2006 AGM and Seminar
Location: Hilton Hotel, Blackpool
Date: 19th to 22nd February 2006
Contact Name: James Stevens
Contact telephone number: 01277 312708
Contact fax number: 01277 312743
Contact email address: james.stevens@aea-elections.co.uk
The Association's last Annual General Meeting was held in Blackpool on Sunday, 19th February 2006 and was followed over the subsequent three days by the Annual Seminar.
You can view/download the following documents by clicking on any of them.
- Application Form
- Partner's Application Form
- Official Seminar Programme
- Workshop Attendance List
- Workshop Information
- Analysis of Delegates' Questionnaire Returns
Social Evening
The East Midlands Branch hosted the Conference this year and decided to have a Barn Dance on the Tuesday night. Many Members joined in the spirit of the theme with their cowboy boots and stetsons. Yee-hah!
Contact telephone numbers at Seminar
The AEA Office telephone number for families, colleagues etc. who may need to contact individual delegates during Seminar will be: 01253 292162. The number for the Imperial Hotel is 01253 623971 and for the Hilton Hotel is 01253 623434.
Seminar Views
The Mayor of Blackpool, Cllr Philip Dunne, officially opened Seminar
Members who were presented with their certificates by Sam Younger
Individual Pictures
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Delegates visiting stands in the exhibition area
Session Notes
You will be able to read details of the various presentations and sessions/workshops in the next issue of Arena but, in the meantime, you can view/download the slides from most of them from the list below:-
- Electoral Modernisation Pilots
- Evaluation of Pilot Schemes
- Electoral Commission Update: Sam Younger
- Electoral Administration - The Future: John Sills, DCA
- General Election 2005: Electoral Reform Society
- Electoral Law, Practices and Procedures: Baroness Joyce Gould
- Organisation for Co-operation and Security in Europe: General Election 2005 Assessment
- CORE - Status Update: Corey Dykstra, DCA
- Electoral Modernisation - An Electoral Administrator's view
- Options for Reform: Ken Ritchie, Electoral Reform Society
- Other Voting Systems - The Nigerian Experience: Okop Umobong, Independent Electoral Commission of Nigeria
- Text of Mr Umobong's Address
- The Electoral Modernisation Programme: Paul Docker, DCA (this is a large file)
- Risk and Project Management: Demsoft
- The next canvass - how will we be doing it?: John Owen
- New ways of approaching electoral registration and election engagement: Chris Quigley, Delib (this is a large file)
- Royal Mail: Rachel Winham, Partnership Director
- Nominations: Practical Workshop (This is a very large file)
Social Events
After Dinner Speaker
Garry Richardson
As the sports anchor on Radio 4's Today programme, over a million people wake up to Garry as he interviews whoever is making the back page headlines. He is also a regular contributor to Grandstand and presents Sportsweek on Radio 5 Live, and has reported from four Olympic Games and over 100 world title fights.
Garry has spent his life in sports broadcasting, travelling the world interviewing a galaxy of stars. In tennis alone, he has recorded features with Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi and Venus Williams. It was Garry who interviewed Bill Clinton on live television, with no time whatsoever to prepare, when rain stopped play at Wimbledon. He had less luck the following year with Anna Kournikova.
A hugely entertaining speaker, whether or not the audience has any interest in sport, Garry incorporates topical gags and behind-the-scenes stories with impressions. As well as speaking after dinner, he hosts awards, has toured theatres with Rodney Marsh and the late George Best and regularly conducts live onstage interviews with sporting legends.