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The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association (North of Scotland Branch) 68 th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TO BE HELD IN DYCE BOWLING CLUB ON SUNDAY 25 TH NOVEMBER 2018. At 12 Noon. Please ensure that your band is represented

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  • The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association

    (North of Scotland Branch)

    68th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

    TO BE HELD

    IN

    DYCE BOWLING CLUB

    ON SUNDAY 25TH

    NOVEMBER 2018.

    At 12 Noon.

    Please ensure that your band is represented

  • The Annual General Meeting of The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association,

    North of Scotland Branch will be held in Dyce Bowling Club

    on Sunday 25 th November 2018 commencing at 12 noon.

    A preliminary agenda together with a copy of the minutes of the 2017 A.G.M

    are attached and a copy of the Branch Accounts for the year end September 2018.

    CURRENT OFFICE BEARERS

    Hon. President Mr G Gauld

    Hon. Life Members Mrs E. Forrest

    Mr R. Forrest

    Mr A. Lynn

    Mr W. Skinner

    Mrs R. Cruickshank

    Mr A. Skinner

    Mr R. Taylor Mrs F Allan

    Hon. Chairman Mr W Barclay

    Hon. Secretary Mrs L. Niven

    Hon. Ass./Min.Sec Mrs L Buchan

    Hon. Vice Chairman Mrs H MacKay

    Hon. Treasurer Mr R Cameron

    Directors Mr R Niven

    Mr J Gibb

    Music Board Reps

    Piping Miss J Brinklow

    Drumming Miss J McHaffie

    Chief Steward Mr G Ferries

    Magazine Reporter Ms Kerry Meehan

    Web Liaison Miss Julie Brinklow

    Trophy Convenor Mr B Grant

  • AGM Agenda 2018.

    1. Welcome

    2. Obituaries

    3. Apologies

    4. Matters arising from previous minutes

    5. Chairman’s Report

    6. Music Board Report

    7. Directors Report

    8. Treasurers Report

    9. Auditors report

    10. Correspondence

    11. Election of Office Bearers

    12. Break for Tea

    13. Honoraria

    14. Branch Levy

    15. Branch AGM date 2019

    16. Branch/Management Meetings 2019

    17. A.O.C.B

  • Royal Scottish Pipeband Association – North of Scotland Branch

    Minute of Annual General Meeting – Sunday 26th November 2017

    Hallmark Hotel Dyce 12 Noon

    Present : Malcolm Sweet – Buchan Peterson Helen Sweet – Buchan Peterson A Skinner – Buchan Peterson Christine Fraser – Oldmeldrum RBL David Fraser – Oldmeldrum RBL Heather Dallas – Granite City Pipes and drums Sarah Mitchell – Deeside Caledonia Kerry Meehan – Stonehaven Denise Buchan – Fraserburgh RBL Heather MacKay – Buchan Peterson Ranald Cameron – Towie John Gibb – RGC – Director Louise Buchan – Fraserburgh RBL Julie Brinklow – Portlethan and District Eric Morrice – 2622 Highland Squadron Peter Morrice – 2622 Highland Squadron Mandy Rae - 2622 Highland Squadron Peter Craigmile – Elgin and District Colin Anderson – Ellon Neil Rae – 2622 Highland Squadron Marie Chapman – Towie Euan Chapman – Towie Graeme Mitchell – Culter and District Bill Barclay – Towie Florence Allan- Hon Life Member Jackie Hepburn – Turriff and District Billy Hepburn – Turriff and District Linda Niven – Granite City – Secretary Bob Niven – Deeside Caledonia – Director Alex Simpson – Grampian Police Scotland Iain Mc Combie – Grampian Police Scotland Pauline Watt – Bucksburn and District Barry Ashby – RAF Lossiemouth Jason Sumner – RGC Graham Gauld – Buchan Peterson Jill McHaffie – RGC

  • 1 – The Chairman opened the meeting and welcomed all in attendance and Ian Embleton for coming up from headquarters in Glasgow. 2 – Apologies : Northern Constabulary Stromness

