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This summarises the major discussions and actions from the BGA Council meeting 16th July 2011 and preceding discussions

• The Treasurer presented a draft budget, which implied a small loss. However, handover from the previous Treasurer had been problematic.
• There was a discussion on subscriptions (since they were unchanged for a number of years), whether clubs should pay separately etc.
• It was agreed, as a...

Thanks to John Collins we now have a new system to handle online Registration for our Tournaments. This does not handle any payments, but allows anyone to enter a tournament using a simple online form, provide an ICS calendar entry and also look at the list of publicly available entrants.

This system is available as a free service to any Tournament Organiser who is a BGA member.

It provides a number of options for specifying...

Like some other sports organisations we have decided to initiate some British Go Association awards in order to encourage players and organisers. We have selected the following categories for this year:

• Player of the year
• Club of the year
• Loss of the year (of a game)
• President’s award for services to Go.

Your nominations in each category are solicited by 31st December 2014 with a...

Association members are reminded of a benefit that few have taken up recently, perhaps in part because it was low down the website tree.

The Game Review Service can be a very efficient way of improving your game as comments are tailored to the individual's strengths and weaknesses.

So why don't you send in a game today?

I'm pleased to be able to announce that the following people have been appointed as Officials of our organisation:

• Gerry Gavigan as the London Open Organiser
• Maria Tabor as our new Marketing Manager

I'd like to welcome both of them on board - Please give them all they help they need.

Apologies for the delay in issuing the following - it was intended for the Newsletter but not included by mistake (not the Editor’s).

The agenda for our AGM next Saturday to be held at Butlins, Bognor Regis 7:30pm is:

• Election of Tellers
• Minutes of the 2013 AGM
• Matters Arising
• Officers, Membership Secretary and Auditors reports
• 2013 Accounts
• Election of Officers and Auditor...

The 2014 AGM for the British Go Association will be held on 1st March 7:30pm as part of the British Go Congress at Butlins Resort, Bognor Regis

Any members with motions for inclusion on the Agenda are requested to send them to the Secretary by 15th January.

This summarises the major discussions and actions from the BGA Council meetings 13th October and 2nd December 2012 and preceding discussions:

• Membership is still dropping slightly - our membership churn appears to be too high, but more effort would be put into chasing up non-renewals
• Some encouraging recruitment results had been seen by some University clubs, but more needed to be started, especially in locations...

Although I've written in the forthcoming British Go Journal that all Council members are offering themselves for re-election, it turns out that two of the existing members have recently decided not to for a variety of personal reasons.

We thank them for their efforts and hope that they will still continue working with the BGA to promote and develop Go in the UK.

Nominations for Council members are therefore solicited - this...