So if you know any Equity members or you are an equity member, please do use your votes. Vote because the people you're voting for are the eyes and ears of the Union. Without the committee's the union is just members of staff that are union professionals. They have applied and work for Equity, the entertainments Union, but all of them deep down or the majority of them are politics professionals and people who have studied negotiation and contracts and they are the skill and the talent that we have, and we attract to the Union, but they can only really understand what they're negotiating for, if we give them the knowledge and the data, and that can be, you know, inviting union reps to your place of work also means you to understand what the different sectors are in the entertainments union, because it isn't just for actors. Equity is not the union for actors. It represents actors, but it also represents directors, designers, choreographers, dancers, circus artists, comedians, burlesque performers. And then any performer that works in any of those that is on the LGBT spectrum. There is a women's committee looking at women's equality and women's place in the industry. There's the deaf and disabled committee that is working towards finding parity in equality and equity within the workplace, but also within performance environments. And then, of course, I haven't even touched on the branch structure, which is all new and shiny, and I've probably talked about previously, but it's an important thing to me with with the way the world is right now. I don't feel that... my vote doesn't matter. When I go to the polling station, and I put the cross doesn't mean anything, it doesn't feel like it has any value whatsoever. Except that I do it because it's my democratic, right to be able to do so. But do I feel that it really makes a difference? Not really. Do I feel that being a member of equity makes a difference? Yeah, I do. I really do. And I just, I'm not as well known, or working in an environment where people know me, a lot of the other stage managers that are standing have their own communities around them. As an independent stage manager and creative producer working within the performing arts sector, within the fringe, and independent and working with emerging artists I really don't have people around me that know me as a stage manager, and that might actually vote for me. So please put that vote. On that paper, get it back. I will put the links in the description for I think it's the fifth of July is closing date. But yeah, just that it's just just important, I'm just going to blather for the last couple of seconds to say just how much Equity means to me and actually having a voice. It's not always a voice that is readily heard. And those that have been part of Equity, especially recently will know what a battle that has been. But that battle, you need to be in it to win it. And you need to be part of an organisation to be able to be part of it. And that is what it is for me. I'm not particularly happy at the moment with some of the management decisions, or at least the speed in which those management decisions have taken place. But generally, I realised that away from that central core are members and members in the regions and members who are working members who are struggling to make ends meet in this standard of living crisis. I hope I can bring some of the Equity core to the region as well.