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Here are the diary dates in brief:

16th February 2010 - Chair & Delegates Meeting
Poynton Sports Club 7:30 for 8pm

Friday 19th February 2010 Ringway Trophy
Goyt Mill Marple

Saturday 27th February 2010 - National Council Meeting Milton Keynes

Saturday 6th March Wilmslow 50th Charter Lunch
Morley Green Club Mobberley

Round Table Event - Saturday 6th March
Dave Barkers National Presidential Ball Chester Race course. For further info and booking form please contact ball@thesharkstable.co.uk

Saturday 20th March 2010 Cheadle & Gatley 45th Charter Lunch. The Village Hotel Cheadle

Saturday 3rd April 2010 North West & Ireland Regional Lunch booking forms have been emailed to your chair person - Venue Shaw Hill Golf Club, Chorley. contact diane.culshaw@hotmail.co.uk

Satuday 17th April SHINE! The Night Walk in Manchester - Walk a half or full mile to support your choice of cancer research. More details here
www.cancerresearchuk.org/shine or contact jayne.leggat@cancer.org.uk

Tuesday 27th April 2010 Area AGM - The Village Hotel Cheadle

Saturday 15th May 2010 National AGM - Harrogate

14th - 16th 2010 May Harrogate Conference See www.harrogate2010.co.uk for more details

Friday 21st May 2010 - Handover Rally Bowden Hall

22nd May 2010 Area 35 present their 50th Rally - 7:30pm Ewood Park, Blackburn price £35.00 bookings before the 1st December pay only £32.50 contact darwencircle@aol.com (cheques payable to Darwen Ladies Circle)

26th June Cancer Research - Relay for Life. Venue Stockport Rugby Club. (Overnight Relay) see www.stockportrelayforlife.co.uk for details or contact bruciesmith@ntworld.com

16th - 18th July 2010 Here Come the Girls Hollywood Starlet Weekent - Chesford Grange Hotel Kenilworth. For more details contact jacqui@derbymerlin.co.uk

26th - 29th August 2010 International Conference in Bruges Belgium.

25th September 2010 Join area 35 for the National Association Of Ladies Circle GBI Presidential Ball. email darwencircle@aol.com for more information or Contact Naomi Hickey Tel: 07909 150359

9th October 2010 Area Ball - Details TBC

4th December 2010 Area Christmas Party TBC

26th February 2011 National Council Meeting TBC

2nd April 2011 North West & Ireland Reigional Lunch (arranged by Area 2) The Lowry Hotel

20th May 2011 TBC Handover Rally

What's New In area 2

Hi All,

At our first planning meeting regarding next year's NW & I regional lunch we realised we will need:

1. Treasurer
2. Negotiator (are you good at getting the best deal?)
3. Sponsors (plus anyone / company that might donate items for the goodie bags)

If you would like to volunteer for any of these, or could rope in companies to assist (in the case of item 3) please would you contact me jackiebt@hotmail.co.uk and copy in Lorraine?

Please would you forward this message to other members of your Circle?

Here's looking forward to the best lunch yet Lorraine x

Here Come The Girls 2010

16th - 18th July

Location - The Chesford Grange Hotel, Kenilworth.

2 night package: Single £280 Twin £199
1 night only (Sat):Single £150 Twin £110
Deposit £100 Required by Jan 31st 2010

Saturday Warwick excursion
10am-3pm £12(payment due with booking)

Prices include Dinner, B&B plus entertainment. No drinks are
included in these prices

Deposit or full payment required with booking form. All deposits are non refundable. Balance of payment due no later than April 30th 2010.

Please make cheques payable to “PLC Account” and send with completed
booking form to:

Emma Ingleby,
24 Squires Way,
Heatherton Village,
Derby,
DE23 3XB

WEEKEND’S ITINERARY

Friday Check in from 2pm
7pm – A Night in with the Girls – Slumber Party (PJs optional!). Don’t forget your hairbrush

Saturday
The choice is yours!
Book a Pamper Treatment – check out the hotel’s website

www.qhotels.co.uk or call 01926 859331
Relax in the hotel. Hit the high streets of neighbouring Stratford or
Leamington Spa. Hop on the Shopaholic Bus to Warwick.

7pm – The Starlets *bleep*tail Party
Hollywood Greats Gala Dinner

3 course dinner plus coffee,
Live Banda nd Disco until the early hours Sunday

Leisurely Breakfast with check out 11am and a last chance to detox before heading home.

The 10% reduction has been extended to 31st January 2010

Dave ‘Sharky’ Barker Presidential Ball will be held on Saturday 6th March 2010 at the Racecourse in Chester.

The City of Chester offers one of the best venues in the UK for a city break, combining its unique history and character with the best quality of sightseeing and shopping in the North West. Our chosen hotel has been exclusively reserved. It is located next to the racecourse, central to Chester, and with free parking for the whole weekend for those attending the event.

Add to this the promise of a quality night of entertainment and we are confident this will prove to be a real night to remember.

To provide a great end to your weekend, we have arranged a limited number of privileged places at the unique and impressive ‘1539 Restaurant’ with views of the Racecourse for Sunday lunch and all this for only £12.50 per person.

We have taken the liberty of attaching a booking form and may we also highlight that there is a 10% discount on both the Ball AND Hotel but this ends on 31st Jan. 2010. Details can also be found on www.thesharkstable.org.uk/ball

If you have any questions, please contact Jackie Hampton, our Presidential Ball Convenor, at ball@thesharkstable.org.uk or on 01189 776487.

We can promise you a fantastic event with a few surprises along the way and we really look forward to seeing you there.

