Open Morris AGM - Sunday November 27, 2011

The 2011 Open Morris AGM was held at 11am on Sunday 27th November in the Moulsford Pavillion. Eleven Open Morris sides were represented as well as individual members and some area representatives. Both the Morris Federation, the Morris Ring sent representatives as well. Bethan Holdridge was elected as the new Chair and will begin her role in January. All other officers stayed in post. A synopsis of the minutes of the meeting will be available here soon.

The AGM workshop on Saturday 26th November was a very successful and enjoyable Border Morris workshop, 'Border outside the box', held at the Wallingford Sports Park, and hosted by Dancing On Editor – Jen Newson.

2010 AGM - Synopsis of Minutes

The AGM was held on Sunday 28th November 2010 in Long Clawson Village Hall in the Vale of Belvoir. A very successful Molly Workshop was held on the preceding Saturday. Fourteen member sides were represented at the meeting, along with one individual member, two Area Representatives, and representatives from the Morris Ring and the Morris Federation. Apologies were received from 11 member sides, 2 Individual Members, 1 Area Representative, and the EFDSS.

All existing officers were re-elected for a further year. Officers retiring next year will be the Chair, the Treasurer and the Secretary – volunteers are needed to take up these posts before the next AGM. Please contact the Chair (Chris Hall).

Area representatives are required for the North West and South East regions.

Membership and Subscriptions
Since the last AGM, Open Morris has gained 18 sides and 2 individual members, plus 4 junior sides with more expected. A few sides have unfortunately folded. This gives Open Morris 138 member sides and 17 individual members. Subscription rates will remain unchanged for adult sides, but junior sides will in future be asked to pay £10 in order to cover the cost to the organisation of their public liability insurance.

Overseas members have been informed that they are not entitled to public liability insurance and their subscription will therefore be £16 in future, backdated to give overseas sides one year's free membership.

The options available for moving to online banking for payment of membership subscriptions will be investigated.

Olympics
Any sides or members wishing to be included in events associated with the Olympics should check whether their area is included in the "Flame Route" and contact their local council's Olympics Officer. Anyone wishing to be a runner must apply from 18th May – this role is aimed at people who are under 24 or who have inspired under-24s. Full details are in the OM Olympic Officer's reports sent out with the full minutes.

Dancing On!
The future form of this publication was discussed. A decision will be taken following costing of various options. It was agreed that paid advertising would be accepted.

JMO Day of Dance 2012
This will be organised by Open Morris and will hopefully take place in Stratford-upon-Avon with possible support from the Royal Shakespeare Company - subject to funding being available. We will obviously be able to report more fully on this at a later date and will put forward a full proposal at the 2011 AGM.

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