Chichester Yacht Club Magazine January 2019 | Page 2

Commodore Tony Mobbs
Firstly can I wish every one of you a very
Happy New Year and a successful 2019.
By the time you are reading this article, we will
have had our New Year’s Eve Party. This
again was a great success. We were booked
up by mid-November, the success of this
I am pleased to say we did extremely well with
popular event is due to the hard work of our
a number of bags being delivered to the Club,
staff, so a special thank you to them all.
or again members taking them directly to
StonePillow.
Hopefully by now you will have all received our
2019 Programme. The programme shows all The picture below shows just some of the
our key activities both on and off the water.
many bags we collected at the Club.
Remember, for more up to date information on
Club events do keep in contact either via our
2019 Subscriptions Reminder
website or through our weekly On-Board
newsletter.
Finally, you should all have received your
letter for 2019 subscription payments. We are
Congratulations to Chris Savage holding all fees to the 2018 level. If you are not
paying by Direct Debit then remember if you
I would like to pass on the Club’s
pay before 15th January, you will be entitled to
congratulations to Chris Savage, who at the
an Early-Bird discount. So please contact the
Chichester Harbour Federation annual
Office with your payment.
meeting in December was appointed
Chairman of the Federation. This is just
rewards for Chris’s hard work over many
years supporting the Federation and it is
good to see Chichester Yacht Club
represented on such a prestigious local
committee.
Commodore’s 2018 Charity
My chosen charity for 2018 was StonePillow,
a local charity looking after the homeless and
vulnerable young adults in the Chichester
area.
I am pleased to announce that at the Club we
collected just over £150. But I would like to
particularly thank those members who wrote
to me saying they were donating either part
or all of their winter fuel allowance. In addition
to monetary donations, this year I asked for
any items of clothing.
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