Thank you! Thank you so much, all of you, for responding to the plea to make sure that the RHADC staff were shown how much we appreciate all they have done for us during difficult times last year. The response to the appeal for the staff Christmas fund meant that the staff received bonuses that were far…

As apparently imitation is the sincerely form of flattery, I read with interest Paul Cayard’s account of how the St Francis YC in San Francisco reacted to the pandemic; primarily I wanted to see if there were things they did that we hadn’t thought of or could have done better.  Much of the report (with…

2020 is now behind us. Could any of us have foretold such a difficult year at its beginning? I apologize if I am repeating myself but my gratitude to our members for their support throughout needs to be emphasized. Whilst not everything we have done and plan to do has been met with universal approval by the membership,…

As this annus horribilis comes to a close the news seems to be ever grimmer wherever one looks.  Yes, the vaccine is the light at the end of the tunnel, but how far away is this light?  I couldn’t help feeling that the presence of the Christmas star this year, visible for the first time…