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53rd National Dinner
02/12/09

A good time was had by all.

Our 53rd. National Annual Dinner was a thoroughgoing success.
There was a lot of it and so the report is in pdf format.
Persevere! There are some good pictures thanks to Simply Photography.

Gordon Hawkins
8/9/09

The news that Gordon has gone will sadden the many people who were privileged to earn his friendship during his 50 years in plant and plant hire and 30 years as a stalwart of Midlands Branch.

However, the manner of his leaving can be envied by those of us with silver hair, (if we have any!). Gordon was attending a Royal Navy Reunion when he suffered a heart attack and although the medics were there in minutes he had gone. This is the Gordon that I’ll remember – at ease, having fun for the Lighthouse Club and hamming it up like nobody’s business.

Gordon. Chairman of Midlands Branch 1998

Gordon Hawkins Obituary

‘Fine’ Summer Ball
02/07/09

Our mid–summer ball attracts 700

Our mid summer ball is a big event for the Club and in spite of the current climate we managed to bring over 700 construction people into the spacious City grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company. There they all enjoyed a good time and a fine mid summer evening. As usual the fairground with its traditional gallopers and dodgems proved popular, as did the dance floor which was busy until past midnight. First off was A-Plant’s percussion band, which gave us some high spirited, (and recognisable!) tunes from an assortment of battered artifacts.

Strike up the band! Our four young tuneful chaps hard at it.

Whilst we were all at table, entertainment came first from Lily and Sarah, two young lady gymnasts/acrobats, the ‘Cirque Bijou’, who swirled and whirled through, on, and around a six foot hoop and each other.

Lily and Sarah – ‘Cirque Bijou’

‘Siren’s’ Electric Strings certainly swung

Later came a jazz string quartet. The four young ladies pictured above certainly rocked those strings to great acclamation!

The fund raising came with the Grand Draw. Below is Marian Webb, (who can justly claim to being the key to the evening’s success), together with our popular MC Brian Greenan, pulling out a winning ticket. One winner this time was Hewden’s Brian Jones, a stalwart supporter of our Club and Fund, who was on one of the two tables gathered together by the CPA. They were an orderly crowd of Plant People, well they had the ladies to ensure best behavior!

Familiar faces, Marian Webb making the draw with our M.C. Brian Greenan

Our auctioneer Gregor Leslie upping the ante!

On the right our auctioneer in full Clan dress, who made sure that every possible bawbee was contributed by our generous crowd.

And then on to the fun. A great many construction people enjoyed a splendid night out.

Our ‘5 –a – side’ Competition
25/06/09

Holloways & GM Developments dominate 5 – a – side.

Captain of Holloways Captain receives the Cup

The Cup winning team, Holloways Plant and Tool Hire

Thirty six teams lined up at Wimbledon Goals Centre on Sunday 31st May for the 8th staging of our Construction Charity 5s. As with all our events this year, numbers were down on 2008, but organiser Peter Wedderburn of KBC Communications, by dint of cajole and persuasion, mustered a very satisfactory turn out. Play took place in a Mediterranean heat wave as teams from all aspects of the Construction and Property industries battled it out to take home the Cup.

There is an established league type formula which establishes whether teams progress into the Cup or Plate competitions, at the end of the league matches both Holloway teams, Hill Partnerships, Ellmer Construction, Volker Fitzpatrick, Plastering Contractors Stanmore and Rainbow Design were Cup contenders. In the hard fought tussle that followed Holloway’s Plant & Tool Hire team went on to win the competition for the second year in succession, this time beating sister company Holloways Contract Services Ltd. Their winning margin this year was two goals out of the six scored in an exciting final. Man of the match was Lee Humphrey.

Holloways Contract Services who yielded to Plant and Tool Hire

The Plate winning team in an all GM Developments Final.

The Plate competition also saw one company dominate, both of the GM Developments teams won through to the Final. It was GM Development’s number two team that took the trophy with a five -nil final score.

At the end of a most enjoyable day’s sport it was Tony Keel, Director of Hays Construction & Property, who presented the trophies. Hays Construction & Property, along with Contract Journal and Skanska, are sponsors of this popular event, and our thanks are due to them for being directly responsible for the raising of over £6000 for our Benevolent Fund. Thanks too, to Peter Wedderburn and his team at KBC, for making the day another Lighthouse Club success

Golfing Society 2009 Pro-Am
10/06/09

The Society held its 9th Pro-Am on June 4th at Tandridge Golf Club, Oxted, Surrey.

