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Message from the Board Welcome to our new look magazine!


I hope that you are enjoying the new magazine format of the newsletter. In this period of austerity, we have been able to improve the quality of the newsletter at no cost to the network. As the majority of our members prefer to read a hard copy and keep it handy to refer to, we will continue to provide this great service.


The board wants to maintain free access to the knowledge and resources available to the members. To do this we need to raise around £4,000 per year just to pay postage on the quarterly newsletter.


With the withdrawal of financial support from Northamptonshire County Council, we no longer have any regular source of funds. The 50+ network is therefore facing a great deal of challenge in the near future. The board is taking vigorous action to find new sources of funds to keep the newsletter coming to your door.


The board continues to raise the profile of the Network


within the County. We will seek to cement links with other organisations in the County and to use local media to publicise the activities of our members.


The board is also concerned about the problems of isolation of our older members and will seek more opportunities to organise social activities across the county, so that all of our members can gain benefits from their membership. It will also be looking at other methods of communicating more regularly and more cheaply with members, while maintaining the quarterly issue of the newsletter.


Finally, we offer our sincere apologies to those members who had to pay £1.69 postal charge to retrieve their ‘Summer Issue’. This is the first and only time that Northants 50+ Network has been put in this situation. It appears that a number of envelopes managed to get through the system without being franked. As we rely on a third party to mail the newsletters to our members, it was totally outside of our control. They have been made aware of this error and assure us that additional controls have been implemented to ensure this never happens again.


Ray Hutchins - Chairman


Website: www.northantsfiftyplus.co.uk Email: northants_fifty_plus@hotmail.co.uk Secretary: Susan Hills Tel. 01604 812144 Email susanhillsok@yahoo.com Events Secretary: Sandra Frampton Tel. 01604 718098 Email sandra.frampton240@btinternet.com Editor: Tony Allen Email: tonyallen8@talktalk.net


Northants 50+ Network c/o St Giles Parish Office St Giles Terrace Northampton NN1 2BN


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