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Folkestone Trip

1. Kevin Tracey has paid the £200 deposit for our stay from branch funds.

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2. Dates: 4 – 9 August 2019. The cost for the trip per night will be £40 per person for those
travelling on the minibus £40 per person and for those travelling by car £35 per person including
meals.

Annual Dinner

So far there has been a slow start to the bookings with only 60 confirmed at the moment and 8
rooms in hotel already booked up. There has been lots of positive feedback and people saying
they will be coming to the dinner so hopefully in the next 4 to 6 weeks there will be a big take-up of
tables.

Proposals

1. Proposed by Ray Collister that the Branch will move at a new venue seconded by Frank Hayes
Passed

The OLD JOINT STOCK AND THEATRE (4 Temple Row West, Birmingham B2 5NY), an old
Victorian bank that has been converted in Victorian style and has a room that we can use any
Sunday and if needed there is a larger room available. There are ten disabled car places outside
the front of the Public House.
There are also disabled bays and more parking spaces on Coleman Street that runs the other side
of the pub. As the pub is located facing St Phillips branch Cathedral next to the financial quarter of
Birmingham there are hundreds of parking spaces and a multi-storey car park’s that are easily
accessible on a Sunday morning. Snow Hill train station is approximately 300 metres from the
pub. Birmingham New Street station is about 600 metres from the pub. Any members arriving at
Digbeth coach station or New Street station and cannot walk from there then please inform us
(Vice Chairman or the Secretary), and we will try and organise a lift for you. The first meeting
there will be at 1130 hours Sunday 11th August 2019.
After that it will be held there every first Sunday of the month.
Passed

Meeting Closed at 11:45 hours

Annual General Meeting Opened at 11:46 hours

Point One on the agenda was the branch financial accounts for January 2018 until December
2018 and from 2019 to May 2019.

1. It was decided to bring the accounts in line with the annual general meeting, so we know the
working capital of the Association in real time not 5 or 6 months after the accountancy period. So,
in future years the annual accounting period run from June to May each year, this will give the
accountant a month to prepare the accounts for both the Annual General Meeting and a copy for
records at Regional Headquarters.

2. The two sets of accounts will appear on the website. A quick overview is as follows:

Balance of the West Midlands Branch balance sheet as at 31 December 2018

Lloyds Bank £8488.26
West Bromwich Building Society £6985.44

Total £15,473.70

Balance of the West Midlands Branch balance sheet as at the 31st May 2019

Lloyds Bank £8310.74
West Bromwich Building Society £6988.93

Total £15,299.67

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