Minutes of the 46th meeting

Minutes of the 46th meeting of the Kent & Sussex Regional branch of The Socialist Party of Great Britain held on 13th September, 2015The meeting started at 2.07pm and was held at the Muggleton Inn, High Street, Maidstone, KentPresent: Dave Chesham (Secretary), Marie Chesham, Rob Cox (Treasurer), Dan Fabian, Jacqueline ShodekeApologies for absence: Mandy Bruce, Les Courtney, Hannah Dutton, Glenn Morris1. Election of ChairMotion 1. Shodeke & M.Chesham “That D.Chesham be Chair”AGREED2. Minutes of the 45th Meeting held on 9th August 2015 were before the meeting Motion 2. M.Chesham & Shodeke “That the minutes be adopted but that the omission asking the Treasurer to contact those members who are not currently making voluntary financial contributions to ask them if they would consider so doing, be rectified” AGREED 3. Matters arising from previous minutesi) Street Stalls Three comrades kept the stall going for nearly six hours in Canterbury on 22 August and had several useful conversations. Sales: 4 Standards; 6 pamphlets (including 4 new ones), three books and three donations. Total £26.50. This may be a record for one stall for K&S. Plus leaflets and several back issues given away.Met a new executive committee member of the socialist students society at Christchurch University. He is a LP member but would be interested in having a speaker/debate. He was given our email address. His father (also there but met him previously) is an ex-CP member and used to speak for them at Speakers Corner – remembers SPGB, Harry Young, etc.Two quite young girls made a second visit; bought a Standard. Met a live export activist from Margate; interesting information.. Student who visited one of our election meetings bought a pamphlet. One of the last (after 5pm) visitors was an Iranian anti-Shah veteran (still with the scars!) – bought £9.50 of literature.The next stall would again be in Canterbury on Saturday, 26 September. It was AGREED to have a further one, last of the season, on Saturday, 17 October.ii) Brighton Talk – 15-9-15There'll be a talk by Howard Pilott, entitled 'The Environment and Red/Green Politics'. The meeting has been extensively advertised and members and supporters in the area alerted.iii) Video clipsIt was AGREED to defer this item to the October branch meeting.iv) Kent Miners' Festival – 31-8-15 Five members and supporters attended this event and despite a rather damp and dismal start several items of literature were sold, including four Standards plus five copies of the branch's re-print of the 'Lessons of the Miners' Strike' pamphlet. Other literature was given away and a few conversations held.4. Autumn Delegate MeetingThe ADM agenda was not yet to hand.5. Forms 'A'A new member, KL, accepted into membership by the EC at its September meeting, has been allocated to the branch. A welcoming email has already been sent to this new member.6. Branch Membership TransfersNONE7. EC minutes – September meeting – 5-9-15NOTED 8. Future propaganda activitiesNONE other than those already mentioned.9. Any other businessNONEMeeting adjourned at 5.55pm Collection taken: £16.00