This is the time of year when we plan for and announce the BALGA Annual General Meeting (AGM), which will be held on Monday 23rd January 2023 at Baldock Community Centre in Simpsons Drive beginning at 7.30pm. Doors will open at 7pm with a pay bar available and a raffle. Some packets of pea and bean seeds from the Shop will also be on sale. This is your opportunity to come together and hear more about the work carried out by your Committee on behalf of you all and your Association over the past year, to participate in any discussions and to raise any issue you consider relevant under Any Other Business (AOB), subject to the notice period given on the attached Agenda. The meeting will start with presentations to the winners of the 2022 Best Kept Allotment competition and there will also be an illustrated explanation on our plans to expand the North Road site. We greatly value your support and appreciate any positive suggestions or comments you care to make, so please do make every effort to attend if you can, especially newer members. It is your opportunity to meet fellow members and your Committee. For those unable to attend in person, under our amended Constitution, a Proxy Voting Form is now available from General Secretary Phil Charsley to be returned ideally one day before the meeting but certainly by three hours before, i.e. 4.30pm on 23rd January. If another member for whom we have no recorded email address lives at the same postal address as a member receiving the AGM reports, please share them with that member to save paper and printing. Those members not on email will still receive a paper copy of this notice and the meeting Agenda by post or hand delivery. Paper copies of the reports will not be available at the AGM for the same reason but extracts will be projected on to a screen for reference during relevant presentations.
It would be helpful if any member not receiving correspondence by email, but who does have an email address which we don’t have recorded, to send that email address to Bob our Database Manager (database@balga-online.co.uk) to avoid the need for future hand delivery. Such information is secure under our Data Protection Policy. Finally, on behalf of your Committee I wish you all a very happy and safe Christmas and good and productive gardening in 2023. Mick CampChairman