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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.

She is married to Derrick who was a Territorial Army Officer and has two daughters, and two grandsons. she has always worked in Admin and for 19 years worked for a French Bank Maureen served as Vice-chairman at Head Office for five years and then took over as Treasurer for NAWC until 2013 when she took on the position of Chairman which she held for 5 years. She is now once again a vice-chairman.

For many years Maureen served as Chairman of the Restoration Committee for her local church she is also a Sunday School teacher.

There doesn’t seem to be a lot of time for hobbies, she can knit and sew and she likes trying new crafts but it would probably only be a one-off.

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Coronavirus update

Due to the current crisis it has been decided to close the Head Office from 1st April until the end of May and then to review the situation. We are still functioning as we have a ‘working from home’ policy in force and you can keep in touch by the Head Office email. A letter has gone to every club telling them the decisions that have been made so far on upcoming events, we have had to postpone or cancel many of them but that doesn’t matter we can enjoy them all the more in the future it is the present that matters.

We know that many, if not all of our clubs are closed and for all of us it will be a time of self-isolation. Social distancing is the key word but we can still help each other by keeping in touch by phone or helping our older members with shopping.

I know I want to help by volunteering but this is the one time the older members of our Association cannot do this, as much as it goes against the grain, as responsible adults the best thing we can do is follow the Government guidelines and stay at home and keep safe thereby saving the NHS the problem of having to deal with us.

We have decided to run our fund raising campaign for Marie Curie for another year, this charity needs our help more than ever as all their fund raising events have been cancelled and they are in urgent need of money to continue to provide their nursing care. If you are able to donate the link to their fund raising page is www.mariecurie.org.uk/donate

This time will end be assured of that and we will all come back to our clubs to enjoy the friendship and companionship we have always known.

Our key words are ‘keep safe’

Chris Burton and the committee