The NI Cumbria Branch would like to extend our particular thanks to NSG Ltd.  and Doosan Babcock Energy Ltd. who have secured the 2 main sponsor packages.

We have great pleasure in confirming that the Nuclear Institute Cumbria Branch will be holding their 6th Annual Dinner at the Washington Central Hotel on the 21st January 2010.

Please pre-order your Wine using this form, and fax back directly to the hotel.  The table plan inc. your table number can be downloaded here.

The Menu for the evening can be downloaded here.

Please ensure that you make every effort to pay any outstanding invoices.

Arrangments for the evening.

Guests are to arrive from 18h00 hrs at the Washington Central.  Dinner will commence at 19h15.  Typically dinner and speeches etc. conclude at 23h00, with the hotel remaining open until 1am (later for residents) for additional socialising and networking.

Dress code is lounge suites.

Background.

Our Annual Dinner is the keystone of branch activities.  Its success ensures each year that we are able to continue to grow our activities within the Cumbria Region. During the last 12 months the branch and the Institute in general has undergone large changes in organisation with the formation of the Nuclear Institute through the amalgamation of The INucE and The BNES. We held an NI launch event in the Rum Story in Whitehaven, the only launch event of its kind by any branch in the country, receiving very positive feedback and full attendance.

Further to this we have held several events this year, a successful lecture programme, focussing on ‘New Build in Cumbria’ and some of the technical as well as socio-economic aspects of the venture. We are actively encouraging schools to work with us through our Young Speakers competition; this is always hotly contested and is forging links not only with younger generations but also professional speakers clubs who have voiced interest in our work.

We are also delighted to confirm our Celebrity Speaker for the evening is Robert Llewellyn.  Robert Llewellyn made his name as Kryten the android in Red Dwarf, and as presenter of Channel 4's Scrapheap Challenge. The engineering-based show features two teams competing to build a working machine from spare parts salvaged from a scrapyard.  Robert has a long string of writing credits, including Therapy and How to Avoid It, co-written with Nigel Planer. In 2008 he published Sold Out: How I survived a year of not shopping - based on his series of films on YouTube.