Tandridge – a splendid course in wonderful countryside.

The Professional Golfers Association - Southern Region provided the Professionals and in all 23 teams competed made up from Members, Guests and Pros.

Our last year’s report had Golf Supremo Keith Chaundy worried in the wet and stormy run up to the event. The day was, of course, and as usual, brilliant. This year we enjoyed another perfect golfing day, (for our Pro-Am it always is) with the foul weather occupying the days since.

So: a glorious June day found Tandridge looking a picture and in fantastic condition, which made for excellent golf and good, well earned, scores. Well earned because Tandridge, which features among the top 100 courses in England, is a challenge – only four of our professionals broke par.

Pro-Am ’09 winner Andrew Raitt with our Keith Chaundy. Keith’s flamboyant Lighthouse tie is a present from Kuala Lumpur Branch where our members are somewhat more outgoing.

The Bovis Lend Lease winners.

Our “Pro-Am” winners this year were a team from Bovis Lend Lease with a Team score of 12 under par, second were Kier Group on 8 under par and third were last year’s winners Orbital Equipment with a 6 under par score.

We had a splendid supper to follow proceedings, a meal which lived up to the reputation for quality enjoyed by Tandridge’s kitchen, and the evening’s socialising rounded off another great Lighthouse Club event.

Our grateful thanks to our Sponsors: Bam Construction UK,Benchmark Scaffolding Ltd, Bovis Lend Lease, Charles Wilson Engineers Ltd, ClancyDocwra, Harry Neal Ltd, Hays PLC, Hill International, Kier Group Plc, Laing O’Rourke Plc,PHE Plant Hire Executive Magazines, C J Pryor (Plant) Ltd, Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd, Skanska Construction UK,Volvo Construction Equipment Ltd and Walton Heath Developments.

In all over £5000 was raised for the Lighthouse Club Benevolent Fund, bringing the total raised by the events we have run to £85000.

We return next year to Tandridge on the Thursday the 3rd June 2010.

The Autumn Meeting is once again at The Berkshire Golf Club on Thursday the 17th September 2009. Golfers should take the opportunity to visit what Sir Michael Bonallack calls “this marvelous course”. Keith Chaundy

‘Hays Construction 11s’ Millwall Finals.
10/06/09

The winning Hays squad who, with their victory over DTZ, continued their run of successes.

At the begining of April the ‘Hays Construction 11s’ had 16 teams from London’s property companies lined up to battle it out to secure a place in the competition final and, on the way, raise money for our Benevolent Fund.

Qualifying games were played at Gunnersbury Park and from these four teams came through to the finals at Millwall’s Den held on Thursday 21 May. Hays and DTZ were playing for the cup and the losers in the semi-finals, Drivers Jonas and GVA Grimley, played for the plate. In that match, a draw at full time, GVA emerged as winners following sudden death penalties.

In the cup final, DTZ put up strong competition against the current cup holders, Hays, but were knocked back when Hays’ Captain, Scott Dance shot past the goalie for a 1-0 lead after eight minutes. By end of half time, DTZ were three goals down. In the second half DTZ never once looked like giving in, but Scott Dance scored a hat trick goal ten minutes from time, and was, unsurprisingly, named Man of the Match. Hays took home the glory for the fifth time since the event started in 2005. Andrew Bredin, Managing Director of Hays Construction & Property, presenting the cup to the Hays team said “We were pleased to be able to support the Lighthouse Club Charity, alongside other construction businesses. It is excellent to get everyone on the pitch for a good cause – we just need someone to beat us, now!”

Big Man – Big Rig
2/03/09

A slimming down Justin (by nearly 5 stones so far) with his 60 tonne Komatsu (pic courtesy PHE Plant Hire Executive)

The Flora London Marathon is not that far away, as this is written the web site countdown reads 1 month 13 days 21 hours 7 minutes.
This is the latest from Justin Ffrench who was photographed yesterday by Nick Johnson of PHE Magazine. Nick reports:
As well as raising money through the run, Justin is also planning to donate a sum of money from each new excavator hire gained between April and June. Naturally the amount will vary according to the size of machine. The 60 tonne Komatsu pictured above is the biggest rig in Justin’s fleet, and, by the looks of things, its in the yard ready,waiting, and eager to go out!

