Title: Fitmums and Friends

Date: Monday 15th September 2025

Speaker: Sam Barlow

Location: Medical Education Centre, Hull Royal Infirmary

Sam Barlow BEM, founder and chief officer of Fitmums & Friends, joins Hull Medical Society to share her inspiring journey.

What began in 2009 as a small group for parents in East Yorkshire has grown into a charity with 11 clubs and over 1,000 members, offering inclusive fitness sessions from running and cycling to Nordic walking and junior athletics.

Sam’s work in improving health, wellbeing and community connection has earned national recognition, including a British Empire Medal, the BBC Sports Personality Unsung Hero Award (2021), and most recently the prestigious King’s Award (2024) for Fitmums & Friends.

Join us to hear how grassroots initiatives, volunteer passion, and personal resilience can transform communities and inspire lasting change.

Link to book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fitmums-and-friends-tickets-1611561877959?aff

We are delighted to be hosting the president and secretary from Hull Speakers for a presentation on improving communication skills for health professionals.

Toastmasters is world's largest, not for profit public speaking and leadership programme. The focus is on public speaking but the communication techniques can be used for all sizes of audience - right down to one - as in talking to a patient.

Toastmasters has over 16,000 clubs, like Hull Speakers, around the world. Some of them are medical clubs. Hull Speakers, is a group of mixed professionals including some with a medical background.

We welcome doctors, nurses and all professionals allied to medicine to join us for refreshments from 18.30 hours prior to the meeting which commences at 19:00.

For those unable to attend in person we will share a Web Ex Link to those who have registered for this prior to the meeting.

Doors open at 18:30 for Tea, Coffee and Refreshments. Presentation to commence at 19:00.