Fay Mansell, National Chairman, then opened the meeting that included speeches from: Honary Treasurer ALeathia Mann: Denman College Chair Anne Harrison; Professor Averil MacDonald from Reading University; Baroness Susan Greenfields; author of IE: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century and Sandi Toksvig: Author and Radio Presenter

The results for WI Carbon Challenge, supported by Marks & Spencer, were officially launched at the AGM.  The Challenge invited WI members and consumers to reduce their carbon footprints by 20%.  Over 10,000 participants of the WI Carbon Challenge have pledged to work towards reducing 19523 tonnes of CO2.  According to the Energy Saving Trust, these savings are equivalent to filling the Royal ~Albert Halls 108 times or to driving 59 million miles (in an average car). This would take you 2,300 times around the Earth!

The resolution on the inappropriate imprisonment of the severely mentally ill was passed by 97 per cent of delegates.  The resolution on bottom trawling was voted against by 52 per cent of the delegates.

Fay Mansell said "We are pleased that the resolution on the inappropriate imprisonment of the severely mentally ill was passed by delegates and the defeat of the resolution on the ban on bottom trawling illustrates the true democratic process of the WI".  .

Dot Wigg (past County Chairman) on stage at the 2007 AGM - Royal Albert Hall, London