New 2008 NIDA Committee

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MINUTES OF N.I.D.A. CLUB NIGHT HELD ON THURSDAY 7th FEBRUARY 2008 

AT BALLYCLARE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT 8-00PM

 

01/08 WELCOME

New Chairperson Renee Gibson welcomed the members to the meeting and thanked all for coming. She spoke of how proud she was to be elected to this office within N.I.D.A.

She asked the members to help herself and the committee by bringing any ideas or complaints to the notice of herself or a committee member. She then apologised to the meeting, as due to a prior engagement she would have to leave early.

02/08 APOLOGIES

Apologies were received for John & Helen Gillespie, Dorothy Hetherington, George & Myrtle McClean, John Gibson and George Graham.

 

03/08 MINUTES

The minutes of the January Club Night were read and approved as a true record, proposed by Lilian Newell and seconded by Bruce Irvine.

 

04/08 MATTERS ARISING FROM MINUTES

None

 

05/08 CORRESPONDENCE  RECEIVED

Attached Sheet

 

06/08 CORRESPONDENCE  SENT

Attached Sheet

 

07/08 MATTERS ARISING FROM CORRESPONDENCE

None

 

08/08 REGION REPORT

The N.I. Region meeting was on 4th February 2008.

 

N.I. Region complimented Jim Kilpatrick on the good job in setting up the N.I.D.A. website, and reminded N.I.D.A. that the website must be registered each year with Camping and Caravanning Headquarters on the 1^st March.

 

A memorial service will be held in Coventry Cathedral on Thursday 28^th February 08 at 2-00pm for Mr David Welsford. N.I. Region will ask the three D.A.s to donate something to the memorial fund.

 

There were 123 new members joined the C&C Club at the Holiday World Exhibition in January 08.

 

Groups of members going on holiday not booked through Carefree must not use the C&C Club name.

 

The Scottish Region has sent an invitation to our 3 D.A.s to join them at their Region Rally on 1^st-5^th May 2008 at Balodo Activity Centre (info. from Chris Wells). Next year we will invite the Scottish Region to join us at our Regional Rally.

 

The drainage at Delamont Club Site is to be attended to.

 

Design submissions for the N.I. Region Pennon competition have to be with Mervyn Best by the 7^th April 2008.

 

Stewards in charge of and lifting monies for a week-end meet site, must stay the duration of the meet.

 

Anyone wishing to nominate someone for the Young Achievers Award (contact Chris Wells).

 

09/08 TREASURER'S REPORT

The Treasurer read out to the members N.I.D.A.’s financial standing at this time.

 

10/08 INTER D.A. QUIZ

The  N.I.D.A. team for the quiz will be Norman Moorhead, Vivienne Robinson, Jim Kilpatrick (Jun.) & Elma Kilpatrick.  It will be necessary to let County Down D.A. know the number of spectators going from N.I.D.A.

 

11/08 AUDITORS

As 2 more Auditors were needed to join Harry Marsden, Ewan McCullough and Iris Graham (standby ) were appointed.

 

12/08 A. O. B.

As the newly elected committee at the A.G.M. ended up as an odd number, it was decided to opt on another member to committee to even up the number. Bruce Irvine will be opted on at the next N.I.D.A. committee meeting.

 

The venue for the N.I.D.A. Dinner dance in November 2008 will be changed, alternatives will be investigated during the year.

 

Mr Jack Moore donated some old Pennons to N.I.D.A. and a letter of thanks will be sent to him for this generous gift.

 

The fixture list for the weekend meets in 2008 will be printed after the last AGM of the D.A.s.

 

As the Caretaker of Ballyclare Primary School is retiring soon, it is possible that the school will not be available to N.I.D.A. on the dates we require it. Dorothy Robinson is to investigate another venue in Ballyclare and report back to the Committee. The retiring Caretaker was given a present from N.I.D.A. in appreciation of his help to us over the years. 

 

Jim Kilpatrick spoke to the members about the DA website and said it was proving quite popular by the number of hits it was receiving. He reminded the members they had to keep putting information into it. He told the meeting that it was N.I.D.A.'s responsibility to re-register the N.I.D.A. website with Club Headquarters on the 1st March each year.