Plant Hire Executive will be giving Justin’s efforts on behalf of the Lighthouse Club Benevolent Fund a good plug

The Flora London Marathon
03/03/09

It’s cruel hard work!

The Flora London Marathon is not that far away, as this is written the web site countdown reads 1 month 22 days 15 hours 15 minutes. The Lighthouse Club has a big interest in this spectacular event: As a registered charity our Benevolent Fund has 5 Gold Places on offer every year. Two of our runners are in touch – Kevin Minton of the Contractors Plant –Hire Association and Justin Ffrench who owns J. Ffrench Plant Hire; both say they are making good progress. Their progress is Here (PDF)

Lighthouse Run 2008 Review
19/02/09

Thanks to contributions from a few of those who took part in this daunting challenge this review looks at people places and cars from John ‘o Groats to Land’s End as they were last October. In spite of the ‘daunting challenge or maybe because of it, everyone had a great time. Here

Jaguar Enthusiast & LHR
29/01/09

Jaguar Enthusiast Magazine – February 09 Edition – has given a full page to the story of the Speedy Hire Mike McGrath – Alex Trigg team’s unbelievable good fortune when their E Type’s lights failed in the wilds north of Fort William. Some errors did occur in translation, and I had to click on my enlarge button to bring the text into focus, but here it is:- pdf Here

‘Mini World’ stars L H Run
20/01/09

Long standing Club member (and a past Branch Chairman, twice) George Wright, the senior member of our Lighthouse Run ‘Wrightfull Mini Team’ has been spreading the Lighthouse word via the two magazines dedicated to these classic cars. Now all those crazy Mini aficionados will be aware of our Club. However we shouldn’t count on many new members – keeping an old Mini on the road and up to the mark leaves little time for other hobbies says George!
The two examples of George’s handiwork are Here and Here

8/12/08

This ‘doctored’ picture shows our nine ‘runners’, here lined up in the gloom of a John o’ Groats October morn. 1170 miles to go, 25 to 30 hours of tough driving through the most dramatic landscapes in Britain.

Fortunately for our ‘runners’, by the morning of departure the previous day’s 80m.p.h. winds had abated to 50 m.p.h. A mere breeze for Britain’s northernmost point. With that ‘breeze’ came variety – rain, sleet and snow. As for the route, it was anything but ‘point to point’. From J o' G over the top of Scotland, through the breathtaking Highlands, down the west coast passing Lochs Ness and Lomand. Then down to the Muir of Ord, through Glen Coe, past Penrith and Carlisle to Bowness on Lake Windemere and the Hydro Hotel, the overnight stop. The Hydro is a comfortable berth, and the food was excellent, both much needed after a tough day’s driving. Not surprisingly, with the knowledge of the day yet to come the atmosphere was subdued and most of our runners turned in soon after dinner.

These disinterested observers deserved to be given a wide berth!

On the morning of day two another early start. The first leg was negotiating a flooded Lake district before the teams picked up the M6 to by-pass Manchester then they turned westward towards Chester. From Chester, as the route wound through Wales, the weather faired up. There were a few showers over the Brecon Beacons and once back into England and Gloucester and Bath there were glimpses of sunshine! The Somerset levels came next and then it was Devon, the final checkpoint, at the Rose & Crown East Lyng, the A30, Cornwall and the road to the Land’s End hotel. There, Lighthouse people were the sole occupants and the atmosphere was, to quote George Wright, superb.

Our Tony Green was there to represent the Club and to award the trophies. Woodbutcher and Leaky from Ipswich, who competed in 2006 were the overall winners, whilst the Prix de la Concourse, for the best turned out car (voted for by the runners themselves), was the (much tweaked) 1988 Austin-Rover Mini Mayfair of the Wrightful team of George and James Wright. Tony Green writes: “Our hosts served a superb meal and afterwards the goodwill and camaraderie generated by the event illustrates what the Lighthouse Club is all about. The evening spent with these guys, listening to their stories and their good natured banter. is something I shall treasure for many months to come The next morning, after a Cornish breakfast, we had a photo call and dispersed back to our homes. All in all another great LHC event.”

The best turned out car, the Wrightful team’s Mini Mayfair.

Note from web editor. If I get the words and pictures I’m hoping that a much more complete picture will soon be available here in pdf format.

On behalf of the Lighthouse Club our organiser Steve Grant tenders sincere thanks to all who took part. And to our sponsors: Enersol corp. Speedy Hire. The Hydro Hotel for their wonderful hospitality. To Construction News and to Plant Hire Executive for the pre and post event publicity and advertising.

