As an impressive start to their activities the Institute is holding a series of events, two lectures and a crystallising discussion meeting, to be held on the 24th of October and the 7th and 28th of November at the Athenaeum Club in London. These are all Wednesdays, timed at 5.30 for 6 pm. It is anticipated that the presentations will last for 35 minutes, to be followed by a short period of discussion.

The theme for the series is 'Consumers and Corporations'. The first lecture will explore the International Dimension and will be given by Allan Asher, Global Campaign Director of Consumers International and a distinguished speaker with a career spanning business, government and the consumer movement. The Chairman for the first session will be Lord Joffe, a patron of the Institute and a well known human rights lawyer and Chairman of OXFAM.

The second lecture will be given by John Bridgeman, best known to NfCG members as the former Director General of Fair Trading. He will explore the UK Dimension. The Chairman on this occasion will be Baroness Wilcox, also a patron of the Institute, NfCG President, and a former Chairman of the NCC.

The third event which will examine the Commercial Dimension, will take the form of a crystallising discussion meeting with speakers from industry. It will be chaired by the Institute's third Patron, Lord Borrie, perhaps the best known of all the ex-Directors General of the Office of Fair Trading.

The Institute will publish a report of the event. Before the series starts the Institute will be circulating a questionnaire to select organisations in the business and consumer world. It hopes that the answers will contribute to the setting of a benchmark for the state of relationships between consumers and corporations at the present time so that it can monitor progress in the years to come. One hopes that the Institute considers NfCG to be select enough.

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