ARRM AGM 2025

Our 2025 AGM saw outgoing Chair Simon Turner look back over the past seven years since he took on the role in 2018, including the transition from AIRSO to ARRM, and new Chair Saul Jeavons discuss his ambitions for ARRM going forward. Our six amazing speakers sparked some great debates across a broad range of road risk challenges. It was a great networking event with both members and speakers making valuable new contacts during the day. Thank you to everyone who attended, all our speakers, and everyone who helped arrange the event.

Welcome and Chairman's statement

Simon Turner
Outgoing chair of the Trustees

Outgoing Chair Simon Turner, who has held the post since 2018 looked back over the last seven years and talked about the opportunities for ARRM as the new custodian of the award-winning Project EDWARD campaign, which he will now be helping to manage.

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Secretary's update

Kathleen Bowman

Kathleen updated members on current membership numbers, election of new officers and re-election of existing, and looked at upcoming events.

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Treasurer's update

Gerard King

Treasurer Gerard King, who took over the role following the retirement of long-serving ex-treasurer Bill Bailey after last year’s AGM, provided an update on the Association’s finances. These are looking very strong following our adoption of the Project EDWARD campaign and will allow ARRM to be much more active going forward.

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The future for ARRM

Saul Jeavons
Incoming chair of the Trustees

New Chair Saul Jeavons, well known to long-serving ARRM members, outlined his ambitions and objectives for ARRM as he takes the helm.

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Diabetes and road safety – the hidden epidemic

Kate Walker
Chief Executive, Diabetes Safety

Type 2 diabetes is becoming a crisis for road safety. Prevalence is extremely high and increasing rapidly with consequences for road safety that include hypo episodes, visual impairment as well as other risks that are largely unknown and unmanaged. For instance, diabetes directly causes 770 strokes and 590 heart attacks per week: this is a major road safety risk.

Kate and her team at Diabetes Safety Organisation operate in the construction and transport sectors to raise awareness of the increasing health and safety risks of diabetes. Kate shared some of the findings from recent research conducted in partnership with the Road Haulage Association demonstrating the enormous scale of the problem, the potential consequences for employers and their management of road risk, and how to start getting a handle on managing diabetes in your driving workforce and supporting your drivers.

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Chrono-nutrition and its practical relevance to road users

Anna Earl
Nutritional Therapist, Nutrivival

Anna Earl is a former police officer, now a nutritional therapist specialising in nutrition and lifestyle practices to support shift workers, including those who drive for work. Shift work puts you at an increased risk of a range of chronic health conditions. But there are ways to mitigate this. Anna has studied the field of Chrono-nutrition; the relationship between our 24-hour body clocks and rhythms, food intake and timing, digestion and health, and delivers solution-based programmes to promote health and energy whilst navigating shift work.

Alongside her private 1:1 Nutritional Therapy practice, Anna worked as the nutritional consultant for the National Police Wellbeing Service and is a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety, advising on nutrition and its relationship with fatigue, aiming to reduce poor road user behaviour caused by sleepiness.

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Intelligent traffic safety equipment

Chris Spinks
Managing Director, Westcotec

Westcotec is a Norfolk-based company specialising in the design, manufacture, and installation of intelligent traffic safety and smart city equipment. Before joining Westcotec, Chris served for 30 years in the Norfolk and Suffolk Police, retiring in December 2015 as a Chief Inspector and Head of Roads Policing and Firearms Operations for both counties.

Chris shared some of his experiences from a long career in roads policing, and look at the technology currently in use to improve road safety. He’ll also look at the new technologies being developed for deployment in the near future to help further reduce road casualties.

As one of Project EDWARD’s founding partners, Chris also shared his thoughts on why Project EDWARD is such a valuable initiative and can become even more so under ARRM’s stewardship.

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Why fast legal support is vital for road crash victims

Raymond Williams
Police Relationship Manager, Slater and Gordon Solicitors

Being involved in a road traffic collision can be a life-changing event. Raymond works with Family Liaison Officers on behalf of collision casualties and victims' families to ensure they get the compensation and treatment they need quickly so they can start to rebuild their lives.

Raymond shared some of his experience in road safety and also his past career in roads policing and talk about the importance of speedy resolution for casualties, victims and their families.

Slater and Gordon are one of the UK’s leading specialist law firms, partnering with RoadPeace and Brake, and are also partners on the Project EDWARD campaign.

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Why accurate incident reporting is essential to improve fleet safety

Renee Rogers
Founder and Chief Executive, Ono

Slow or inaccurate incident reporting is a massive problem for fleets. It can have a significant financial impact on the business and also negate any opportunities to learn from the incident and remove any systemic or business practice issues that could have contributed.

After 10 years in the bridal industry, dealing with dreamy rails of girly sparkle, Renee somehow transitioned to an operational role within the transport industry! Having grown a fleet from 44 vehicles to 500 through the acquisition of electric vehicles and wheelchair accessible transportation, Renee is now actively revolutionising the way in which fleets manage their vehicle accidents.

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New T.L.C. campaign to promote safer towing

Stuart Lovatt
Chair of TyreSafe, on behalf of the UK Towing Safety Alliance

The UK Towing Safety Alliance, led by PACTS, and which includes the NTTA, TyreSafe, NFU, British Horse Society, National Caravan Council, RSGB, Camping and Caravanning Club, Driving for Better Business and others, is launching it’s new T.L.C. campaign to promote better towing safety. There are over 5,000 incidents involving towing every year and this grew by 20% in 2024.

ARRM is proud to be a founding member of the campaign, which focuses on messages around proper maintenance, weight limits and loading, and safe hitching with a range of resources available to help spread the word.

Stuart talked about some of the work TyreSafe is doing at the moment, why they are playing a leading role in the new UK Towing Safety Alliance, and why ARRM members should get involved in sharing the new T.L.C. campaign for safer towing.

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