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Chris Burton

Chris Burton​

National Chairman

Chris Burton is our National Chairman. She has been married to Dave for 49 years and has 4 children, 1 Daughter and 3 Sons, she also has 3 Granddaughters. She was born in West London and moved from Luton to Bricket Wood in 1979, where she began her club life by joining Copperbeech Women’s Club.

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Maureen Harwood​

National Vice-Chairman

Maureen has been a club member for over 40 years first joining Hoddesdon Women’s Club in 1973 and then moving to Rye Park Women’s Club 25 years later. For a lot of that time she served on her local Association, The Herts. Lea Valley, as Chairman and secretary.

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Jean Whiting​

National Vice-Chairman

Jean came to live in St.Albans in 1967 having lived in North London all her life. She has 3 children, a daughter and 2 sons, 7 grandchildren and a great granddaughter.

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Joan Bramley​

National Vice-Chairman/Single Rep for Area 1

Our Vice-chairman over Area 1 which covers the clubs in the North Derbyshire and North Warwickshire Associations plus single clubs in South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire is Joan Bramley who lives in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

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Linda Starkey

National Vice-Chairman

Linda joined the NAWC in 1978 when her eldest son was three after learning of the Association at her local Mother and Toddler group, she joined her local club Lakeside Ladies and eventually became the Chairman of that club.

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Mary Bird​

National Honorary Treasurer/Single Club Rep Area 2

Mary has been a member of the NAWC since 1985, is married with four grown up children. Born in South London she moved from Faversham, Kent to Thatcham, Berkshire when her husband started to work for Racal Tacticom mainly in Egypt and Sudan.

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Claire Donnelly​

National Secretary

Claire joined NAWC as our National Secretary in the summer of 2006. Not actually a member Claire heard about the position from her mother who was a long standing member of the Aquarius club in Essex.

Claire Donnelly is assisted in the office by a team of three members of staff – Eleanor Breen (Membership and General Administration) Pauline Chittick (Accounts) and Jackie Clark (Sale of Goods and General Administration).

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Pat Blair​ MBE JP

Promotional Officer for the North

Pat joined the NAWC Club in West Derby in 1969 following a brief spell in Canada where her husband had been working. Born and brought up in Liverpool Pat held a number of roles in industry including coding some of the first computers to be used in this part of the country.

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Janice Bayliss​

Single Club Rep Area 4

Janice had a career spanning 25 years in the Engineering Dept. of British Gas, during which time she achieved a BSc. in Science & Technology with the Open University.

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December Update

2020 is a year none of us will forget in a hurry but as it draws to a close we would like to update you with the current situation as far as Head Office is concerned. The office is now closed until after Christmas but Claire, our secretary, is working from home.

It has been a very strange year with no events, no clubs, no getting together. All our events had to be cancelled, and though we are no different to any other organisation it has been such a pity because this is what we are about friendship, education and fun. On the positive side we have worked hard getting out letters to as many members as we could with the help of club officials. They have been brilliant keeping in touch with their members through emails, ‘WhatsApp’ and phone calls they all deserve a star!

With the moving into different tiers it sometimes gets very confusing and loneliness has been talked about a lot on the television and the media but we hope through the clubs this has not affected our members too much. With the hope of a vaccine it might not be too long before we are back and enjoying our club life again and remember after December 21st the days start to get longer and Spring will be around the corner.

Here at Head Office Eleanor retired at the end of September, Eleanor had told us of her plans at the beginning of the year so we had plenty of notice but of course we could not have the retirement party she was entitled to. However, we are hoping she will come to conference next year and we can say farewell properly. We did send flowers on the day and Mary, our treasurer made her a collage of all our good wishes, and it was beautiful.

If you are looking at our website for the first time look at the list of clubs and see if we have one near you, they are friendly places to go to. Most meet once a week with speakers, demonstrations and outings. Each club is different and if there isn’t one in your area, why don’t you start one!  We honestly think our sort of club is just what the women of our country needs right now.  We are a non-political, non-religious and non- sectarian group that offers friendship and interest. Take a look at this website and see what we have to offer.

So Christmas is coming and what a difference to the one we probably envisaged, but remember ladies we might not be able to party as we have in the past but if we keep safe we can celebrate next year with family and friends. 

So on behalf of The Committee to all our members and whoever is looking at this website, we wish you all a Merry Christmas, keep well and let’s look forward to a better New Year.