Regional Organiser

[Ian Gilmour]

Dear Yorkshire Region members
Sharon and I have been considering our position as Yorkshire Regional Organisers for some time and have decided that we will step down from the role at the end of December 2009. Our resignation has been accepted by the Club's Regional Director, Chris Clark.

During our time in the role we have been happy to give our time and efforts for the benefit of Yorkshire Region members. We consider that we have moved the Region forward through some very successful events over the past three years as well as increasing overall numbers and the number of new members at our monthly meetings and collecting some significant sums of money for charities. However, we also think that we have taken the Region as far as we can and feel it is now time for someone else to take over.

As there are already activities planned for next month which, at this stage, no-one else could be expected to pick up, we have agreed to "caretake" the Region until the end of January. Thereafter, we still intend to be active members and attend monthly meetings as well as events and activities. We might even be prepared to organise the occasional one-off event from time to time, but want to enjoy all these activities from the perspective of ordinary Club members rather than Regional Organisers.

We already have a number of events planned for 2010 which should be well supported by our members, so my successor will inherit a very active and successful Region of the Club and have the opportunity to build on its success. I believe there are some of our 'active' members who have the enthusiasm and capability to take over the role on an individual or a committee basis. If anyone would like to discuss this further don't hesitate to give me a call on 01484 608467 or drop me an e-mail, or speak to Chris Clark on 01538 372660 (regional@porscheclubgb.com).

Kind regards and best wishes for the festive season.

Ian Gilmour

 

[gresley]

Sharon and Ian,

Really sorry to read this though not totally surprised. You have done a fabulous job for the region often without appropriate recognition and gratitude being shown. I suspect that few people really understand the amount of work that goes in to doing a job like this and doing it so that the events all work seamlessly as you two have done.

Glad to hear that you are still going to be active members,

Andrew W.

 

[Oakes]

[FONT=arial"]Hi Ian & Sharon,

Sorry to hear that you are standing down as RO for the Yorkshire region. You both have done a great job for the region over the last few years.
Look forward to seeing you both at the Christmas party in January.

Regards
John & Patricia Oakes

 

[iver rek]

Ian & Sharon,

I would echo the comments from Andrew W. and add them to my separate e-mail to you.

Best wishes

Paul & Jane.

 

[johnnywishbone]

Ian and Sharon !
Sorry to hear you are standing down ! just a quick line to say thank you for all the great events you organised !


All the best


John and All at Malton !

 

[Ian Gilmour]

I'm delighted to announce that with effect from 1st February, Yorkshire Region will have a new Regional Organiser. After discussions with myself and Sharon and with Chris Clark, the Club's Regional Director, Mark Jessop, ably supported by his wife, Carol, has agreed to take over the role.

Mark has a wide knowledge of and a huge enthusiasm for all things Porsche and currently owns a 911 and a 944. Members who regularly attend our events will already know him. He has organised several quizzes and talks at Club Nights, has been the official concours administrator at Harewood and attended many Regional and national events over the past few years.

I'm sure you would all join me in wishing Mark and Carol the very best of luck as Regional Organisers. Please give them all the support you can by attending activities, helping out at meetings or organising an event for the Region.

Hopefully Mark will add a post to this thread to introduce himself and his plans for the Region.

 

[supersport]

Ian thank you for you kind words of introduction.

As Ian said many of you may know me as I have been around the region for about five years and attended many events and the majority of club nights in that time. For those of you that don't know me or more likely my helper (read boss) Carol here is a picture of us and our son Daniel on a very, and I mean very, cold Whitby beach prior to stuffing ourselves with fish and chips.

Currently we have a 1987 911 Supersport that we have owned for as long as we have been club members and is mainly used as a summer and weekend car. We have also recently added a 1987 944 which we use as our daily car and has been a complete revelation and joy to own. Although I have been a Porsche fanatic since I was at school, Carol is new to it, in fact only since I forced it upon her to be honest. Five years ago we didn't know that we would ever own a Porsche and now we have two and find our selves as regional organisers, isn't life exciting? I suspect that this just goes to show that pester power can and does work. Luckily Daniel can't read very well yet!

Our aims for the region are to simply start off by carrying on the hard work of Ian and Sharon

by picking up where they will leave off. To my mind we have some brilliant and very successful events in our region that are well supported by us the members and our local specialists, both Dave Forrest's Strasse and John Hawkins' Specialist Cars of Malton, along with the OPC network.

We are in the process of putting together a busy year of events both for club nights and the in-between times. We really want to encourage others to come forward with ideas and to organise events so that we really get a wide selection of activities, this will hopefully then lead to our entries in Porsche Post being easy to write and more importantly interesting to read.

We look forward to getting to know those members that we don't know that well and welcoming new members to the region and the club. I will say now that I can't remember names to save my life, although I have no problem with faces, so please don't be offended if I look at anyone oddly but appear to be incapable speech. Our primary aim is to continue the success of the region.

See you next Wednesday, 3rd February, for a monthly club night at the Owl in Hambleton near Selby, link below.

Owl at Hambleton

 

[gresley]

Congratulations on taking on the job - I have the utmost respect for your commitment in doing so.

Anything I can do to help then please get in touch though my time is looking like being somewhat constrained this year!

Andrew W.

 

[Jacob]

Congratualtions on your appointment Mark - I'm confident that you will continue the excellent work that Ian and Sharon have started in the Region...