Secretary Report 2024

We had 12 committee meetings for the year. Our membership as at 30th June is 80

The newsletter was again done by Norm Ripp and he has done a great job keeping members informed of the latest news and also putting humour in the newsletter as well. The newsletters were emailed to all members as well as to our sponsors

A big communication change happened in May this year when the shed decided to go with MailChimp as our email server. This means  that bulk emails like the newsletter and other notices are sent via MailChimp, Merged email ie Renewal Requests and Member invoices are sent via Outlook as in the past. Individual emails are sent via GMAIL. The change was needed as some email providers considered our emails as spam.

We were lucky to have several Bunnings Sausage Sizzles this year. I would like to thank all those members who volunteered their time. Thanks also go to Lynn and Zena from Bunnings for allocating the sausage sizzles to us.

Selling our items on Facebook has  again proved successful. We have sold well over $4,000 through this medium.

Our web page “sunburymensshed.com” is still active and the newsletters are uploaded every month.

I would like to thank Milton Oliver for his assistance during the past months.

David Balfour helped me with doing the membership for the past 12 months. Thankyou David.

Last but not least I like to thank President Dale Wilkes for his excellent leadership this year. He is looking forward to getting a lot less phone calls from me.

Albert Achterberg

Secretary