    City of Inverness

    Robert Taylor

    Ballater Lathallan School Strathpeffer Bobby and Ella Forest Dornoch Kirkwall City Forres and District Ross and Cromarty Bill Skinner Inverurie Ruby Cruikshank Robert Grant – Deeside Bill Grant 3 – Obituaries: Jim Horn Huntly and Elaine Marnoch – Solo Piper – OTC Graham Gauld appointed tellers – John Gibb and Iain McCombie Standing orders adopted Proposed by Bob Niven Seconded John Gibb 4 – Previous minutes : Proposed - DB Fraserburgh RBL Seconded –EC Towie Briefly spoke about Solo Trophies not being returned on time and Bands to get fined. 5 – Chairman as per order paper: Adopt a revision of the branch Constitution and rules to align it with changes to that of the parent body as consequence of it becoming a limited company. In agreement to any changes made as a lot of thought and effort gone into this. Good turnout for indoor competitions also appreciation to the Gordon school in Huntly for allowing us to use the school. Outdoor contest – Good gate which helps the promoters, although they would like a bigger entry of bands in grade 1 and 2. Aberdeen Games had issues allowing bands early entry into the field, due to stewards not being properly briefed. Written agreement from Aden Park Contest to use the Champion of Champions trophies at Aberdeen Games. Unfortunately we had atrocious weather at the end of the day. Education- Summer school sponsorship from branch offered out to bands 3 from Newtonhill went to Glasgow for the summer school. SCQF/PDQB classes have been run over 2 full weekends and final exam in December. Over 60 pipers and drummers of all ages have attended these classes, with the bulk of the cost being funded from HQ Education Budget. Modest charge of £35 has been made for both weekends and used to cover the costs of accommodation and catering. Publicity – Facebook page is being well used and Thank you to Kerry Meehan for continuing to compile stories for the Magazine and to Julie Brinklow looking after the website. PVG – After discussions this will be coordinated with HQ and Pat Wheelan draft document has been prepared but unsure when this will be published.

  • Proposed – DB Fraserburgh RBL Seconded JB Portlethen and District 6 – Music Board Report as per order paper: At present no music board convenor. Higher to lower transfer period is now 42 days. Questionnaire to go out to bands regarding a new Grade 5 playing 3/4s or 4/4s sit under the current Grade 4B Discussion of change 4A/4B contest rule to change which would mean Grade 4A cannot play down to the 4B march contest at minor contests. Bands would then only play up one grade 4B to 4A and 4A to 3 etc. This was passed for our minor competitions. Discussions about a 2 day final for Grade 1 at the worlds. All bands would play on the Friday as they currently do but no bands would be eliminated. All bands would then play their remaining sets on the Saturday for a full Grade 1 final based on the 2 days results on all 4 performances. The proposal will go forward to APMB – our Grade 1 band would be in favour of this. Heather asked if the regrading structure had been looked at in Grade 1 but Julie had no further feedback on this. Discussion of increasing number of adjudicators at Majors. Doubling the number of judges in each discipline. A Skinner asked if they had enough judges to do this and it was suggested that it was the Adjudicators panel that had proposed this so they must have enough. No further information is available about this. Discussed there is a new Judging format for the World Solo Drumming. There is a link on the RSPBA website regarding PVG. There was a proposal made that Grade heats should start at the same time. Proposed – MS Buchan Peterson Seconded – PC Elgin and District 7 – Directors Report as per order paper: Good attendance in all our local competitions, solos, quartets, full band indoor, Banchory and Aberdeen games. Only 50% of our branch bands are active at competition level what can be done to encourage more to be involved. Our competing bands attend all the Majors and next year marks the end of Forres. Fire Rescue service transferred to another branch. NOS Badenoch and Strathspey have transferred to Perth and Angus. Music Board are to have 2 members on the Education board. PVG work is ongoing. There is going to be a tent available at the worlds to promote education. The RSPBA website is being updated. Headquarters have met with architects regarding the fire damage to the roof and renovations to Washington Street. Florence asked about the Historical Group. Ian Embleton stepped in and answered this. Due to Kevin Reilly being unwell it has been held up and when headquarters has been renovated the artefacts will be displayed but there is no active committee for this at present. Proposed -JB Portlethen and District Seconded BA RAF Lossiemouth 8 – Treasurer Report as per order paper: Finances looking healthy, one current account closed as had 2 and a deposit account was opened for Reserve Funds. Barry queried why need to increase entry fees. Pauline Watt asked why £10 per section in solo entries, Graham said we will keep an eye on this as it could be discouraging for families because of overall costs. Graham looking into an overpayment of £500 from Aberdeen games to go forward to the 2018 Games this was agreed. Thank You to auditors Denise Buchan Fraserburgh RBL and Susan Cumming Portlethen and District.

