Chairman's Chatter October 25

Secretary's Scribbles October 25

Electric Avenue October 25

It seems that something is being announced almost every day at the moment in the world of electric vehicles, with mainstream internal combustion engine (ICE) manufacturers giving details of new models and upgrades to existing units, so we want to keep you up to date with all this new-fangled electrickery techy thingy, as only your dedicated newsletter team can!

 

Time to “Elroq and Roll”

 

Stuck between a rock and a hard place?  Just cannot decide what the next car has to be? Well, I feel your pain!!  As a change from our normal “Electric Avenue” (I know you’ll miss my pearls of wisdom) for the next couple of issues only, I am going to delve into the world of buying and driving an electric car.

 

Now my trusty Skoda Yeti, was getting on in years, and I have to say has been a great car, over the last 8 years it has taken us over 54,000 miles, through lockdown, been on a few road trips, enjoyed the sea air and done it all without complaint.  But the time had come for us to part.  So off she went to pastures new.  But what to get next?  Hmmm has to be electric, and we want it to be able to perform all the tricks and more that the Yeti did!  We popped along and looked at a Skoda Enyaq - to big was the comment.  How about something small and Swedish?  Well yes, but getting in we banged out heads on the roof!  We are not tall, as I am sure you know!  OK  let’s look at Swedish but hatchback, saloon like - (alright it was Polestar). Too long, was the comment, and yes it was about 70cm longer than the Yeti.  Well maybe Korean, my wife has always liked the look of the Hyundai ionic 5.  Wow. when you are at the side of it, it is rather big (but not as large as it’s bigger brother the 9).  Maybe look at something with a 7-year warranty?  But that was not good either, just do not like the design (not a lot you can say about that) so back to Skoda.

 

There is now a smaller electric car, not as big as the Enyaq, called an Elroq.  We have talked about it in “Electric Avenue” before.  So, we went back to the Skoda dealership.  By the way, all this did happen over a number of weeks.  There in the showroom was an Elroq in a very nice shade of green, not crazy or luminous green, but a softer shade (so I’m told by those who know about these things).  Would you like to drive one we were asked?  Er, well actually, I do not have my driving licence with me I sort of replied.  I have mine my wife said.  Right, then you drive.  So, off we popped.  In a very nice silver Elroq, only a few months old.  It was very good, there is no question about that.  But I guess you would expect it to be, as it was the demonstrator vehicle.  We got back, and obviously, the very nice sales guy (by the way, he is an IAM member, but on a motorbike, well we all have our faults) asked what we thought about it.  Well, it is very nice and is sort of what we are looking for, but to be honest, we do not really want a brand new one.

 

Actually, this is for sale he said.  Hmmm.  OK how much?  The next few minutes are a bit of a daze, but the essence is, we bought it.  Now the fingernail biting starts….. eeek!

 

Anyway, you want to know what an Elroq is, are they any good, in fact what about the rest of the Skoda (Electric) range?  That’s the real question; well, I think so.

Now as you might know, we did have a bit of a show back in 2021 after lockdown when we put on The Northern Electric Car Show, at the University of Bolton, as it was back then.  Wow, did we work hard, but back then Skoda did not have an electric offering.  VW did have the id3 and we had one of those along with a range of other electrics.  So, we have a pretty good knowledge of what an electric car should be, and what we think of them.

 

The Elroq sits below the Enyaq, and the name is a combination of Electric and Karoq hence Elroq.  (The Karoq is a very popular selling car in the Skoda range.).  To be launched within the next year will be a Skoda Epiq that will be a smaller size, based on the Skoda Kamiq.  The Elroq sits in the middle of the range and expected to be the most popular electric car from them.  Anyway, what do we think of it?  As I type this, we have had it 3 days!  It is so far living up to expectations.  Even in the very showery weather we have had and a trip down the M62 in a downpour it is averaging just over 4.1 miles per Kwh.  The one we have is the Edition 85 with a quoted WLPT range of 360 miles, but we all know that can be taken with a fistful of salt.  Even so at the magical 4.0 figure the 77Kwh (usable power) battery pack should deliver around 310 miles.  The Elroq comes in 4 battery sizes 50, 60 and 85 each with it's own quoted range, 85 being the largest size battery.

