Clive Hudson, Mark? and Katy Styles attended the annual conference of the MND Association held in Derby on Saturday 10th September.

The meeting was opened by Chairman of the Trustees Alan Owen, who introduced Sally Light CEO of the MND Association.

Sally light reflected about the highlights of 2015/2016, featuring? the Biggest loudest and scariest?Events during the period.

The Biggest was the Shortened Stories campaign with huge posters being displayed around the country.

The Loudest event was Rave and Ride a very loud dance music event associated with cycling.

Scariest event being on stage to welcome The International Research Symposium, addressing 800 of the world’s best researchers.

The whole speech can be seen at http://livestream.com/eventstreamingcompany/mnda?follow the Reflections 2015/6 link

Chris Wade spoke about How Volunteers and Staff of MND Association change lives his speech can be viewed at http://livestream.com/eventstreamingcompany/mnda?follow the How Volunteers and Staff change lives.

You can view all the sessions and speeches,?at the Association?s live streaming?link http://livestream.com/eventstreamingcompany/mnda

The highlight of the conference is always the research talk. This year we were lucky enough to hear Dame Professor Pamela Shaw, who runs SITRaN, in Sheffield.

SITRAN is an excellent example of a care centre and clinical research lab in one.? Full details can be found here http://www.sitran.org

Dame Pamela gave an excellent speech which can be seen in full at http://livestream.com/eventstreamingcompany/mnda?follow the 2016 Keynote Speech Link.

The great thing about attending the conference is being able to meet old and new friends, to put faces to the names of staff that you have contact with throughout the year and it also gives you a chance to reflect on what has been achieved throughout the past year, in terms of care and support, research and campaigning and raising awareness.

East Kent Group attended breakout sessions on corporate fundraising and campaigning and raising awareness.

New trustees are also announced at the conference. Katy Styles, was one of 13 people who put themselves up for election. It was a strong field of candidates and those that were elected will add their strengths to the board.