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Our AGM was held at The Club Hotel in St Helier with more than 50 of our members in attendance. We thanked the outgoing Chair – Julia Williams for all of her hard work leading Whiteley over the last three years and welcomed Ceri Tinley as the her replacement. Julia remains on the committee, taking on the role of Treasurer from Martha Bernstein. Kate Huntington takes over the role of company secretary.

We enjoyed a delicious meal before the raffles were drawn, giving plenty of time afterwards for our members to network and catch up with each other.

We are excited about our growing membership and are looking forward to another year of interesting events. Should you wish to join our association please contact us >>

We met this week at The Royal Yacht for a lunch networking event with guest speaker Kim Hacquoil from Exploristics. With the talk titled “From Spreadsheets to Superheros, how statisticians turn chaos into cures in clinical development”.

We enjoyed a pre-lunch talk with Kim from who is a statistician within the pharmaceutical industry. She led us through her career and explained how statistics can help bring a drug to market much more efficiently. Also how it can also help improve the efficiency of trials to reduce animal testing. It was a fascinating insight into how numbers really can help guide the process of successfully bringing a drug to market.

After we enjoyed lunch, we had a lively Q&A session before the networking continued around the room.

Members and guests gathered at the Greenhills Country House Hotel in St Peter to hear Sue Pearmain speak.

Sue is a long-standing Whiteley member and recently retired Advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey. She was the second female Advocate sworn into the Royal Court in 1974 and had a long career in Criminal Law here in Jersey. Sue regaled us with tall tales and honesty during her talk entitled, “My life in crime, or how I became a Procureur.” 

We then were able to enjoy a lovely dinner and had the opportunity to to ask Sue questions afterwards and enjoy some time networking.

A collaboration between Jersey Trees for Life and Jersey Water created the idea for our evening event. The walk was led by some of our members. We enjoyed an interesting tour through the Arboretum led by Alex Morel, CEO of Jersey Trees for Life, learning about all the different species and the work which has been going on since the recent storm.

We were then able to walk across the top of the Dam at the front of the Reservoir because of members Heather and Natalie who arranged access for us.

The walk was followed by dinner at The Tipsy in St Peter’s, allowing our members and guests plenty of time for networking.

This month we organised a visit to the Jersey Archive to view some of the newly acquired Philip Ouless Collection.

Helena Kergozou, Senior Registrar, gave us a talk about the art collection of Jersey Heritage in general and explained how the Ouless works fit into the collection. Fellow member Linda Romeril, Archives and Collections Director of Jersey Heritage, then took us on a tour of the Archive strongroom and will show us some material related to women in Jersey history.

This month we held an introduction to cricket for our members at the Grainville Pavillion. Sarah Gomersall the new CEO of Jersey Cricket organised an evening training session for us to learn basics of bowling and batting, followed by the opportunity to learn the language of the game and how to score.

Afterwards we moved to the Boundary Café for a finger buffet and a glass of Pimms to toast the arrival of Summer!

We met this week for our first networking lunch of the year at The Royal Yacht. Our guest speakers were Chloé Fosse and Lucy Stephenson from Tiny Seeds our chosen charity for 2024.

We enjoyed a pre-lunch talk where they gave us interesting insights into their work and the challenges they face. They detailed what they have achieved since launching and how they are dedicated to supporting people in Jersey who are experiencing infertility or who need the help of fertility treatments to conceive.

We enjoyed lunch followed by a Q&A session before finishing off the event with our Chair, Julia Williams, detailing some of the exciting events we have planned for this year.

This September we were delighted to welcome Jersey born Rear Admiral Jude Terry to join us for an evening at The Radisson. With over 100 Whiteley members and guests present, we listened to her talk about her career in the Royal Navy. About becoming the first female to hold Flag rank and how in her current role as Naval Secretary and Director of people and training, she is challenging and improving the recruitment and training of over 40,000 personnel. Followed by a Q&A session, we all left inspired by such an interesting evening.