30th Anniversary Dinner of the Federation

This festive occasion was celebrated in the beautiful historical dining hall of hotel Seurahuone in Helsinki.



Former branch chairperson, and current vice chairperson of the Federation, Mr Jukka Itäkylä
opened the proceedings.

Besides the many speeches and delicious food, guests were also entertained by The Part A Bois barbershop singing.

Federation autumn seminar

Delicious smoked salmon provided courtesy of the British Embassy ahead of the seminar.



This year's theme was 'The Social Impact of Climate Change', and we heard both pessimistic and optimistic viewpoints from British, Danish and French researchers and Finnish Green Party MP, Oras Tynkkynen.

Here is the Ambassador opening the seminar.

4th smoke sauna evening

Again we had a lovely September evening to enjoy the rustic surroundings of the Impivaara tradition yard in Paimio, which is part of the travel services of Tuorla, the countryside college of southwest Finland.


It was harvesting time for the local farmers.



Seven Finn-Briters attended this time - even two ladies. The sauna was burning hot, but nice and relaxing. Lots of good food was on offer, and, as before, the men stayed the night looking at the stars.