Quite amazing to accept that 25% of the year has flown by already, and it’s great to see the Bluebells flourishing in our local Wood. With Easter been, and gone, it’s time to dream about another good summer.
Alternatively, perhaps to take the opportunity of a continental holiday in the sun. In the meantime, the committee have been working hard to develop a mixed programme of events which, I hope, will appeal to you all. Information about some of those events are included in the pages of the Summer Newsletter, and we hope to see many of you at these throughout the year.
Many of you will have attended the AGM and lunch earlier this month, and I thank
you for your participation. It’s an important date in the calendar, and I can’t let it
go by without thanking the committee for all their hard work and diligence in
developing our social programme. We can’t please all the people, all of the time, but
we do our best by asking you for your ideas. Please keep them flowing; find a
committee member at the next event you attend and chat about your ideas for
future activities. Of course, you can provide feedback (good and bad!) by email if
you would like to. Once again, to any of the committee members.
Finally, my best wishes to you all and your active participation in the Club is much
appreciated
Roger Alexander, Chairman
We have changed the joining criteria to enable those who have transferred their pension out of Barclays to join, see below for details:
Please be aware that charges for any event will be greater for Associate members as we do not receive a Bank Subsidy.
The standard joining fee of £10 as a one-off is the same for all wishing to join.
We publish a regular, quarterly newsletter, THE LINK. It is sent to all registered members. However, sending it by post is a very labour-intensive process. So we are making every effort to persuade members to take it by email instead. We have managed to increase the number of people who receive their copies this way to c. 300. This, however, is still likely to be far fewer than the total number of members who have email accounts.
When you receive it this way it arrives as an attachment to an email message. The attachment is a PDF (Portable Document Format) which opens with Adobe Reader. Almost all computers already have this FREE software installed. If not you can download Adobe Reader from here. Beware and make sure you "uncheck" the optional offers as these may cause conflicts on your PC.
If you can receive your copy this way we urge you to get in touch by using the Newsletter option on the Contact Us form. Let’s face it, if you are reading this message, you probably have an email account and can swap to this version. We’ll help you with the painless conversion.
Christine Graham
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