DISTRICT 1130 CONFERENCE

21 - 23 October 201PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

ALL DETAILS SUBJECT TO CHANGEFRIDAY OCT OBER 21st

10.00am Badge Collection Desk opens in the Winter Garden FoyerOn site Registration Desk opens in the Conference Office

11.00am Rotary Showcase opens in the Main Hall

1.30pm First Plenary Session in the Main HallIntroduction of Conference Guests and short addresses from:The Mayor of Eastbourne Councillor Pat Hearn

The President of the Rotary Club of Eastbourne Paul HonneyThe Chairman of District 13 Inner Wheel Margaret FairlieThe President of RIBI Eve Conway

Speaker: A doctor from the LONDON AIR AMBULANCE Service

Refreshment BreakDistrict Sports Committee presentationSpeaker: A field worker from the charity SHELTERBOX The Representative of the Rotary International President Tony Black

Speaker: Dr Richard ColesThe Reverend Richard Coles is a broadcaster, writer and Church of England priest - but he’s best known for having been one half of the 1980s band, The Communards. With a successful media career already established,he trained for a priesthood in the Church of England - becoming what could only be described as a ‘very modern’ vicar. He was a Curate in Lincolnshire

before moving to St Paul's Knightsbridge and becoming Chaplain to the Royal Academy of Music.He continues to work in broadcasting, as an opera reviewer and contributor to Newsnight Review. He has been a panellist on Have I Got News For You and presents Radio 4’s Saturday Live and the odd Songs of Praise special.

4.30pm session ends5.00pm Badge Collection & Registration Desks close

Rotary Showcase Closes

5.30pm Fellowship Receptions in The View Hotel Reception for Club Presidents, Presidents Elect, New Rotarians and their partners

Reception for Foundation Scholars, their Counsellors and partners 6.15pm Receptions end 8.15pm Badge Collection Desk opens in the Winter Garden Foyer

New Registration Desk opens in the Conference Office

9.00pm Entertainment in the Main HallBIG BOYS DON’T CRY - Jersey Boys Tribute

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 22nd

8.30am Badge Collection Desk opens in the Winter Garden FoyerOn site Registration Desk opens in the Conference OfficeRotary Showcase opens

9.30am Second Plenary Session in the Main Hall

Introduction of Rotary Global Scholars Celebration of the Rotary Foundation’s 100th birthday

Speaker: The President of RIBI Eve Conway

Special presentation on the charity “SAVE A CHILD’S HEART”

Refreshment Break

Speaker: MARTHA WANSBROUGH – Director of the DRIVE FORWARD FOUNDATION Presentation by the District Youth Committee

District Committee Presentation

Speaker: District Governor Helen Antoniou

Speaker: PAUL GOLDSTEIN Award winning photographer, presenter, author and guide Paul likes nothing better than spending endless hours waiting for that animal to make his or her move. He is not interested in Photoshop or indeed any other form of manipulation preferring to show what he has taken rather than manufactured. He has spent 25 years guiding wildlife safaris and expeditions and owns his own set of

safari camps in Kenya.He is opinionated and outspoken and not everybody's cup of tea but ' if you want to become a wildlife photographer, no-one will drag you up the slope quicker' (S.Times)

1.00 pm Session Ends

1.15pm Badge Collection & Registration Desks close3.00pm Rotary Showcase Closes

2.30 pm Break-out sessions at The View HotelA new selection of workshops and discussions covering the World of Rotary – and more!

4.30pm Break-out sessions end

9.30pm DISCO / CABARET The Gold RoomBACK BY POPULAR DEMAND (HONESTLY!)NIGEL SMITH

With his great mixture of live act (and a few jokes!), and recorded music to get everyone on their feet.

Midnight (ish) Entertainment Ends

SUNDAY OCTOBER 25 th

9.15am Venue A Registration Desk & Badge Collection in the Conference Office10.15am Conference Office Closes

10.00am Third Plenary Session in the Main Hall Introduction of Club Presidents

Presentation of awards Speaker: Rotaract District Chairman Carla Sateriale

‘Thought for the Day’ with RIBI President Elect Debbie Hodge

Speaker: Deputy Secretary General of the Commonwealth Dr Josephine Ojiambo

Presentation on RIBI Conference 2017 (Manchester)Presentation on RI Convention 2017 (Atlanta)Presentation on District Conference 2017-18 (Eastbourne!)

Speaker: RI President’s Representative Tony Black

Presentation to be confirmed

Speaker: EVE POLLARD Eve is often referred to as ‘The First Lady of Fleet Street’. She was one of the first female editors of a national newspaper in the UK, editing the Sunday Mirror from 1987-1991 and the Sunday Express from 1991-1994.

In 1985 Eve was launch editor- in-chief of Elle Magazine in the US and edited the Sunday magazine for the News of the World and You Magazine for the Mail on Sunday.

In television she was the features editor for TV AM and also devised the series Frocks-on-the-Box for TVS which ran for twenty six shows in total.

She also appeared as a regular participant in Through the Keyhole and been a guest panellist on Loose Women. Eve was ITV’s correspondent for the Royal Wedding of William and Catherine in 2011 and was part of the ITV team again in 2012 for the Diamond Jubilee coverage and reporting on the birth of the Royal baby.

Eve has been a member of the Competition Commission’s Newspaper Takeover Panel appointed in 1999. Her publications include Jackie, a biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1971), and four jointly written novels: Splash (1995) Best of Enemies (1996), Double Trouble (1997) and Unfinished Business (1998).

Eve has become increasingly frustrated by the lack of stylish clothes available for older women and has launched her own designer range of dresses. She has been Vice-Chairman of the women’s health charity Wellbeing of Women since 2003 and was Chairman of the BBC Radio 4 panel ‘UK’s 100 Most Powerful Women 2013’.

12.30pm Session and Conference Programme ends

ALL TIMINGS AND DETAILS SUBJECT TO CHANGE