Sandwell Talking News Annual General Meeting at West Bromwich Town Hall on Monday 29 April 2024 from 11.00am to 1.00pm.

Our partners, Sandwell Talking News (STN), invite you their Annual General Meeting.

As well as conducting the formal business section of the meeting, STN will welcome our guest speaker Peter Bradley. We met Peter at Tipton Civic Society’s Tree of Lights presentation event.

New Committee Members are always welcome to help run and support Sandwell Talking News. If you, or someone you know would like a position on the Sandwell Talking News Committee, please contact us on sandwelltn@gmail.com

Minutes and financial reports are available upon request.

Contact the SVI office if you wish to attend by calling 0121 525 4810 or email info@sandwellvisuallyimpaired.org.uk.

STN editor, Ray will be putting some of the highlights of the AGM in the TN editions following this meeting, so if you cannot attend on the day you can still listen to some of it.

Programme

Date and time: Monday 29 April 2024, 11.00am – 1.00 pm

10.30am    Registration

11.00 am   Welcome from Tony Averis (STN Chair)

11.10 am: Guest Speaker – Peter Bradley

12.00 pm: Break

12.15 pm: 2023 AGM Minutes

12.20 pm: Financial report including our thanks to our funders

12.30 pm: Adoption of Sandwell TN Terms of Reference

12.40 pm: Election of committee

12.45 pm: Listener and volunteer comments and feedback

12.55 pm: Closing remarks and thanks

Please register at the SVI Offices from 10.30 am. Access to the office is at the rear of the building. Ring the buzzer for SVI and a member of SVI staff will direct you to the meeting.

About Peter

Born 1944 in Tipton, when children could be seen but not heard! Enjoyed reading but can’t remember creative writing (owing to not having much imagination!), although I re-wrote a couple of short pantomimes for the Sunday School in the 1970’s, in rhyme so that it was easier for the ‘actors’ to learn the words. I started to write the odd poem during Covid, and have had three published in the Black Country Bugle. I am fairly used to public speaking, though, as I read the lesson in church, and preach a couple of times a month.

It was certainly a challenge when Tony asked about canal poems, but I shall have one, about my own relationship with the canal, to read when I see you on the 29th.