AGM 9th May 2011

16/05/11

CARRADALE CAMERA CLUB

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

9 MAY 2011

THE NETWORK CENTRE


Present: Rachel Grant, Dave Mercer, Allan McLay, Anne Boulton, Ian MacDOugall, Margaret Richardson, Johnny Durnan, Steve Partridge, Martin Mears, David Currie

Apologies: David Byford, Kirsty Black, Laura Black

Chairperson’s Report:

1. Chairperson, Rachel Grant welcomed all to our AGM, at the end of our tenth year. She gave a brief synopsis of the current year’s activities, including the exhibition in the school with the children producing excellent photographs, and the winners of this year’s Print of the Year Competition ( David Byford; Rachel Grant; Steve Partridge – also winning the Natural Light competition). Other nights of note were Elizabeth and John’s farewell, and the night photo shoot at the Pier.

2. Rachel reminded us of the Constitution on the website. It has been on the site for 2 years, so everyone should be familiar with it.

3. Camera Club Dinner is being held at the Ashbank on Saturday 14 May at 7.30pm.

4. There were no minutes available from last year’s AGM.

The Chairperson’s Report was proposed by David Mercer and seconded by Anne Boulton.

Treasurer’s Report:

1. 18 current members which includes 16 full members and 2 country members. The account has balanced but has not yet been audited. Income included £24 from the raffle and £5 from the exhibition last year, (£70 was taken in, but the Hall cost £60 and the outstanding £10 was split between the Craft Guild and the Camera Club) and money from Club meetings.

2. Expenditure includes £35 to Tony Leighton for mending the laptop, but this money will be withheld until the problem has been completely solved. Also paid out this year- money for gift vouchers and engraving the cups and rent of the Network Centre.

3. The account has £639 at present which is an increase from last year.

4. Dave Mercer will publish the accounts once audited.

Election of Office Bearers:

1. Rachel announced that the Committee had stepped down but there had been no nominations apart from Kirsty Black for Secretary.

2. Dave Mercer proposed Rachel to be re-elected as Chairperson. Johnny Durnan seconded this. Steve Partridge nominated Allan McLay, but he declined. Rachel accepted the office.

3. Margaret Richardson proposed Dave Mercer as Treasurer. Steve Partridge seconded this. No other nominations were forthcoming. David accepted the office.

4. Margaret Richardson had already proposed Kirsty Black as Secretary and this had been seconded by Rachel Grant. Kirsty had indicated she was willing to take on this office and as there were no other nominations, Kirsty is now the Secretary.

5. Rachel Grant proposed Allan McLay as Competition Secretary. This was seconded by Johnny Durnan. No other nominations; Allan McLay accepted the office.

6. 2 committee members: Margaret Richardson was proposed by Rachel Grant and seconded by Dave Mercer. Steve Partridge was proposed by Margaret Richardson and seconded by Allan McLay. Steve Partridge proposed Johnny Durnan, which would have necessitated a vote for the 2 candidates, but Johnny withdrew. The 2 committee members nominated accepted.

The Committee for 2011/2012:

Chairperson: Rachel Grant Treasurer: Dave Mercer

Secretary: Kirsty Black Comp Sec: Allan McLay

2 Committee members: Steve Partridge; Margaret Richardson

Ideas for New Recruits:

Allan McLay made the point that this item and the next one (Ideas for next year’s programme) went together, as a good programme may well encourage more interest and attendance.

Anne Boulton made the suggestion that the Club pay the £20 annual subscription to Argyll FM for regular advertising on air. David Mercer proposed that this suggestion is carried out and it was seconded by Allan McLay.

Martin Mears suggested bringing a print in every club night which would be briefly discussed whilst the evening programme was being set up. This was considered a good idea.

Anne Boulton suggested we could make our name more widely known by offering to speak to other organisations.

Steve Partridge suggested we move to Peninver on a club night so that it would be nearer to Campbeltown and it might encourage more people to attend. A vote was taken but the membership vetoed this idea.

Johnny Durnan suggested the possibility of having a meeting in the town once a month, but again this was not agreed by the members.

Margaret Richardson and Anne Boulton brought up the idea of having a Junior Section – this is an idea for future discussion.

Anne Boulton and Steve Partridge suggested ways of advertising more actively in the Antler, rather than just a notice that the Club is meeting on such and such a night.

Johnny Durnan reminded everyone of the Carradale Goat which has a large number of hits per month. He keeps this up to date and is happy to put Camera Club information on it.

Ideas for next term’s programme:

Ideas were discussed which included more print nights, more outings and more practical evenings. Everyone agreed with Allan McLay’s point that on the nights where we were displaying prints or slides, there should be an external commentator (not judge) who could make some constructive comments. Steve Partridge suggested an evening learning about Light Painting. The programme will be discussed at the first committee meeting.

A.O.C.B:

Exhibition is being held on 13/14 August 11-4pm with setting up on Friday evening between 7 and 9pm in the Hall at a cost of £88 for the two days. Johnny Durnan suggested that the Club used the Fire Station to hold the exhibition (providing a donation). He is going to speak to Robert Strang and to ask him to contact the Club. There is a possibility that we could combine it with the Fire Station’s Open Day. The school are exhibiting as well.

Change of evening – The meeting were asked if they would consider changing the club night to a Wednesday at 7pm, including committee nights. This is to allow a few members who are not able to attend on a Monday. This was agreed unanimously.

Change in the constitution: It was unclear as to whether it had been decided to change the start of the year from September finishing at the AGM, at last year’s AGM. The meeting agreed unanimously that this was a good move. The constitution has to be changed to reflect this.

AGM closed at 9pm


Committee Meeting to be held on WEDNESDAY 1 June 2011 at 7pm in the Network Centre.