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Update 20th July – We have been advised this week that the Drapers Arms has been designated as an away-supporters pub for a pre-season game in Peterborough on the 24th.  If you are coming, we recommend you get to the pub as soon as possible after arriving in Peterborough as it’s likely to be busier than we had anticipated when we selected the venue.  The staff have assured us that this will not compromise our going ahead with our meetings, though there might be a bit more background chatter than we’d expected. Thanks – C56G Committee.

The date for the 2010 AGMs of the Group and Class 56 Locomotives Ltd is confirmed as Saturday July 24th: kick-off provisionally at 12:45 for the company meeting followed by 1:15pm for the Group event. The venue will be the Drapers Arms on Cowgate in Peterborough.

This venue is only a short walk from the railway station, as follows. Come out of the station turning right and follow the road round towards the multi-storey car-park, taking the footbridge over the inner ring-road. Do not go into the shopping centre but instead turn right and down to the footway beside the road towards the nearby roundabout. Heading around the left side of the roundabout, cross the first road off this: the second arm off the junction is Cowgate (landmark is a white building on the corner) and the Drapers Arms is only a few yards down the road. We will have the rear part of the pub for our use. A good range of beers and food are available.

The agendas for the meetings are as below, together with the nominees for Director(s) and Committee posts notified to date. If anyone else is interested in standing for any of the posts (or directorships), please contact myself or Keith Bulmer: any further nominations should be notified to me in writing by 18th June.

The Class 56 Group AGM

Apologies for absence
Adoption of accounts to 31/8/09 and minutes of 17th AGM
Committee members’ reports
Resolutions put before the meeting
Election of Committee posts for the coming year
Group Membership Rates
Any Other Business

Any resolutions to go before the AGM must be notified to me in writing by 18th June at the latest: none have been forthcoming to date. Any such will be posted on this website.

The following nominations for group committee posts have been received to date:

NOTE – 15th JULY – After some thought, Keith Wright has advised the group secretary that he is withdrawing from contesting the publicity post and will instead offer his nomination at the AGM as a committee member without portfolio alongside Stuart and Tim. The updated nominations are reflected below. An updated proxy form is available below.

Chairman: Keith Bulmer
Treasurer: Andrew Wilson
Chief Technical Officer: Gareth Broughton
Assistant Technical Officer: Micky Doyle
Membership Secretary: Chris Brooks
Magazine Editor: Carl Rayner
Publicity Officer: Alan Hawkins
Webmaster: Oli Smith
Committee Member (w/o Portfolio): Stuart Clarke, Tim Dawe, Keith Wright

Class 56 Locomotives Limited AGM

Chairman’s Report
Previous AGM Records
Election of Director(s)
Accounts
Resolutions
Any Other Business

This year Andrew is standing down as a director ahead of the AGM, in accordance with the rotational election policy and will be standing again. Nick Cotton, who was elected by the Board as director during the year, will also be up for re-election by the company AGM. No other nominations for director have been received to date.

If you are unable to make the AGMs, please consider appointing a proxy to represent you at the meeting. If you are not sure whom to ask, please contact any of the Directors or Committee as relevant. Your proxy need not be a shareholder or group member but you must notify me in writing or by e-mail no later than 6pm on July 22nd as to the identity of your proxy and of any directions that you have given them as to their voting – which are binding upon your proxy though if you do not instruct them, the proxy may vote as they see fit on your behalf. Any proxies notified after that time will not be admitted at the meeting. Click here to download a proxy form.

As you will note from one absentee in the list of Committee nominations, I am taking a step back and vacating the Secretary’s role, though I’m willing to remain on the Committee for the time being as a ‘member without portfolio’. I would take this opportunity to thank committee members past and present for their support over the years.

Tim Dawe
Group Secretary