Website of Journalist Andy Kershaw
Compering
If you are organising a fund-raiser or any kind of entertainment event, Andy is an experienced compere and presenter and can keep your event strictly to time and provide the crucial focal point for the audience. Andy will also work with you to advise on running orders, cues and timings to enable you to keep your invited guests/audience involved and interested.
Examples of Andy’s compering work
in June 2007 Andy compered a huge event for The Rotherham Partnership at the Magna Science and Adventure Centre in Rotherham South Yorkshire entitled, ‘The Future of Rotherham’ to launch the town’s Community Strategy.
It was a vibrant, fun and stimulating day attended by around 700 people who live or work in Rotherham as well as partners from the region and nationally, including two senior civil servants,Richard McCarthy and Jon Bright.
As part of the Future of Conference, the Partnership celebrated excellence with the announcement of the winners of the “Excellence in Community Achievement” Awards. Winners were presented with an award for their hard work in making a difference within local neighbourhoods and communities.
The event, was a huge success. It outlined the borough’s new Community Strategy – a document mapping out how the town will be shaped over the next five years – and the 2020 vision, which shows how the borough should be shaped for the year 2020. The event also showed how organisations across Rotherham are working together to change people’s lives.
Speakers included Julie A Kenny CBE, Chair of the Rotherham Partnership; Roger Stone, Leader of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council and Vice Chair of the Rotherham Partnership; Richard McCarthy,
Director General of the Sustainable Communities Group from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister;
Andre Bester, Chief Executive and head coach of Earth Titans Rugby Club Rotherham ; and Chris Rea OBE of
The borough’s highly successful AES Engineering Limited.
Local BBC Radio Sheffield Presenter Andy Kershaw compered the event.
Client details: The Rotherham Partnership
Reresby House, Bow Bridge Close, Rotherham S60 1BY
Tel: 01709 310 497 Fax: 01709 821 459 Email: partnershipofficer@rotherhamnow.co.uk
The Sheffield ME Group Annual Conference 2006
Saturday 14 October 2006
Platinum Suite, Sheffield United Football Ground
The event was a celebration of this progress, with a strong team of local NHS experts who gave up a Saturday afternoon to be there were:
Alan Barker NHS Homeopath, clinical specialist in integrated medicine
Dr Alan Blair Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Head of North Derbyshire Health, Psychology Service, Walton Hospital, Chesterfield.
Dr Richard Grunewald Consultant Neurologist, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
Anne Nichol Occupational Therapist and Clinical Services Coordinator, South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire CFS/ME Service
Marcus Windle Welfare Benefits Advice Worker, Sharrow Citizen’s Advice Bureau, Sheffield
Dr Alison Wray Principal Clinical Psychologist, Children’s Team, CFS/ME Service
Andy Kershaw, Chair of this afternoon’s Question Time, is BBC Radio Sheffield’s Social and Community Action Producer. He is a former welfare rights adviser with personal experience of the world of ME/CFS in ‘the bad old days’. He opened M.E. Question Time by asking the audience to feel comfortable to join in the debate, because, as we know, people with M.E. are the experts in the subject.
Client Details:
Sheffield ME Group
The Circle,
33 Rockingham Lane,
Sheffield S1 4FW
Tel: 0114 253 6700