I am delighted to announce that from next week David Carr of Carr and Kaye, will become the TCC’s solicitor and as such our partner in keeping law and order. A staunch and long time friend of freedom, David, has very kindly offered the organisation a gracious discount so as to help us on our way. Like many in London’s free market community I have known him for years and am really looking forward to working with him.
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Our visitor locations for the three months to 12 Feb 2010:  Visitor locations, 3 months to 2010 (Click to enlarge) While it is brilliant working alongside Steve Baker and the rest of the TCC team, I know when it comes to computer technology he finds me a nightmare! Usually out of my depth with anything beyond an on and off switch, I am profoundly grateful for his ongoing patience, support and persistence. Unlike me, Steve is a genius when it comes to computers, programs and all those brushed steel gadgets that come with lots of buttons and features. Indeed, it is with no inconsiderable degree of admiration that I applaud his recent launch of the TCC’s database. Containing more than a thousand people already and growing every week it is great to have this aspect of our business plan put to bed. All too often, organisations struggle with databases. Not TCC. No doubt because I have kept a million miles away from it, Steve has been able to make it happen. Just like that. Brilliant. Later today, James Tyler from TCC Advisory Board and I are heading off to speak at a seminar organised by some of the free market students at Warwick University. From now on, the Cobden Centre is open for such outreach ventures with young people in schools, sixth form colleges and universities. If you want speakers on free markets, free trade, what a liberal banking and monetary system might look like, and radical ideas on genuine social reform, then please feel free to contact me directly here. For as well as our planned events, publications and media outreach, the CC is now in business to receive invitations to address tomorrow’s opinion formers. This is my first posting as the CEO of The Cobden Centre. I recent months I have been working with our Chairman, Toby Baxendale, and Corporate Affairs Director, Steve Baker, and our Founding Fellow, Dr. Anthony J. Evans, to get the basics in place. Today, TCC has a world-class team, including an outstanding network of Senior Fellows, a tremendously supportive and pro-active Advisory Board and an ambitious and exciting business plan. It is in this context that I will mainly be jotting my postings. For as well as representing and commenting on the policy perspectives of the Centre, my missives will tend to focus on articulating the organisation’s priorities, activities and ventures. As such, the weeks and months ahead are going to see the TCC go through a major step change in its outreach work – across a wide range of areas. I hope you are looking forward to it. I certainly am. |
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