PICKETS POST NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2019

The Editor is Dean Mueller-Davies, 127 Craigmoor Avenue, Bournemouth. BH8 9LT

07754455276 or e-mail davdee46@gmail.com

Articles for the January issue must be with me by 10am, 20th January.

Next Committee meeting is 16th January.

www.newforestda.com

Weekend stewards mobile number

is now

07514 555790

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Chairman’s Welcome

Happy New Year to you all. I hope you all enjoyed the festive break. It was lovely to see

many of you at the Christmas carvery. I am used to only having one course, so I had to pace

myself for 3 courses. Thank you for raffle donations. Margaret as President & I went to see

Chris Wakefied who is the fundraiser for Pramacare on Tuesday 11th December to hand

over the cheque for money raised this year. The total raised includes the profit from the

SWRSM raffle and SWR Christmas card amnesty. The total was raised was £1,206.63. Thank

you to everyone who contributed in any way. Thank you to Debbie & Del Hood for selling

raffle tickets at the function & to Ray for his table plan art work.

At the dinner dance on March 2nd (still time to book. Closing date 1st February), the

committee has decided that the profit from the raffle will go to the Ugandan Conservation

Foundation that Dee & Tony Tester have connections with. Tony will give information on

this at the dinner. Raffle prize donations will be welcome. We can take some non-member

bookings (friends of members) but the cost will be £22.50 each. DA members have

priority.

In this edition are booking forms for the dinner dance, some of the booked meets for the

year, sites list 2019 (volunteer stewards still needed) & nomination forms for committee. *

This information is also on the website. Don’t forget we have a closed DA Facebook page

which you are welcome to join. Just request to join and an administrator will follow up your

request.

We are planning a stewards meeting Easter at Furzebrook. This will be held in the marquee

on Easter Friday lunchtime. The invitation is for existing and future stewards to attend.

We will expel the myths about stewarding and explore new ways to have joint stewards etc.

We will go through the paperwork as well. Refreshments will be provided. Please come &

support.

I hope you all enjoy your camping in 2019. If you have any queries, you can contact me via

email or phone. Heatherb_uk@yahoo.co.uk 01202 382778 (before 9pm please).

Heather Brown

Chairman New Forest DA.

WHY SHOULD I (AS A MEMBER) ATTEND THE DA AGM – SUNDAY 10th March

I thought that I should write a piece on this. As with all things we presume that members know what goes on.

Last year 30 people braved the snow to attend the AGM. Many of these were existing or

past committee members. For the DA to progress, we need younger members to take a

more active part and for members to come up with ideas i.e. hook up sites early/late

season, social activities as well. We also need a social organiser & a shadowing THS officer.

These do not have to be committee positions. To attend and have a vote, you must be a New

Forest DA member & bring your membership cards to the AGM. The doors open at 10am to

give you time to socialise and read the reports. The main official business only takes a little

time. This is followed by a members meeting. This is informal, but if you have a point to

make please raise your hand & give your name (this helps our minutes Secretary in making

a true record of the meeting). In this meeting, your views, comments & suggestions will be

welcome. This gives the new committee items for discussion.

After the members meeting the elected committee will retire to the back room to decide on

job roles. Teas, coffees, sandwiches and cake will be available for everyone & the committee will join you to socialise. Post social the new committee will have a short committee meeting.

We now only have 7 meetings a year + the post AGM meeting & we endeavour to finish

meetings by 9.30. It would be good to have new people to join us.

As a committee we try to please the majority of our members with our decision. So if you have

any ideas for future events please contact me or another committee member. There will be

no pressure to join committee or organise it on your own, but your participation would be

appreciated.

With regard to the date of the AGM 2020, we are going to run a survey on our DA

Facebook page to ascertain whether members would like to have the AGM later into April,

to include camping and a social evening. Suggested sites are 6p Handley or Furzebrook or

maybe Lytchett Manor & a hall nearby. If you are not on Facebook & wish to air your

opinion, you can phone or email me.

EDITOR’S NOTES

It’s time to renew your registration for the Pickets Post. You will find the renewal form on the next

page. Everyone is required to complete the form and return it to me ASAP, either by post or email,

my details can be found on the form and on page one of this newsletter

There are 3 parts to the form, everyone is required to fill in part one, this enables me to keep

the database up to date.

If you would like a printed copy, please fill out part 2 and enclose a cheque for £5 made payable

to “Camping and Caravanning Club, New Forest DA” with your form.

If you would like an email copy, please complete part 3.

If you do not return the form, you will not receive your Pickets Post.

Looking forward to receiving all your forms back.

Kind regards,

Dean

PS. Please note there will be no SWR Booklets sent out with the PP. They will be available

at the AGM, Weekend Rallies and our THS sites.

Chairman’s Charity cheque presentation to Prama.

Thank you to everyone who helped raise funds and to all those that

contributed

A selection of pictures from the DA Christmas Party at the Bridge House, Longham.

A big thank you to all that helped organise the event.