EVENTS
Our next meeting at The Staddy will be on Friday 19th April and our speaker Coral Smith from Devon Wildlife Trust
We are using the side entrance to The Staddy and the inner doors will open at 10.00 for a 10.30 start. We ask you to remember to bring your Membership cards with you for scanning. Our Membership Secretary, Shirley Wheeler, will be on hand to deal with any issues if you haven’t yet received your new card, or haven’t yet renewed.
Mask wearing is optional but we would request that if you are not feeling well or have been in close contact with someone who has Covid or any other condition which is likely to be infectious, please do not attend.
We have allocated some disabled parking spaces at The Staddy for our General Meetings. Turn right on entering the car park, and facing the building you will find reserved parking spaces which will be available on a first come-first served basis. We ask that other members leave these spaces free for those who are Blue Badge Holders. There is ample parking for everyone, but we appreciate that the surface of the car park is not very flat and also rather stony, so we hope this will make it easier for some of our members to get to the building from their cars.
At the General Meetings we are also happy to help those disabled members who have difficulty walking or are hard of hearing. We always put out 2 or 3 rows of chairs on the right hand side of the room, with only 3/4 chairs in each row to enable people to get to a chair with ease. If you need help with this, or in finding a front seat if you are hard of hearing, please find a committee member and they will be glad to help you.
Our next speaker will be Coral Smiths from Devon Wildlife Trust
Established 60 years ago by a small group of volunteers Devon Wildlife Trust is the only charity that exists to protect all wildlife in Devon and to safeguard Devon’s unique natural environment.
Following on from this on 17th May our Speaker will be Keith Smithers - "Life in a Primary School".
Keith will talk to us about his work as a Headmaster of a local primary school.
PREVIOUS SPEAKERS
Our speaker for our March meeting was Sir Gary Streeter. A name well known to us as Gary has been our local Member of Parliament since 1992. Gary was brought up on a dairy farm in East Devon and before entering politics was a partner in a large local law firm. He has held several ministerial and front bench posts but will not be standing for re-election in the forthcoming general election.
PRESENTATIONS BY GUEST SPEAKERS
The committee arrange for speakers to make presentations to the General Meetings in good faith and on the basis that the content will be informative and entertaining. We cannot, however, accept any responsibility for the information provided or comments made by any guest speaker.