May Fair Gala Dinner – the speaker line up

We are delighted to announce our speakers for The May Fair Hotel Gala Dinner on Thursday 9 October.

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Our speaker lineup for the evening:

Army Chaplain Viktor Shpot served in Ukraine. Throughout the first three years of the war he tended the wounded and helped evacuate thousands of villagers from the front line. His stories of ordinary people just trying to get on with their lives when they are forced to evacuate and the trauma he felt dealing with the aftermath of explosions, drones and missiles. Today he is returned and living in the UK but has agreed to talk at our event about his experience and why one ambulance can make all the difference

Former Major Andrew Fox has appeared on NewsMax (USA), News Nation (USA), Sky News (UK and Australia), BBC Newsnight, Channel 12 and i24 (Israel), GB News, TalkTV, LBC radio and Chai FM (South Africa), and has been published in the Spectator, The Sun, The Daily Telegraph, NY Post and the Tablet, amongst others. He has spoken in the British Houses of Parliament, the French Senate, and the United Nations.

In August 2025 Andrew visited the front line in Ukraine. As well as Pokrovsk and Zaporizhzhia he took time to visit hospitals and medical camps. He took with him a 4×4, donated by a private individual and long-standing Ukraine supporter. He will talk about his time in Ukraine and how the need for ambulances has never been greater

Guy Shepherd is a military collector and enthusiast. Since the start of the war in Ukraine he has been studying Russian drone warfare and the impact it is having on ordinary civilians. Hear from Guy on the impact drones are having on towns and villages. He will also talk about the impact to ordinary people of living in the world’s most mined country. How something as simple as farming is now a dangerous job and the lives being lost every day as a result