Publicity Officer Report 2025

 The past year our meetings continued as pre-pandemic with one exception; now we have a regular Zoom Meeting in September and three face to face meetings. We retained the September Zoom Meeting because it enables us to book speakers from farther afield and gives an opportunity for members to join in when unable to attend in person.  Sadly the meeting held in September 2024 was poorly attended, disappointing for both committee and guest speaker.

As Publicity Officer, I am always on the lookout for someone special and perhaps a little famous if possible for this meeting. Suggestions from members are always welcome.

We are hoping to become more inclusive as an association and have made contact with various other groups who are a part of Lancashire’s varied History. Our committee meetings are also conducted on Zoom or sometimes Messenger; the reason for this being, that our committee are based all over Lancashire, so it’s a much better way of ensuring a quorum, whatever the weather and also much better for the environment.

During the year we were delighted to involve our new Patron, Mina Anwar as she kindly agreed to adjudicate one of our competitions.

I continue also to send birthday and Christmas cards via Jacquie Lawson to members whose email details I have, so please be sure if I don’t have that information, to let me know yours, either at a future  meeting of via my email address at peterjones040@gmail.com and I’ll add you to the list. Also if I do have your details and you don’t get a card on your birthday, please let me know.

During this year I hope to start trying to contact local radio stations again, perhaps to publicise some of our events and maybe even to cover some of our live meetings as they did at our Lancashire Day at Lytham in 2015. In the meantime, if any of our members have something you think it would benefit us to publicise, please let me know.

Peter Jones 2025