Well myself and Joanne have just got back from the AGM at Gaydon, 420 mile round trip, Jo's MK1 was a pleasure to drive, it's always better driving someone elses car don't you think!
I have to say I have thoroughly enjoyed the weekend, we made a weekend of it and stayed in a beautiful village called Dunchurch, met up with Wayne and Pete and had a few scoops and a nice meal, even if they did bring the main course before the starters, must be a Warwick thing!
The Heritage Museum is a brilliant venue to hold the meeting although I'm extremely excited of the prospect of having next years AGM in a pub
with a gala dinner in the evening, stop over and AGM on the Sunday, makes it more worth while.
What a really productve AGM, yea it wasn't packed to the hilt with members but it didn't matter there was enough loyalty, enthusiasm and passion in that room to make a huge difference to our brilliant club.
I really do feel the day was so productive and hopefully a turning point for us, I can't wait to see the new website later in the year, it sounds like its going to be amazing and just what we need, we are hoping that it will be live by the end of 2008.
Huge round of applause to Deb who is now officially our national events manager, overseeing and managng our area organisers, excellent stuff and thanks for taking up the challenge, you will be fantastic!
Also Wayne Duncan has joined the board of committee as Public Relations and Marketing Coordinator, this is a seriously exciting role and if I know Wayne and what he proposes to do we are going to see something really special.
It was also great to meet Richard who had some exciting information on the regalia and is now in charge of all our clothing and promotional
merchandise, cheers Rich.
Special thanks to George who has volunteered to become the area organiser for the South Central region, George has some exciting and engaging ideas on how to move the club forward in that part of the UK, thanks again George.
Everyone who attended
( and some that couldn't be there on the day
) contributed and came up with some great ways on how to bring the club back to life, lets all now stay positive, pull together, work hard, contribute and continue to promote the club to our members at every opportunity.
Thanks personally to everyone for a great day and to our Chairman Stuart who remained extremely professional and composed throughout the day, Stuart does a lot of work behind the scenes that we don't always see and I know he put a lot of effort into this years AGM.
See you at next years AGM on
October 11th
Michael Sheavills
North East Area Manager
couple of grand you say would be all we would need 
