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Note AGM Date 21st Feb 12 Noon

Undercover - Picture By Bruce Richardson

Undercover – Picture By Bruce Richardson

Just in from Trust Chair Bruce Richardson, the notice and Agenda for the coming 2015 AGM – your chance to hold the Board to account for their decisions and running of the company up to now and to quiz them on any concerns you have. It is also the annual chance to see how we are doing financially and to hear about the operational plans for 2015. If you are concerned that it might be long, dry and boring (as these meetings can be), trust me, I have never found that. They move along at a goodly pace and do not send you to sleep. Go along and enjoy the meeting, meet the Team and learn a lot about the running of a Thames Barge as a business in 2015.

 

2015 Agenda

2015 Agenda

New Brochure

New Brochure

New Brochure designed by Blue Ant, picture by Matt Care

Our graphics and design partners at Blue Ant have produced for us a rather beautiful new brochure. This document has a definite quality feel, being of stiff semi-gloss paper, roughly A5 in size and printed across 12 ‘sides’ of paper summarising the Cambria, its history, its use in sail training, education and corporate and private hire, listing our objectives and contact details. I will put a pdf version of it in the News tab under ‘Current Newsletter’ for you to admire. Well done to Chairman Bruce Richardson who had a major role in layout and choice of images etc, and to the Team at Blue Ant whose artistic flair and quality production did the rest.

Chaotic Scenes!

No, the title does not refer to our ‘Go-Live’ event yesterday, which went off, as we’d expected, seamlessly. We are now all on the new site and you cannot see the old one. Many thanks to the two main ‘movers and shakers’ in this process, Sue Fielder of Open Sandwich, and Anthony Thornley of  Blue Ant. You have probably by now sussed that you can comment directly on these posts through the site, rather than having to email the Secretaries. I would love your feedback, so please do comment if you have any ideas for improvements or can see any issues. I cannot promise, as they used to say on Cornflake packet competition entry forms “to enter into correspondence” with you, especially if this is taken up wholesale, but I will reply to any that I think are appropriate. You can, of course, still email the Trust using CambriaTrustSecretary@live.co.uk.

QDJP flotilla. Photo by Bruce Richardson

QDJP flotilla. Photo by Bruce Richardson

Meanwhile I loved this shot by Chairman Bruce Richardson of the chaotic scenes on the Thames during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant of the flotilla, I am guessing taken from the deck of Cambria. You may not be able to see this in the reduced-size reproduction I have to use on the website, but the worried expressions on the faces of the two police boat guys at the bottom of the shot, and the guys in the pilot-cutter (bottom left) as they crane their necks every which way looking for possible problems between the mad-cap boaters speaks loudly of “What have we let ourselves in for now!???” Excellent. Nice, one Bruce.

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