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Welcome to the November 2021 edition of On The Button
Announcement from the Board of Trustees Brian Stovold has advised the Board of his resignation as Trust Chairman due to personal reasons. This will take effect from the Board meeting due on the 8th December 2021. He will, however, remain on the Board of Trustees and continue as Trust Treasurer. In the short term, trustee Justin Lewis has kindly offered, for the time being, but in a strictly limited capacity, to become Acting Chairman for constitutional purposes whilst the Board take stock of the current situation and move forward to the process of recruitment of a replacement Chairman. Further information on the recruitment process will be given in due course. From the Executive The report this month focuses on finance. Click the link for more details. Towpath improvements Major towpath improvements by our Royal Wootton Bassett branch at Harris Croft. You can find more details at the link below. Repairing the leak at East Wichel Work has continued this month to find and repair the leak at East Wichel. You can find more details at the link below. Open Day and AGM Abingdon and East Vale Branch held an Open Day on 6 November, based at East Challow Village Hall, just east of Wantage. You can find more details at the link below. Santa Trips Santa Trips are underway but there are still a few spaces available. We're running them as per our current shorter trips but otherwise the format is the same - Santa gets on board Dragonfly and gives each child their own personalised present. He even knows if the child has been on a previous trip! Because we have to order & wrap each child's individual present in advance, ALL Santa trips must be pre-booked. For all you need to know click the link below. 200 Club Don't forget that applications to join the 200 Supporters Club 2022 are now open. If you would like to participate go to https://www.wbct.org.uk/get-involved/200club The November draw has taken place. The winning tickets were: 1st prize = 55 2nd prize = 211 3rd prize = 244 The winning ticket numbers for 2020 and 2021 can be found at https://www.wbct.org.uk/get-involved/200club For regular news updates follow our Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/wiltsberkscanal and visit our website - www.wbct.org.uk |