Apologies for the lateness of the Newsletter – I didn’t realise I hadn’t done one since November!
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The Club will hold it’s AGM on Saturday 30th April
Depending on numbers wanting to attend, we may have to hold it away from the Clubroom. An email will go out shortly, please respond if you intend to attend, so that we have some idea of numbers. Thank you.
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CLUB NOW OPEN (AGAIN)
The Club is now fully open to members. You should all now be getting an email each Saturday, so that members can use it to reply (to all), notifying others if they intend to attend the Club on any particular day that week. It is used to monitor the numbers attending the Club on any given day. If l have had enough notifications by Sunday evening, l will send out an Attendance Update. At present we have members attending six days a week!
The Committee would like to welcome all of the new members who have joined us recently.
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QUESTIONNAIRE
Thank you, to all those who took the time, to complete the recent online members questionnaire. This has been very useful to the Committee to help take the Club forward.
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SAUSAGE SATURDAYS
Sausage Saturdays have recommenced. Thanks to Peter for organising this.
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STARDOM
If you have not seen it, the Clubs layouts were featured in BBC’s Shakespeare & Hathaway, Episode 8, ‘And Rarest Parts’ which you can still see on BBc iPlayer.
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CLUB SOCIAL EVENTS
With the Covid restrictions lifting, Tony is currently compiling a list of possible ‘social events’ that members take part in.
Look out for an email and respond if interested in anything. Also if you have any ideas or suggestions for ‘social events’ please let Tony know so that he can look into them.
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CLUB SHOW
The Club is holding its own Show 10am – 4pm on Sunday 27th March, at the Stratford Bowls Club, The Readings, Main Road, Tiddington CV37 7AA.
Help is needed to transport layouts, erect them on the Saturday and dismantle and return on the Sunday. Help is also need to operate layouts, man sales tables etc. Please speak to Alwyn if you have not already done so.
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PRACTICAL COURSES
Members have recently had the opportunity to take part in practical courses on tree making (Peter) and scratch building with styrene (Alwyn).
More to follow...
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LUTTERWORTH
The Club has been invited to take the N gauge Chippenham layout to their 50th anniversary show on Sat 21st and Sun 22nd May 2022. Help is required to take the layout down and erect it on Friday 20th May. Operators are needed for over the weekend and assistance required to dismantle the layout and return to the Club on the Sunday evening. If you can help and have not already done so, please contact Alwyn.
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PROJECTS
Just a reminder that their are a number of ‘projects’ on the go at the Club, where you can ‘get your hands dirty’ on.
Mike (A) is heading up a ‘beginners’ layout, on the board as you walk into the Clubroom, if you want to help speak to Mike, the more the merrier.
There is also a small ‘window ledge’ sized layout available for members to have a go at. Nothing spectacular, small branch terminus based on Dyserth (N.Wales). A couple of members have expressed an interest in working on it, so hopefully that will get going soon.
For anyone who is interested in scenery, there is a Church ‘diorama’. Anyone interested can pretty much do what they want on the board provided with the Church. It is at the far end of the Clubroom if you want to take a look first.
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That’s all for now!
Martin
