Two sporting legends were on top form as they starred as guest speakers at CISI annual dinners
Pictured above from left to right: Former World Snooker Champion, Dennis Taylor, and CISI Liverpool & North Wales Branch President, Dirk Strontschak MCSI at the Liverpool & North Wales Annual Dinner; former Wales captain Ieuan Evans MBE, and CISI Wales Branch President, Sandie Dunn ACSI at the Wales Inaugural Annual Dinner
Rugby legend Ieuan Evans MBE, former Wales captain and veteran of three British & Irish Lions tours, spoke at the inaugural annual dinner of the Wales branch at Cardiff Castle.
The 100 guests included members of the CISI Board, which earlier in the day had held its first meeting in Wales. Two Board members, CISI Chief Executive Simon Culhane, Chartered FCSI and Alan Ramsay FCSI(Hon), addressed the event.
Also attending was Carwyn Jones, the First Minister of Wales.
More than £1,500 was raised at the event for Tŷ Hafan, one of the UK’s leading paediatric palliative care charities which offers the only children’s hospice service in South Wales.
Sponsors were the Welsh Government, Cardiff City Council, Penderyn Distillery and Gordon Dadds Solicitors.
Former snooker world champion Dennis Taylor was guest speaker at the showpiece social event of the Liverpool & North Wales branch.
Among 160 guests who attended the event at the Crowne Plaza in Liverpool were Dame Lorna Muirhead DBE, Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Merseyside. There were also representatives from Merchant Taylors' Boys' School and Archbishop Beck Catholic College in Liverpool, two academic centres actively involved in the CISI’s educational programme.
CISI Regional Director Richard Bennett updated guests on CISI developments.
More than £1,750 was raised for Community Foundations for Lancashire and Merseyside, which supports positive social change in the area.
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