TRBL Chiang Mai Thailand

Posts Tagged ‘chiang mai’

MINUTES.The Royal British Legion Sub Branch BR3265.

Branch General Meeting.
Wednesday 1st May 2013. Kamala’s Guesthouse. Chiang Mai.

Present.
Trevor Dobson. Chairman, Rex Baggaley, Vice Chairman, Gill Dobson,Treasurer, Major Ron Rae. Secretary, John Burnett. Membership Secretary,Tony Archer. Welfare Representative, Richard Prouse. Poppy Appeal Organiser, Bob Machin. Branch Steward. Members, Victor Hayes, Bob Elkins, Kevin Reilly, Nancy Lindley, Robert Lindley, Carol Archer, Jaa Sukpirom, Maurice Phelps, Ian Cunningham, Dennis Brown, Rob Kelly, John Irvine, Russell Barnes.

All stood while THE ACT OF REMEMBRANCE was read by Kevin Reilly.

1. Rex Baggaley. Vice Chairman opened the meeting and thanked all members for attending.

2.APOLOGIES were received from Colin Jarvis,Barrie & Lynn Constantine,Peter Walker and Mrs Luangtanjai.

3.Introduction of new members.The membership secretary informed the meeting there were no new members present.

4.Minutes of the Previous Meeting. These having been circulated beforehand it was proposed by the Secretary and seconded by Tony Archer that these be taken as read.There being no additions this was passed unanimously.

5.Matters Arising From Previous Meeting.

5.1.Fund Raising Events For the Year.

A. Sponsored Swim. Gill Dobson informed the meeting that this will take place on May 16th, Swimmers are Gill Dobson, Nancy Lindley, Ian Cunningham, John Burnett & Jaa Sukpirom. Over 90 pounds has been collected so far and sponsorship forms are available from the branch and online.

B. A quiz night will be held at Kamala’s on May 29th. Entry fee is 100 baht. Beer, Chips and sandwiches will be sponsored by Chiangmai Insurance.

C. The Summer Splash will be held on Saturday June 8th. The theme will be a Hawaiian Beach Party. The Vice Chairman informed the meeting he will donate a bottle of brandy for the occasion. More details will follow.

D.There will be a Ladies night at Perns in August Details will be announced when arrangements are complete.

E. A car Treasure hunt will take place on Sunday 29th Sept organised by Rex Baggaley in conjunction with Classic Cars of Lanna. This will start at 10am and be approx. 50kms out and back followed by a dinner at a selected restaurant. More details will be announced nearer the time.

F.The Poppy Dinner and 200 Club draw will be held in October possibly at the Meridian. Details have yet to be finalised.

G. Football cards and the accumulator will run on alternate social nights.

H. The Chairman showed samples of the proposed Polo shirts and logo. The colour will be sky blue with The logo embroidered on. A size chart will be sent out later. (sizes are European). The shirts(150 of)will be on sale at 250 baht each.

I. A Christmas Dinner will organized suggestions from the membership as to venue and content are asked for.

6. Chairmans/Vice Chairmans Report. We are now firmly in our new home Kamala’s and should continue to support it, our goal of 100 members by the end of the year still stands (see membership report). The Vice Chairman now has the asset register in digital form and is trialling it before going into hard record. More help is required from the membership to run the events taking place during the year to take the pressure off the committee members who are involved in organising these events, the old adage many hands make light work should be the order of the day.

7.Secretaries Report. The secretary reported that Nick Epton has been replaced by Kaleigh Mc Feeters as Oversees liason officer, although we are a sub branch we have direct contact with her in London and she will pass on all relevant information to the membership as she gets it
.
8.Treasurers Report. The Acc Balance now stands at 15 383 baht. All payments to Main Branch at Chon Buri have been made and there is nothing outstanding.

9.Welfare Report. Tony Archer reported that the FCO are changing rules about repatriating expats. He has a meeting with the UK Consul later this month and will give a full report when he has all information at his disposal.

10.Membership Report. There are now 75 paid up members with one in the pipeline.

11.Poppy Appeal Report. Richard reported that the dates will be 26th Oct to 10th Nov and that he will be distributing the collection boxes etc as usual. He has already received 2000 baht from Kevin Reilly from Saudi Arabia and that Kevin will take excess stock of shirts etc back to Saudi when he returns for sale there and the proceeds will come back to the sub Branch.

12.Stewards Report. Bob reported that although Kamala’s had changed meal timings this will not affect Legion nights, also we still require more memorabilia for the corner, he is also arranging for excess memorabilia to be brought up from Chon Buri to Chiangmai. He also received a request from the sub branch hard of hearing society for a microphone to be produced for the next meeting. He will endeavour to provide this when he has deciphered the hand signals with which this request was made.

13.The next Sub Branch Meeting will be on 7th August.

14. Kevin Reilly read the Kohima Epitaph and the meeting was closed at 9pm.

Major Ron Rae.TD. Secretary.TRBL Chiangmai Sub Branch BR3265.

TRBL Sponsored swim @ Centre of the Universe pool

On Thursday May 16th, @ 9.00a.m, there will be a sponsored swim at the Centre of the Universe pool to raise money for the RBL. The plan is to swim 2,5km (100 lengths of the 25m pool ).

Currently taking part are myself and Nancy Lindley.

1. If anyone else would like to join us, please let me know and I will provide a sponsorship form.(participants do not have to be RBL members)

2. I will be registering the swim on the Just Giving web site, so that anyone taking part can ask friends and family anywhere in the world to sponsor. Its a really simple process and I will send the link out in due course.

Any questions, let me know.

Gill

Tel 08717 28785 or email gdobson713@aol.com

22/04/2013

Just Giving web site

Sponsor Form

Hello all,

Just a reminder that the Chiang Mai Swim team- John Burnett, Jaa, Ian (Kamala), Nancy Lindley and myself will each be attempting to swim 2.5km at the Centre of the Universe pool next Thursday.

We have had a good response to requests for sponsorship, but even more would be great!!!

If you would like to sponsor an individual, or the team, you can do the following:

1. For an individual-send an email to Maj. Ron Rae, Secretary, who will forward your message to the appropriate person.

2. Come along to next Wednesdays social and give the money to Maj Ron or swimmer/team.

3 Call into Kamala’s any time and leave your money with Ian

4. Log onto our Just Giving page and donate using your credit/debit card-wherever in the world you are. We’ve had donations from Canada and UK and have over GBP 100 so far.

Here’s the link:

www.justgiving.com/ChiangMaiTRBLSwim

If you would like to join the swim team or have any questions-just let me know.

Thanks

Gill Dobson

gdobson713@aol.com

Tel. 08717 28785

JJ Markets Christmas Fair 24th Nov. 2012

JJ Markets Christmas Fair – in aid of The Royal British Legion and Lanna Care Net

photo’s from City-now.com, thank you

JJ Markets Christmas Fair 24th Nov. 2012

JJ Markets Christmas Fair – in aid of The Royal British Legion and Lanna Care Net

photo’s from City-now.com, thank you

Remembrance Day at Chiang Mai Foreign Cemetery

Sunday 11th of November 2012

note: Photo’s from city-now.com

British Legion social evening at Paak Dang

Members of the British Legion Chiang Mai Thailand enjoying the view of the river Ping from the restaurant Paak Dang.