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I hope you all managed to enjoy the summer! I think our expectations are too high these days and perhaps we should revise our ideas of what to expect in summer. Hopefully, the same goes for winter when we continue seeing much less snow than we experienced during childhood. From my perspective though it seems the only constants are the grey skies and rain. We just heard on the radio that September was the wettest on record and sadly that has led to more and more floods around the country. However, when the sun shines, it’s great to live in this beautiful country.
I would like to thank you all for supporting the Committee at the AGM in agreeing that we could make a change to the Constitution to try to expand our membership. We have been delighted with the response from ex-colleagues who didn’t meet the bank’s criteria for membership but were keen to join the Club as Associates. As a result, we are seeing a change to an upward trajectory in our membership and are now close to 1000 members. Our next target is to get more of you to sample the various events on offer throughout the year. I would welcome any thoughts you might have on other events that we could add to our various offerings which might appeal to our membership. The Committee can’t think of everything!! Just send me an email or speak to one of the Committee.
Back to nature. It’s October and the leaves are already falling off the trees. The clocks will soon move back to GMT with the nights drawing in and the distinct possibility of frosts. To cheer you up we have a lunch later this month with a great turnout expected and, of course, the Christmas lunch in December which, we hope, will live up to last year’s event. We’re working on some surprises for you and hope for a record attendance. This is a fantastic opportunity to meet with old friends and colleagues in a convivial environment and I hope to see as many of you as possible there.
Take care
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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