Chairman’s Update
With just over a month since you the members elected your new committee and during the last four weeks they have been working flat out arranging a spectacular programme for the incoming year in addition to our yearly handbook and the special dinner dance in January. I’m sure we are all well aware that inflation in many months this year dramatically increased, hitting 6.5%, this has and will impact quite significantly on our club’s finances.Some schools are raising their price per van, per night by 20%, the dinner at Ross Park has risen close to the same and as we are planning to rally in the south of Ireland, the costs there will be considerably dearer than we normally pay. In addition the loyalty points system has already provided over a dozen FREE weekends for you the members. Your committee are adamant that it would be unfair to raise our prices during our special Silver Anniversary year, therefore many rallies, north and south will be heavily subsidised, aswill be the January dinner dance. As this is such a special year your committee are also planning special treats for you the members at many of our 2025 rallies. In this vein, I am pleased to inform you all, that to kick start our special 2025 year, a ballot for a one night, double room with breakfast at the Ross Park hotel on Saturday 11 th January2025, this will be drawn at Cookstown primary school during our end of the year celebration. Tickets for this ballot will be on sale at all rallies until the end of this year. Speaking of our January dinner dance, there will be MASSIVE ballot prizes, includingHUNDREDS of pounds CASH, plenty of bottles of spirits, rally vouchers and many more prizes, well worth winning.
S J Arlow