tabler • spring 2009
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London CTM 2009
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Michael from New York RT1 USA with convener Richard du Bois (right),
President Peter (left) and IRO Marcus Grover (centre right).
The Members’ Dining Room at The House
of Commons.
More than 200 delegates from 18 Associations visited RTBI for Everyone made it onto a Thames cruise at midday on Saturday. We had
the London Central Tablers Meeting 2009 – a sell-out event at the
lunch and the banner exchange whilst being treated to the historic riverside
Grange City hotel, in the shadow of The Tower of London.
sights of London.
Richard du Bois’s PLC had used the hotel for his Ball so it was the obvious
The wise probably had a power nap or dip in the hotel spa before the
place for Richard to host a fantastic European event that boasted tours of
Westminster tour, and, not surprisingly, the bar seemed to be the focal
both Houses of Parliament and dinner in the Commons dining room, not
point back at The Grange City.
forgetting a traditional English curry and Thames cruise.
Coaches took everyone for the tours of the
Saturday’s meeting enabled RTBI to set the
Houses of Parliament. Then we had the
agenda. It featured a comprehensive brief by
spectacular dinner with our sponsoring
David Weaver on RTBI’s Membership plan.
MP, David Ammes. It was a fitting
Our understanding of who we are, where we
climax to a weekend that everyone
want to go and how we get there is the model
will remember for a long time.
that other Associations should look closely at.
Congratulations to convenor
There followed a Q&A session, and the
Richard du Bois and his
meeting agreed that David’s effort were well
team. It was the biggest
worth while.
international event that RTBI
has hosted in 14 years and
A ver
y special event.
the best ever CTM.
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