The Swanage Railway Trust

These notes provide an overview of some of the matters discussed this month.

• The 2006 AGM of The Swanage Railway Trust will take place on Saturday 23rd September in the Mowlem Theatre starting at 2:00 p.m.
• Two formal proposals concerning Membership policies will be presented at the AGM: a) an increase in all categories of annual membership fees and b) abolition of the annual category of Student Member. With respect to the second proposal, the CoM is mindful of the fact that these days the term ‘student’ can be applied to people of widely varying ages. The Junior membership category will continue to exist and in addition a new ‘Sygnets’ membership category will be created in the new year.
• Six nominations have been received for the eight vacancies arising on the CoM this year: Doug Chick, Steve Doughty, Peter Sills, Mike Stollery, Bill Trite and Andy Vincent. These six will therefore be duly declared elected to the CoM with effect from the 2006 AGM in accordance with the Trust’s Articles of Association.
• The 2006 Grand Draw had so far raised a total exceeding £8,600. Please continue to support this major fundraising effort by either buying tickets or selling them to friends and family.
• Due to an imbalance it has been decided to merge the two CoM Fundraising functional groups of Appeals & Grants and Commercial & Sponsorship. The new single fundraising group will concentrate on priority areas such as appeals, grant applications and the annual draw.
• The primary objectives of the Assets functional group were confirmed as being: items of rolling stock owned by or loaned to the SRT, Museums and signalling equipment.
  Key tasks were further agreed:
  1. Identify items of rolling stock that were surplus to both operational and heritage requirements.
  2. Agree a conservation strategy for heritage coaches and the spares stockholding and produce an inventory of those spares to assist in planning restorations (budget provision has been made for conservation work this Autumn\Winter).
  3. Confirm Museum assets and identify candidates for disposal.
  4. Achieve registered museum status.
  5. Undertake a valuation of the signalling system assets and identifying those items loaned to the SRT so that the SRT owned components can be transferred to the SRC.
  6. Work to identify other SRT assets to substantiate the balance sheet valuation.
  7. Draw up the Heritage Coach Plan to support the SRC Strategic Plan.
• Revised production and printing arrangements for Swanage Railway Magazine were agreed. This will include increasing the number of pages per edition to 40 whilst making a modest financial saving.

The next CoM meeting will take place on Saturday 2nd September 2006 at 2:00 pm in the Rectory Classroom, Church Hill, Swanage.

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