Chairman’s ReportInternational Touraco Society

Annual General Meeting

3rd April 2005 at 2 pm

By

David Jones

Cotswold Wildlife Park

International Touraco Society

• growing in strength • steadily increasing

numbers • acceptable finances • moving in the right

direction • financial reserves

larger to support project

• captivity or in the wild• find someone • pen to paper • new content• editor cannot do it all • range of articles • quality of magazines

Costs less10th October

2 new members2 renewalsTotal £170

(posters, back issues, mugs)

6th March2 new members

5 renewalsTotal £103.85

No National

Two shows at Stafford

Social meeting

• Bristol Zoo Saturday 24th September

• guided tour

• enjoyable day

Membership

• £10 UK • £13 Overseas• No change • Extra £3 postal

costs• Cash, cheque,

bank transfer or PayPal

•UK members more opportunities

•visits in Europe

Member Numbers

AGM 2005 AGM 2004

Paid 05 65 Paid 04 48

Paid 04 65 Paid 03 44

Total 130 Total 92

Where from?

UK 82

Overseas 48

Total 130

From 20 Countries• 1 Argentina• 1 Bahrain• 1 Belgium• 1 Canada

• 2 Eire • 3 France

• 2 Germany• 1 Hungary

• 1 Israel• 1 Kenya

• 1 Madagascar • 4 Netherlands

• 2 Portugal

•7 South Africa

•2 Spain

•1 Sweden

•1 Switzerland

•82 UK

•15 USA

•1 Zimbabwe

Website Overseas equal footing to UK

No e-mail

• 5 overseas

• 34 UK

34 members paid via PayPalTotal of £735.39 via PayPal - 7 months

New or edited items • Thumbnails of committee members (members only)

• 2004 AGM minutes (members only)

• Article in German - Tauraco hartlaubi

• 2005 AGM details

• Contents list Issue 22

• Mugs for sale

• August Committee Meeting minutes (members only)

• Magazine contents full list

• Members News (members only) - New entry Dec 04

• Extra information and photos about Red-crested Touracos

• Extra information and photo - Great Blue Touracos • pdf copy of article African Bird Club magazine

(members only)• White-cheeked article in English and Dutch

(members only)• Additional species names for touracos in Dutch• Messages last updated – 13th February 05• Members advertisements updated – 7th March 05 • Wooden items for sale• Numbers of members and countries they come from

(members only)

Items still like to add

•More about committee members (members only)

•More articles and photos about each species

•More articles about management of touracos

•More pages translated into main languages

•Enlarged web shop

•More regularly updated ‘News’ page (members only)

•More members’ advertisements

My thanks Members of the Committee

and

other members

Paul Wexler as Editor of the

magazine

Clive Humphreys as co-editor and taking on the job

as Editor

Darron Corden as Treasurer and his

efforts at the Stafford sales

Nigel Hewston as Secretary

My thanks to all of you for listening!