 

Norman Moorhead spoke to the members about the difficulty of obtaining sites for week-end meets. He asked for suggestions from the members to be forwarded to him for next year - hockey clubs, RFCs, schools etc. He asked the members that when they put their name down to attend a 'bookable' weekend meet that they let him know in good time if they are not going to use their booking. It is possible a booking fee may be charged in future.

 

Anne Johnston asked if the weekend meets and the directions to them could be made available on the website to help members choose which meet to attend. This will be taken up by committee.

 

Meeting ended 10-10pm.

 

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MINUTES OF N.I.D.A. CLUB NIGHT HELD ON THURSDAY 3RD JANUARY 2008  AT BALLYCLARE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT 7-30 PM

00/08  WELCOME

Chairman J.Gillespie welcomed all to the evening, and then spoke about some of the forthcoming events for N.I.D.A. in 2008, e.g. the A.G.M., the Inter D.A. Quiz., Bangor D.A. dinner dance and the imminent opening of the N.I.D.A. Website.

Webmaster J. Kilpatrick gave some details on how the website would open and told the members that it would only be as good as the information that they put into it.

V/Chairman N.I. Region M.Best asked for all N.F.O.L. entry forms to be sent to N.I. Region by the end of February 2008.                

The Chairman then handed over to K.Moorhead who was organising the entertainment for the evening.

B.Irvine provided the music for a short sing-a-long, and Humpty & Dumpty amused the crowd.

K.Moorhead introduced J.Craig as “Eammon Andrews” who would present the show “This Is Your Life”.  Eammon's surprise personality (victim) was Renee Gibson.

Family members, friends and various guests paid their tributes to Renee in a very enjoyable show.

Supper was taken about 9-15 and the evening ended about 10-00pm.

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N.I.D.A. CLUB NIGHT HELD ON THURSDAY 1ST NOVEMBER 2007 IN BALLYCLARE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT 8-00PM

08/07  WELCOME

Chairman J.Gillespie welcomed everyone to the meeting.

 

09/07  APOLOGIES

Apologies were received for  E.Mann  T.Weir  J.Gibson  N.Blair & D.Robinson

 

10/07  MINUTES

The minutes of the January Club Night were read approved and agreed as a true record Prop. Myrtle Mc Clean and Sec. Robert Newell.

 

11/07  MATTERS ARISING FROM MINUTES

None

 

12/07  CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED

Two attached sheets

 

13/07  CORRESPONDENCE SENT

Two attached sheets.

 

14/07  DINNER DANCE

Chairman repeated the details for the dance and asked members to sell as many tickets as possible.  Non members of N.I.D.A. welcome.

 

15/07  JANUARY CLUB NIGHT

Programme to be arranged by Kathleen Moorhead, with an early start time of 7.30 for the evening.

 

16/07  A.G.M.

This meeting will be held in Carrickfergus Golf Club on the 2^nd February 2008 at 3-00pm. A meal will be available after the meeting.

 

17/07  FEBRUARY CLUB NIGHT

This Club Night will be arranged by the new committee.

 

18/07  A.O.B.

The Chairman spoke about N.I.D.A. entering a team in the Inter D.A. Quiz which will be hosted by  County Down D.A. on the 11^th March 2008 at Manor Court Hall, Mill Street, Newtownards.

 

He also reminded anyone wanting the D.A. “Flyer”to see Tommy Weir.

 

Bangor D.A. dinner dance will be on the 22^nd February 08 ( no venue as yet).

 

The meeting decided at this present time not to replace the Pennon that was stolen at Portrush.

 

Attendance at week-end meets over the season has been very good except for some of the Rally meets where "numbers of units and participation in the programmes" has been falling off.

 

The meeting decided to combine the F.O.L. Rally with the Halloween Rally at Moneymore and to cut down the catering at all Rallies on a trial basis.

 

Meeting broke for tea

 

Jim Kilpatrick put on a slide show of his interpretation of what an N.I.D.A. Web Site would look like. This was very impressive and after Jim said that he would look after the updating of the Web Site as Webmaster it was agreed by the members to process this matter through N.I. Region and Club Headquarters. Proposed by Dorothy Hetherington and seconded by George Harrison.

 

The Web address would be:- www.northernirelandda.com

 

Chairman thanked Jim for his presentation, the ladies for the supper and all the members for coming.

 

Meeting closed at 10-00pm.