The fact that it is nearly two years since I wrote a blog (remember them??) reflects just how much social media has become the main form of communication for so many people, these days. From a personal point of view, I believe Myspace was probably my first introduction to it; and, subsequently, it was succeeded by Facebook; but I haven't been attracted by the likes of WhatsApp or Tiktok. Putting that aside, however, the reason I've chosen to use a blog, on this occasion, is because I want to separate what I have say from any other comments which may have been made in the aforementioned social media channels, recently.
So, here goes.
I have always felt great pride in being someone who attended the very first meeting of the BNTVA, in a Glasgow hotel with Ken McGinley; although I cannot deny that I probably haven't contributed towards the BNTVA as, perhaps, I could have done. That said, although I attended early meetings of the association in Blackpool and Leicester in the eighties, a combination of work commitments and (I have to admit) a personal suspicion that member's subscriptions may have been used to finance jollies by committee members meant that my interest waned, almost to the point of extinction for a good many years. However, as I've described in an earlier blog, I was re-introduced to the association around the time the (so-called) "special advisor" was chairman; and in the meantime, I've maintained a more active interest and actually became a member, again, last year.
Sadly, however, even before the regrettable circumstances which persuaded Ken McGinley to write his letter demanding that certain trustees should be removed (and why), on a personal level, I had developed serious reservations about the usefulness of what I would describe as vanity projects, for example, which, IMHO, were diverting funds away from their intended destination; i.e. the needs of the members. So, recognising it won't make a jot of difference to what others might think or do, I don't intend to renew my subscription, this year, and I would would advise any others who feel dissatisfied with the current trustees to consider taking their own action.
B.C. 30/3/2023.
So, here goes.
I have always felt great pride in being someone who attended the very first meeting of the BNTVA, in a Glasgow hotel with Ken McGinley; although I cannot deny that I probably haven't contributed towards the BNTVA as, perhaps, I could have done. That said, although I attended early meetings of the association in Blackpool and Leicester in the eighties, a combination of work commitments and (I have to admit) a personal suspicion that member's subscriptions may have been used to finance jollies by committee members meant that my interest waned, almost to the point of extinction for a good many years. However, as I've described in an earlier blog, I was re-introduced to the association around the time the (so-called) "special advisor" was chairman; and in the meantime, I've maintained a more active interest and actually became a member, again, last year.
Sadly, however, even before the regrettable circumstances which persuaded Ken McGinley to write his letter demanding that certain trustees should be removed (and why), on a personal level, I had developed serious reservations about the usefulness of what I would describe as vanity projects, for example, which, IMHO, were diverting funds away from their intended destination; i.e. the needs of the members. So, recognising it won't make a jot of difference to what others might think or do, I don't intend to renew my subscription, this year, and I would would advise any others who feel dissatisfied with the current trustees to consider taking their own action.
B.C. 30/3/2023.
