***********Annual General Meeting********
The delayed Annual General Meeting took place on Tuesday, April 6th and the minutes will be posted soon. The proposals were all carried resulting in Chris Middleton becoming Chairman for the next two years.
****************Membership Renewal**********
Membership renewal will be take place in July 2021. Details on how this will be managed will be issued in due course. We hope that the lockdown will be eased by then, but we are not planning to meet in the Barn Hall before September and therefore there will be no ability to renew on the day as in previous years. Last year we simplified the renewal process to remove the need for stamped addressed envelopes and encouraged payment by bank transfer and were pleased that 45% of renewals were effected that way. Let's aim for 65% if not more this year! One U3A has reported 90% of renewal payments being made by internet or mobile banking, reducing dramatically the effort required by the membership secretary and treasurer.
*************Chairman's Newsletter************
Each month a number of members seem not to receive the Chairman's newsletter. In some cases it is found in spam, in others it seems to have gone walkabouts, never to be seen again. It is, of course, the mechanism for booking attendance at the fortnightly Zoom meetings. As an alternative method, the links are also included in the 'Diary' section of the website, and the actual newsletter has been available in the 'News' section. The newsletter will now be included in the 'Documents' section as this is an easier mechanism to retain the format of the original. A copy of the April newsletter has been loaded.
***************Book Groups 1/2*****************
Book groups 1 and 2 have updated their group pages on the website with details the books read during 2020 and subsequently discussed on Zoom meetings.
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