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Scottish Branch
Alan's t-shirt
Linda and Ian Stocks with Fiona Shenfield
again to Gareth for his hard work and to all our sponsors and partners (Companies, Couples and Individuals).
Allan Manning had advised that he would be standing down as our Vice Chair due
to him retiring and the fact that he and Marion would be moving back home over the border. Allan also stood down as a committee member, however will remain a Scottish Branch Member.
Ian Stocks thanked Allan on behalf of
the Committee and on a personal note
and presented Allan with some “Scottish Water” for a wee dram or two plus a special T-Shirt reflecting Allan’s jammy win at the 2018 Scottish branch Championships with tomatoes. There has always been banter on Allan’s inability to grow decent tomatoes,
so it was a double whammy for Allan to a) find out he had won last year and b) that Ian Stocks had judged it.
Photos show Allan receiving his whiskey and of his new tomato T – Shirt. (The back says “Scotland’s No. 1 tomato grower, only because an eejit judged them”).
Now back to the AGM....... Frank Taylor was honoured to have been asked to take on the Role of Vice Chair. We look forward to Frank taking on this new role.
We always encourage members to attend our meetings and also join the Committee and I’m delighted to announce that we have a new Committee member, namely Jim Mercer. Thanks for joining the Committee Jim.
The Scottish Branch Committee members continue to work together as a strong cohesive team and we have fun. Having a big team means that everyone does their
bit to help which makes a huge difference to the running of the Branch and helping out in various activities throughout the year (and it doesn’t then fall to the same
folks all the time). As always, our meetings have a full agenda filled, of course with plenty of humour, biscuits and cake. Only
4 Committee members were unable to attend the AGM this year and we send them our good wishes and thank them for their continued support; David & Margaret Burns, Bill Duff and George McSkimming. We wish you well.
The Scottish Branch Office Bearers for 2019/2020 are noted below for your information.
Scottish Branch President
Jim Williams
Honorary Vice President
Vice Chairman Secretary
Show Manager Sponsorship Manager
Position left vacant
Frank Taylor Fiona Shenfield Frank Taylor Gareth Cameron
Ian Stocks and Alan Manning
Chairman
Ian Stocks
Treasurer
Linda Stocks
Membership Secretary
Fred Stewart
Show Secretary
Neil Muirhead
Newsletter Sub-Editor
Fiona Shenfield
The two Scottish Branch Trustee representatives have also remained the same. Thanks go to Ian Simpson and Gareth Cameron for agreeing to continue to represent the Scottish /representing the Scottish Branch along with myself, Fiona Shenfield, as General Secretary and Ian Stocks who is also the NVS Vice Chair, supporting Sandra Hall.
Les Craib and David Nelson confirmed that they were happy to continue to represent the Scottish Branch at the Dundee Food & Flower Festival Meetings.
The Scottish Branch continues to work hard to try and improve each year.
In addition to the office bearers listed above, the balance of the Scottish Branch
Committee members, including our new members; Ian Archibald, George Bartling, Dave Burns, Margaret Burns, Les Craib, George Cumming, John Currie, Neil Drummond, Bill Duff, Doug Gerrard, Alistair Gray, Mary Gray, George Harrison, William Loudon, Ian MacPhee, John Martin, Jim Mercer, George McSkimming, Melvin Miller, Dave Nelson, Arthur Provan, Jimmy Raeburn, Ian Simpson, Jean Thomson & Alan Yates.
Here’s to another successful year, thanks everyone.
Fiona Shenfield
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