At the Zoom May Meeting our new President Sharon Hanson-Cooper presented her programme for 2021-22. This is published on the Club Website under About Our Club, together with the new list of Club Officers, and our Friendship Links. We will be having an interesting mix of social, informational and programme action based meetings and events, as we continue to support Just The Job, and our SI Harare friends in Zimbabwe. As the Covid crisis rolls back towards “normal life”, we hope to be able to meet physically instead of via Zoom soon. and options are being explored for a suitable location. We also hope to restart our long-running “Sharing Our Skills” project in the New Year, in association with Richmond School. We congratulate two of our former “SOS” students on recent achievements: Becky Potts has achieved a place at Leeds University to do a Masters in Theorectical Physics and Eleanor Bramley has been awarded a scholarship to read Arabic and French at Manchester University.
Jonas Centre Bench
Past presidents Sue and Judith reported on the installation of the memorial bench at The Jonah Centre. Tree planting is expected to take place in October.
Richmond 950
Members have been recruited to provide and serve refreshments at one of the Richmond 950 Events, the open day at Mr Yorke’s Garden on Sunday, June 20th. Members will bake cakes for the stall, and serve tea and coffee to visitors accordance with all appropriate Covid Regulations. All monies raised will be donated to Just The Job. We hope for another success as we achieved at the same open day last year.
Baroness Hale
Two of our members have been involved in planning for this year’s Richmond Walking and Books Festival, and in particular reported that our Patron, Baroness Hale, will be speaking at the Georgian Theatre as part of the festival. She is publishing her memoirs – appropriately called ‘Spider Woman’. SIR&D is planning a block booking!