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attended 50% or more of the events and 13·5% of our members attended only a single event. The
Events Committee are keen to increase this attendance and will take notice of any suggestions that
have been made in the Membership survey. Our active membership remains somewhat lower than
we would like and we are always seeking to find new informal events for our members to attend. A
good example of this is the inauguration some years ago of the “Constructors’ Lunches” at
Ironmongers’ Hall at which attendances continue to grow.

Constructors’ Lunches

We have been holding informal lunches at Ironmongers’ Hall for several years now, and they are
proving to be very popular events. There have, however, been several suggestions that we should
expand our horizons here -perhaps looking at different days or different venues. We continue to
consider this but to date we have not been able to find a venue that is as cost effective as
Ironmongers’ Hall, and they only run these lunches on a Monday. We are however considering
increasing the frequency of these lunches, and will perhaps use other venues if we can negotiate a
reasonable deal with the venue, but our researches to date however suggest that other venues may
charge significantly more than Ironmongers’ Hall, thus putting the lunches outside the reach of many
of our younger members.

Event Feedback
As those of you who attend our various events will already know, we always seek your opinion on
how well the function meets your requirements and wishes. We have now been doing this for about
three years, and have shared the results with you in the last two issues of the Journal. We are doing
the same again this year.

As you know we now use a web-survey format provided by esurv.org®. Those of you who have
attended an event are sent an e-mail after the event giving you access to the relevant survey on the
esurv.org® website. You can then complete the survey on whatever device you prefer to use. The
completed surveys are anonymous to the Company (unless you decide to put your name on the
form) and are collated by esurv.org® in such a way as to give us a report that is then transcribed onto
an Excel spreadsheet for distribution to the Chair of the Publicity and Events committee and then to

Court via the Reporting Warden. Yet again, nearly all our surveys this year have resulted in “Very
Good” and/or “Excellent” average markings. Looking back over the last year (previous year’s figures
in brackets) 95% (94%) of responses marked events overall as “Very Good” or “Excellent” and value
for money was marked as “Very Good” or “Excellent” in 95% (94%) of the responses. These figures

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