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ANNUAL RIBI CONFERENCE DISTRICT 1175 INAUGURAL
CONFERENCE
Bournemouth 1st – 3rd April
Torquay 4th – 6th March
This year’s annual conference of Rotary in Britain
and Ireland promises to be an inspiring event. The inaugural District 1175 Conference has
Speakers include TV personalities, such as song- attracted an interesting range of speakers,
writer Richard Stilgoe and antiques expert Eric including PHF Jean Best; Children’s Hospice
Knowles, pop star-turned-priest the Reverend Founder Sister Frances; Jeremy Lefroy MP,
Richard Coles, World Health polio envoy Sir Liam chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Malaria
Donaldson, actress Jenny Agutter and the Group; Tim Sutton-Woodhouse, a puppy socialiser
Shakespeare Schools Festival, as well as RI from Medical Detection Dogs; and Nigel Williams,
President KR Ravinder and our own Peter Davey. founder of ANODE in Torbay.
For more information on the line up watch the
video: The weekend’s
entertainment includes
https://youtu.be/9WPaJJs8ayM a tour of Torre Abbey, a
three-course Agatha
The venue is the Bournemouth International Christie-themed dinner
Centre, with the HQ hotel being the Highcliff and a black-tie Gala
Marriott, although there is plenty of other Dinner.
accommodation available.
It’s based at the Riviera
There’s also a chance to catch up on the latest Centre on Chestnut
Rotary developments and hear plenty of fresh Road, facing Torquay
ideas from the movement. sea front, and the main
hotel is the Toorak, just
More information from the website: behind the complex.
www.rotarygbi.org
District Governor Brian Stoyel said the aim is to
“bring all the fun and friendship we’ve enjoyed in
the past into a bright new future: you need to be
here!”

More information from www.rotary1175.org