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AGM

The Annual General Meeting of the NFWI is a meeting that is open to all WI members and is where the resolutions on which our campaigns are built are voted on.

The 2011 AGM will be held at the Liverpool Echo Arena on Wednesday 8 June.

2010 AGM

Cardiff International Arena
The 2010 AGM took place at the Cardiff International Arena on Wednesday 2 June with more than 4,000 WI members in attendance.
RESOLUTION

99.3% of delegates at the 2010 AGM voted FOR and therefore passed the resolution calling for the mandatory clear labelling of food with its true country of origin. The mandate is as follows:

This meeting urges HM Government to introduce clear and mandatory country of origin labelling on all meat, poultry and fish products sold in this country.

SPEECHES & SPEAKERS

Can't remember what was said about the centenary celebrations or how subscriptions were being spent, for your report on the AGM - the NFWI Chair and Honorary Treasurer's speeches are now available to download from the top right hand side of the page. The speeches for Anne Harrison, Chair Denman College Committee and Marylyn Haines-Evans, Chair Public Affairs Committee, can be found in the Denman and Campaigns sections of the website.

This year's AGM speakers were:

Gwen Parry-Jones
Gwen Parry-Jones, Heysham 1 power station director
John Bercow MP
Rt Hon. John Bercow MP, Speaker of the House of Commons
Tim Smit
Tim Smit, Chief Executive and (co-founder) of the Eden Project and
Lee Durrell
Lee Durrell, naturalist, author, zookeeper & television presenter
ENTERTAINMENT
Only Men Aloud at the 2010 AGM - Photographer:Paul Groom
Only Men Aloud, winners of last summers' BBC 1 TV show Last Choir Standing and Best Album at the 2010 Classical Brits, performed to a rapturous audience at this year's AGM. To learn more about the choir, visit their website at http://www.onlymenaloud.com.
If you missed out on seeing them at the AGM or want to see them again their December tour schedule is now available to download.

Photographs

Below are photographs taken from the 2010 AGM. Click on the play button in the centre of the first photo to start the slide show. If you want to enlarge the slide show images, once the slide show has started, click on the little box with 4 arrows pointing in opposite directions. To return to the normal view click on the box again or press the 'Esc' key on your keyboard.
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