BALL TRANSPARENTBALL TRANSPARENT

Dave “Sharky” Barker

National President 2009-2010

Presidential Liaison Committee

Charity Fundraising Information for National Ladies Circle HQ

Hello Circlers,

At the moment we only know how much Circles raise when it’s filled in on the Annual Return form, the last section asks how much has been raised in the previous circle year.

This information isn’t then collated till after the AGM in May so it never gets announced. While Circles are nominated for fundraising events and get mentioned, even win trophies, along with CRUK and Presidential Charity totals, this is only a small amount in the total monies raised by NALC for local charities.

I would like to start getting feedback throughout the year, so every time you raise money at an event i.e. speaker night or raffle etc send an email and let me know.

This way we can give updates out at the September and February Council meeting and more importantly at the AGM in May.

If you have any questions please contact me at charities@ladies-circle.org.uk

We would like to know the following details:
Circle Name
Circle Number
Area Number
Amount Raised
Benefitting Charity
Event Details

Please send this information to charities@ladies-circle.org.uk

Scatter Invitations.

Scatter? The idea is that we take the chance to meet up with other circles in Area 2 and extend our friendship.
All welcome.



Glossop - Climbing Wall TBC

Goyt Valley - TBC

News from National Ladies Circle

Ladies Circle International

Did you know that you can apply for a travel grant to attend international events? Last year 6 ladies from GBI were given a grant of 400 Euros to attend the LCI Conference. If you want to attend LCI Conference in Bruges in August 2010 you need to act fast as Travel Grants need to be submitted to the LCI Board by 31st January 2010. If you want more information or want to apply for a travel grant please email vp@ladies-circle.org.uk and president@ladies-circle.org.uk and they will point you in the right direction (hopefully in the direction of Bruges). ACT FAST TRAVEL GRANTS NEED TO BE SUBMITTED BY 31ST JANUARY 2010 THEREFORE NEED TO BE WITH NALC GB&I EXEC BY 15TH JANUARY AT THE LATEST

NATIONAL AWARDS /TROPHIES

During the AGM in Harrogate the following trophies will be awarded, below are a list of trophies that will be awarded. If you want to nominate a circle(r) for any of the Awards then please contact the relevant officer for the criteria

The current trophies are:

President’s Award

Anthony Nolan Trophy

Charities

CRUK – most funds raised
CRUK – most novel way of fundraising
NALC – most money raised for charity
NALC – most money raised for charity
(based on mumber on members in a Circle)

Membership

Most new members
Highest percentage increase

Media
Best Circle / Area magazine
Best Circle / Area Website
Best piece of media coverage



FEBRUARY 2010 COUNCIL MEETING

Fancy joining us for the February Council meeting near Milton Keynes on the 27th February 2010?

We’re getting together on the Friday evening for dinner and no doubt a few drinks before the real business of the council meeting starts on the Saturday morning. This is an ideal way of finding out what’s going on locally, nationally and internationally in Circle and to have your say.

The 24 hour day delegate rate is only £60 (or £40 if you're an area chairman / representative as your area pays the balance). This includes your dinner, B & B and lunch during the meeting. Or if you live locally why not just come along to the meeting on the day. It’s at the De Vere Harben House, Tickford Street, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, MK16 9EY.

Full details and booking forms are available on the website (the links are below but you will need to be logged in to access them. The reports for this Council Meeting will be uploaded before the New Year and your Area Chairman will be notified when they have been uploaded.

You need to be logged in to access the links below.

Letter
http://www.ladies-circle.org.uk/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/Itemid,91/gid,181/
Area Chair form
http://www.ladies-circle.org.uk/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/Itemid,91/gid,180/
Observer form
http://www.ladies-circle.org.uk/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/Itemid,91/gid,182/

If you’ve got any queries contact Kate at secretary@ladies-circle.org.uk

NOMINATIONS FOR NATIONAL OFFICE 2010 – 2011

Nominations are invited for the following posts:

National Vice-President (three year post)

National Treasurer (two year post)

National Membership Officer (one year post)

National Media and PR Officer (one year post)
National Minute Secretary (one year post)


Job descriptions are available on the website and rules 3.12, 4.2 and 4.4 in the rule book detail the criteria that nominees need to meet. Any of the exec members will be happy to talk about their roles with you if you need more information.

A Nomination Form is available on the website and the deadline for this to be received by the National Secretary is 12 noon on the 1st February 2010.

CRUK RACE FOR LIFE 2010

Another 4 weeks and Christmas and New Year will be a memory, instead it becomes the time of year when you start to see ladies out walking and jogging in groups as they prepare for CRUK Race for Life season. Remember this year we won’t be sending your Area Chairman details of your local race events, you need to go to the www.raceforlife.org website and find your race event and fill in the online volunteer registration form.

WEBSITES

As we no longer have an HQ, the old Membership Hotline number doesn't exist! So please remove any reference to it from your Circle websites.

Feel free to include the new National Membership Mobile 07914 407118.

Charity Update

Every year we receive applications from charities looking for our support.

Take a look at the "Fundraising News" section (top left). If your circle is looking for a new charity to support or if you just need some inspiration then check out our fundraising news and see if you can help?

Bramhall
Buxton
Cheadle and Gatley
Glossop
Goyt Valley
Poynton
Wilmslow

Every time you raise money at an event i.e. speaker night or raffle etc send me an email and let me know.

This way we can give updates out at the September and February Council meeting and more importantly at the AGM in May.

The information I need on your fundraising activities are as follows:

Circle Name
Circle Number
Area Number
Amount Raised
Benefitting Charity
Event Details

Please return your latest information to: charities@ladies-circle.org.uk.

Area 2 BLOG Lorraine has put together a blog check it out!

http://www.lorrainescircle.blogspot.com/