SUBSCRIPTION REMINDER
Subscriptions for the year 2008 were due on the 1st January and a renewal form
has been sent with this newsletter. If you do not pay by standing order, please
send your subscription to the Membership Secretary Del Smith at Milltown of
Dunnideer, Insch, Aberdeenshire AB52 6XQ Tel: 01464 820732
Even if you pay by standing order, please consider making an additional donation.
We would be very grateful if all members who want the Club to be able to reclaim
tax on their subscriptions and donations could complete and sign the gift aid
declaration on the subscription reminder and return to Del Smith.
If you do not currently pay by standing order, please consider changing to this
method. Every year a great deal of effort and money is spent reminding some
members about their subscription.
President's Page
Peter Harvey 32 Lodge Lane, Grays, Essex RM16 2YP. Tel: (01375) 371571.
Email: grays@peterharvey.freeserve.co.uk
With Roger and Jacquey Newton's move to the south coast, Sarah Kenyon has agreed to
take over as the new Treasurer, and we are enormously grateful to her for taking on this
essential Club role. As reported in the last newsletter, Ken Adams has also taken over as
Programme Secretary, and the new programme is enclosed with this newsletter. It is also
available for download from the Club's website where details of meetings are available
at www.essexfieldclub.org.uk/portal/p/Our+meetings/
Our annual Exhibition & Social held on Saturday 1st December 2007 was a great success
with 100+ attendees and the usual excellent buffet and refreshments by Mary Smith.
Members collecting their new Essex Naturalist once again saved us a considerable amount
of postage, and together with donations the Ex&Soc pays for itself. We are enormously
grateful to Mary Smith, and the rest of the Ex&Soc team Ken Adams, Lorna Heffron
and Emma Simmonds. Another member very kindly made several of the cakes and Martin
Heywood and many others all help to make sure that the event is a success and runs
smoothly. It is a legacy to the late Charles Watson that this excellent event has been so
successful and is now in its 9th (2008) year.
As noted in the last newsletter, the results of the proposed new centre questionnaire
have been very encouraging, with a high proportion of members taking the trouble to
complete and return the form, and with a very high degree of support for the proposals.
The results are summarised in detail at the end of this newsletter.
Update on new centre situation
Basildon, in partnership with other local authorities in the eastern region, have made a
regional bid for European money against a suite of projects, including a Passiv Haus
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