Elizabeth doing a presentation to a hall of 580 people about the Rotary Easter Showcase

In 2007/08, our governor Brian Doggrell, chose Bournemouth the home of Rotary in the UK as the town for Conference. It was a rainy and windy weekend but that did not dampen our spirits.

DGE Les, with Elizabeth & Andy

The GSE team from South Korea

Andy S in action in the bowling competition

Craig interviewing RIBI president Alan Jagger and Keith Barnard-Jones

We were entertained by Graham Walton the father of the sextuplets, Lynn Faulds-Wood who spoke well about the her charity bowel cancer and brilliantly by the inspirational blind speed champion Steve Cunningham. Truly he was marvellous and there was not a dry eye in the house as he spoke with plenty of humour as well.

Elizabeth Sheldon gave a 20 minute presentation to the assembly about the Rotary Easter Showcase, which went down very well.

The guests at the ball enjoying the entertainment

The bowler teams at the ball.

The stand and Andy

In 2005/06, our governor Merion, chose the capital Cardiff as his venue. That was an easy choice as he is a Welshman! Clear of the rugby weekends by hosting it in April, a group of hotels around the city centre hosted a few hundred Rotary and guest delegates. The St David's Hall was the focal point of the weekend. During the day, there were speakers on stage from Rotary itself plus the arts and entertainment. There was a live demonstration of watercolour painting, the comedian Ray Allan and "Lord Charles", a talk about the local Police Helicopter, and funny stories from a former defence lawyer.

Conference is also an information exchange, and this year that Rotary clubs and project leaders for the first time, could put up stands during the session breaks. This was to inform delegates about the other clubs and what they have been doing and their plans for the future. The Brickhills had a stand with a summary of what our unique club is about, our casino events and taking part in "Make a Difference Day". The stand looked very good.

Those welsh voices, in "Brickhills Red" too !!!

Being in Wales, there had to be a song or two, and when we got a bit of help to sing the closing songs - the Male Voice choir from Meirion's home village walked on stage to his surprise - he was really delighted!

It is easy to sing the national anthem with that sort of help!

Our thanks to Andy Forgham for his report and for representing us at this annual event.
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