Nearly conference time!

Just over a month until the A4A juggernaut rolls into Brighton for our 2011 annual conference. The theme for this year is 'Fighting for Fairness' and the event takes place on the 25th and 26th May at the lovely Lansdowne Place Hotel in Old Steine (pronounced 'steen' so I'm told by people in the know).

We have a great line up of speakers and workshops plus all the usual conference accoutrements (exhibitions, debate, conference dinner and a well stocked bar). The debate looks especially interesting - the motion being 'this house believes that charging service users for advocacy, under any circumstances, will sound the death knell for our core values'. That promises to be a humdinger!

I'm also really hoping that we can have a good representation from local Brighton based advocacy organisations, watch this space for more information about that.

All in all it should be a great couple of days, and of course the Brighton seafront in May holds its own particular delights that delegates can explore for themselves during the conference 'downtime'. At the last count we have 65 delegates booked in, and the hotel has capacity for just over 100, so if you are thinking of coming I'd suggest you get in touch to reserve your place asap.