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IT MANAGER’S REPORT
The last round of renewal invitations have been sent by email to all active Individual Members
and Primary Joint Members. If you have no email address a communication should have been
sent from your group. In the emails all members have been asked to give their consent for their
VTTA number, group, first name, last name and date of birth to be shared with the CTT. This is
for the purpose of managing their entries and results in CTT events as a VTTA member. We hope
all members will tick this box in their profile to give permission.
The Age Records system now has all the new records set in 2019 and the East Anglian group
records. The system is working well. If you beat a record, send the claim to your group recorder
as soon as the result sheet is published. Don’t wait until the end of the season! When you enter
an event check the age record that applies to you. Most will seem impossible to beat but
sometimes you might spot some low hanging fruit!
This year we are hoping to make some more major enhancements to the VTTA website and I am
already busy with writing specifications for them. I hope we get the funds we need to make
them happen.
We now have over 2000 registered users on the VTTA website, the vast majority of the
membership. If you have not been to the VTTA website www.vtta.org.uk and registered, please
do so. If you need any help doing this, please contact your group membership secretary or me.
I am planning my 2020 cycling campaign at the moment and trying to decide on another very
long distance event. Suggestions welcome!

NATIONAL MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY’S REPORT
The New National Website is running smoothly, with very few members having trouble joining.
However the number of new members is down on the previous three years.
During the last 12 months, January – December 2019, 392 new members have been received.
Comparisons with the last three years are as follows:-
Current Membership 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
On 31st January 2020 the website indicated that 2764 Jan 45 53 44 61 38
members were 'Active', 153 had 'Resigned' and 75 Feb 43 67 58 41
were 'Deceased'. 542 members were marked as Mar 55 60 69 41
'Lapsed' and these will be deleted from the website on Apr 72 59 71 61
the 1st March 2020. There was also one member
marked as' Pending', not having completed their May 53 63 57 57
application. Jun 43 51 64 46
Honorary Life Membership Jul 49 29 51 19
Aug 19 30 36 23
39 Members will be 80 this year. Their various Groups
will be advised of this and asked to decide if they will Sep 15 6 23 13
be granted Honorary Life Membership or not. Oct 21 3 16 12
There are now 444 Honorary Life Members, 28 more Nov 11 10 20 9
than in 2018, Distinguished Life Members now number Dec 14 9 31 9
7, one more than in 2018. Life Members remain the Total 440 440 540 392
same at 73. Merv.Player

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