Judith then continued: "Over the 50 years, thousands of orienteers all over the UK, in each of the English regions, in Northern Ireland, in Scotland and in Wales, have contributed countless volunteer hours to organising, planning and controlling events, to running our clubs and Associations and not least to the many different facets of running the National Governing Body, British Orienteering. It is an appropriate time, on our Golden Jubilee, to recognise and thank them all for their contributions in making our sport in this land the highly developed and sophisticated sport that it now is.

In doing this, I would like to pick out one person who is in the room today who was in right at the beginning 50 years ago, and is still today Chairman of one of our Committees, having it seems done almost everything including holding the office of British Orienteering Federation Chairman, many years ago, on the way. He has even taught a lot of orienteers how to Scottish dance! I would like to ask Chris James, North Gloucestershire Orienteering Club to stand up as a representative of all these volunteers over all these years, and undertake one new task – that of cutting our anniversary cake."

Judith's full speech on the day can be viewed on Facebook here.
 

The formal business of the AGM then continued.

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