It was an enormous privilege to be installed as the 32nd Master of the Water Conservators Company today and it is with great pleasure that I look forward serving the company in the year ahead. I would like to offer my thanks to my predecessor Mark Lane, and his consort Judy, for doing a splendid job under such difficult circumstances.
It was with great pleasure that I welcomed our Wardens for the coming year, Graham Howells, Martin Baggs and Christine Jarvis, plus three new Liverymen, Martin Bigg, Ramon Bravo, and Tony Williams.
It is a great shame that we could not all meet up under the present circumstances, however the virtual event ran very smoothly with my thanks to our Clerk, and also to Simon Catford for managing the technology.
Although the current restrictions do not allow us all to meet up physically, we have a number of virtual events planned in the short term that hopefully members will find interesting. These include a “Virtual Wine Tasting Evening” on 15th October 2020 when members will have the opportunity to once again socially interact over a glass or two of wine. We are continuing the successful series of webinars with a fifth webinar by Andrew Taylor titled “Capital Digital Solutions” on 7th October 2020 and plans are progressing for a “Virtual Carol Service” in December with the Reverend Katherine Hedderly of All Hallows by the Tower.
Finally, we are still planning to go ahead with the annual sponsored walk on Sunday 4th October to raise funds for the schools programme of the Water Conservation Trust with just 6 walkers to meet the guidelines. Please sponsor us if you can as the money goes towards encouraging water related science and environmental learning in schools.
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