Tessa Sanderson to speak on ‘Sport, development and the Commonwealth’
Olympic and Commonwealth champion Tessa Sanderson CBE will speak on Sport, development and the Commonwealth on Monday 14 October at Marlborough House.
Organised by the Commonwealth Association in partnership with the Commonwealth Youth Programme, the event is the fourth in an annual series of lectures in memory of Patsy Robertson, the founding Chair of the Association,. Patsy worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat from 1965 to 1994 and died in 2020. She is much missed.
The event will start at 1700 hours and will last for about one hour. It will be followed by a reception, to which all lecture attendees will be welcome. This will finish by 8pm.
Registration through the Eventbrite page is essential. The link is:
If you have any problems registering, please email dsblake2004@yahoo.co.uk.
The lecture will also be streamed live on Zoom. The details for access are:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89018610412?pwd=NVQBaG9jpIICtmTS19kVSIVzV8WKnZ.1
Meeting ID: 890 1861 0412
Passcode: 941795
A video of the lecture will also be available on this website as soon as possible after the lecture has taken place.
Tessa Sanderson CBE was born in St Elizabeth, the same Jamaican parish as Patsy Robertson and came to the UK when she was six. She became a javelin thrower and competed at 6 Olympics, winning one gold medal. She also won gold medals at 3 Commonwealth Games. She represented Team GB for 26 years and was the first black woman to win a gold medal for the team.
A former Vice-Chair of Sport England, Tessa now works as a speaker, an event host, brand ambassador, presenter, model and pundit and a mum of young twins. She has experienced the challenges that many people, particularly women, have faced in terms of discrimination and inequality. She is a strong and passionate advocate of change.
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