Fellowship meeting

This was scheduled as a Fellowship Meeting but President Graham took the opportunity to raise some business matters as well. Bob Booker reminded everyone to pay their 2025-26 Club subscription if they had not already done so and invited us to make contributions to the Club’s Trust Fund.

We agreed that the Club should apply to join Chelmsford CVS as this would link us with local charities and provide networking opportunities. If CVS restricts its membership to charities, the application will have to be made in the name of the Trust Fund. [I’ve since checked their website, which states that their membership includes community organisation as well as charities.Webmaster]

Graham reported that all six Chelmsford Clubs have agreed to set up a joint committee to plan the celebrations of the centenary of Rotary in Chelmsford in 2027. Anne Moriaty will be our President that year. We agreed to nominate our youngest member as a member of the committee but he wasn’t there to say yea or nay.

During the Rotary year ahead we will aim to continue the events we have run in the past, although this will require someone to take the lead on the Young Musician competition. We have already booked tickets for the senior guests’ trip to the panto.

Next week’s meeting will be our Handover Meeting at the Ivy Hill Hotel. President Graham said he would try to book the Côte Brasserie for a Fellowship Meeting on 17 July but wouldn’t do that until he had returned from holiday. Alison Moses agreed to book the Hive for our Fellowship Meeting in September. The original intention was that there should be a Joint Clubs Meeting on 30 October but this would need to be changed so that we can participate in a charity event one of the other Chelmsford Clubs is organising at the Ivy Hill Hotel earlier that month.