The 4th AGM of the Guernsey Disability Alliance took place on Weds 2nd May.
Picture if you will…

• A packed Cambridge Room at Beau Sejour – about 100 people
• Familiar GDA faces, plus lots of new ones.
• 24 deputies in total (half the Assembly!)
• No air con (thanks Beau Sejour…)
• Storming round of applause for Jane Stephens.
• More applause as Jenny Hooper voted Vice-Chair and Simon De La Mare, Treasurer.
• Unanimous approval for Rob Platt’s proposal to move to Company Limited By Guarantee.
• Surprise guest speaker – Chief Minister, Deputy Peter Harwood, praises GDA as ‘model to follow’. (His first official appointment.)
• Emilie Yerby, Disability Officer, paints a truly inspirational picture of future for disabled islanders.
• Damp eyes around the room for Jenny’s poignant vote of thanks.
• A rush to sign-up to register to vote for new Champion.
• Huge buzz of conversation as everyone stays on to chat over a sandwich (despite the heat).

To give you a flavour…

• Page 2 lead in Thursday’s Guernsey Press (great pic)
• Page 4 in Friday’s Guernsey Press (not so great pic!)
• BBC Guernsey (Kay Langlois) at 1:06:40.

Here’s what the deputies had to say…

• Deputy Mike Hadley (South-East):
  ‘Last night was an amazing evening. It’s incredible what the GDA has achieved over the last four years’
• Deputy Rob Jones (Castel):
  ‘Congratulations to you all for a job well done, this is just the beginning’.