Published: 09 Apr 2025
Representatives from almost 60 survey businesses came together last week to attend our AGM and celebrate surveying in the iconic Wembley Stadium, the home of English football.
Following the official business of the AGM itself, members had the opportunity to explore further the Winning Behaviours identified with Sir Clive Woodward at last November’s Conference and Awards Day, and discuss some achievable goals for every member organisation to work towards for the good of the whole survey profession.
Celebrating TSA’s Regional Network at Wembley
As ever, the AGM provided a platform for everyone to network and develop relationships, which was facilitated further on a regional level by having everyone sat within their geographic areas for round table discussions on equipment theft, education and skills, fees, and client education. Over 90% of attendees confirmed that they had made at least one new contact during the day, which confirms the value of gathering the membership.
The afternoon saw further chances to continue conversations but with a break from the formalities with an official tour of the spectacular stadium, followed by some collaborative fun with ‘Robot Wars’ where teams designed and built their own robots to battle it out in a purpose-built arena. Members demonstrated their engineering skills as well as their competitive spirit, with the ‘Trig Point Killers’ pitted against the ‘Survey Slaughter Bot’, ‘North West Whacker’ and the ‘Surveynator’ among other brilliantly named teams.
Summing up the Wembley event with just one word
On departure, when asked to sum up the day in one word, members’ responses included: tremendous, exciting, engaging, brilliant, fantastic, informative, collaborative, excellent.
Members continued to enthuse in their written feedback afterwards:
“Absolutely amazing and I’ve loved every single minute of it.”
“An inclusive feel to the day, everyone was involved in every discussion and task.”
“I thought this was a really beneficial day, very well thought out with really good team building exercises.”
“I thought the Robot Wars Teambuilding session was superb. Really got everyone thinking and energised.”
“I think the event as a whole was excellent from start to finish. The most valuable part of the day was networking and catching up with fellow industry professionals and also making new contacts.”
At the close of the event, Claire Fenwick, TSA President, reiterated some key takeaways from the day, particularly the importance of taking positive action to address the skills and training gap. Our geo:influence event next month will look at this particular challenge facing the survey profession in greater detail. We look forward to seeing members there and reporting on agreed actions
To keep up to date with member events at TSA, go to https://www.tsa-uk.org.uk/events/