 

Like lots of cars these days, it is keyless entry, and just walking next to the car unlocks it, and then the doors can be opened using what we would call a “Standard handle” not one that has to “pop out” like seen on some other manufactures cars.  The interior can also be specified in 3 various styles, Loft, Lodge or the most expensive “Suite” with a faux leather interior.  The Lodge, for example has the two-tone grey fabric and “Orange” seatbelts and it looks a lot better than it sounds. 

 

Getting into the drivers seat you are faced with a small but very usable display with battery range, speedometer, any warning speed limit, all that you would need and expect.  In the centre is the 13-inch infotainment screen which controls all the cars other functions.  It does have a handy range of standard short-cut buttons to save you trawling through menus to get to the right function you want to control.  Pressing the brake pedal or pressing the start button brings the car to life.  Drive is selected by a centrally mounted control “knob” that allows either Reverse, Neutral or Drive (D or B).  B stands for Brake, in essence increases the car’s “regen” to allow for energy to be put back into the batteries, selecting D it behaves very much like a normal car with automatic transmission.  Reverse automatically allows the rear camera to become active and displayed.

 

What’s it like to drive - that’s for the next instalment, as the car is so new, we want to give it a decent full drive on all types of roads, and in Autumn weather conditions. 

 

Well folks, that’s about it for the October edition, we hope you like the world class, award winning, journalism we bring you, not just this month, but every month, so look forward to seeing you again next month.  Until then, drive safe and remember to tell everyone about our fantastic, advanced driving course, next one starts on 30th October with an introduction evening at the usual venue, Lostock Parish Centre.  If you know of anyone that you think might be interested, then invite them along for a hot drink and a biscuit or two, we don’t bite.  Honest!

 

Remember, if you’re thinking of “upgrading” to electric, please let us know, we would love to hear what you are thinking of changing to, plus if you have any questions, or want to relate any experiences you have had, just shout out!

 

Barry Sloan – Publicity Officer

 

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Our President is moving on

Our President, Steve Cottam, is moving on to pastures new.  So new in fact that he will be 390 miles away in the north of Scotland from where he currently lives.

 

Steve had a long career as a Traffic Officer with Greater Manchester Police, before joining the Driving School as it was known in those days.  Encouraged by one of our long standing supporters, Bernard Loftus, Steve became involved in the Group in July 2002.  He claims that he was ‘interviewed’ by Les Wardle and myself, but I don’t remember it being that way!!

 

Steve gave the first of his January Group meeting talks in 2003, his topic being ‘The Work of the Driving School’.  He has continued his annual talks every year through to the present day, with a wide variety of topics which were both informative and at times, very challenging.

 

He introduced many new processes to the Group, one of the first being the Classroom Session at the start of each new course, basing it on the Driving School (now Driver Training Unit, DTU) day one introduction to The System of Car Control, IPSGA.  So successful was this change that we continue with the same style today.  He has given many classroom talks to Observers on Chapters in Roadcraft, The Police Drivers Manual, on which all Advanced Driving is based.  Our demo drive route was modified and standardised by Steve and is still the same today.  He, and other DTU members, supported our Diploma Course by giving the Roadcraft classroom sessions, and conducting the practical drive tests, on the challenging Cheshire roads, at the end of the course.  He re-introduced the ‘driving days out’ with members of GMP DTU, which had fallen by the wayside when Inspector Gordon Robertson retired.  These benefitted the many Observers (maybe over 50?) who were able to take part, and there was never any shortage of volunteers for these very special ‘money can’t buy’ days.

 

In 2007 Steve was invited to become Group President, a position he has held ever since.

 

We will miss Steve’s knowledge and enthusiasm for Advanced Driving, and wish him well in this new stage of his retired life.  I will also miss him as a personal friend.

 

Roy Sammons

Group Chairman     

My Journey from Associate to Examiner by Steve peary

As a young red blooded male, I was clearly the best driver in the world and didn’t feel the need to heed my dad’s advice that I should take, as he had, the IAM Advanced Driving test.  Who ever listened to their parent advice anyway.

 

Perhaps I should have listened as in late 1995 I managed to crash a company pool car in to a wall in Knutsford.  This was no ordinary crash, oh no, I managed to hit a wall with both ends of the car resulting in a banana shaped Rover 414SLi.  The crash was a loss of control in a bend.  Strange how we all probably feel we could handle a loss of control situation, i.e. the backend coming round (oversteer for those who understand these things).

