2010 Annual General Meeting

The Canadian Women's Club celebrated a year of more than 100 events for the 2009-2010 season at our AGM held yesterday! The AGM is when we review the events of the past year, take a close look at our financial situation, hear reports about our charitable work, make any changes needed to our rules and constitution, thank activity leaders and members of the executive team who are moving on to new pastures and welcome the new executive team who will lead the club going forward.

CWC 2009-2010 Executive, from left:

Kate Brundage (Vice-President for 2010-2011),

Teresa Howe (Outgoing President),

Patty Bell (President for 2010-2011),

Renee-Marie Vanasse (Outoing Treasurer),

Barbara Richards (Outoing Vice-President)

In addition to all the above, we were very pleased this year to have a presentation from Mark Ball about LIFT 2010, a London-wide International Festival of Theatre that will be taking place from 23 June to 18 July. Mark was introduced by Donna Thomson, CWC Honorary President, and both spoke about their excitement about the range of experiences, performers and adventures that LIFT will be offering this year - with ground-breaking works from Canada, Germany, Tunisia and elsewhere. Mark talked to us about just a few LIFT events that should surprise and enthrall us. You can read more about LIFT 2010 by clicking here!

Mark Ball of LIFT with Teresa Howe

There were many thank you's to various activity leaders for creating such a fantastic programme of events - but the main thank you went to our outgoing President, Teresa Howe who for the past year worked tirelessly on behalf of the club. She put her heart and soul into keeping the club fresh and exciting. We all felt enriched by the fantastic range of events she coordinated and new members were impressed by her warm welcome.

Isabelle Mignault and Teresa Howe

Heartfelt thanks also went to Margaret Wickware, our most recent Past President, who is moving on to new things after acting as Chair of the Maple Leaf Trust for three years. Margaret wasn't able to be with us at the AGM but her report was very graciously given by Fawn White.

Fawn White

And so now we congratulate and welcome Patty Bell as our new President, and take a break for the summer until we recommence activities in September. Enjoy a few pictures from the AGM and see you all in September! And one last event to mention....please come out and say hello to us at our stand on Canada Day, Thursday 1 July - Trafalgar Square...from 10:30am until 6:30pm!