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2014 Exclusive City Dinner
A great evening was had on Tuesday 11th November, when the WCoFF hosted an exclusive city dinner for over a hundred guests at Catlin’s head offices in the heart of London. Catlin Group, one of the City’s leading global specialty property and casualty Insurance and Reinsurance companies, had provided a wonderful venue in their banqueting suite and the food and wine were of excellent quality. Peter Holland CBE QFSM FIFireE, Chief Fire and Rescue Advisor to HM Government, welcomed guests on behalf of the WCoFF, in particular Penny Mordaunt MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State covering fire, resilience and emergencies.
The City Dinner event is a fund raising effort for specific causes of the WCoFF Charitable Trust in Youth Education and Training and, before the meal started, there was an opportunity to hear about the great work going into the training of local fire cadets. The Master, Bryan Spearman, made a presentation on behalf of the WCoFF to their top fire cadet, who gave a very moving speech saying how much her attendance at Fire Cadets had given her in terms of confidence and motivation in her life.
From funds raised at last year’s dinner, the WCoFF Charitable Trust had also been able to send 10 children to the 2014 summer burns camps organised by The Burns Camp Trust and, after the meal, guests were able to hear from Paul Fuller, organizer of the Burns Trust and Karen Reid, a volunteer helper, about the educational and
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The Master, Bryan Spearman, presents the award to the top cadet for the year
The Fire Cadets and trainers present on the evening