National Plus Conference / Meeting

This weekend I went to Walsall for the Plus Annual National Conference at the County Hotel. As usual I went by train setting off in the afternoon, the trains were remarkably busy, I had to stand up between Huddersfield and Leeds and between Leeds and Birmingham all the seats were occupied meaning I had to...
Read more »

This weekend we attended the National Plus NEC meeting and Activities Workshop planning meeting. On Sunday the Activities Workshop planning meeting was a lively meeting which culminated with me filming a promo video for the event, see below.
Read more »

This was my last National Annual General Meeting as National Chairman, it was a very well attended meeting, due I think to the event organisation of Corinna Teale. I said they had all attended to make sure I was going, it got a laugh. The highlight of the day however was the presentation of trophies....
Read more »

This evening Francis and I went to Holyhead for a piano recital by Iwan Llewelyn-Jones. It was quite a good concert except that he played the more well known Chopin and Mendelssohn pieces first, in my opinion he should have ended with those, I mentioned this to Francis, and as we walked through the car...
Read more »

In February we organised a very successful Focus Day. However the event didn’t go as closely to plan as intended and there were complaints from Committee members about this. I managed to smooth things out. I liked one suggestion that there should be something (someone?) in place to stop members who don’t stick to pre-arranged plans...
Read more »

The following e-mail was sent to ONElist this evening from my good friend Ian, hopefully he won’t mind my posting his AGM summary on my BLOG (See 24 February). Because I a) Love Plus b) Had nothing better to do tonight c) Was the most recent Plus News Editor to attend the AGM d) Have had several glasses of...
Read more »

It was an early start this year as we had to squash all the proceedings into one day. We all assembled for 10 o’clock “sharp” but spare a thought for the NEC who had to start at 8 (although John Smith turned up at 8.50!) National Chairman John Smith welcomed everyone to the 66th National...
Read more »

What a nightmare traveling to the South of the East Anglia Area – Romford to attend their Pre-AGM training session. I set off after 6:00 a.m. on Sunday morning from Leeds coach station having waited in Leeds from just after midnight when the Plus event in Leeds ended. The coach arrived in London and I took...
Read more »

Today I made my first post! I thought it would be a bit of fun to do a BLOG, though it’s not easy to write in a fun way, perhaps I’ll improve with practice! http://jasanvil.wordpress.com/ I was co-opted as National Chairman at the January NEC meeting, so I thought I should start my BLOG with that...
Read more »

The 47th Annual National Conference of the National Federation of 18 Plus Groups took place this weekend; 24 and 25 April 1988 at the Metropole Hotel, Birmingham. ANC 1988 Report Entertainment Trophies & Awards Trophies & Awards The winners of the trophies awarded this year were: This was a very difficult decission, but Yorkshire Area came up trumps. Julie Parker,...
Read more »