ANNUAL LETTER FROM WPCT CHAIRMAN, Canon Guy Wilkinson, to WPCT members, subscribers and supporters

To all members and supporters of WPCT

In writing this annual letter to members and supporters of the Wyndham Place Charlemagne Trust, may I begin by wishing you a very fruitful and positive New Year, and if it is a happy one into the bargain, so much the better!

I would like to continue immediately by thanking those who have contributed to the life of WPCT over the past year in so many ways. Invidious though it is to name names, I will single out Win Burton our Executive Secretary and Lawrence Fullick our Treasurer who carry so much of the administrative and financial load that any Trust must attend to. My appreciation also goes to members of the Council who have given their time and wisdom, often in very full lives, to frame our programmes and to keep us in line with our trust deed objectives. Thanks also go to those who have enabled particular events to take place as speakers, as arrangers or as sponsors – without them our programme would have been less rich than it has been. Our patrons are important to us in lending us their distinguished names and their time. Thank you on behalf of the Trust to all.

Please do read this review of WPCT – our place in the general scheme of things, our activities in 2009 and our programme for 2010. Above all, please do read about the ways in which you can help to strengthen our resource base as we seek to contribute to a healthy civil society

In conclusion, may I offer you my warm wishes for the year ahead in the hope that it will be one in which there will be many signs of hope for the world.

With all good wishes