Presentation time!

Last week, myself, Alice and Tadgh gave a presentation about our project to the South West Association of Preservation Trusts at Great Bow Wharf in Langport.

This was good fun - we were given the 'graveyard slot' just after lunch, so I had made sure our powerpoint presentation was a bit off-the-wall to keep everyone's attention, it included slides like this:

and this:

... just to keep people on their toes.  It seemed to work!

The purpose of the presentation was to give members of local Preservation Trusts a bit of background on the project that they might have heard about from our newspaper articles and radio appearance, but also to enlist their help (hence the 'HELP!').  These guys are the representatives for a lot of the exemplar sites that we want to make our Go&Sees, so making a good, enthusiastic impression was very important!

From the meeting, we learnt more about the Walronds project, and the Dawes Twine Works Building in West Coker, as seen on the BBC's 'Restoration Village' show in 2006 (something to aspire to, eh?)

On top of all this, it was a great opportunity for our young people to get some experience in presenting in front of people, and talking to people about the church.  It was also really nice to meet a whole room full of people who were wholly behind the idea of giving a significant gr1 building to young people to create its' future! Hooray!