11th December: – Board Meeting
Attended the Board Meeting minutes available at www.mag-uk.org.
12th December: - NC Meeting
Attended the MAG NC meeting at Wroxhall, minutes available
at www.mag-uk.org
22nd January: - Meeting with Blackpool Honda
I arranged a meeting with the sales manager of Blackpool
Honda to discuss them giving away free MAG memberships with bike sales and
training courses. All seemed to be going well until I mentioned that MAG would
be requiring £16 to cover the maintenance of the membership. I get the feeling
that he thought that it would be costing them nothing? He needs to discuss with
his superiors and will get back to me. It was a useful meeting and discussed
other ways we can work together including other branches in the COX group
including Preston Honda and Lancaster Honda.
28th January: - North West Alliance Meeting, Avernus MCC, Chorley
It was a very good attendance. I am now looking after the Alliance web-site and events calendar until the original chairman and founder is fully
fit. Signed up the Gypsy Divas MCC on the night which was a bonus!
National IT Matters
I continue to be involved in the IT/website upgrades but
more as an observer as the team are getting on very well. We still have very
slow internet connection at Central and this is causing issues in backing up
the Cardiff server. It has been suggested that if we can scrounge some
additional disk space from our host in Cardiff to use as a back-up for our
on-site server until the issues at Central are resolved. All activities are now
being tracked via the Mantis Bug tracker.
I am also keeping the current web-site up to date and resolving issues when
they occur.
Local Group news activities
All NW groups
functioning well. A member of Morecambe MAG has contacting me in relation to
opening up the bus lane between Lancaster & Morecambe which we are looking
into. The planned Salford MAG Rally will not go ahead this year due to building
work on the site. Pete Walker kindly visited the site a few weeks ago and has
given a glowing report of the site. Red Rose MAG are hosting their re-launch
Rock night soon which is very encouraging. Manchester Rep Jimmy Torrence is
continuing his recovery from a major stroke and has organised participation in
this weekends NW Fred Hill Run in Blackburn by a number of the young riders
from the Manchester MAG group. If the weather is poor, a separate run will be
held in Central Manchester along with members from Salford MAG. Blackpool MAG
Rally theme now finalised and tickets are on sale from the NW website. I am
keeping this site updated as much as possible but I am also caretaker of the NW
Alliance website and Facebook sites and it is difficult keeping everything
up-to-date.
Best Regards,
Tony Cox, NW Regional
Rep.