The final evening at YMCA Europe General Assembly

The participants from the YMCA in England have fullly participated in General Assembly during the last three days focusing on Peace Justice and Democracy. Excellent speakers and great discussion groups. Kie Cummings, from YMCA Englands National Board was elected to the European Executive, Adi Davies from Bolton YMCA and the International Leaderhip Programme has been elected to the Nominations Committee and Andre Kpodonu from City YMCA London has been elected as Chair of the new YES Board. Amy Wilson has just finished her second stint on the Yes Executive and with her other Board colleagues hand over a dynamic new Board to move YES forward. Thankyou Amy, your are an inspiration. In addition to this Kie Cummings presented the Plan for the Evening Programme at the Prague Festival 2013 - Love to Live and Ken Montgomery delivered a call to action for the YMCA World Challenge on the 13th October 2012. 31 National Movements across Europe are taking part. So to this evening, Tim Waldrom, Chair of the English YMCA National Board will present a token of appreciation to Peter Posner who retires from the post of President of the YMCA Europe. Peter has served with dignity, distingsion and diplomacy for eight years in that role. Thank you Peter. The YMCA Movement acrooss Europe is in great shape as a result of your passion and committmennt.