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Do we stay or do we go now? When the any Honorary Membership awards and
seven organisations moved from Eden Street whilst only a short AGM will be held in 2009 to
to Thames House in 2005 we signed a five complete the necessary formalities, we lose
year lease. This expires in less than a year the opportunity to publicly appreciate the
and the Board has been looking at the efforts of any such deserving characters. This
options. With BAFE moving a year ahead of year the Board intends to award Honorary
any foreseen plan (when we moved in they Membership to Dr Peter Moore, who has
were planning to stay for the five years), the served the trade association for many years.
FIA needs to renegotiate or move. The credit A suitable occasion will be sought to present
crunch and then recession have played the award and a fitting tribute will be made
havoc with our plans. First we planned to via our Focus publication.
buy and move, then stay and rent for a short Supporting our members in this economic
term. However, with the financial pressure downturn has been a key issue considered
easing is it time to consider buying again! at Board level. A presentation offering
The 2009 AGM and traditional lunch format recession-busting advice was provided at
has been put on hold for a year as we had International Firex and a new membership
to make an early decision on booking benefit (WK5.com) has been rolled out in
venues etc. and having polled our members response to the economic climate. Going
we did not feel that we would attract the forward the Board will continue to develop
normal amount of support that makes this ways of helping members throughout the
such a successful event in the calendar. rest of this period of economic uncertainty.
Rather than tinker with the format, which The Board looks forward to another
may result in the loss of such an event in the successful year for the FIA and believes that
future, the Board took the decision to have the Association will continue to increase its
a one year holiday and return to the usual influence while at the same time growing in
style AGM in 2010. size and delivering an enhanced range of
One of the duties at the AGM is to make benefits for all of its membership.
FIA ANNUAL REPORT 2009 5
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