  • Proposed RGC Seconded Buchan Peterson 9 – Election of Office Bearers: See end of 2017 Report. 10 - Ian Embleton- Chief Executive- Report :

    My thanks to Chairman Graham Gauld for giving me the opportunity to give this report from HQ.

    Major Championships 2017

    This was the second visit to St. James playing fields for the British Championships. The events team

    from Renfrewshire Council made many improvements from the previous year. This was in the main

    due to visits to venues holding the European Championships at Grant Park in Forres and the Scottish

    Championships at Levengrove Park in Dumbarton. The re-positioning of the band bus parking

    adjacent to the entrance and exit of the field proved very successful. The layout of the complete

    field was completely revised from the previous year after liaison meetings between RSPBA and

    Renfrewshire Council

    The United Kingdom, European and Scottish Championships were held in Stormont Estate, Belfast,

    Grant Park, Forres and Levengrove Park, Dumbarton. All well tried and proven venues, where we

    were blessed with fair weather. The Worlds on Friday was however a wet and windy occasion and

    extremely difficult conditions for all. The Worlds on Saturday were a different day altogether with

    reasonably good weather conditions. An additional Arena was introduced to cater for the Novice

    Juvenile A & B contests and on completion was handed back to the promoter at 13.30 hours for the

    start of the traditional heavy events. The only negative feedback was the tuning facilities for Arenas

    1&3.The decision to license the complete Glasgow Green was again appreciated by both competitors

    and pay customers alike. The large screen located at the Pencil was again popular with bandsman

    looking for finalists for all Adult grades with the exception of Grade 1. All in all deemed a very

    successful Worlds.

    The World Solo Drumming and International Tenor Drumming Championships were once again in

    the Glasgow Caledonia Campus where the new auditorium was again the venue for the Final of the

    Adult Finals. Once again live streaming was provided with demand increasing by 89% over the

    previous year. There were 7274 live views, of which 4367 watched via Worlds Website and 2907 via

    Youtube. The Geography of the sessions covered twenty two countries outwith the UK.

    Major Championships 2018 and beyond

    This year saw the second of our three year deals with Paisley, Belfast, Forres and Dumbarton. All

    four contracts have a further year to run. This year saw the second year of our six year deal with

    Glasgow for the Worlds. The Glasgow deal has a further four Years to run.

    The Board of Directors agreed to approach interested promoters for the next three year contracts

    covering the years 2019/20/21. Invitations were sent out during August with a closing date of noon

    21st September, 2017. Interest was shown by a number of promoters but at that point in time only

    one bid met the financial securities to meet the RSPBA requirements. To this end Renfrewshire

    Council have been rewarded with the British Championships for 2019/20/21. Venue has still to be

    confirmed. The present agreement we have with West Dunbartonshire Council is a rolling

    agreement that either party may withdraw from the contract by giving two years notice of intent.

  • This therefore leaves us with both the European & United Kingdom Championships available for

    acceptable future bids. We have a number of extremely interested parties who all require financial

    budget guarantees in order to be successful. To this ends updated bids will be accepted by

    May,2018. We still have a further three years to run with Andante Percussion for the world Solo

    Drumming Championships. Our contract with the BBC was renewed in 2017 and has a further year to

    run.

