Help!

We desperately need help to keep going. Your three officials – Adrian Colley, Jemima Kiss and Virginia Bridgewater are likely to spend most of this year out of Sussex. We could well need people to fill the role of chair, secretary (or joint secretary) and welfare officer in the next three months. It’s too early to say what the outcome of our various commitments will be but there could be significant personal changes which will affect the branch.

Without people to help fill the first two posts the branch will cease to exist because it’s the secretary and chair who have organised everything for the last four years. In the short term we’ve had to decide that there will be no meeting or mailout in February. We just don’t have the time to do the legwork involved. There WILL be a meeting in March – to discuss the way our ADM reps should vote at the March ADM. Beyond March, who knows?

Unfortunately the situation is critical and we need people to come forward to help out in any way possible. One way might be for people to come forward to act as joint chair with Jemima or joint secretary with me. If no one comes forward the branch is likely to stop operating by the summer. Jemima divides her time between Sussex and the West Country and I may move to a new role in my workplace which will considerably cut the amount of time I can devote to branch business.