Hello James,
For you and any others who read the post later, here is the information we have sent out to date to interested parties:_
e-Mail 01
Thank you for being so prompt in making contact about STRATHCLYDE 4x4 RESPONSE. It is less than a week since the first posts went out onto a couple of forums and we already have enough people interested to hold an inaugural meeting to officially form the group.
Not everyone will have to attend this meeting in person. What those present have to do is (1) decide to form the group, (2) adopt a constitution, (3) appoint at least a chairman, secretary and treasurer, (4) agree to open a bank account, (5) agree to be part of the NATIONAL 4x4 RESPONSE organisation. Once that is in place we can enrol anyone who can’t make the meeting.
There will be a large amount of initial work to be done and it would be good to have volunteers who can devote the necessary time to the key roles. We will need to get all our members registered, their training validated, disclosure applied for, insurances in place, plus whatever other things the user services require. We will need to publicise and recruit members. We will need to open discussion with the main User services; Fire, Police, NHS, Local Authorities and Scottish Executive. And we will need to organise whatever training sessions are needed. Fortunately it has all been done before in other parts of the country, so the National 4x4 Response and the other groups will be a great help in showing us what to do – all we have to do is implement it.
Different people have responded with different information and I don’t know where everyone lives/works to help pick a central venue for the meeting. Could you please reply to this email with your full name, and where you live – all I need is the first part of your postcode. If you think you can devote time to some of the tasks I’ve mentioned above, please let me know, or if there are other ways in which you can help set up the organisation.
e-Mail 02
There are still quite a few folk still to send in their location so that a meeting venue that is fairly central can be chosen. The meeting is likely to be the first week in January so we can get things moving.
In the mean time, so that ideas can be exchanged beforehand, there is a forum now set up and running at
http://s4x4r.freeforums.org . This includes a “chat” facility. You will have to register to get access to the forum, and your registration will then have to be “authorised”. Hopefully the moderators will recognise the username you choose.
Kind regards, Stuart
Stuart Clink
Interim Contact Co-ordinator
STRATHCLYDE 4x4 RESPONSE
Southsyde House | Woodhead Avenue | BOTHWELL | Lanarkshire | G71 8AR
Phone: +44(0)7772 784728 | email:
Strathclyde4x4Response@hotmail.co.uk
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