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AGM Documents and Postal Voting Forms

AGM to be held at 07.30 pm on Tuesday 29 September 2020 at tSt John Ambulance

Nomination forms for election of the new Committee were circulated last month. Details of the nominations can be downloaded here. If you are unable to attend the meeting and wish to vote by post, please complete the attached Postal Voting forms.   This should be returned to the Secretary, Sailing for the Disabled, Woodvale Bradda Road, Port Erin, IM9 6QA before 12.00 noon on Monday 28th September 2020.  Votes received after this time will not be accepted. 
Also the Minutes of the 2019 Annual General Meeting and the Agenda can be downloaded. Any questions to be raised under “Matters Arising” or “Any other business” must be notified in writing or by email to the Secretary no later than 12 noon, Tuesday, 22th September 2020.  If you are unable to attend the meeting, would you please let the Secretary know by email, secretary@sftd-iom.com or by post.

Passing of Mr Hugh Evans

It is with great sadness that we inform you that one of our long-standing members Hugh Evans passed away very sudden. Hugh will be remembered as a very kind and gentle person with a great sense of humour. Our thoughts are with his wife Eunice, his family and friends. He will be sorely missed.

OPEN DAY Saturday 5 September

Sailing for the Disabled is having an OPEN DAY on SATERDAY 5 SEPTEMBER from 12.00 to 16.00

Located in Douglas harbour, you will be able to take a look inside our beautiful vessel Pride of Mann III and have a chat with members of the charity. There will be representatives from the committee, skippers, crew and members who sail with us. 

Sailing for the Disabled is looking for anyone who would like to sail with us, abled and enabled crew, right from experienced skippers to novice sailors, to people who just want to lend a hand in running the charity. Pride of Mann III is fitted out to enable people with a wide range of disabilities to sail.

Sailing for the Disabled is a local charity run by enthusiastic volunteers. SO COME ALONG AND MEET OUR FRIENDLY MEMBERS AND CREW!

Committee members wanted !

WE INVITE YOU TO BECOME PART OF OUR TEAM 

The Committee is an enthusiastic group of people that meet once a month to help keep the Charity running. Although some members of the current Committee are prepared to go forward we do need new committed volunteers with fresh ideas to contribute to the growth and future succes of the Charity.  No previous experience is necessary, just lots of enthusiasm and a willingness to help us do the very best we can for our members.

Please find here the nomination form to be completed by any member 18 years or over, who is interested in becoming part of the Committee or willing to fullfil any of the other roles such as Crewmaster, Fundraiser or Membership secretary.  This form should be completed and returned to the Secretary on or before Monday 8 September 2020. For more information get in touch via secretary@sftd-iom.com or talk to any of the current committee members.

The AGM is being held Tuesday 29 September - 19.30 at St John Ambulance, Douglas 

Membership information

The Committee have been investigating the implementation of an online membership database for some time and have recently concluded an exercise to transfer all the current members data from the previous off-line system, on to a facility run by ‘MemberMojo’.  MemberMojo have created a product specifically to meet the needs of clubs and charities, and provide features that steamline the administration of the database as well as providing some additional useful features which the Committee will review and potentially implement in the near future.

Current members may have received emails in recent weeks which indicated that this year’s membership had been received by the charity.  This was part of the process to take the new system live.

The next step will be to send an email to everyone to invite them to access their membership data to ensure that it is accurate and up to date.  We understand that this is a big step for the organisation and we are committed to the success of this project, AND to the support of our members.  Therefore if anyone has any concerns or problems with the approach we are taking, please do contact either Monica (membership@sftd-iom.com) or myself at chairman@sftd-iom.com

We are anticipating some minor hurdles prior to making the new system fully functioning, so please do bear with us during this implementation phase.

Paul Atkinson - Chairman SftD