{"id":573,"date":"2018-03-25T16:41:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T16:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/?p=573"},"modified":"2018-04-03T14:54:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:54:12","slug":"david-tucker-elected-chairman-of-the-ward-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"David Tucker elected Chairman of the Ward Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_580\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-580\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-580 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/David-Tucker-210x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/David-Tucker-210x300.jpeg 210w, https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/David-Tucker.jpeg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Tucker, Chairman of the Ward of Cordwainer Club<\/p><\/div>\n<p>David Tucker, the Chief Executive Office of Worldwide Currencies, was elected Chairman of the Ward of Cordwainer Club at the Club&#8217;s AGM on 21 March, succeeding Jon Norton. \u00a0The new Vice Chairman is Michael Bunn, a chartered accountant who practices in the ward. \u00a0Dominic Turner joins the committee and John Miller was appointed Assisted Honorary Secretary. \u00a0The accounts show the Club to be in a healthy position, and membership increased during the year by six to 222. \u00a0The outgoing Chairman Jon Norton reported that highlights for him were visits to the London Metropolitan Archives and Freemasons&#8217; Hall, being a guest at a Worshipful Company of Cordwainers dinner and the Club&#8217;s participation in the City Beerfest.<\/p>\n<p>Following the AGM the owner of Saracens Rugby Club, Nigel Wray, was the guest speaker. \u00a0He spoke about the philosophy behind the Club, which has a family atmosphere, and also the work of the Saracens Foundation, which supports education and employability, inclusion, participation and health and wellbeing. \u00a0The new Chairman outlined his programme for the year. \u00a0This includes a talk on Sir John Smith (whose statue is in Bow Churchyard), a tour of the new Bloomberg building, a presentation on the &#8220;Saracens Way&#8221; and the usual events at the Lord Mayor&#8217;s Show and the switching on of the Bow Lane lights. \u00a0The Chairman announced that the former head of the London Stock Exchange, Xavier Rolet, would be the guest speaker at the annual lunch in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Tucker, the Chief Executive Office of Worldwide Currencies, was elected Chairman of the Ward of Cordwainer Club at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}