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This is a brief overview of what took place in London on 31 August and 1 September as events to celebrate the Institute’s 25th  anniversary conference.

Conference Day 1 – Technical presentations
Five presentations covering a variety of topics had been arranged, each lasting around 50 minutes. Nick Smith from Charles Taylor Adjusting covered the fascinating subject of commonly breached warranties for small craft and their implications for insurers and insured. IIMS member, Luc Verley talked passionately about dredging technology.

The next two presentations of the morning could best be described as ‘chalk and cheese’. Representing FLIR UK, the leading provider of thermal imaging equipment, John Reynolds gave an overview of the thermography products currently available to surveyors and their potential uses. Whilst over in the Knapp Gallery, Sam Ignarski, extolled the virtues of social media to an eager audience of budding Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter users.

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The Pretty Muddy event took place on Saturday 9 July in Portsmouth and the IIMS team of Muddy Rudders had great fun in their quest to raise funds for Cancer Research. The girls (Sam Legg, Sam Owen, Vicky Lawrence, Tania Bernice and Elle Hardham) had to manage a range of different obstacles as well as enduring a lot of water and mud too!

As the above photos show, the IIMS Muddy Rudders rose superbly to the challenge and we are very proud of them. And if you needed proof, there it is to show they really did get very muddy indeed. All photos are courtesy of Ray Bernice.

The team are so very grateful to all those IIMS members who have generously donated money already. If you have yet to do so, but would like to help boost the team’s total you can do so by clicking through to the Muddy Rudders Just Giving Page to make your donation online – it is simple.

It’s a sad fact that we all know, or have heard of someone who has been affected by cancer, whether it is a close family member or a colleague. In some cases people can make a full recovery, but by no means all. This is why the girls from the IIMS head Office have come together to take on a ‘muddy’ challenge to raise funds for Cancer Research on Saturday 9 July at a special event in Portsmouth.

The Pretty Muddy event is an organised race over 5km (3 miles) with all proceeds going to the reserach. As part of the course, the girls will have to tackle a range of different obstacles as well as enduring a lot of mud too! The team name that that the IIMS has chosen is ‘The Muddy Rudders’, taking inspiration from their work in the maritime world.

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