All Members Meeting

Thursday 1st September 2011
Got engrossed at home and the time ran away from me and I got to the Trinity Centre in Fishermead with minutes to spare.
When I got in the centre one of the candidates said he saw the Smurf film on my recommendation good to know that I have some influence.
All the candidates were there chatting to various party members, I sat down at the top table and got ready with my pad and pen with the agenda and supporting papers and the candidates sat in with the audience and were introduced by Camilla.
We covered items on Housing and the manifesto there then was a twenty minute break for the candidates to mingle with party members.
Camilla approached me and asked where I wanted to go for the meal on Saturday I suggested a couple of venues in the City Centre but they were unappealing to her, so she asked me to have a think about as she needed to book up by tommorrow morning.
Towards the end of the meeting I spoke on the procedures for the final hustings and vote and cocked it up and forget where the venue was and start time lucklily Jan Lloyd and Kevin came to my rescue, I just wish I can speak in public with more confidence at such meetings, as i'm sure my mind would not go blank on me I felt so incompetent although I did remember to thank Dan and Ann who sat at the back of the hall for all their assistance!
One member asked me what they needed to bring with them and I did reply a lot more confidently their membership card and a form of Id so not totally useless then.
Went up to a group of the candidates when the meeting was over, one had quite a severe burn to his hand apparantly he was holding a plastic cup that fell apart when someone else poured hot water into it that must of hurt, another gave his case on the voting outcome which was very charitable as he did not put himself as the winner, and again the same candidate as last time, came up to me asking me who I was and did I have a vote words fail me!
Two members said they had lost their accredition letters but I caught hold of Kevin who said that there were plenty of spares on the day so problem solved when I told them.
Before I left Kevin asked me to count out the donations put in a very large blue bin (as he forgot the usual donation bucket) and roughly give him a figure (all in all just over £70.)