We have received a worrying email, saying it was on behalf of the MFS Committee but not sent by the secretary. Of course we do not have access to MFS Committee's minutes to verify this so we must take it on face value.
The email hints that the MFS Committee might be attempting to eject The Bush Dancers display group activities from the Monaro Folk Society.
It is not quite clear, but it might be trying to say that the MFS Committee has decided that the Bush Dancers Lakesea Weekend was not run by the Bush Dancers display group, and is therefore not an activity of the Monaro Folk Society, when blind Freddie could see that it was.
The weekend was first mooted at a Bush Dancers display group performance, the idea was developed over discussions with Bush Dancers display group members over a period of time. Barbara and I, acting as Primary Contacts for The Bush Dancers display group, visited many parks all along the coast looking for a spot with a dance floor, and we communicated our findings to The Bush Dancers display group members. We then made the information available to the broader bush dancing community.
The Bush Dancers display group's music co-ordinator organised the musicians to join in for the weekend, totally at their own expense and making their own bookings. They are wonderful folk and a real asset to The Bush Dancers display group and to the Monaro Folk Society.
The trip was reported as a Bush Dancers display group activity in The Bush Dancers display group Annual and Quarterly Reports (MFS members can see these in the index at http://mfs.org.au/members/).
These get-togethers involve the group in no income or expenditure, the group role being to suggest to folk that they book into certain parks at certain times and we will all be there at the same time and have fun. The weekend then evolves according to who is there and what they want to do, mainly bush dancing to live music and walking. Naturally no insurance certificate is asked for when a group of people make their own bookings in the same park, and use free facilities like a dance floor and camp kitchen in that park. Whether this kind of activity is covered or not under the society's insurance appears academic and not worth worrying about. If they are not it is probably because there is no risk to the society worth insuring.
In the unlikely event that these activities do need insurance then they should be insured. One of the objects of the society is to promote interest in activities like bush dancing, and the activities of The Bush Dancers display group certainly do that.
To suggest that these activities are not run by the Bush Dancers display group as an activity of the group and therefore of the Monaro Folk Society is arrant nonsense, and although I hesitate to appear paranoiac, suggest problems consciously or unconsciously contrived for reasons that are not in the interests of the society.
Regards
Lance
The email hints that the MFS Committee might be attempting to eject The Bush Dancers display group activities from the Monaro Folk Society.
It is not quite clear, but it might be trying to say that the MFS Committee has decided that the Bush Dancers Lakesea Weekend was not run by the Bush Dancers display group, and is therefore not an activity of the Monaro Folk Society, when blind Freddie could see that it was.
The weekend was first mooted at a Bush Dancers display group performance, the idea was developed over discussions with Bush Dancers display group members over a period of time. Barbara and I, acting as Primary Contacts for The Bush Dancers display group, visited many parks all along the coast looking for a spot with a dance floor, and we communicated our findings to The Bush Dancers display group members. We then made the information available to the broader bush dancing community.
The Bush Dancers display group's music co-ordinator organised the musicians to join in for the weekend, totally at their own expense and making their own bookings. They are wonderful folk and a real asset to The Bush Dancers display group and to the Monaro Folk Society.
The trip was reported as a Bush Dancers display group activity in The Bush Dancers display group Annual and Quarterly Reports (MFS members can see these in the index at http://mfs.org.au/members/).
These get-togethers involve the group in no income or expenditure, the group role being to suggest to folk that they book into certain parks at certain times and we will all be there at the same time and have fun. The weekend then evolves according to who is there and what they want to do, mainly bush dancing to live music and walking. Naturally no insurance certificate is asked for when a group of people make their own bookings in the same park, and use free facilities like a dance floor and camp kitchen in that park. Whether this kind of activity is covered or not under the society's insurance appears academic and not worth worrying about. If they are not it is probably because there is no risk to the society worth insuring.
In the unlikely event that these activities do need insurance then they should be insured. One of the objects of the society is to promote interest in activities like bush dancing, and the activities of The Bush Dancers display group certainly do that.
To suggest that these activities are not run by the Bush Dancers display group as an activity of the group and therefore of the Monaro Folk Society is arrant nonsense, and although I hesitate to appear paranoiac, suggest problems consciously or unconsciously contrived for reasons that are not in the interests of the society.
Regards
Lance
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