
Subs for the next year can be paid from March onwards and will be £46 for single membership and £22.60 for dual membership.
Looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday.
Much love
Vanessa
