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NEWS ITEMS

London Marathon team raise over £17,000

We had seven runners in this years marathon - the biggest team ever. The runners are set to raise over £17,000 – Tim & Willie have raised over £7k and Michael nearly £5k. The successful team were:

Tim Godfray, Chief Executive of the Booksellers Association
Michael Holdsworth, ex-Cambridge University Press
Adam Wheeler and Greig Barclay from Taylor & Francis Informa
Richard Robbins, author
Tom Avery of Random House
Willie Anderson, John Smith & Son

We have five guaranteed places in the Marathon, but if places are not used one year they carry over to the next – hence the seven runners in 2008. We have six places in 2009, with interest already expressed in two of them. Get your name down now!!


Tim Godfrey	Willie Anderson	Michael Holdsworth	Willie and Michael

27th April 2006 saw the dedication of the flats above the Foyle Centre, at The Retreat, Kings Langley in memory of TS (Tom) Eliot in recognition of the support from the Old Possum's Practical Trust which started in 2005 with a major one-off donation and which will continue with a donation of £10,000 each year.


The plaque at the entrance to the newly-named flats	from l-r: David Hicks (BTBS Chief Executive); Carole Blake (Chairman of BTBS; Mrs Valerie Eliot (Widow of TS Eliot and Chairman of Old Possum's Practical Trust); David Tebbutt (Finance Director of Faber & Faber and Director of BTBS); Judith Hooper (of Baker, Tilly Accountants and Trustee of OPPT)

BA Conference 2007.
BTBS Welcome Reception, Sunday 29th April at the Majestic Hotel, Harrogate
Showing Peter James- bestselling author of the Roy Grace series, Dead Simple, Looking Good Dead and - published on 1st June - Not Dead Enough
David Hicks, Carol Blake & audience