Area Meeting: Wednesday 3rd June

This evening to Cannock, and The Barns, for an Area Meeting. This is an informal meeting for table chairman and vice-chairman of individual Tables in Area 5 (there are 16 in total). I'd been asked to host this evening's meeting, and chose The Barns as we've had a fair few meetings there in the past. Tonight, as always the food was very good. Because it was an informal meeting, we had tables of 4, and I sat with Walsall and Lichfield. I think all Round Tables have similar things to focus on: how to attract new members, how to keep the programme interesting and varied so members stay invovled, how to raise funds for charities etc. The 'business' part of this evening was informal, with a short intro from the area chairman (Chris James - from Stourbridge & Brierley Hill), followed by a few words from the president (Dave Townsend) about his table experiences over the years, followed by an open forum for tables to give an update of what they are up to. This gives lots of insight into what other tables are doing, events that we can tag along to and some ideas of what Penkridge could do. I came away with several pages of ideas.