A meeting of practitioners is most useful when it is made of working sessions: people bring a real problem and leave with something they can use. A programme of talks can be read at home. If you are organising one, say plainly who it is...
When a small club has money for books, where it buys them matters. A publisher or bookseller in the same region can supply levelled readers without the cost and delay of shipping from abroad, and is more likely to have books in the...