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  1. I'm at a month waiting as well. I did get a Paypal email confirming my money had been taken though. @gardenofeden Could you tell us where and when the AGM is being held? As you are the only representative of the charity available to anyone at all, could you also confirm that having paid my dues I am allowed to have my voice heard at the AGM?
  2. I took the "if" at the beginning of your reply seriously. I checked statements from my bank. You have my apologies, and my admission that I am an idiot! I have just applied for membership today and I really hope that this goes some way toward making up for my earlier stupidity in the thread. I had no idea how small the membership was and I can see that it must be a lot of work for very few people with little thanks at the end. If I can help in any way at all I would be happy to do some of the more tedious work for the charity. I do have some previous experience keeping a constantly changing website up to date. I also have experience of being in charge of social media for the same company. Other than that I would be happy to help wherever needed. If you guys are struggling to keep up with things let me know how I can help once my membership has been processed.
  3. I really don't know how to reply to this. "Phil Wilson who is also chair, and treasurer and Internet officer, and enquiries etc and does not come on here." I snorted tea down my nose. :) Thank you for your time replying to this thread, and also your kind offer to answer questions. I have one or two. I haven't had a single email from the charity since I joined as a member nearly a year ago. It seems others here are in the same position. Could you forward me the missing newsletters, and also the minutes from the last annual meeting? Could you let us know how many members the society has? This forum says around 5800 is this broadly, approximately accurate? The last accounts for the charity available on the Charities Commission website are from 2017. I have attached them here. Could you send me the most recent ones or post them here? All these things should be easily available to a comittee member of any charity and all of them should be available to the membership. I would like to offer my time to help in any way I can, and at the same time something is telling me I need to ask questions before I do. report.pdf
  4. Also it looks like in a moment of madness I paid for membership a year ago. I haven't had a single piece of correspondence from you in a year. Seriously.... I expect a reply from the board of trustees or I am raising a concern with the charities commission and the RHS.
  5. I have been considering becoming a member for some time and this thread came up again. I did the tiniest amount of digging around the website only and it seems that most of the people 'involved' in the charity have not even logged into the forum for months and in some cases it's years. The last time 'Ron' (Seeds) was here was over five months ago. Although there maybe another 'Ron' in the membership. I think it might be time now for the board of trustees to come here, and explain what is going on. Why they are not fulfilling their obligations to the charity and its members (yes I understand a lot of things may be legitimate), and what exactly they intend to do about the obvious problems that are stopping the charity from growing at a time when interest in carnivorous plants has never been higher. I look forward to the board of trustees making some kind of statement. I would happily give up some time to maintain and grow membership and interest, and at the same time I'm not going to waste my time (or money) when the higher ups are disengaged from the membership and any potential future members. All the complaints in this thread are legitimate and deserve full and frank answers from the board of trustees. No sane person would give their hard earned money for membership to this organisation the way things appear at the moment.
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