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Dawn
Cessford - Incoming President 2024 – 2025
Liskeard and Looe
Hello to all the members of Inner Wheel. My name is Dawn Cessford
and I joined IW of Liskeard and Looe in 2021 and after my first
year was asked
to join the Committee and later became Minute Secretary, then
VicePresident and now President for 2024/25.
My late husband and I realised our lifelong dream of moving to
our beloved Cornwall in 2015, moving into our lovely old cottage
with wonderful views over Bodmin Moors and the surrounding countryside,something
we never had in Croydon, South West London, where we lived for
22 years!
I was born in Battersea, SW London and had a wonderful mum and
dad,and have two older brothers. I went to school in Putney and
started my
first job at 17 working for the British Standards Institute in
Park Lane. I have always had a Secretarial and book-keeping background
and my
longest position held was at Davis Turner Worldwide Movers who
specialised in international household removals, antique and fine
art shipping, where I was Secretary to the Managing Director for
about 23 years.
I took voluntary redundancy and became self-employed as a ‘helping
hand’ mainly for elderly people, gardening, shopping, taking
them to hospital, etc, something I really enjoyed and I met some
lovely people who became friends.
I have many passions, my animals, reading and lately have taken
up knitting again after 40 years, and my garden which is my happy
place where I love to be.
I am looking forward to my year as President (something I have
never done before!), I am sure I will learn a lot and will encourage
the IW ethos of friendship and shedding light, which is so needed
in our World today.
Liskeard
and Looe Newsletter August 2021 click here
60th Anniversary of the Formation of Inner Wheel Liskeard and
Looe
Due to the pandemic, our 60th Birthday was put on hold from March
2020 and finally celebrated 18 months later, on October 9th 2021
at the Hannafore Point Hotel, Looe. Special guests included our
District charman Hilary Genes, our founder member Margaret Shepherd
who cut the cake, and our own Pat Richards, who was presented
with the Honorary Members Award. We also welcomed several members
from other clubs in District 129.
However, the real guest of honour was Teddy, who joined in all
the proceedings and presentations, and even joined the entertainment
at the end !!
For details
and photos of the event click here
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| We are a club
of 30, with many of our members having to “shield" during
this pandemic and continue to do so. We have continued with zoom
committee and group meetings and have had two attempts at organising
socially distanced meetings, the first was cancelled due to the
weather and the 2nd as the "rule of six” came in.
We organised a photographic competition in Aid of Cornwall Air
Ambulance and are now in the process of putting a calendar together,
A4 which drops to A3. The calendar will cost £5, With most
of the profits going to the Air Ambulance. With this in mind,
If other clubs would consider a bulk order, then we are happy
for them to contact us with a view to reducing the cost of the
calendar so that they can make some money for their own club charities.
We are hoping to get more speakers in our group meetings starting
this Tuesday 22nd, with a speaker from “Medical Detection
Dogs”. We continue to work together, contact our members
regularly and posting minutes and information to those whom do
not have internet access. Many of our members have managed to
safely get together during the summer in their gardens for morning
coffee, lunch and afternoon tea.
Photo shows the Photographic Competition Committee, choosing the
type of calendar to be produced with the winning photos.
The members in the photo, left to right are:
Gail Udy, Bridgette North (Current President) and Ruth Roach (Current
Vice President).
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