Minutes of the Manchester & District CTC Committee

Date: Thursday 8th July 2010 7.30pm

Venue: The Welcome Inn, Bury Old Road, Prestwich

Present: Phil Rigby (chairman), Peter Barnes, Terry Hodges, Laurie Green, Glynn Jones, Trevor McCarthy, Ian Ross, Mavis Ross, Graham Trunks, Mike Wigley

1) Apologies for absence received from: Mike Roberts

2) Matters Arising from the previous meeting: The minutes of the meeting dated 12th March 2010 had been distributed prior to the meeting and were accepted as a true record.

3) Reports from Officials

a) Secretary: Mike reported that he had received a petition as a follow-up to the recent CTC AGM, whereby a group of CTC members had taken exception to the activities of the Chairman when he exercised his proxy votes to overturn the decision to adopt charity status. Mike agreed to forward a copy of the petition by email but individual members must decide for themselves whether to sign.

b) Treasurer: Terry Hodges told us we have £597.17 in the bank. HQ have accepted our accounts although they were not audited.

c) Magazine Editor: Graham reported that Northern Wheel had come out in May (his last edition), that all bills to date had been paid, that we have £329.07 in the bank and £3.67 cash in hand. There will be another £350 if we sell all copies.

d) Magazine Distributor: May

Subscribers 268 Complimentary copies 1 2nd letters to be sent out 13 Renewed from 2nd letter 3 Non-renewals 10 Deceased 0 Non renewals from 1st letter 0

e) Membership Registration Officer: Mike reported that we have 1597 CTC members living in “our” area which is an increase of 45.

f) Rights and Campaigns report: No report

g) Welfare Officer: No report

4) Reports from Groups

a) Peak Audax Events Secretary: Mike reported that we had suffered a serious casualty on one of our recent rides, the 600km Cambrian Randonnée, when one of the Peak Audax Organisers was deliberately pushed off his bike by someone leaning out of a passing car. Derek ended up in Hereford hospital with a broken hip, femur and collar bone and is likely to be off work until after Christmas. The Police treated this as a serious assault and took detailed statements but it would seem unlikely that anyone will be apprehended.

Derek is the Organiser of the forthcoming Dark Peak Grimpeur but Mike will step in to run this event.

b) Bury: the successful Charlie Westlake rides will again be run in 2011, but the 50km event will be dedicated as a memorial to Walter Pilkington, while the 80km will retain Charlie’s name.

c) Oldham & Tameside: The same few keep flying the flag.

d) West Manchester: Keeping active with a Free Wheel competition, a Hare and Hounds event and a Speed judging competition.

5) Northern Wheel: We discussed Graham’s decision to step down as editor after 26 years. A vote of thanks was raised in appreciation of his contribution to cycling journalism in the Manchester area. Unfortunately Graham has created a bit of a monster with no obvious candidates to take over.

All Advertisers have received all their pre-paid coverage so there is nothing outstanding on the business front. There are some Postal Subscribers who will not have received all their pre-paid issues, and we resolved to retain their funds in order to send them future editions should anyone step up as Editor. Of course, any requests for a refund will be honoured.

We need to use Cycle magazine and the website to communicate with our riders.

6) Future Events

Beard Cup, 5th September 2010

Peak Audax events from Cheadle, as detailed in Cycle and at www.ManchesterCTC.co.uk

7) Any Other Business

8) Next Committee Meeting

September 9th at Welcome Inn

The AGM will be held some time in October/November, possibly at the Velodrome or Friends Meeting House.

Mike Wigley, Secretary