Our 2025 Annual Meeting is moving further north year this to Birmingham and will be held at St Martin’s in the Bull Ring on Saturday, 20th September 2025, so get the date in your diary!
Follow the link to see more details on St. Martin’s or click here to get directions in Google Maps. The church is around 6 minutes walk from New Street Station, so readily accessible by rail.
The meeting is a great opportunity to meet and socialise with fellow magazine editors, as well as celebrate the winners of our 2025 awards. There will also be opportunity to hear from and ask questions of our keynote speakers – check their profiles further down the page.
All church magazine editors are welcome to join. Please do bring copies of your magazine to share with others on the “swaps” table.
We will be opening bookings nearer to the time of the meeting, but in the meantime we are pleased to provide details of our two speakers.
Don’t forget to book your travel tickets too!
Programme
10.30 Arrival with tea, coffee, biscuits and chat
11.00 Welcome and introductions
11.10 Keynote Talk by Tola Doll Fisher
11.55 Questions to the Speaker
12.00 AGM
Agenda will be available on arrival.
12.15 Lunch
Please bring a packed lunch with you. Tea and coffee will be provided.
13.15 Afternoon speaker to be confirmed
14.00 Questions to the Speaker
14.05 Coping with the end of Microsoft Publisher
A short talk by Tim Cooke outlining the options, followed by questions
14.20 Comfort break
14.30 Presentation of Awards
Short review of the Award categories and the entries for the 2025 ACE Awards followed by the presentation of certificates and trophies with photographs.
15.10 Closing prayer
Keynote Speaker - Tola Doll Fisher
Tola Doll Fisher wrote all the articles and interviewed her neighbours for her first magazine aged about 9 or 10! She is now the magazine editor and creative director at Premier Woman Alive, co‑host of the YouTube show Sisterhood, creator and host of the Woman Alive podcast and author of ‘Still Standing:100 Lessons From An ‘Unsuccessful’ Life’. In her work as a speaker, Tola delivered a TEDx Talk on Debunking the Myth of Success and writes regularly on Substack under the name Christ Couture, unfiltered personal essays from a Christian model (not a model Christian).
We look forward to hearing her story and being inspired on our own editing journey, as well as picking up some ideas and tips for our magazines.