 

Not so in my case, it happened very quickly and I over corrected causing further loss of control resulting in the car spearing forwards into said wall, bouncing off in an arc and hitting the wall again backwards with such force that the boot lid was completely covering the parcel shelf!  There was a crease in the roof and the drivers door could not be opened (they don’t build ‘em like they used to, thankfully).  Thankfully nobody else was involved or injured except for my pride.

 

It was following this incident that I had a word with myself, and my dad, who kindly paid for my IAM Advanced Driving course.  When I enrolled we had a classroom session and a demo drive.  On the demo drive I was shocked at how much my demo driver was seeing and how calm the drive was.  I was left wondering how I had survived driving all those years and perhaps how I might have avoided my loss of control accident.

 

I say accident but there are really very few true accidents.  Accidents are where nobody is to blame but out on the road these “accidents” are caused by a drivers error in 99% of cases therefore they are now called “collisions”.

 

After passing my Advanced Test in late 1996 I was converted to the advanced way of driving.  I was no longer Mr Angry or the best driver in the world!  Shortly after this I joined the next Observer training course (I was bitten by the driving bug) which was quite daunting what with exams and lots of Roadcraft swatting.  Once becoming an observer it takes a while to get used to sitting in the passenger seat and giving guidance, but eventually it starts to feel quite natural and it certainly helps to keep your own driving standards at a high level.  In 1998 I passed the Bolton Group Diploma, another achievement.

In 2006 I was persuaded to join the committee, which I did and soon took an active role resulting in me becoming the Vice Chairman in 2009 (how did that happen!).

 

Next challenge - take the Masters test!  I don’t remember doing much, if any training for this as I don’t think there was any (Roy, can you remember?).  Roy and myself were amongst the first to take this new Masters test and we both passed.  I have kept up my requalification’s ever since and have had the pleasure of mentoring some great candidates.

 

One thing I am particularly proud of is my involvement in the Diploma Course that the Bolton Group run every two years.  This takes a lot of time and dedication from the training team.  I cannot think of any driving course in the UK that gives so much for the price.  The candidates are usually surprised by the amount of study involved and unfortunately some fall by the wayside.  But those who persevere get to do some great training drives, not least the “Driving Day” which in my opinion is a fantastic, money can’t buy day out with almost no limits😊.  I get such a buzz from the smiles on the candidate’s faces and their improvement after a blast or two round the route.

 

More recently it was suggested to me that I might like to become a IAM RoadSmart Skills Day instructor.  I have done a few “track days” in the past, usually in the circuit’s cars, but hadn’t driven my own car on track.  This wasn’t really an issue as the Skills Days use “The System of Car Control” albeit a little faster than on the road.  Also I had done some track instructing for PSR which did ‘Under 17’ track days in Mini Cooper S’s so I knew I would enjoy the experience.

 

On arriving for my first Skills Day we did sighting laps in our own cars to learn the circuit, then I was in at the deep end and given a client for the morning and one for the afternoon, both of which thoroughly enjoyed their day, as did I.  Instructing on Skill days exposes you to all sorts of cars from a tuned 15 year old BMW with 500bhp to modern EV’s with 600bhp, and back to normal family saloons.  It is the owners of the family cars that are most surprised when they are pushed on and they suddenly realise how quick they are travelling and how capable “ordinary” modern cars are at cornering.

 

As I like to challenge myself I thought “what next?”  I had always fancied giving examining ago but until fairly recently one had to be a serving or retired police class one driver.  When this restriction was lifted; as a Masters Mentor with Distinction I was now eligible to apply.  I thought long and hard whether to apply as I felt I would be letting the group down but I just needed to do this for myself and would always wonder “what if” if I hadn’t applied.

 

I applied, and after sitting in the back for a few tests I was examined by our ADSM Dave Cox who duly passed me as being a car Examiner.  To date I have done one test which thankfully was a pass and have one more booked in.  Shortly I will begin National Observer Assessor training so I can be an NO Assessor as well.

 

I am not permitted to be involved with any group, or Associates and Observers but I will still be a Friend of the group and will continue my non-formal duties and will pop in for a coffee now and then.  And of course I will be available for the next Diploma Course.

Steve Peary

IAM Roadsmart Examiner

 

Re the first Masters in 2012 Steve, you are correct, there was no formal training for the Masters Test in those days, but we did have the benefit of expert guidance from Steve Cottam😊.

