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NORTH OXFORDSHIRE & COTSWOLDS Please excuse the absence of any area newsletters for 2008. I had so much work on that I just did not have time to put any together. Anyway, with a bit of luck I should be able to do a couple in 2009, really just to keep you up to date with the events that are going on in the area. I have had a go at updating our members list and we have just 20 members who receive this as a hard copy and about 50 who receive it electronically. If you do receive a hard copy and you are on the internet, do please let me know. If you receive it and don't want it do please send me an e-mail and I promise that I will not send you anymore. Anyway, January was our AGM and following a show of hands I can confirm that Tony and I are still in command. Nathan has volunteered to take up the role previously occupied by Noel who of course we sadly lost last year. For 2009 we will be putting on our own events at Swinbrook (outside Burford) and at the Hook Norton Brewery. In addition we are currently considering arranging a guided tour of the Home Guard Auxiliary training Centre outside Farringdon. The date on this is yet to be confirmed but if you are interested in coming please let me know. We can take no more than 30 people, but we will need at least 20 people to make the tour viable. Ian has produced another marvellous Area calendar which was distributed at the January meeting. I have a few copies left over, so if you were not able to make it to the meeting and would like one please let me know. Over the last few Months we have raised £175.62 to pass on to the Normandy Veterans Association. Our aim is to raise £400 which will subsidise one veterans return to Normandy for the 65th Anniversary this year. The campaign as a whole hopes to raise £300,000 to help fund 1,000 veterans return, which for many will be their last visit and we very much hope that we can finance one veteran to do this. At the February meeting we intend to have a sale of books, so if you have any that you no longer require do please bring them along and any money received from their sale will be passed on to the fund. In the March meeting we plan to have an auction of items, so if you have anything (book, bottle or Challenger tank) that you think someone else would be interested in and might pay a few pounds for, please bring it along. I have listed a few events that we hope to be either organising or attending this year. If you are interested I have given the name of the contact, or alternatively you can contact me. If you are aware of any other events that we might be interested in, then do please let me know. I can be contacted on 01608 811698 or at Goshahn@AOL.com Many thanks. Tim Gosling (Area Secretary
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