Good Morning Brethren, welcome to this Seminar. On behalf of the Grand Lodge Management Committee, thank you for your attendance here today. We are delighted to see you and hope that by the completion of this Seminar you will have found it to be a valuable use of your time
First and foremost may I ask you all that if you have a mobile phone would you please either turn it off or put it on silent or meeting. On behalf of myself and the members of the Grand Lodge Management Committee of the Grand Lodge of England it gives me very great pleasure to welcome you to this meeting here this morning for what we hope will be another successful Seminar during which we the members of your management team and you the members of the Order can resolve at least some of the grey areas that occasionally crop up from time to time.
These seminars have been arranged in an effort to close the gap that exists between those that manage the affairs of the Order and those who elect them, in other words, you and us.
The Management Committee feel that great strides have been made by organising these meetings, and in an effort to continue that trend we hope that after you have listened to us you will have a wide ranging selection of questions for us to deal with and hopefully we will provide the answers to your satisfaction.
The general workings of the Grand Lodge Management Committee as a whole, but more significantly the duties of all the sub committees will be explained today, hopefully dispelling once and for all the myth that your Grand Lodge Management Committee operates as some sort of KGB.
In the past, many of our members have never had the opportunity to find out how the administrative machinery of the Order works, well thanks to these meetings, those of you who come along will have that opportunity. Previous seminars have proved to be, on the whole, quite successful and I am hopeful that today will be no exception.
Thank you brethren, I trust that you will have a good meeting and I know that my team here today will do their utmost to make sure that you do.
In order to start off the proceedings I will now introduce the rest of the team.
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