Tag: AGM

bikes at Riverside museum

AGM 2025 Overview

02/03/2025

As we have now meteorologically speaking, crossed into Springtime and with the AGM it feels like the season is upon us. It will take a few more weeks before the Chapter is firing on all cylinders ready to get us on the road: Road Crew Training is the next stage…but the CVH 2025 riding year is all but upon us.

AGM turn out
AGM turn out
bikes at Riverside museum
bikes at Riverside museum

So a great start today with a very well attended AGM…it was standing room only and in fact I think a few members couldn’t even get in the room!

Stevie Trainor
Stevie Trainor

First off we had a review of the 2024 year and the moneys raised for our two main charities, the Glasgow Sick Kids and Breast Cancer Support charities. For 2025 these will continue to be supported but we will be looking for some further suggestions on this front. One is likely to be a Prostate Cancer charity.

We also got two certificates from HOG UK for our Ride 365 numbers….they were not great but it isn’t something the chapter pushes so hard even though we do put a lot of miles under the tyres of a season.! 🙂

Don Rutherford
Don about to lead us off with the Chapter Song….
Dave Hackshal
Dave gave us an overview of dealership activities.

We had a report from Don Rutherford and Dave Hackshall from WCHD our sponsoring Dealership, with a review of activities they have lined up ( check out our Events Calander for dates of Meet the Chapter Nights and WCHD Bike Nights) and there are a few BBQ events to come along as well, the first will be the Easter weekend after the Easter Egg run. The dealership is hoping chapter members might be able to assist in 2025 with some of the dealership events as stewards or representing the Chapter to attract members.

Then we had the presentation of Chapter Officer patches for the new committee members.

Janice Graham moves to Assistant Director.
Willie Galloway becomes Treasurer.
Sean Ferguson is Secretary.
Chris Kelly moves to Head Road Captain.
Nicole Tanzabel becomes Ladies of Harley Officer.
Frazer Auld joins the committee as Photographer.
Paula Taylor and Ben Vale are our new Activities Officers.
Some photos below more will be added once I get them from Fraz!

Janice Graham Assistant Director
Janice Graham Assistant Director
Chris Kelly is HRC
Chris Kelly is HRC
Nicole Tanzabel is LoH Officer.
Nicole Tanzabel is LoH Officer.
Paula Taylor is Activities Officer
Paula Taylor is Activities Officer
Frazer is Photographer
Frazer is Photographer

Then we had awards of appreciation for Tina Taylor and Davy Henderson standing down as Activities Officers and Scott Grove standing down as Assistant Director. Scott gave a final demonstration to the Chapter of how the delete Button works.

Tina Taylor being thanked for her years as Activities Officer.
Tina Taylor being thanked for her years as Activities Officer.
We were all wondering what prize Davy was about to get from Stevie....
We were all wondering what prize Davy was about to get from Stevie….
Imagine Davy's relief that it was a Bottle of Malt....
Imagine Davy’s relief that it was a Bottle of Malt….
Scott gave his final demo of the Delete Button to Burnsy.
Scott gave his final demo of the Delete Button to Burnsy.

Finally a short introduction or review of activities was given by each Officer.

2024 Yearbooks.

2024 Yearbook

The Chapter 2024 Photo Yearbook is available to order. To keep things simple and to raise a few more pennies for charity, the books can be purchased by members for £40. The profit’s arising will go to the chapter charity funds. Members should contact Kenny ASAP where you will be added to a temporary WhatsApp group so the funds can be collected in and you can be notified when the books come available to collect.

LoH Cheque Presentation to Breast Cancer Now

AGM 2023 Report

12/03/2023

The Clyde Valley HOG AGM was held today at the Riverside Museum on Clyde Side and was a very well attended event*.

The AGM gets underway at the Riverside Museum

Key takeaways from the event.

  • West Coast Harley Davidson won the dealership of the year award once again as well as 3 others.
  • Our best wishes were expressed for a member and his family, after being diagnosed with a serious illness and the Chapters thoughts are with them all at this concerning time.
  • Membership is running at its highest for the time of year.
  • The financial accounts are restored to decent health now that we have exited the worst (hopefully) of the COVID situation and activities have fully resumed, and the chapter returned a healthy operating profit that will allow activities to be planned and carried out fully.
  • We still have a vacancy for a Treasurer if any volunteers are forthcoming let the Director know.
  • The Gathering planning continues, we have three great bands lined up for the weekend, ticket sales are decent but we need members to make sure they have theirs very soon in order to guarantee rally packs. If you are holding off buying your tickets, please get them by the end of March to ensure you get a rally pack!
  • The Activities officers want to start planning of The Gathering by getting a rally committee together to arrange activities and start putting faces to jobs. There are over 90 roles that need to be assigned over the event and the chapter would appreciate as many members coming forward to take on a task or two each. If everyone did one or two it would ease the pressure on the Committee and get everything done with ease. Please let Tina or David know if you are able to help with the organising group or at the event ASAP.
  • Members were also asked to forward any ideas for events they think might be fun for the season to the Activities officers (keeping in view costs which appear to be stratospheric for many group events just now).
  • Ladies of Harley go from strength to strength and there are now nearly 50 LoH members and thirteen riding (full) members (well done Katrina for passing her full licence this week!) now with another in the pipeline that just passed her Mod1 this week.
  • The 6th of May annual Camping trip is heading to the Isle of Skye, anyone attending let the Assistant Director know ASAP.
  • A LoH ride out for International Lady Riders day is to be held ALSO on the 6th of May.
  • The Merchandise officer passed around this years The Gathering Patch that will be made for those requesting it. He also mentioned various legacy items that could still be sold, we will look to get them itemised here on the website and if you want them get in touch with him.
  • The Head Road Captain informed the chapter we have 5 Road marshalls ( subject to a training session at the end of the month) and 9 Road Captains and over 40 riding events planned for the year. There are still spaces for the Gretna run /overnight stay and Campbelltown was almost full.
  • Website is being maintained and all known events are detailed on the site and it was asked members refer to the site in the first instance to see what’s going on. In addition, key events will be posted on the Facebook Page banner each month during the season so you can see at a glance the main events. Any issues or difficulties with the site contact the Webmaster.
  • We still have a significant number of members who have not signed in to the Clyde Valley Announcements Channel where you will be able to be informed or reminded of anything imminent in the Chapter. If you are having issues please contact the Director.

Following the official Agenda appreciation of the Committee’s efforts were expressed from the floor.

We then welcomed a representative from Breast Cancer Now who received a cheque for £1000 from the Chapter raised by the Ladies of Harley in the last year.

A representative of Breast Cancer Now conveyed their appreciation for the funds collected on their behalf.

*Burnsy was not in attendance…probably still in Egypt.

Read more of what we have been up to in the items below