NOTES OF A COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE 103rd ENTRY ASSOCIATION
HELD at LS Aylesbury 1600 hrs 10 Dec 11
Present: CJW, LG, BRN, LS, MFHW, MW; Dave Post (in attendance)
Apologies: BGL KB
1 Minutes of last meeting were accepted.
2 Matters arising from previous minutes:
Honorary membership - still ongoing, LG to chase HAAA Office
10 Tors proposal from Dave Cockram - ongoing - MFHW
Charity Donations: H for H donation to be paid now (Dec) and the other nominated charities to have a donation on a 4 yearly cycle to be paid in September.
Paver receipt - HAA have not reacted to LG request - resend to new treasurer - LG
3 Treasurer’s report
Current account as at 6/10/11 £472.03
Savings account as at 9/9/11 £1098.88
Total - £1570.91
2011 expenses £208.60
Audit - the accounts were audited by Dave Post and found to be correct.
4 Reunion 2013
99th Entry held their reunion at the Three Queens Lodge, Bridge Street, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire DE14 1SY, http://threequeenslodge.co.uk/index.html. This appears to have been very successful with a good write up on the hotel. 49 members plus wives etc attended. 102nd are having theirs at the Quorn Hotel in Loughborough next September. Decision on venue to be made at May 2012 meeting.
Website front page to have Reunion Flyer added date June 2013 only and venue TBD; evening buffet format with visit to NMA at 1045 on the Sunday for church service - CJW.
An advert needs to go into next years' Haltonian magazines - BRN.
(BRN Post-meeting Note - the Three Queens Lodge is a new development of "no-frills" accommodation
adjacent to the 3* Three Queens Hotel in Burton upon Trent. The Hotel is where I should be able to get a 10% discount as a member of SAMA(82). Go to www.threequeenshotel.co.uk first)
5 Membership
Ian Armitage and Richard(Boot) Hughes have joined the association; Mike Smith has renewed his mandate; John Hastings has been added to the friends of the association due to ill health. MW raised a point as to how newly joined members were made aware that that their membership was now active.
Discussion as follows:
Add a Members' contact through the website - CJW
Add this info the newsletter - BGL
E-mail members list to be set up - CJW
Welcome letter to be generated - BRN
Application form to be updated with e-mail address of applicant - CJW
6 Committee Members
After unanimous agreement to ask him, Dave Post has “agreed” to
be co-opted on to the committee - welcome Dave!
7 Entry E-mail Addresses
CJW will look at the possibility of generating Committee
member e-mail addresses through the website; a 'webmail' function.
8 Newsletter
it was understood that BGL had a newsletter ready; BRN to speak to him.
9 Thanks to Les and Noreen for hosting an excellent dinner.
Next Meetings
26th May, Venue TBD - BRN to advise
- 1st December, LS @ Watermead, 1600 hrs
L Garden
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