The next scheduled meeting for the whole Club is at 7:30pm on Thursday 1st August at Tangmere for the Pre-Exhibition meeting – more details to follow. This will be combined with an Extraordinary General Meeting which will take up the first part of the evening.

The EGM is necessary because the Annual General Meeting last Thursday was not quorate so the key issues of a proposed change in the financial year and a proposed change in the deadline date for payment of subscriptions could not be approved. The meeting voted 49 to nil in favour of the 2 proposals but this cannot be confirmed and actioned without a quorum. Similarly, the election of Officers and Post Holders could not be ratified though those presently in post are carrying on regardless as we assume that is what the members would wish.

It is very important that we have a meeting with at least 51 attendees to make up a quorum to approve these matters so please make a SPECIAL EFFORT TO ATTEND ON 1ST AUGUST.

The Agenda and appropriate papers will be circulated to all members in early July

Joy Whiting has advised me that some websites are circulating misinformation about Adobe Lightroom. In fact: the Photograpy Plan prices have not changed; Adobe is not threatening to sue its’ customers; there are recent updates to the Programme incorporating new features. If you are interested, further detail on all of these issues can be found in the latest Lightroom Newsletter

I was asked last night by a new member if there were any organised Camera Club activities over the summer. The answer is no for whole Club activities (the next meeting is on 1st August – see later post) but if anyone wants to organise something themselves and would like to test whether other members might be interested please send me an e mail stating what, where and time to michaelmikehancock@gmail.com and I will include that in one of the periodic Newsletters.

The link to the AGM papers in the previous Newsletter was incorrect. The papers may be found here.

The full link is:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5wcv0hsle96pafd/AACpzkzhmPITcMcZKBMCXTQXa?dl=0

The AGM will be held on 16th May commencing at 7:30. The papers are available to download from Dropbox using the following link and contain an update of the Agenda paper showing named proposers and seconders in addition to the Management Committee

https://www.dropbox.com/home/CHIC%20Repository/Documentation/AGM%20Documents/2018-19/Papers

Please take the time to read them and print them off before the AGM. Please pay particular attention to Appendices 2b and 3b as these documents contain proposals to help with the smooth and efficient running of the Club. Each of these proposals, if approved, will require a small change in the wording of the Constitution so it is most important that the meeting is quorate.

Please make a special effort to attend.

I have received 2 requests for photographers in the Club to photograph outside events:

the first is from Richard Rundle one of our members who is involved in promoting a model railway show in Littlehampton later this month. If anyone is interested in taking some photographs please contact Richard on 01243 261641 to get further details.

the second is from Helen Tinner at Worthing Rugby Club this weekend. Further details can be obtained from Helen on 07985001534