catching up on things - awards and national convention

Life as a local president is busy and its been nagging me for a while that I should have been writing more on my blog....so much has happened since I last wrote, and I'll be updating on what's been going on from now on until the end of the year. And then I'm going to take a break. A JCI break. With no JCI between the 14th of December and new years. Yuhu!

Awards and National Convention
Last weekend (ish), JCI London had the great pleasure of hosting the first ever JCI United Kingdom National Convention.
The first, because in earlier years JCI UK has had two events - National Conference and National Awards, both about a day and a half. This year, to save members some money and offer a truly outstanding event, it was combined into almost three days with training sessions, parties, speakers and competitions.

It was fun. people came from all across the UK, British Isles and Europe. We've not had that many international attendees at a UK national event since many years. Among the attendees were JCI Director for Europe Michele Hermans, JCI VP Serge Goussaert, President Elect JCI Belgium 2011 Steven Vandenabeele, JCI Scotland President Karen Manson, JCI Ireland President Mark Kelly, representatives for WC 2011 in Brussels and EC 2011 in Tarragona, members from JCI Tallinn, Belgium and more.

I had the great honour to receive the award of Most Outstanding President JCI UK 2010, while JCI London won a number of awards (well done everyone!), among them Most Outstanding Chamber 2010 (you can see them all here: http://www.jcilondon.org.uk/news.php?id=251).

COC Director Sarah Beckwith and her team did an outstanding job. I know how much stress they've lived through with this convention and what they delivered was amazing.

Marco van den Heuvel took pictures, you can find them here.

See you next year!