Forum RWFCA BRANCH OF THE FUTURE

[taffylooneytoon]

Hi rik , i would like to say due too illness i could not attend this years bash in wrexham, and i attended the drums meeting in wrexham 06 on the friday which you did not.
The first drums bash i did not know about. Thats why this forum is so important to ex RWF as it is for new members of the RW, it maintains or link with 1bn Rw Royal Welch Fusiliers.
Thats why i think the forum could become a modern day branch, not everybody lives near a Rwfca branch and people who live around the world can have the same accsess in a round about way as us who have accsess to a RWFCA branch.
This forum is a great medium for us to get us together, it also encourages us to make guys to turn up for annual reunions, turning a segment of the forum into a branch for boys to have accsess to surport RWFCA is not a bad thing.
Some ex members like to have accsess but because of work family life , and dont really want the hassell of branch meetings , just turn up to reunions.
By having an easy and less time consuming way of attending a branch will suit some but people like me who attend branch meetings in my local area still think another way of keeping in contact is a must. Val

[rikoshea]

Val I never said not for it to become a branch, I just voiced my opinion like other have on this thread. And yes i do understand why you could make it to this years and last years through illness and not knowing. However there will be plenty more. what we must remember now is that the Royal Welsh as they are now recruit from all over Wales and are not predominatly from the North. When I was in the RWF the split was 50-40 and the rest coming from Wales & england Spud Murphy, Camplin and SImo are Three english Fellas I served with to name a few. All I was trying to say has a fellow drummer once told me ( Mall Ball) its good to TALK

Vincit Veritas

[ap1]

The Forum could certainly play a more active role in the association. We have the ability to store individual member details and access them quickly, we can mass email, and produce newsletters, and many other things, which Bob can better explain. What I wouldnt want to happen is for Bob or myself to become burdened with more work which would allow other areas of the Forum to suffer.

Its fair to say that we could ensure that all Individual members, who have an email address, and hold membership of the Forum, receive information in the same timely manner that Branch Members do, and much much more. It just needs a little imagination on the part of the Association, to take itself firmly into the 21st Century.

The problem is, we can only support you if we are being fed the information, and if there is a desire for change at the top. Its gratifying to receive information from Branch Secretaries, but it needs to be forthcoming from RHQ. It is possible that Major Lake will have his own ideas of how communication takes place, they already have webspace on the veterans site. So perhaps it might be useful to wait a few weeks and see whats develops.

But thanks for all the ideas, as Rik(and mal) say's "Its good to talk"

it would be usefull to hear views from Individual Members, especially in relation to what info they receive throughout the year from the association, and perhaps what they would like?

[Paul Hinge]

Having sat last week on my first RWFCA Executive I was proud to hear the comments coming from the members across the table with regard to the Association.
There are a few administrative glitches that have to be ironed out to the Associations working arrangements with RHQ RW, who incidentally will now deal with the Benevolence side of what was one of the remits of RHQ RWF.This was the domain of RHQ RWF when it was a Regiment in the Army Structure but unfortunately it does not exist any longer.
An ill conceived merger carried out with little thought or knowledge, but lets not dwell on things we cannot change!
For the future of the RWFCA we need to communicate with all our former colleagues and give them the opportunity to come into the fold of a thriving, bouyant Association that gives us one and all a chance to enjoy the comradeship we had whilst serving with the RWF.
There are literally 1000's of ex RWF out there we need to bring into the fold so lets get our thinking caps on and contact them wherever they may be and let them know the RWFCA is alive and kicking and is there for them.
If you find anyone let H.Q. Wrexham know and let Al Poole know especially if they have an email address then we have every opportunity in drawing them back into the fold.

Hingey

[Keith Jones 989]

For what it's worth, from somebody who hasn't lived near a branch long enough to become a member I believe the option of having a 'virtual' Forum Comrades Association Branch for those ex-RWF who are 'absent' is an excellent proposition.