Active Wales

Active Wales requires your name and home address as you are a paid-up member of the organisation.  We will only use your name and address to send you information that has the potential to affect you as an older person in Wales.   We do this because it is in the legitimate interest of Active Wales to keep our members aware of information and activities that could affect them directly. Your name and address will be stored securely by our committee and will be deleted if you are no longer a member. You can also ask us to amend or delete your details at any time without giving a reason, by contacting:

Secretary on 07985 213012 or Treasurer on 07939 411071.

Dear Secretary

I am contacting you on behalf of the Executive Committee of Active Wales.

The pandemic has changed all our lives and as a result we have had to find new ways of working to keep our organisation active and relevant to all members of Active Wales. What Active Wales doesn’t have is a data base of all its  members. As a result, we are way behind most organisations.

Without such a data base it is difficult to keep in touch with members other than through the Branch Secretaries who we need for contact with your own local branches.

This is no way to take over the work of branch officers but a way of communicating on a Wales level on matters Active Wales organise. We must be able to communicate in a modern way and to inform members of our social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter.

I give the example of the annual conference, or the petition that was organised against removing the free TV licence for the over 75-year olds. Both organised by the officers of Active Wales.

As we cannot have face to face meeting most of us are now attending Zoom meetings including the Executive meetings and they are working well. We may have to continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

We must accept that the “old normal” has gone  and we have to adjust to the “new normal” We could for example organise a Zoom conference which many organisations are doing with great success

To carry out activities of this nature  we would need the email addresses of members who have them as this could not be organised by communication through  branch secretaries. If we cannot do such things, then we will lose members as this is such a good  way of keeping in touch and keeping our organisation active and relevant to older people in Wales

So, I am asking you for your help and support in contacting your members who have an email address for their permission to give their email address to Active Wales for the purpose of communication

If some of your members do not have an email address, please let us have their home address. As these addresses are generally public knowledge the law on getting permission does not apply.

Please help Active Wales in this task. If you would like to discuss this request further, please contact either Ann Vincent Active Wales General Secretary or myself.

My email is blaenrhonddagale@hotmail.com
Ann Vincent email is activitewalessec@gmail.com 

With all best wishes

Anita

Baroness Gale of Blaenrhondda

President Active Wales