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Festive message from Rod Davies at Welsh Masters Athletics. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk Somehow we find ourselves in the middle of December: it doesn't seem five minutes since some of us were at the BMAF championships in the heat of Derby. Membership fees are now due: - This means it's time for us to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and to remind you that your membership will expire on New Year's Eve.  Perhaps renewing will be a nice little job for a quiet day over the festive period. It's now much more straightforward to do so on the BMAF website. Go through it to sign on to Opentrack, and go to your membership profile.  You should find a yellow button alongside WMAL marked Renew. If you don't, check the expiry date, which will probably be 2024. This means you have renewed already but forgotten you did - perhaps too much sherry? If you leave it till January, you will need to check Expired Roles. Some of you will be heading t

Welsh Masters Notice of AGM This email is being sent to all confirmed members of Welsh Masters Athletics Limited who are on the Register of Members as at today’s date to provide the formal notice of Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held on 3 November 2023 at 7:30 pm. As the sport is still struggling to recover from Covid, the Board has decided that no awards will be made for 2022 so the opportunities for a celebration should be postponed till next year when the 2023 results will be available.   For that reason we will hold the formal AGM by Zoom, and those wishing to attend need to register in advance by emailing me before 31 October 2023 to get the system set up.  I attach -                     Notice of Meeting, Proxy Form.                Accounts to 31 December 2022. There are no formal votes required, so the provision of the Proxy Form is a formality only.  Once the formal business of the AGM is complete there will be a question and answer session for members to raise m

Congratulations to all our 2023 Welsh Masters Athletics Champions at Yate from last weekend. Intro by Don Hale. Comments and WMAL results from Rod Davies. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk Rod Davies from Welsh Masters Athletics has compiled some further results and updates from the Welsh Championships event at Yate last Saturday. He confirmed: "The attached   should   be the list of champions from Saturday. Unless there are any objections (and until howls of protest come in from someone I have somehow omitted). "Congratulations to all our 2023 Welsh Masters Champions. *These are the provisional results from the Avon/Yate Open meeting which also include the WMAL championships:  https://meets.rosterathletics.com/public/competitions/details/about?id=20558 *Also, check out my previous blog report from two gold medal winners: Don Hale Blog: Steve Gardner and Paul Brooks struck gold at the W... https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com/2023/08/steve-gardner-w