Lighthouse Club 52nd Annual Dinner
10/11/08

This year members and guests had plenty of room

As ever, our 52nd Annual Dinner at the Grosvenor House was a buzzing, good humoured evening, although the dismal climate that has come upon us all meant that our numbers were, not to put too fine a point on it – slashed! Recently, certainly in the last decade, our National Dinners have mustered close to a thousand members and guests.

This year, thanks to the collapse of Reaganomics, we felt that we were lucky to be able to entertain six hundred and fifty. However, some of those were immensely generous, as we shall hearteningly see!

The approach to the Great Room took everyone past our fabulous raffle - Kubota’s 30,000th mini digger, their gift to our Fund of this ‘milestone’ machine was a very generous gesture. As you would expect, we were making a final drive to sell tickets.

These were the girls from ‘Sophistication’ and very smart and tenacious they were too. Their efforts brought in a further £1,500. to add to the goodly sum raised over the previous eight months. Furthermore, something that turned out to be a wonderful bonus, the winning ticket was one of their sales.

This was the night for one lucky ticket holder. How things transpired warrants a separate story which you will find below.

Whilst were all milling around and getting settled into our places, a musical entertainment was supplied by three young lady violinists whose music was enhanced with scarlet florishes as they danced around the stage. Jolly good they were!

And now, as we came to order, there was welcome from our new President, Kevin McNicholas. The first surprise of the evening was the appearance of our Maitre D, Klaus, bearing a bottle of finest champagne.

Klaus had heard that among our number was founder member Ralph Wilson who has attended all fifty two of our National Dinners, forty nine of them at the Grosvenor House. This, thought Klaus, was a moment to mark and Ralph’s notable achievement and the gift of the bubbly warranted a sustained round of applause.

Meanwhile, Klaus’s efficient as always staff were serving our dinner. This was another evening of good food and smooth service. Whilst it must be true that the Grosvenor House staff get plenty of practice, nonetheless, given the numbers, the quality of their meals and the professionalism of the waiting staff really is something admire.

Our President presenting the Cox Trophy to Tony Green

At the end of our meal, and as a preparation for our evening’s entertainments, our trio of violins swirled back into action, this time dressed in black and showing shapely long legs. The “String Divas’ were exactly that!

There followed two awards to be made by our President, the first a regular ‘occasion’. Members will know that our ‘Cox Trophy’, a magnificent piece of craftsmanship in silver, is awarded annually to the branch that has recorded the biggest pro-rata increase in membership in the foregoing twelve months.

Our rejuvenated `South West Branch was this year’s winner, and it was fitting that Tony Green, whose unremitting effort led to the resurgence, accepted the trophy on behalf of all South West’s committee and members. More: Click here.

Surprise!! Don had no warning of this award.

Mark Everett, Chairman of our Benevolent Fund

Our President’s next task was to present a gold pin to Don Baldry who has served, and continues to serve, our Club. Currently London’s Welfare Officer and editor of this web site, Don has been National Chairman, Chairman of London Branch, and until recently was our newsletter editor, a role he filled from 1996.

Members, their guests, and our supporters all know that the aim of our Club is ‘to promote good fellowship’ and the more than fifty events we organise in any one year do exactly that. But the focus of those events is fund raising for our Benevolent Fund. The Chairman of our Fund’s Trustees took to the podium to tell us of our success in helping the many who, because of accident or illness, came to us for aid.

Mark gave us an excellent account of our Fund’s activities – in fact a celebration of the hard work and generosity of Club members and construction people from Land’s End to John ‘o Groats and in Northern Ireland and the Republic. Wherever we are, fun is had, funds are raised, and many construction workers and their families, often in dire straits, are given assistance.

A summary of Mark’s address is available here.

Now came more of that Fun and Fund Raising!

This was the wining ticket!

Regular visitors to this site will have linked from the Kubota mini excavator on our home page to the story below. This, their 30,000 mini excavator in the U.K. has for eight months, been on offer in a raffle to benefit our Fund. Tonight was the draw, and an intriguing story which deserves it’s own account. Click here!

For our entertainment we had two speakers, Graham Davies and Rod Woodward.

Graham is a ‘been there done that’ ex barrister. That, and the fact that he is a former President of the Cambridge Union, certainly gives him an edge when it comes to speaking. No question that he had studied our brief, for he was informed, droll, and very witty with it.