    Premises Update

    As you will all be aware the future refurbishment of Headquarters took a back seat after the severe

    fire on Friday, 10th March this year. Temporary repairs have now been completed to ensure wind

    and water tight during the forthcoming winter. Our Insurance company have offered a settlement of

    approximately £123K towards the complete renewal of the entire roof area. The Board of Directors

    met in the Abbotsford Hotel , Dumbarton on the Friday prior to the Scottish Championships and

    unanimously agreed that the refurbishment would cover two floors only. Further meetings have

    been held with Architects to agree final requirements and it is now anticipated that the work will

    commence in June 2018 and complete by March 2019. Arrangements to decant the entire building

    have still to be finalised. The proposals will include complete refurbishment of the existing building

    and will include disabled access to first floor.

    Association Finances It is anticipated that the Association will show a working surplus around £70k to year end 31st December, 2017. This together with the balance and investments carried forward from the previous year will show an anticipated total of £850K going forward. Band Registration Checks During the past few seasons checks of current registration lists have been carried out at both Minor and Major contests after the selected bands have completed their performances. Over the period when checks have been carried has seen a major reduction of errors now sitting at 2%. Summer School A highly successful Summer School was again held in the Gaelic School in Anderson at the beginning of August. Over 35 students attended from all over the UK. Again Drum Majors attended at the latter part of the week receiving guidance from Drum Major Adjudicator John Noble. My congratulations to our Education Officer Pat Whelan, together with John Nevans, and his highly professional team of Instructors. Scottish Qualification Awards/ Disclosure Scotland A total of 262 certificates were awarded in 2016. It is anticipated that a total of 306 certificates will be awarded by 31st December, 2017. Examinations were carried at the following locations :- Dublin, Northern Ireland, RSPBA, Johannesburg, Dundee,Perth & Angus , Robert Gordons College, George Watsons College and Johnstone. It was decided by the Board of Directors that all Instructors /Assessors should be disclosed prior to carrying out any duties on behalf of the RSPBA. 11 – Revision of Constitution: Bob Niven, A Skinner, F Allan agree with Ali that it should be ratified by Standing Orders Board Not Paul Brown because it’s a personal opinion. F Allan asked if constitution could go on website –JB said it is already on. Rule 5.5- Treasurer holds cheque book any 2 of 4 can sign as per RSPBA

  • Rule 7.11.c – Discussion re stalemate – secret ballot with no abstentions wording removed – This was not past. Bob will get it ratified changes from now on. Proposed- DB Fraserburgh Seconded -BA RAF Lossiemouth 12 – Correspondence: Thank You From Newtonhill for Summer School sponsorship. 2622 re issue at Huntly School. Banchory clash of date with Dundee – re attendance Banchory re increasing the prize money – suggested to keep it to fund next year’s event incase of inclimate weather. The company declined giving the funding towards local competitions. Letter from Florence re-election of office bearers to revise constitution. Letter from H MacKay given up minute secretary but willing to help. Inverness City –Date of competition fell through as not enough bands entered was not viable. Headquarters invited us to send chairman re vulnerable groups and children PVG. Graham and John attended this. Letter from Badenoch and Strathspey regarding transferring to Perth and Angus Branch. Letter about Summer school fees being sponsored out to bands. Letter to bands regarding SQA /PDQB classes. Letter to Ullapool re late return of trophies. 13 Matters arising: PVG – Graham- Enhanced Disclosure – Coordinator and deputy. The storage of these are under strict guidelines and bands can be advised by volunteer Scotland/CRBS. Local Indoor competitions: Entry fee – status quo Solo Competitions - £5 per class capped at £15 Proposed- JB Portlethen and District Seconded- MS Buchan Peterson Outdoor competitions: Banchory and Aberdeen Games 2018 PC Elgin and District asked about the branch running a competition at any of the local Highland Games – This had been discussed before and had been declined due to the cost of holding a competition. Discussion re branch getting a levy from promoters. Grade 4B/4A – JB Discussion from floor regarding Grade 4A not playing in the Grade 4 Marches. It was discussed that Grade 4A bands used this opportunity to introduce inexperienced members to give them a run out as it is hard to introduce beginners into a MSR competition. Grade 4B bands felt this was a disadvantage to them having to compete against more experienced players. It went to a vote and the motion was passed that Grade 4A could not play down to the grade 4B marches. 12 votes to 3 so motion was passed. PC Elgin and District asked the question about dual registered drummers, this was discussed and JB to take it back to Music board. 14 Honoraria: Secretary £600 Treasurer £300 Minute Secretary £300 Proposed- Buchan Peterson Seconded- Portlethen and District Branch Levy – Status Quo Proposed- 2622 Highland Squadron Seconded-Buchan Peterson Next annual General Meeting 25th November 2018

