Last week was an exciting week with a series of high level visitors to the Aylesford Site and also a fantastically successful Employment Solutions Conference (200 attendees) in Ashford. (This is covered elsewhere).
On Monday I had the privilege of hosting the Chairman, Air Marshall Tony Stables, and Secretary, Lieutenant Colonel Mike Bray, of the Confederation of British Service and Ex-Service Organsations (COBSEO). The visit gave us a great opportunity to share ideas and exchange information and the feedback from Tony Stables was most positive. I will be attending the COBSEO AGM on 27th of this month.
On the same day we also had the honour of Tracey Vennai from the Veterans Department of the Ministry of Defence conducting a fact finding tour on behalf of the Minister. I am grateful to Tracey for giving us her time and support.
On Wednesday, Chris Simpkins the Director General TRBL visited to explore ideas on our respective emerging strategies. There was considerable agreement on the key issues and I am confident that our mutual opportunities to help ex- Service personnel will go from strength to strength.
Helen Grant, MP for Maidstone visited on Wednesday afternoon. Helen is also the Vice Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group (Army) and has also volunteered to take part in the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme. I am so pleased Helen gave us her time and interest so early in her new career as an MP. I am sure we will see much more of Helen.
