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Report on our EGM (Extra General Meeting) 17-10-2024.

Our latest meeting held on the 17th October 2024 was an EGM (Extra General Meeting). It was called by the club Committee to discuss and decide upon our club becoming a charity. Some weeks earlier our secretary Geoff Potter put in a request to the organizing body to become a SCIO, this was approved and we were given a charity number of SC053651. This was all subject to the members accepting the change in our status.

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Our next meeting on 17-10-2024. An EGM (Extra General Meeting.

Start time 7.00pm.

This meeting has been called by your committee to discuss and vote on the proposed change to our club by becoming a charity. This change to a charity has certain advantages for the club which will all be explained at the meeting. If approved there will be a new constitution which we have already posted on our web site, it’s largely similar in structure but goes into much more detail, do take a look.

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Report on our meeting 03-10-2024 organized by Nick Simpson and Dave Line.

Our meeting on Thursday 3rd October 2024 was the last of our Shield Competitions for this year, it was organized by Nick Simpson and Rocking Bowls was the theme for this Competition. The Novice and Intermediate groups were required to make just one Rocking Bowl, the Open group had to make a matching pair of Rocking Bowls.

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Our next meeting, 03-10-2024 organized by Nick Simpson and Dave Line.

Our next meeting is on Thursday 3rd October 2024 and it’s our last of our shield Competitions for this year. This competition is all about Rocking Bowls in all 3 categories, the Novice and the Intermediate categories have to make a single Rocking Bowl, the Open category have to make a matching pair of Rocking Bowls, they can be any size as long as they have a rounded base.

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Report on our latest training day.

Our latest training day was on Thursday evening 12-09-2024.

All our training days are organized by Nick Simpson our training co-ordinator.

There were 5 trainees along with 5 tutors on all our lathes, 4 of them were on their 2nd training session with 1 person on their 1st session. The training is usually split into 4 sessions, 2 with faceplate or bowl work sessions and 2 spindle or between centres turning, with the pupil doing lots of practice between sessions, it’s normal to set them free from the tuition after they have had 4 sessions. Some of them may go on to receive advanced tuition at a later date, our training also deals with very specialised turning as well as what’s considered normal.

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