  • Management Meeting to be 2 weeks after the Board of Directors meeting. Next Branch Meeting Monday 19th February.

    AOCB Thank you to Bucksburn for providing the venue for meetings. Marie Chapman has been PM of Towie Pipeband for 30 years.

  • Election of office bearers for 2018

    Position/Term Nominee Proposer Seconder

    Hon. President 1 Year Term

    Graham Gauld Buchan Portlethen

    Hon. Chairman 3 Year Term

    Bill Barclay Towie Elgin

    Hon. Secretary 3 year Term

    Linda Niven Towie Buchan

    Hon. Ass/Minute Secretary 1Year Term

    Louise Buchan Fraserburgh Portlethen

    Hon. Vice Chairman 1 Year Term

    Heather McKay Buchan 2622 Squadron

    Hon. Treasurer 1 Year Term

    Ranald Cameron Towie Fraserburgh

    Auditors 1 Year Term

    Denise Buchan Susan Cumming

    Portlethen Buchan

    Director Representative 3Year Term

    Bob Niven Towie Turriff

    Director Representative 1 Year Remaining of 3 Year term

    John Gibb

    Music Board Piping Rep 2 Year Term remaining

    Julie Brinklow

    Music Board Drumming Rep 3 Year term

    Jill McHaffie Portlethen Deeside Caledonia

    Magazine Reporter 1 Year term

    Kerry Meehan

    Chief Steward Graham Ferris

    Trophy Convenor Bill Grant

    Web Liaison Julie Brinklow

  • Chairman’s Report 2018

    Looking back at the last 12months has been quite a journey. We started the year with a tremendous

    indoor Quartet contest then on to the full band. We must thank the Gordon school in Huntly for this

    venue and the hard working canteen staff for seeing to our culinary needs. It is always great to see

    such a large turnout to both these contests.

    We moved on to our first outdoor contest of the season at Banchory, unfortunately the weather was

    not good to us or the contest promoters. Sadly the gate and the entry numbers were not what was

    hoped for. The Branch management team made a gesture to the Banchory committee of a few

    pounds returned and, this we hope, has given them a helping hand to go again.

    Aberdeen Games was for the management team, a challenge, with a very low entry due to the UK

    Championships on the Saturday. We asked the competing bands to fill in the afternoon with

    individual performances, all rose up to the request and we managed to pacify the council team. A big

    thanks goes to all who took part, to keep this local contest alive. Hopefully a larger entry may

    happen this coming year, it is unfortunate that the Council funding is seen as payment for musical

    entertainment throughout the day , rather than a pipeband contest.

    The solo contest has again proved to be very successful in numbers and musical talent.

    Our “Prepare for Performance” weekend in Inverness is progressing nicely with a number of North

    bands taking up the chance to education. We thank John Nevans and his team for their hard work

    and enthusiasm over the weekend.

    I must give a huge thanks to the Management team whom without, the Branch would not exist. A

    special thanks from me to Linda, our very hard working and diligent Secretary.

