The committee have reluctantly decided that the society will not run an exhibition this year.

It has become clear that while we had a strong list of exhibition volunteers lined up, many were nervous about the COVID-19 risk they might be exposing themselves to and we can’t have that.  I am very keen that our members should never do anything for the club they are reluctant to do or that makes them uncomfortable.

On behalf of the whole society I would like to thank the exhibition sub-committee, led from the front by Roy, for the immense effort they put in to getting us to the point where we could make a fully informed decision. Thanks to all the members who signed up to help out with the exhibition and thanks to those who called me or wrote to me expressing their views. The strong support we got from our membership, our usual exhibitors and the school was highly encouraging and there is no reason to think that we won’t be back having another go in 2022 (unless COVID-19 puts the spanner in the works again).

Mike Collins.

20th August 2021.