Thanks to everyone who turned up last night to make suggestions on how to improve support for the club.

Thanks also to all who couldn't make it but posted on AFTN.

I now have over 60 ideas which I'll collate and pass to the club later this week. I'll also post them here at some point.

We all know it will take a while probably for the relevant actions to be put in place but we've taken an important step forward.

Some good ideas were thought up and discussed between the individual groups of attendees, Eugene.
Having said that, I thought perhaps we could have selected the best ideas for debate amongst the entire assembly for, say, another half-hour.
Will we be holding a similar meeting in the near future?

I take your point Jim but the reason for not trying to decide what the best ideas are is that we need further input, especially from the club, for that.

Until we have some idea about what is possible in terms of resources and what meets the needs of the club's current plans then it's difficult to decide what ARE the best ideas.

What I hope will happen is that the ideas we put forward will be evaluated by the club and that we will be involved again once that has happened.

Ideally the ideas will be prioritised and scaled over time so that there will be lots of opportunities for us all to get involved in a variety of ways.

I agree with Jim, that the ideas that came up could have been explored further, but only so much can be done in one night. I think that it would be helpful if there was a meeting in the next couple of weeks to move things along. It was a good night, that was well marshalled by Eugene. He set out out his stall early and covered every blade of grass over the 90 minutes.

'Covered every blade of grass'

I had to laugh when I read that. It is SOOOO unlike Eugene to yap on and talk and talk and yap etc! I take it though the attendees of the meeting got a chance to speak?! There's a first!

(off to remove tongue from cheek now incase anyone is incensed by that post!)

Aye, the boy did good.