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Chairman’s ReportInternational Touraco Society
Annual General Meeting
3rd April 2005 at 2 pm
By
David Jones
Cotswold Wildlife Park
International Touraco Society
• growing in strength • steadily increasing
numbers • acceptable finances • moving in the right
direction • financial reserves
larger to support project
• captivity or in the wild• find someone • pen to paper • new content• editor cannot do it all • range of articles • quality of magazines
Costs less10th October
2 new members2 renewalsTotal £170
(posters, back issues, mugs)
6th March2 new members
5 renewalsTotal £103.85
No National
Two shows at Stafford
Social meeting
• Bristol Zoo Saturday 24th September
• guided tour
• enjoyable day
Membership
• £10 UK • £13 Overseas• No change • Extra £3 postal
costs• Cash, cheque,
bank transfer or PayPal
•UK members more opportunities
•visits in Europe
Member Numbers
AGM 2005 AGM 2004
Paid 05 65 Paid 04 48
Paid 04 65 Paid 03 44
Total 130 Total 92
Where from?
UK 82
Overseas 48
Total 130
From 20 Countries• 1 Argentina• 1 Bahrain• 1 Belgium• 1 Canada
• 2 Eire • 3 France
• 2 Germany• 1 Hungary
• 1 Israel• 1 Kenya
• 1 Madagascar • 4 Netherlands
• 2 Portugal
•7 South Africa
•2 Spain
•1 Sweden
•1 Switzerland
•82 UK
•15 USA
•1 Zimbabwe
Website Overseas equal footing to UK
No e-mail
• 5 overseas
• 34 UK
34 members paid via PayPalTotal of £735.39 via PayPal - 7 months
New or edited items • Thumbnails of committee members (members only)
• 2004 AGM minutes (members only)
• Article in German - Tauraco hartlaubi
• 2005 AGM details
• Contents list Issue 22
• Mugs for sale
• August Committee Meeting minutes (members only)
• Magazine contents full list
• Members News (members only) - New entry Dec 04
• Extra information and photos about Red-crested Touracos
• Extra information and photo - Great Blue Touracos • pdf copy of article African Bird Club magazine
(members only)• White-cheeked article in English and Dutch
(members only)• Additional species names for touracos in Dutch• Messages last updated – 13th February 05• Members advertisements updated – 7th March 05 • Wooden items for sale• Numbers of members and countries they come from
(members only)
Items still like to add
•More about committee members (members only)
•More articles and photos about each species
•More articles about management of touracos
•More pages translated into main languages
•Enlarged web shop
•More regularly updated ‘News’ page (members only)
•More members’ advertisements
My thanks Members of the Committee
and
other members
Paul Wexler as Editor of the
magazine
Clive Humphreys as co-editor and taking on the job
as Editor
Darron Corden as Treasurer and his
efforts at the Stafford sales
Nigel Hewston as Secretary
My thanks to all of you for listening!