1. Tyne & Wear Branch AGM May 2019

3. Minutes of AGM / Fresh Thinking June 2018
No minutes taken from last years AGM held 17th May 2018 due to event held at Discovery Centre and no committee meeting held after.
Fresh Thinking held 16th June 2018 whereby AGM was discussed and a proposed plan of events were scheduled for the 2018 – 2019 season. Further details of Fresh Thinking after the Treasurers report for the Branch.

4. Tyne & Wear Branch
Treasurer’s Report

5. Tyne & Wear Branch Accounts 2018-19
Challenges for :
Significantly decreased grant payment from HQ
Branch Committee Response:
All branch meetings held at Nissan Sports and Leisure Complex
AGM programmed as half day event, rather than full day
CPD venues sourced at zero cost
Continued to engage high quality speakers throughout the programme

6. Tyne & Wear Branch Accounts 2018-19
Gross Income: £5,244.15
Gross Expenditure: £10,007.70
Opening Bank Balance
@ 01 Apr 2018: £4,773.45
Less Deficit for Year: £-4,763.55
Closing Bank Balance
@ 31 Mar 2019: £9.90

7. Tyne & Wear Branch Accounts 2018-19
Expenditure: 2018/ /18
Branch meetings & catering: £9, £9,139.38
Exec Meetings £ £
Speakers Fees: £ £117.92
CPD Support £0.00 £480.00
Admin, Equipment,
Other: £52.66 £554.15

8. Chairman’s Report Challenges over 2018-19:
As our treasurer has already mentioned due to budget cuts the branch has had a difficult year meeting the budget cuts with still providing a quality of events for the membership and the committee have worked hard delivering a programme of events suitable for the membership so that you all felt you were getting a level of service that your membership payment deserves and I hope we have achieved this.
All branch meetings have been held at Nissan Sports and Leisure Complex instead of other venues and we have tried to maintain the high quality of standards that you expect with a varied wide range of topics covered.

9. Chairman’s Report Fresh Thinking:
As mentioned earlier we held our Fresh Thinking morning on Saturday the 16th June 2018 whereby the committee members discussed a number of topics to be covered taking into account your invaluable feedback and comments which you kindly leave us from events which we scrutinise after the branch meetings and on the day to create a programme of events for the coming year. And, we hope you have enjoyed the topics that have been covered.
It is our intention once again to meet on 22nd June 2019 to discuss our programme of events to be covered over 2019/20.
Personally I would like to thank the committee for their commitment and hard work over the past year making our branch one of the best in the country in my opinion.

10. Election of Members to the Branch Committee for 2019 / 2020
Angela Carney
Gill Cogdon
Joe Elliott
Jeff Fowler
Sharon Kinleyside
Philip Knowles
Trevor Miller
Stephen Race
Nick Redpath
Allyson Savage
James Thompson
In addition to the above I am please to announce three new Executive Committee Members:
Caroline Brown, Sarah Pickup and Lynne Walker

11. Election of Principal Branch Officers for 2019 / 2020
Gary Dowell – Chair
Andy Robertson – Vice Chair
Allyson Savage / Lynne Walker – Secretary Role
Jen Maddison - Treasurer
In addition to the above Joe Elliot will be representing the Branch as the Educational Development Advisor and Mentor (EDA) for IPD/CPD.

12. Notification and Thanks
As branch Chair I would like to make you all aware that we have unfortunately had three long standing Executive Committee members this year leave the committee for either personal or work reasons these being:
Tony Bough
Samantha Day
Carl Hageman
On behalf of the Committee we wish them well and a great big thankyou for their commitment and professionalism and being part of the team and we will miss them! However I am sure we will still be seeing them again at some point as they still need to keep their CPD up to date!
Now – Any other Business?