Graham’s was a hard act to follow but we had Rod Woodward, a natural born comic. His session was hilarious.

This was the wining ticket!

After 20 minutes of Rod’s brand of humour it was quite clear how he came to be the winner of the BBC’s comedy competition ‘Funny Business’ last February. And judging by the applause as he finished his act, he was a winner with all of us in the Great Room.

There remained our traditional ‘Cash Draw’. Three winning ticket holders came to the fore, and as per tradition a big wodge of cash was gifted back to our Benevolent Fund.

So, with a ‘goodnight and safe journey’ from our President, our 52nd Annual National Dinner came to an end.

Kubota Raffle 30,000th Mini for our Fund.
16/4/08

This handy piece of kit is a KX61-3

Way back when your editors company car was a Cortina he got an excited phone call from an old friend, Les Montague. Said Les, ‘I’ve got something to show you, I’ll come and pick you up’. Les was a toff, he drove a Wolesley 6-80, which whisked me to Morden where there was indeed ‘something’ to be seen.

This little rig looks as impressive as did the first one in the late ‘70s. And it has a bigger cab!

Les’s ‘Something’ was a minature version of a Poclain TCS, at that time the small hydraulic excavator of choice. Smaller tracks, smaller boom, smaller bucket, and smaller cab; more suited to one of Snow White’s seven than someone of my build. Nevertheless, I saw it as being a much needed bit of kit. It was the first Kubota mini digger in the U.K.

A sensational conclusion at our National Dinner!!
20/11/08

Now Kubota sales in the U.K. have topped 30,000. Marking that achievement Kubota have been raffling a KX61-3 to aid our Benevolent Fund. The draw took place on Nov. 10th at our 52nd National Dinner, held, as is usual, at Grosvenor House, Park Lane.

This was the last chance for ticket sales and we had four young ladies buttonholing our members and guests as they entered the Great Room. Very successful they were, selling a further £1,500’s worth of tickets, including, as it turned out to our Fund’s great good fortune, the winner.

The draw was made by Kubota’s Carol Quine. Carol did all the hard work, the record keeping and administration. She also put a great deal of effort into selling tickets at the thirty or so ‘Kubota Live’ events up and down the country where ‘our’ Kubota was an attraction. So it was that on the evening of our dinner we already had a success and this was supplemented by our ‘Sophistication’ girl’s £1,500. But more was to come!

As mentioned, our winner was a guest in the Great Room. Furthermore, he had no use (or no room!) for a mini digger. So, then and there, he gave it back to us. A flummoxing moment. Fortunately, our M.C. of many years, Brian Greenan, stepped forward as instant auctioneer. The bidding advanced in thousnds, (this was exciting stuff), and when the hammer went down, thanks to Kubota’s Richard Harrison (who’s idea it all was) our Benevolent Fund had a windfall of over £33,000

A Tribute to Roy Williams
16/7/08

Roy at his welfare work

Club members of long standing, particularly those associated with our welfare work, will be sorry to hear of the passing of Roy Williams.

Roy’s construction experience began with 6 years serving with the Royal Engineers. His first job following demob was with W. S. Atkins, after which he had a spell with consultants Mott Hay & Anderson. At that time, both of those companies were among the leaders in Civil Engineering.

Roy then went into contracting with a series of steel works jobs. Tony Green remembers meeting him when he worked for Peter Lind, the same company that Sir Gerald worked for, and it was probably Sir Gerald’s influence that brought him into the Club in 1963.

Roy helped form the Midlands branch, where he served for a time as Chairman and acted as their Welfare Officer. For two years Roy assisted Arthur Staples with the running of our newly registered Benevolent Fund, that was in the early ‘60s. After Arthur retired, Roy took over as Chairman, a post that he filled for two years until Don Armstrong took over in 1982. Roy then became the administrator for our increasingly busy charity. In 1998, poor health and an increasing administrative workload meant that Roy had to retire in favour of Peter Burns.

Roy’s efforts, along with those of our early pioneers, established the Lighthouse Club as a force in our industry. It was they who built the foundations of what is now a successful international organisation. All credit to him and his compatriots.

(Unfortunately, the Club heard of Roy’s passing from a third party, and there was no representation at his funeral. Thanks are due to National Council Member Tony Green and Midlands Chairman Jimmy Cook, whose recollections form the basis of this tribute.

