North West Region Annual General Meeting 2010
Motorcycle Action Group
Charles Napier Public House,
Sunday 21st November 2010.
Attendees:
Tony Cox (NW Rep), Alison Cox (NW
Secretary), Bill Green (Red Rose MAG/NW Political Officer), Gillian Beautyman,
Danny Tunnicliff, Bishop Michael, Peter Wilson,
Rebecca Knight, Jimmy Hargreaves, Pete Howarth, Bob Towers, Jimmy Torrance, Michael Iddon, Don Glover (Liverpool Area),Gordon
Wheatcroft Ian Mutch (MAG President & Editor of ‘Road’ Magazine - Observer
Apologies:
Tony and Sue Edmondson
Tony opened the meeting by welcoming
everyone and inviting Bill Green to act as chair and Ian Mutch as Observer and
Guest speaker. Everyone was supplied with a copy of last year’s AGM minutes and
asked if they had any comments. The minutes were accepted as a true account of
the meeting.
Regional Rep’s Report – (Tony Cox)
(Report Enclosed Separately)
After this hefty report we agreed
that Tony deserved thanks for his hard work.
Regional Accounts report.
As in previous years, the regional
accounts carried very few entries; these were mainly connected to the Blackpool
MAG rally and the regional AGM. Tony has again also kept costs down by
carefully using private printing facilities rather than a commercial copy shop.
It was noted again that the proceeds from the
There have been few changes since
last year’s AGM :
At present, we have the following
Regional Officers:
Tony Cox, Regional Rep and Webmaster
Bill Green, Political Officer /
Regional Secretary,
Alison Cox - Regional Secretary and
Treasurer.
‘El Presidente’ spoke of business at MAG Central. Also told of a few interesting stories of his trips around various parts of the world.
Suggestions for promoting MAG:
There remains a need for more local
groups, so that members can keep MAG central informed of any issues in the NW
region. It was suggested that an e-mail newsletter could be set up, inviting
local members to organise their own meetings rather than waiting for
instructions from the Regional Rep.
It was enquired if local businesses
could help to increase interest in MAG, possibly by offering free membership
with new bike purchases or just by putting up meeting posters. (This has been
approached in the past and failed, however, times change, and surely can’t hurt
to try again.) There was also a bit of discussion about social networking sites
such as Facebook, Bikerbook, National Biker, Twitter etc, where owners’ clubs
have their own dedicated pages. NW MAG Sec has set up a page on these sites and
target riders with a mixture of social events and political activism? We could
also send requests to members of owners’ clubs asking for help with marshalling
MAG events, or offering to take the MAG NW stall to their rallies.
Possibly target various groups by
Age, (category) i.e. learners etc, clubs, riders branches, issues etc.
Push bike theft issues – Rewards
from MAG for info leading to conviction.
Contact places like Donnington to
give MAG info.
Future Events:
G-Mex Bike Show – Not going ahead.
Fred Hill Run – (7th run)
– 6th Feb 2011
AGC –
NABD/Thundersprint – 6th
May 2011