Index > News > AGM Report and Competition Results Business Meeting 52 members of the Trust attended the Annual General Meeting held on 22 April 2006. The Annual report and accounts were adopted. The tabled motion to increase the subscription for a Senior Member by £2 was amended from the floor such that all categories of membership subscriptions should be raised by £2. The amended motion was passed. The increased subscriptions will apply to all members joining or renewing after 1 August 2006. The date of the 2007 AGM is Saturday 28 April. Management Changes Officers Graham Hooper agreed to be re-nominated as Honorary Secretary and was re-elected unopposed. Upon the retirement of Bill Gates as Honorary Museum Curator, John M Smith was nominated and elected unopposed. Ted Goater remained in post as Honorary Treasurer for the forthcoming year. The Chairman, Andrew Naish, continues to serve for his third year. Committee Members Ian Briggs retired from the Committee, but will continue to serve as Membership Secretary. Roger Newport and Bill Gates were newly elected to the Committee as Management Trustees. Others re-elected were Godfrey Baker, Rosie Jacob, George Moon, Brian Smith and Ian Young. Competition results The MJ Palmer modelling trophy was won by Andy Watson for his locomotive model of 4422, with rake of wagons. The modelling cup was not awarded, owing to a lack of entries. The M J Palmer Photographic Prize was won by Paul Sandy with his photograph of 4F 44422 and 7F 53809 on a down passenger at Kingswood, WSR, on 22 March 2006. Paul's entry was chosen from 10 other photographs from four entrants. Mrs Gill Palmer (left) presented the trophy and prize to Andy Watson (right). Don Hillyar (centre) organised the competition.. pics © Ed Melville Results of the Annual Draw Described by George Judd, organiser, as the Best Ever raffle receipts. Prize Ticket Name £500 01725 A V Davis £200 04587 Lomas £20 04146 A Young 01956 R Downes 06724 B Sillence 00361 Baylis 07893 Musson © SDRT 2006 All material contained herein is subject to copyright and may not be reproduced, copied, held in an electronic repository system (particularly on another web site) without seeking permission. Every effort has been made to identify the holders of copyright material included within this website. If any material has been used inadvertently without permission or attribution the Trustees of the Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust will be pleased to receive information with a view to correcting this in further updates.