 

 

A message to new Associates

If you are one of our new associates on the August 2025 course, I’d like to give you a big welcome to Bolton Advanced Motorists.  I hope that you will enjoy your time with us as much as I enjoyed my course.  We will be asking you to change some of your driving habits so that you can pass your Advanced Test.  Some associates find this difficult.  If you are one of these please persevere.  You must attend consistently; if you go out with an observer on one Sunday and then miss the next two, when you next have an observed drive you will have forgotten much of what you were taught during the initial session.  During the week you must practise what you are learning on a Sunday morning.  Then you should find that around Session 5 it all starts to come together and you can see the benefits of driving using the System of Car Control, IPSGA.  If you find that it takes longer, don’t worry.  Tell your observer and, if necessary, speak to your mentor.  The Group has over 55 years’ experience of preparing drivers for their advanced test and, whatever your problem, I’m confident that we will have the answer.                                                                  Gary Whittle

Christmas Dinner 2025

 

Our Christmas Dinner will be held at

Bolton Old Links Golf Club, Chorley Old Road, Bolton, BL1 5SU

on FRIDAY December 5th.

 

Time is 7.00pm for dinner at 7.30pm until approx 11.30pm.

 

Your committee has decided that this should again be a subsidised event.

The cost of the meal is £40.00 per person (incl Gratuities).

Please include your choice of starter, main course and sweet with your booking, in writing please, by name.

 

 

MENU CHOICES

 

Broccoli and Stilton Soup served with crusty bread

OR

Duck Spring Rolls on a bed of Rocket served with Hoisin Sauce

OR

Salt and Pepper Calamari strips served on a bed of Rocket with a Sweet chilli sauce

 

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Roast Cheshire Turkey with Pigs in Blankets and all the Trimmings

OR

Baked Salmon Fillet and King Prawns marinated in soy sauce and ginger

OR

Vegetarian nut roast with all the trimmings (V)

 

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Traditional Christmas Pudding served with Brandy Sauce

OR

A selection of Cheese and Biscuits

OR

Banoffee Tart served with Toffee Sauce

 

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Freshly Brewed Coffee and mince pies

 

 

A very professional entertainer and DJ Lee Travers will entertain us throughout the evening

 

 

You can provisionally book your place by ringing Roy Sammons on

07973 309910 or email roy_sammons@yahoo.co.uk

However, your booking is not confirmed until your full payment

of £40.00 is received with your menu choices.

 

Closing date for booking is Friday November 21st.

Cheques payable to “Bolton Advanced Motorists” please, OR Cash if preferred.

OR

For Payment by Bank Transfer

Virgin Bank, 17-21 Oxford Street, Bolton, BL1 1RD

Account Name:    Bolton & District Advanced Motorists

Sort Code:   05-02-77 Account Number:   20730758

It is important that you quote your full name as your reference on any payment

 

     

 

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BOLTON & DISTRICT ADVANCED MOTORISTS

CHRISTMAS DINNER CHOICES 2025

 

PLEASE TICK CHOICE

 

Name of each person booking

Starters

Main Course

Desserts

Soup

Duck Spring Rolls

Calamari Strips

Turkey

Salmon

Vegetarian

Xmas Pud

Cheese & Biscuits

Banoffe

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2

3

4

5

6

7

8

 

If possible, I/we would like to be seated with ………………………………………………….…………………………………..

Please include this completed form with your full payment

Test Passes and Masters and National Observers July 25

The following Associates have been successful in their Advanced Test since the last newsletter went to print:

Masters success: 

 

Steve Peary (3 year reassessment passed with distinction)

 

 
Test Passes:

 

Congratulations to: Anny sharples, Alan Eden, Garry Thomas 

 

 

We now have fifty fsix IAM F1RST passes in the Bolton & District Group since the F1RST award was introduced.

Congratulations on your achievement and we hope you will enjoy your driving and continue to support the Bolton & District Group for many years to come. 

Your next challenge is to maintain (and build on) the skills you have achieved during your course.

National Observer:

 

Congratulations to IMI National Observer Passes

 

We offer our congratulations to the following who have recently taken their National Observer Assessments and passed;     

 

We now have a full complement of National Observers in the Bolton Group and are ‘leading the way’ in our region of IAM RoadSmart in completing conversions from Local Observer status to National Observer.

