SCARA Christmas Message 2025

SCARA is Twenty years old, still going strong and registering twenty new UK based members in the last year.  Both represent a magnificent achievement and so a very big thank you to all who have attended a SCARA event this year. Your interest and support are very much appreciated making our society as vibrant and relevant today as when it started. Plans are already underway for 2026.  

This year saw six SCARA events outside of London and again all pretty well attended. The reason for these regional events being that a number of members found travelling to London was in some cases not as easy as in the past, and these ‘local’ events offered the opportunity to catch up with former friends and colleagues more easily.  Our main event continues to be the SCARA annual London lunch held again this year at the popular ISH venue in Portland Place.  One hundred booked of which a small number didn’t make it on the day.  It was a lively and convivial lunch amongst friends some of whom had known each other for over 40 years and some perhaps even longer.  I left in 1997 and went onto work for three substantial organisations and not one of these has anything like a SCARA in order to keep old friends in touch – SCARA is a remarkable group!

To celebrate the 20th anniversary your committee decided we should enjoy a birthday cake. This was novel and we think appreciated.  The cake, presented in a special commemorated cake box celebrating Lines that make up SCARA and our birthday.  For those that could not attend check out the website for the full report.