Kennet Valley TR Group Club Night & AGM
40 KVG members attended their Annual General Meeting at the Angel, Woolhampton. Phil Horsley - GL presented his report on the very busy and many activities the club had been doing over the last year. As well as attending many classic show and event, club nights have been busy with interesting speakers, quizzes, photo competitions and BBQ, and very proudly KVG won the Club WebPages of the Year, had an honorary member of the TR Register, Chris Hale for his dedication and services and a car in the parade lap at the British Grand Prix, all in all a succesful year.
David Westwood - Treasure presented the accounts and show KVG in a healthy position for the next year, also funds of £360 were allocated (split equally) to the clubs three charities, Macmillan, Thames Valley Air Ambulance and the Henry Surtees Foundation.
The members then reelected the committee en bloc for the next year, Phil thanked everyone for the confidence in the committee and that KVG members should look forward to just as busy a year in front of them.
The to the real important part of the evening, Nut of the Year award, this is awarded for something during the year that didn't quite go to plan, won again by Emrhys Barrell, why, for his Stag Radio, never worked since he had the car, looking in the car he heard music and thought it working, called Linda and enthusiastically said its working, only for Linda to say with a smile – its your phone. 
The second award of the evening was the Bright Spark award, this is presented to the KVG Member that has a "Bright Spark" of an idea for a new event or done great work to keep the club cogs turning, this year it was a well deserved winner Karen Woolnough for –all her hard work in the background for many a years for the Xmas Bash and support to the committee.
The meeting was then closed as there was no other business and the date set for next year 6th March 2019. Here is teh AGM presentation for download: AGM-KVG-2017-2018-presentation-07-03-18.pdf
Phil Horsley then presented the club news and forthcoming events, firstly welcoming Jason Greenwood who has moved into the area from Chiltern TR's and guest Darren Cummings - Joint GL at VoWH. The raffle tickets were drawn and prizes won and one for the road before members went on home.
Here is the presentation: 3.-Club-night-07-03-18.pdf
Next meeting is Wednesday 4th April and its Quiz night, see you there.