From the“ Mother Ship” UK " get yourself along to an NWR meeting and life will become more interesting "
From the“ Mother Ship” UK " get yourself along to an NWR meeting and life will become more interesting "
Natalie Punter NATIONAL ORGANISER
Samantha Bushell NWR OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR
Kate Dobson FINANCE MANAGER
Angela Norman NWR OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR
Llana Levine WEBSITE & PUBLICITY COORDINATOR
Greetings from the outgoing UK National Organiser
I am so sorry for not being in touch sooner as I intended. I have officially stepped down- yesterday- and, clearing my inbox, I came across your email.
The past couple of years have been particularly busy involving staff shortages and a lengthy process of new website development. A new Finance Manager, Kate Dobson, was employed in January 2014. The Website and Publicity Coordinator, Alyson Watts, left the post in February 2015 and a replacement, Kath Latham, was not appointed until October 2015. Of course I am aware that Mary Dodkins used to keep in touch with you and, in fact, had agreed to continue to do so with news of NWR activities here. However, I believe her ongoing health problems have prevented her from doing so.
The website is now looking good and is currently managed by Ilana Levine as Kath Latham is on Maternity Leave. Natalie Punter is working more hours than me and has the new title of National Organiser. Both Natalie and Ilana are full of enthusiasm and fresh ideas for the future of NWR. Please feel free to get in touch with them: ilana @ nwr. org. uk; natalie @ nwr. org. uk.
All the very best to your members, Kathryn Buckman
Street Address: National Women ' s Register( Registered Head Office) 23 Vulcan House, Vulcan Road North Norwich NR6 6AQ
Website: https:// nwr. org. uk Email Address: office @ nwr. org. uk
Response to Kathryn Buckman and Bev Shaw from Natalie Punter
Kathryn, Thank you for this introduction … and Bev,
I look forward to further contact with you once I have a firmer handle on my role.
Regards, Natalie
UK NWR National Conference 2015 – GLASGOW
The NWR National Conference & AGM 2015 took place in Glasgow on Saturday 20 June in the beautiful and historic Grand Central Hotel. The trustees, staff and conference committee were delighted to welcome 260 members. Many made a weekend of it and enjoyed wraparound events including a guided tour of Glasgow’ s historical sites.
We had an impressive line-up of high calibre speakers talking on the theme of‘ Diverse Connections’.
The conference kicked off with award-winning writer and journalist Alistair Moffat who captivated the audience on the subject of DNA and how much it can inform us about our ancestry. In addition to Alistair was BBC broadcaster and writer Sally Magnusson who talked movingly about her mother’ s dementia, which led her to write Where Memories Go and starting up the charity Playlist for Life. Finally we got to hear from English language teacher and co-author of the children’ s novel Food Wars, Mairi Nasr. Mairi lived in Lebanon for several years and gave us food for thought about accommodating different cultures.
NWR Short Story Competition 2015:“ FREEDOM”
The competition was held in June this year. Four of our Australian members sent through their stories to the UK Office to show what our Aussie members can put down in words their insight into“ Freedom”, in no more than 2000 words.!!!!!!!
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