Minutes of the Salisbury Camera Club Committee Meeting held at 7.30pm on Wednesday 7th April 2010 at 108 Bouverie Avenue South, Salisbury.

Present: - (Chairman) Peter Woodhouse, (Vice Chairman) Tony Oliver, (Vice Chairman) Phil Clegg, (Treasurer) Peter Read, (Asst. Treasurer) Roger Ellway (Secretary) Richard Temlett, Rose Snape, Dawn Walters, and Ivor Smith.

1.  Apologies: -

Amanda Herridge and Sally Money

2.  Minutes of last meeting:-

The minutes of the Committee meeting held on 9th December 2009, were circulated. The minutes were approved by the meeting and signed by the Chairman.

3. Matters Arising:-

Peter Woodhouse said the club need to find prints that can be displayed in Waterstones starting on the 22nd August 2010 and that help would be needed to put up the pictures in Waterstones as the date for putting up the pictures is during the summer break. The meeting agreed that all the prints were mounted.

4. Treasurer's Report: -

Peter Read reported that the Camera Club HSBC Accounts have now been transferred to Salisbury. The club now has 45 members and there is £831.04 in the savers account, £1775.81 in the current account and £8.07 in Cash. Peter pointed out that the money in the current account includes the money for the Bexhill trip.

5.  Secretary's Report: -

Richard said all the correspondence since the last committee meeting, has been either forwarded to the Chairman Peter Woodhouse, Tony Oliver, Peter Read, put on the Club Notice Board or posted on the Salisbury Camera Club web site News section by Peter Read.

6. Fordingbridge Digital Image Competition:-

Tony Oliver agreed to select the images from as many members as possible and send them to Fordingbridge, for the Fordingbridge Camera Club Digital Challenge is on 12th May at 7.30pm. The judge will be Bill Aven LRPS DPAGB APAGB

7. SPF League changes:-

Richard Temlett circulated the proposed changes to the SPF league. The changes were discussed at length as the SPF is proposing to do away with the print section and make it all Projected Digital Images. All the images (56) from the 7 clubs in any league would be judged by a different judge at each of the 7 clubs in that league. The Committee were disappointed that the print section will be discontinued and that the need to visit other clubs would no longer be necessary.   It was agreed that the club would make there feelings known at the SPF AGM on Friday the  7th May 2010.

8. Print Championship

Tony Oliver said he will be attend the SPF print championship this Sunday and would report back on Monday as to how the club as got on.

8. Set Subjects for Bi-monthly Competitions:-

After some discussion it was decided that the Set Subjects for Bi-monthly Competitions in the 2010/2011 season will be Mainly Yellow, Monochrome, View from a Window, In the Rain and Sport. It was also decided that all entries for the set subject would be the Projected Digital Images and shown on the same night as the normal Bi-monthly competitions.

10.  2010/2011 Programme Update:-

Richard Temlett has produced the skeleton programme for 2010/2011 and Tony Oliver has booked all the lecturers. Tony confirmed that the Monday Club meeting has been confirmed by Bournemouth for the 11th October. It was decided that a judge will be required for the Club Trophy on the 15th November and Tony agreed to ask Leo Rich if he could run the Judge it Yourself evening on the 11th March 2011. Peter Woodhouse would book the rest of the judges as soon as possible so that the programme would be ready for the club AGM.

11. Temporary change of AGM date

It was agreed that an agenda item on the 2009/2010 AGM be to move the 2010/2011 AGM to week 4 in May due to there being no gap between Easter and the Spring Bank Holiday.

12. Membership Fees for 2010/2011

It was agreed that Membership Fees for 2010/2011 need to be increased, after some discussion it was agreed that the committee propose at the AGM the Membership Fees for 2010/2011 should be

Normal membership £ 40.00

Joint normal membership £ 64.00

Visitors £4.00 per visit.

It was also agreed that Tea Coffee price should be increase to 40p per cup from September.

13. AGM Post Nominations

All bar Amanda Herridge agreed to stand for election for the coming club year. The committee felt that the club could do with some new blood as we are all getting older. To this end members will be canvassed to see if some new committee members can be found.

14. Bi-monthly Competitions:-

All 5 Bi-monthly competitions have now taken place and the members with the highest scoring prints in both sections have been asked to bring them on the 19th April for the Finals Trophy night.

15. Petchell Trophy:-

It was agreed by the committee that Phil Clegg was the only member this year to gain a distinction this year so would be awarded the Petchell Trophy

16.  A.O.B.: -

Peter Read updated the committee on the Bexhill trip, saying that the Hotel had been over booked and that he had to book a room in close by Bed and Breakfast close by.

The committee considered the possibility of club producing a Calendar for 2011. Am appropriate picture would be needed for each month. Projected Digital Images could be used for the first few months as members probably have taken pictures in the last 3 months. Members would informed of this idea at the AGM and asked to submit pictures for consideration up to the dead line for producing the Calendar, probably the end of October.

17. Meeting Closed at 9.30 p.m.

Signed  ......................  Hon. Chairman  Signed  ..................... Hon. Secretary