Eastbourne
The 2009 AGM was held in July at the Winter Gardens in Eastbourne.

The accommodation hotel and conference centre were good facilities and, along with the meeting's visual displays, most delegates felt that Finance Committee had done an excellent job in organising the event.
Proposals to re-structure the SNU's management structure and to abolish the National Council narrowly failed to achieve the required support of the meeting.

 Hello folks as you will probably know I visited The Arthur Findley College for a couple of days as a guest on the JV trust week where I was well treated by the organizers and had an eventful and fruitful time there. The only thing that did not sit well with me was the divine service where the platform party were using the throwing out or fishing method which did not come up to the standards expected and some would even say it was cold reading.

I then went on to the SNU AGM which was another eventful and rewarding time for me however it was not so with the NEC with most off their proposals being flung out and I do not wish to comment on them as they come under the heading of politics. What I will comment on is when the NEC were challenged by a delegate about this throwing out method used by SNU mediums and the President retorted it was never a directive by the NEC and mediums were free to choose what-ever method that suited them and we know this is not the case and it seems the NEC have done a splendid u turn. A similar question was put to the healing committee about how trainee healers are taught and the answer given was the healing medium can use any method they and their inspirer's choose provided that no delicate parts be touched and this is another unbelievable u turn. We all know that trainees who do not work the way they are taught by the tutors will be failed and this is a travesty because no two tutors teach the same way. At long last the NEC. of the SNU are seeing the light and maybe now they can try and put the spiritual back into spiritualist and stem the unrest in the movement. L&L JOCK