Dear Tower Ravens
I wrote to you at the beginning of December inviting your side to
renew its membership of Open Morris for 2017. Attached to the email
was a copy of a blank Side Record Sheet to be completed and returned
together with payment, or details of how payment will be made. To date
I have not received your completed form.
Your Public Liability Insurance through Open Morris will expire on
25th January 2017 if your membership is not renewed.
Please return the form and payment as soon an possible to ensure
continuing insurance cover. If there are no changes to your contact
and other details, just state that on the form rather than completing
all the boxes. Standing orders and bank transfers should be made by
15th January 2017.
2017 Subscription Rates are in my original email below; - rates
increase by ��10 after 31st January.
I look forward to hearing from you quite soon; please ignore this
email if your form/payment is in the post.
Best wishes
Liz Scholey
07738709080
Membership Secretary
Open Morris
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membership@open-morris.org:
> Dear Tower Ravens
>
> It is time, once again, to renew your Open Morris subscription. As
> you know, Open Morris subscriptions are due for payment in January
> each year. Owing to new systems being set up we are a little later
> than last year sending out the reminders, for which I apologise.
>
> Attached to this email is a document combining a Side Record Sheet
> (for completion and return) and a Standing Order Mandate (for you to
> send to YOUR bank, if you choose to pay by Standing Order).
>
> 2017 Subscription Rates are unchanged at:
>
> Before January 31st and new members throughout the year
> ��35.00 per adult side
> ��17.50 per overseas side
> ��15 per junior side
> ��7.00 per individual member
>
> After January 31st
> ��45.00 per adult side
> ��27.50 per overseas side
> ��25 per junior side
> ��17.00 per individual member
>
> Open Morris information is now routinely sent via email. Please check
> that the email address on the side record form is up to date and links
> to someone who will reliably pass on information to the rest of the
> side.
>
> NB. Certificates for 2017 will not be sent until we have received both
> your payment AND your completed and signed Side Record form. Even if
> none of your officers have changed, sometimes you forget that phone
> and email contact details have altered during the year, and without up
> to date information we cannot keep in touch!
>
> Small print ��� please note that proof of insurance cover will not be
> issued until the new policy comes into effect (even though you may
> have renewed your subscription in December).
>
> Payment methods
> The side record sheet includes a tear-off form if you wish to set up a
> Standing Order to pay your subscription. However you chose to pay
> please remember to include the reference number shown at the top of
> the Side Record Sheet and indicate which payment method you have
> chosen on the Side Record Sheet.
> Please set up Standing Orders by taking the mandate form to YOUR bank
> as soon as possible, preferably before the end of December.
>
> Insurance
> Your current Public Liability insurance cover will run out on 25th
> January; it will not be renewed for 2017, and no proof of cover
> issued, until you renew your subscription to Open Morris. Even if you
> are not dancing out, you need insurance for use of practice halls;
> increasingly venue and events organisers are asking to see proof of
> cover.
> OM officers do not give advice on insurance matters; the most recent
> ���JMO Insurance FAQs��� provided by the Morris insurance broker, is
> available from the OM website:
http://www.open-morris.org/insurance.html
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>
> Personal Accident Cover
> This is optional and is available to individual members of Morris
> sides who are based in the UK and aged between 16 and 70. Open Morris
> members can obtain this cover only through UK sides to which they
> belong. Please return payment for PA cover with completed forms direct
> to Michael Stimpson; his address, email and phone number are all on
> the form, should you have any queries. Your side contact will receive
> an emailed application form or you can go to:
>
http://www.open-morris.org/insurance.html and follow the link from
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> that page for the 2-page form once the current form is available.
>
> Exclusions from insurance cover:
>
> Pyrotechnics
> The Morris insurance does not cover pyrotechnics of any kind!
>
> Ceilidhs
> If you are holding a ceilidh open to members��� families and/or partners
> or to the public, you may need additional cover ��� please read the ���JMO
> Insurance FAQs���.
>
> Outside the UK
> Please read the ���JMO Insurance FAQs���, see above;
> Make sure you take your insurance certificate with you;
> UK based sides are covered for trips abroad except for visiting the
> USA or Canada ��� you will need to arrange and pay for additional cover
> for these countries.
> Sides which are based outside the UK are not covered; if you are one
> of these sides and are planning a UK tour, contact Michael Stimpson
> for advice about insurance cover when in the UK [01923 770425].
>
> Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
>
> Liz Scholey
> Membership Secretary
> 7, Redleaf Close
> Tunbridge Wells
> Kent, TN2 3UD