    Bill Barclay

    Chairman

  • Music Board Report

    • Sample drum scores for side, bass and tenor will be uploaded to RSPBA website for grades 4A and

    4B. They can be used or enhanced to suit different abilities.

    • Solo Drumming - A request in for branches to try to follow the same / similar criteria as the World

    Solo’s. Jill McHaffie and Julie Brinklow are looking into this.

    • Novice A and Juvenile bands will not be downgraded by the Gradings Standards Committee/ Music

    Board unless their Instructors request it.

    • Bands who have 3 higher to lower transfers within a 12 month rolling period will be monitored.

    • Grade 4 Survey results are now on the RSPBA web site.

    • Grade 4 bands can submit tunes to the RSPBA for approval, very few bands have done this.

    • PDQB - levels 5 & 6 Drumming criteria will increase in difficulty. This has been done to bring

    drumming in to line with the piping. A Level 2 Drumming will also be introduced in 2019.

    • Merchandise at revamped HQ to be resurrected once completed. There will also be displays of

    historical items

    • Education - Pipe Band College set up should be complete very soon. Last update was that

    role descriptions were being finalised and that there is hope to have this complete by the end of

    the year.

    • Safeguards - info /questions for parents to be asking. Possible info sheet to be available being

    looked at.

    • Competition Format Structural Review, “Grade Realignment Project” A group has been set up

    to review the current format. Reports on this will come over the coming meetings. •

  • Director’s report 2018

    As we approach the end of another year it is time to reflect on what has happened in the

    Branch since the last AGM. Despite some drawbacks it has been a reasonably good period

    for us. This time last year we were in the middle of a series of tuition weekends aimed at

    allowing our members to gain Nationally Accredited Qualifications from either the SQA or

    through PDQB. In the end over sixty students were able to achieve this at various levels and

    in their own disciplines. It was with regret that we were not able to facilitate the next levels

    locally this year but hopefully that can be remedied in the future. The reinstatement of the

    Pipe Band College at Headquarters may help to make that happen.

    The competition season got off to a good start with excellent entries for both the Quartettes

    and Full Band indoor competitions in the Gordon School in Huntly. Then we moved outdoors

    to Banchory where the weather played its part but at least bands got a run out before the

    Majors started.

    Unfortunately Aberdeen Games again coincided with the Major in Northern Ireland so we

    were left with only the small number of bands that had not travelled. Our thanks must go out

    to those bands who did turn out at Hazelhead and were happy to accommodate the Council

    by giving those extra performances in the afternoon. We do need to keep them on our side

    to ensure the future of the competition. It remains to be seen what will happen next year

    when we have a similar clash.

    With no Mintlaw or Turriff contests our local season has been severely curtailed in recent

    years and despite our best efforts it is difficult to find venues/sponsors to extend it again. Any

    help that you can suggest with regards to this would be greatly appreciated.

    In the Majors it is disappointing that this was the last year that Forres will be holding one. It

    was widely agreed that they had raised the bar for everyone when it came to hosting a

    Major. It is thanks to them we now have an open bar at Glasgow for the Worlds rather than

    being hemmed in to a small part of the Green. We look forward to seeing if Inverness can

    reach those same standards next year.

    It has been a difficult year for our bands in the Majors this year. Some good early season

    results were not maintained throughout and only 2 making the prize list at the World’s.

    Hopefully we can see a change next year.

    In March of this year at the Association AGM it was passed that branches with a high

    enough membership would be entitled to a third Director to sit on the Board. At time of

    writing we have not had anyone come forward to show an interest in joining Bob and I in our

    roles. We would urge you to spread the word that there is a vacant position there for anyone

    willing and able to contribute to helping run both the Branch and Association. Please don’t

    hesitate in asking for any guidance as to what is involved, we will be only too glad to answer

    your queries.

  • May we take this opportunity to thank everyone for their help and contributions over this last

    year and wish everyone the best for the coming season.

