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Response by Managing Director (Dur. 15 Min Queen's Award ceremony - honouring
(name of company omitted)
My Lord, Lieutenant Phillip and Lady Wroughton, Councillors, distinguished guests, much to my
satisfaction and maybe to yours, this ceremony does not make a ceremonial speech with all its
trimmings mandatory.
However, although silence at times is golden, on an occasion such as this, I would not be doing my
duty as Managing Director of (name of company omitted****) if I did not speak of the pleasure the
award we celebrate has brought us.
Further, it is not very often if at all that a company such as ours gets an opportunity to make a
presentation to a group, representative of the cream of the crop.
It is therefore with an unenviable sense of pride that I say (name of company omitted) (Europe) in
this hour, has the undivided attention of Lords lieutenant,politicians, lawyers and journalists.
The experience of the pulling power of this awards ceremony, will spur me and my ever innovative
and dedicated colleagues, all 80 of us to refocus and set our sights again, firmly on the summit of the
ladder of success.
We see the UK’s top award for business performance we receive tonight, as a reward for the
resourcefulness, sound judgment and tenacity of management and our staff’s diligence, physical
daring and tact; attributes that propel (company) upwards, rung by rung.
The year was 1994, Graeme Obree, riding a home-made bike, became the world pursuit champion
over four-thousand metres.1994, the year Hollywood defined the features for movies on compact
discs and Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa.
It was also the year which marked the tenth anniversary of the introduction of the first Laser Jet
printer (with all-in-one toner cartridges) that became the plank of the new technology and birth of
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(W R K White ) Speaks on Christian Broadcasting
(Address a Women’s Group In Hale, Cheshire)
There was a time when a radio was a luxurious addition to the family room. The television that
followed decades later also became a kind of status symbol for the well off in the community.
I am certain that all of us here have memories of the days when our mothers and fathers relied on the
wireless for news, various bits of information, some forms of entertainment including music and
drama, some aspects of education and of course live and recorded Sunday morning services.
Radio that ushered in true mass communication at the turn of the twentieth-century continues to be a
primary source of information, news, and entertainment created to satisfy the tastes of the public.
It is therefore important that the gate-keepers in broadcasting and those who enact legislation to
control it recognise the industry’s responsibility to all the groups of listeners and in the case of
television viewers who make up the public.
It is also desirous that legislators and broadcasters are inspired to be on guard against programming
which as much as hint of being abusive or contain material created to denigrate any group or public on
the basis of race, ethnic origin, colour, age, sex or religion.
In today’s society, the broadcaster has the additional responsibility to ensure that programming does
not infringe the fundamental rights and freedoms of any section of the public.
We may tend to speak of public lightly except of course we subscribe to the view that whenever
public is mentioned, we are really dealing with the term in the plural. This would mean that public
would become ‘various publics.’ This should not be too difficult to understand against the back drop
of the broadcast industry as broadcasters can in fact choose and target the public they serve as they
see it fit.
In media circles there is general agreement that there are as many publics as there are groups with
varying levels of income, education, tastes and civic awareness; as there are groups of different
political allegiances and different religious loyalties.
It follows then that the broadcaster as well as the legislator must recognise that what attracts and
holds the attention of one public, may be considered trivial by another.
They must also take cognisance of the fact that each public this argument alludes to is not static. In
other words it is subject to change as issues, tastes and demography change.
The kind of change we speak about here, was obviously recognised by architects of change at the
BBC when they established Radios, one, two, three and four. The move was an open attempt to
cater for various publics. (end of clip)…
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MY COMMUNITY IS MY VESTED INTEREST (Dur 20')
Address by M.S. Meg( not real name) to The World Federation of KSIM
(Your Greetings and Salutations)
All of us assembled here honour an organisation of which we are proud.(And ) our pride is not
without foundation. To begin with, we can boast that as members of this community, we belong to a
one of a kind international organization The World Federation of KSIM Communities.
We know that our Federation is admired as one of the better organized groups in our part of the
world. But today our member communities in Europe stand at a crossroad.
We can choose to turn around or we can follow the arrow that leads to the implementation of the
recommendation of the Constitution Review Committee.
As we all know the proposal before us, calls for the World Federation - of which I say again we are
justifiably proud to be limited to Regional Federations.
I am painfully aware that while the CRC in its wisdom and with the help of the Almighty performed
its task objectively, there are those among us who would prefer to guard the past and the present and
maintain the status quo.
(And ) here, I can't help but remind us of an expression well known, in our communities: He who
cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never,
therefore, make any progress.
I hasten to assure you that the CRC could have been constrained to adopt a ;play it safe position.
But we believe that we owed more to the men, women and children of our membership and the
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President's Annual Report Statement by Johnny Tallfellow ( not real name)
The Board of Directors, Volunteers and Staff have continued to work hard to improve the service
provided to members, as well as to ensure that all returns are made available to the relevant
authorities on time.
Board of Directors, at the 2004 AGM, six new directors were approved, of these four have
completed their directors training and have been accepted by he Financial Services Authority (FSA).
I would like to thank all directors and volunteers for their continued commitment to ICECUL.
Financial Review.
Once again I must report that the trend of share withdrawal by members has continued. Also, that
this has resulted in a decrease in loan interest. When I highlighted this trend in my report last year, I
also pointed out that the dividends recommended by the Board will be dependant upon the year's
profits of which loan interest is the prime source. Although there has been a slight reduction in
members and not withstanding share withdrawals, Share Capita (end of
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