OUSA Newbury Branch

This branch has been sociable with at times allot of students and their friends turning up.

Early last year it became obvious that only a few core committee were showing up for meetings, and so we stopped meeting regularly. Since then we have held the odd social event, unfortunately only a few committee members showed. Since then we have put requests in Newsletters (postal) and electronic communications for social involvement, but these have not generated interest in the Branch.

Therefore it is looking likely the branch will need to close. A branch needs two committee members, and soon one at least will be leaving the branch, combined with a lack of social interest we are thinking of closing the branch.

Should you want to attend social meetings or join the committee so the branch can continue, please contact either myself, or someone in OUSA.

Many Thanks.

I hope you a good Christmas and a merry New Years eve.

The branch would like to wish you the best for this year and welcome Doug in as the new Secretary.

As a branch we have decided to change the way we manage social meetings, so as of now there will no longer be any monthly meetings.

The new way of organising social meetings from now on is to contact the committee and arrange something specific, as a branch we can then publish the details to offer everyone a chance to join in.

You can contact the committee through this website of the OUSA Newbury first class forums.

The reason for this change is that most monthly meetings have had such a low turnout that at best, there were only the committe, and at worst one of the committee was on their own. So im sure you can understand why we have chosen to take the decision we have.

Just a quick note to say that we were able to appoint a new secretary, so we still have active branch.

The next meeting is our AGM which means the 7th of November AGM/Social/Pizza evening will look something like the following.

• 19:30 Social meeting starts
• 20:00 AGM starts
• 20:30 We go for a Pizza

We need a Secretary (our current one is moving on…)
Our secretary is leaving so we need a volunteer to become our new Secretary, or I need to stand down as Chair and become Secretary so that some one can be the new Chair.

Chair and Secretary positions require very little effort.

Why do we need a Secretary (and a Chair)?

The OUSA constitution requires both officers, please see below.

“The Branch will be deemed to have closed if it does not have at least two Officers in post. All funds held by the Branch will be recalled and held centrally pending the Branch being reactivated. ” (Point xi of “d. committee” under section “5. Branches”)

2007 Branch AGM

• Date: 7th November

• Location: At the Canal Bar

• IMPORTANT: We need some one to stand for Secretary

• Details: This AGM is part of the November Social Meeting which starts at 19:30. The AGM will start at 20:00. Why do we need a Secretary (and a Chair)?

  The OUSA constitution requires both officers, please see below.

  “The Branch will be deemed to have closed if it does not have at least two Officers in post. All funds held by the Branch will be recalled and held centrally pending the Branch being reactivated. ” (Point xi of “d. committee” under section “5. Branches”)

The latest branch newsletter (Autumn 2007) has been distributed, unfortunantly the heading was missing. As far as we can tell none of the article were missing, and if they are, all the information is contained in this website. 

Rachel will be leaving for Southampton to learn about digging things up, educated people know this as Archaeology. The Branch, especially Russell would like to thank Rachel for all the help she has provided this year.