YoungHort Conference - 7th March 2014 - Part 2.

On the 7th March 2014, the YoungHort team of Directors and Ambassadors held the first ever YoungHort Conference at RHS Wisley.

At 11:30am the talks and presentations started. The line up of the amazing guest speakers was: Jack Shilley, James Wong, Paul Hervey-Brookes, Michael Perry, Jamie Butterworth, Helen Picton, Leigh Morris and Grow Wild UK. This is the link to the video of all the talks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4U1mki7aLI .

Once the talks were all of then it was Lunch and Networking, it was great to hear little snippets of conversations when passing by because they were all so interesting. After Lunch and Networking the YoungHort guests, Members and Ambassadors were all very lucky to be taken on tours of the RHS Wisley gardens! So many interesting things to see and hear and all within an hour.

At 3:30pm the Ideas session was launched. The ideas session was to talk about many different aspects of Horticulture, Young people in Horticulture, YoungHort, the Horticulture industry. Each table had roughly 8 guests and 2 Ambassadors so a lot of knowledge and interesting ideas was talked about.
At 4:30pm we were very lucky to have James Wong do one of his tour talks just for the Guests, Members and Ambassadors and Directors at the YoungHort conference. It was very interesting and captivated the imagination of the audience.

The YoungHort conference finished at 6pm for Guests and Members. The whole day was being described as Motivational, Inspirational, Eye-Opening, Amazing, The Revolution, The Future.

Once the conference had finished, it was clearing away and packing up. Tasks to get the hall back to how it was when we had the hall on Thursday included: Sweeping down the hall, Clearing tables, Stacking chairs, Clearing the kitchen, Tidying the Green room and many more!

We left RHS Wisley at around 7:15pm. The day had been so memorable with many amazing and great memories! At 8:30pm ish we left the Wisley area to travel back home. Back onto the relatively clear M25 and M1! We arrived home at around 11pm.

The YoungHort conference had been a complete success and was everything and more than what we had expected! I am so thankful to those who came to the event and to also those who were unable to attend but still gave full support!

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Part 2 of 2.

Thanks,
Fiona. :)

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