    John & Bob

  • Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association

    North of Scotland Branch

    Treasurer’s Report 2017-18

    As can be seen from the Financial Statement, we have had another healthy year on

    the Financial front with a surplus of just over £ 3860

    All the Indoor Contests, which are self-financing, have run at a surplus, which is

    encouraging although without the raffle income, one of these was very close to

    running at a loss, so your support for the raffles is much appreciated.

    The Outdoor Contests have both run at a surplus, thanks to the Sponsors, and again,

    we still face the challenge of tightened budgets from Sponsors, and variable

    Adjudicator expenses, as they can travel from anywhere.

    On Education, we ran a PDQB/SCQF course in the autumn of 2017, with 66 students

    taking the exam. Once we had added up all the various costs and receipts, there was a

    surplus of which we paid £675 to Glasgow as a contribution to their Education Fund.

    The difficulty with pricing a course like this is the great unknown of just how many

    will attend, which was changing right up to the last minute. The general opinion

    seems to be that the course was deemed a success by all who attended.

    In Sundry Costs there were no major items: £500 for Meeting room hire, £250 for

    website services, £290 on Admin expenses, £110 on Glasgow AGM Travel and £60

    on Sundry items.

    My thanks to the other Committee members, in particular Linda, for their support

    and guidance. My thanks also to Denise Buchan and Susan Cumming for giving up

    their time to audit the accounts.

    RS Cameron

    Treasurer

  • OFFICE BEARERS FOR 2019

    POSITION/TERM NOMINEE PROPOSER SECONDER

    WILLING TO

    STAND

    HON. PRESIDENT

    3 YEAR TERM – 1 YEAR LEFT G GAULD

    HON. CHAIRMAN

    3 YEAR TERM- 2 YEAR LEFT W BARCLAY

    HON. SECRETARY

    3 YEAR TERM VACANT LINDA NIVEN

    HON. ASS/MINUTE SEC

    3 YEAR TERM – 1 YEAR LEFT VACANT Bill Barclay H MacKay LAUREN GILL

    HON. VICE CHAIRMAN

    3 YEAR TERM VACANT H MACKAY

    HON. TREASURER

    3 YEAR TERM- 1 YEAR LEFT R CAMERON

    DIRECTOR – REP 1

    3 YEAR TERM – 2 YEAR LEFT R NIVEN

    DIRECTOR - REP 2

    3 YEAR TERM VACANT JOHN GIBB

    DIRECTOR - REP 3

    3 YEAR TERM – 1 YEAR LEFT VACANT

    MUSIC BOARD PIPING REP

    3 YEAR TERM - 2 YEAR LEFT JULIE BRINKLOW

    MUSIC BOARD DRUMMING

    REP

    3 YEAR TERM VACANT JILL MCHAFFIE

    MAGAZINE REPORTER

    1 YEAR TERM VACANT

    CHIEF STEWARD G FERRIS

    1 YEAR TERM VACANT

    TROPHY CONVENOR B GRANT

    1 YEAR TERM VACANT

    WEB LAISION

    1 YEAR TERM VACANT

    AUDITORS (2)

    1 YEAR TERM VACANT

  • DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

    AGM GLASGOW – 9TH MARCH 2019 – TRADE HALLS

    QUARTETS – 16TH MARCH 2019 – GORDON SCHOOLS HUNTLY

    FULL BAND – 20TH APRIL 2019 – GORDON SCHOOLS HUNTLY

    BANCHORY – 12TH MAY 2019 – KING GEORGE V PARK

    BRITISH – 18TH MAY 2019 - PAISLEY

    UNITED KINGDOM CHAMP – 15TH JUNE 2019 – LURGAN

    ABERDEEN GAMES – 16TH JUNE 2019

    EUROPEAN CHAMP – 29TH JUNE 2019 - INVERNESS

    SCOTTISH CHAMP – 27TH JULY 2019 - DUMBARTON

    WORLDS – 16TH /17TH AUGUST 2019 – GLASGOW

    SOLO’S – 2ND NOV 2019 – GORDON SCHOOLS HUNTLY