Everest Trek raises £1,600.
01/05/08

Dave among the mountains

When Nottingham Branch member David Meenan decided to go for a stroll with his father in law their target was a bit more ambitious than the Nene Way - the destination they had in mind was Everest’s Base Camp!
This was to be Father-in-Law’s second trip to the roof of the World, this time to celebrate retirement at age 62. Obviously, a trip to the Himalayas is no spur-of-the-moment whim, and David got really serious around October 2006. His family agreed that his five week absence would be difficult, but, on the other hand, they recognized what a brilliant experience it would be and maybe they thought he deserved it! However it did require some planning. Fortunately the web was to hand, and David sat down one weekend morning at work and booked flights, hotels and visa's all through the internet.
Plus, of course, he had to get in to shape. However, living in Northamptonshire, training for altitude isn’t possible, and acclimatisation to breathing at 18,000 feet had to be learnt on the trek.

Taking a break at 18,000 feet

David and dad-in-law left on 8th October 2007, flying from Heathrow to Delhi. There they stayed overnight before taking the flight to Kathmandu Nepal to begin their thirtytwo day adventure. In all, they trekked through the Himalayan range for three weeks, and although they only had to cover a distance of 120 miles it was tough work. The highest point on their trip was 5,545 metres, and for six days their altimeter was registering over the 5,000 mark. On some of those days they exceeded their altitude limit for the day after 2-3 hours. That meant calling a halt to avoid the onset of altitude sickness. The temperature was another thing to contend with. Their coldest night was minus 24 degrees, when they set off in the morning it was minus 18 but it wasn’t too long before the thermometer rose to the average daytime temperature of between 5 and 10 degrees.

Surrounded by awe inspiring peaks

Looking down on to a massive glacier

A particularly enjoyable feature of their trip was that they were not in a ‘party’. Being that it was just the two of them meant that they got to mix with the local people, rather than just socialising within a group. And there was the scenery. It was, says David, amazing, breathtakingly wonderful. And worth every minute of the slog, the cold, and the hard breathing. It was so astonishing that David felt deeply privileged just to be there.
Now that David is back in Northampton, what comes next? Well it seems that he has caught mountain fever. This year it will be the National Park’s three peaks. Next year it’s a trip to Mont Blanc. And after that? Well, Mount McKinley in Alaska beckons. He’ll need to keep those trekking boots well waxed!
The cost for the 32 day trip was about £1,500. That included the six flights and 31 nights accommodation and food. Amazing value for what was a series of truly wonderful experiences. And the benefit for our fund was more than the cost of the trip. A host of generous sponsors raised £1,600. Dave says “Many thanks to all who contributed”.

Rethinking our Rugby 7s
20/9/07


Putting the OOF! back into your life.

Our Rugby 7’s organiser Peter Wedderburn writes:
After considerable dialogue with teams previously entered into the competition, we decided to look for alternative venues and dates, to see if we might find a ground for the Construction Rugby Sevens 2008.

After some searching, and asking teams for suggestions, we came up with Windsor RFC ground, which is in Home Park right next to Windsor Castle. The Club has five full size playing pitches, and they stage several sevens tournaments during the course of the year. In juggling dates, the best option we found was a pre season date - August 31st - which actually suits us here at KBC very well as it is separate from the very hectic football events; The Hays Property Cup and Contract Journal’s Charity Fives, which we organise for the Lighthouse Club.

We asked around for opinions on this date and the new venue and we have had a very positive response. So far, half a dozen teams say they will enter and only one expressed concern that the date would clash with pre season warm up events.

There has been many enquiries this year, so we have a fair bank of prospects, in addition to the responses so far received.

As a result we are going ahead for 2008 at Windsor on the 31st August, and we would be very pleased to continue our support of the Lighthouse Club.

At present we do not have a media partner or sponsor, (here’s an opportunity that must be taken up. Ed.) but I am sure one will come forward once we have the competition under way. In the meantime we will use our construction Rugby and football databases to promote team entries. We would also be pleased if the Lighthouse Club could promote the event through its mailings and its web site.

I have attached a general promotional letter which carries all of the key information and which is available here.

Hallelujah! A Revival! SOUTH WEST
23/1/08

After five years in the doldrums our committee have once more got the show back on the road. A Ladies Night is scheduled for February 29 at the Langstone Cliff Hotel, Dawlish Warren and Tony Green (01823 481111) reports that over 200 tickets have been sold. A revival meeting! Hallelujah! Join in! www.langstone-hotel.co.uk