{"id":4108,"date":"2026-05-01T21:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:20:18","slug":"success-at-the-agm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/success-at-the-agm\/","title":{"rendered":"Success at the AGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260416_191308-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260416_191308-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260416_191308-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260416_191308-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260416_191308-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260416_191308-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260416_191308-2048x1153.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who attended the AGM a couple of weeks ago, in our fifth hybrid AGM.<\/p>\n<div>I would like to take this opportunity to introduce the new management committee for 2026-2027\/29.\u00a0 <span class=\"mark4avt955q7 uM2yb\" data-markjs=\"true\">Congratulations<\/span>\u00a0to everyone who was elected.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><u>Results of the AGM elections:<\/u><\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><b>County Coordinator <\/b>&#8211; M9XTA Jason Moore will continue as Coordinator &amp; Chairman for a sixth tenure. Following a change to our constitution, this will now be until 2029.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><b>Deputy County Coordinator <\/b>\u2013 M9KFG Chris Freebody, was duly elected to support the County Coordinator. Following a change to our constitution, this will now be until 2029.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><b>Treasurer<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 2E0UCB Chris Barber was duly elected. Following a change to our constitution, this will now be until 2028.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><b>Secretary<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 M0WRB Richard Brindley was duly elected. Following a change to our constitution, this will now be until 2028.<\/div>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Your new\u00a0<b><u>Area Co-ordinator<\/u><\/b>\u00a0Teams:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><b>North Coordinator<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Elected M0WRB Richard Brindley,\u00a0however post AGM and a discussion with the North Area, it was agreed that\u00a0<b><u>M9PMR Owen Hutley<\/u><\/b> will now stand as North Coordinator.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><b>Deputy North Coordinator<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Elected M9PMR Owen Hutley, however post AGM and a discussion with the North Area, it was agreed that\u00a0<b><u>M0WRB Richard Brindley<\/u><\/b> will now stand as Deputy North Coordinator.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><b>Central Coordinator<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 M9PSN Gareth James<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><b>Deputy Central Coordinator<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 M9NNZ John Doughty<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><b>South Coordinator<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 G8YPK Vince Maddox<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><b>Deputy South Coordinator<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 M7GXE Pen Wonfor<\/div>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Area Coordinators and co-opted committee members remain at a tenure of one year, as this was unchanged at the EGM.<\/div>\n<div>The Management Committee can also co-opt up to 6 other members onto the team.<\/div>\n<div>As such, we have the following co-opted roles so far, following an Executive Meeting of the elected committee, which took place on Thursday 23<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0April:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul data-editing-info=\"{&quot;applyListStyleFromLevel&quot;:true}\">\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><b>Social Media Officer<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; M0NAS Neil Smith<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><b>Training &amp; Supplies Officer<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; G8UDD Steve James<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><b>Committee\u00a0 Member<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; M7OGV Derek Drew-Smith<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260416_191325-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260416_191325-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260416_191325-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260416_191325-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260416_191325-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260416_191325-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260416_191325-2048x1153.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to everyone who attended the AGM a couple of weeks ago, in our fifth hybrid AGM. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce the new management committee for 2026-2027\/29.\u00a0 Congratulations\u00a0to everyone who was elected. Results of the AGM elections: County Coordinator &#8211; M9XTA Jason Moore will continue as Coordinator &amp; Chairman<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/success-at-the-agm\/\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4112,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}