District 26 covers South Bedfordshire, North Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. We have 14 clubs spread across the Region. This year we have 2 District Chairmen, sharing the role for 6 months each. 

District Chairman Jenny Versey

I joined Inner Wheel about 25 years ago, because my Rotary Club wouldn’t take women at the time and someone said ‘Why don’t you join Inner Wheel?’. So I did. I was still working full time as an education adviser, and my local Inner Wheel Club, Hoddesdon, met on a Monday evening. I joined the committee quickly to get to know the members better and became treasurer, then secretary for a short spell and then President. Only as President did I ever go to a District Meeting which were all held at lunchtimes, and I had to retire from full time work first. I went straight on the District Committee as Vice Chairman because the incoming VC had resigned, so had a very quick induction period before becoming District Chairman for 2009/10 when Pam Byford was Association President. By then I was also a member of Rotary in a club which valued women.
Since then I have only had 2 years off the District Committee, including long spells as International Chairman and District Editor. I feel a bit better equipped to do the job this time round, even though I am not getting any younger and some ‘new blood’ would be so much better. I am enthused by the ‘Orange the World Campaign’ which we will support across the District, hopefully supporting refuges for abused women. I am still looking for appropriate charities. We will continue to give a grant to support a local midwife in training. I have made so many friends through Inner Wheel, and we do so much good in the world, so I have a passion to try to keep it going strongly.
Jenny Versey