This follows many months of training, both classroom and driving assessments, and we are delighted with your success and proud of the results.  We now have an additional five National Observers on the books, with the possibility of two more interested and who will soon be starting training.

This his places the Bolton and District Group in a strong position with fifteen National Observers and we intend to celebrate this success.  This includes three of our current National Observers who recently took their N.O. five yearly reassessment.  Geoff Baker, Dougie Phillips and David Wilkinson all completed their assessment and passed without issue.

Many congratulations to you all on these fantastic achievements and thank you for ensuring the continued and future success of the Bolton and District Group.

It will help if you buy a badge for the front of your car – it will give you a ‘conscience’ to drive behind!  Also one of the Bolton Group window badges helps to advertise the Bolton Group.  Please speak to Chris Knowles.

 

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2025 Annual General Meeting Summary Report

2025 Annual General Meeting Summary Report

 

On 6th May 2025 the Chairman, Roy Sammons, welcomed everyone to the Annual General Meeting. He began by thanking the brilliant Observer team, and in particular members of the Training Team who had enabled us to establish a fully Qualified team of IMI National Observers within the timeframe set by Head Office, out of the blue, just over two years ago.  We began the year with 16 Observers (nine National and seven Local) and closed the year with 15 national Observers. 

Turning to test passes, he reported a final total for 2024 of 13 which was a marginal improvement over last year.  The good news was that of those 13, five were F1RSTS.  In 2023 we had 10 passes which was much lower than the 23 in 2022.  That year was up from 10 in 2021, a number which was in itself a significant improvement over the two passes achieved during the Covid year of 2020.  For comparison during 2019 we had 27 passes, which was 50 per cent more than 18 in 2018, 35 passes in 2017, then 31 in 2016, 47 in 2015, and 43 in 2014.  In 2013 we had 41 passes, 51 in 2012, 38 in 2011, 35 in 2010, 52 in 2009 and 70 in 2008, all short of our best ever year, 2006, when we reached 76 test passes. 

Covid had changed the climate for people enrolling on courses – or was it all down to the cost of the Advanced Driver course, which was increased to £204 by IAM RoadSmart on 1st April 2025?  Will that further deter people from joining a course to improve their driving?  We enrolled just five new Associates in February and four so far on our upcoming May course.  Despite the price, there is still no better value for money, but people don’t realise that until they take the course. The reduction in Associates over the years is not unique to the Bolton Group.  Nationally the numbers have reduced for cars, with only motorcycle groups ‘holding their own’ though even they no longer have the waiting lists they previously had.  So he made no apology for repeating that your Group still needs you to spread the word and encourage recruitment.

Of those who enrolled during the year, almost 40 per cent did not take the course through to Test.  Whilst this is very disappointing for us, we hope that the sessions our Observers undertook with Associates were not wasted and improved their driving standards.

At this point he thanked all the volunteers and members, without whom the Group would not exist.  From the Committee who give their time unstintingly, attending meetings and planning all our courses and events, to our dedicated Observers who support our courses, training needs and Diploma.  The members who attend the Group meetings (though we could always do with a few more regular ones), and those who join together for our Ride and Rambles (would anyone like to organise a couple?), trips and other visits were thanked.  There were too many to name individually but whatever you did, your effort was greatly appreciated.

He then talked about the shock of the year, the sudden and unexpected cancellation by Dobbies Sports and Social Club of our room hire after 25 years.  Having originally been invited to use their facilities, it appeared that we were no longer welcome, despite the fact that we paid for the full year ‘up front’.  Our payment for 2025 was rejected with just one month’s notice given, and only reluctantly extended until the end of February 2025.  He believed that they no longer wanted to plan around the bookings we made most Tuesdays, preferring to be able to do what they wanted when they wanted.  But change isn’t always bad, often bringing other benefits (like the new venue being closer to where he lived!), and now we had a much warmer room and at a venue which appreciated us.  We were pleased to be at Lostock Parish Centre.

Last year a Bolton News reporter enrolled on a course at our expense, with an agreement that we would receive newspaper articles covering his course experience.  Sadly, some difficult personal events, along with ongoing car problems meant that the course and articles could not be completed.  In return last weekend there was publicity in the paper for our May course, including pictures.  It will be interesting to see how many readers enrolled on the course after reading it.

We continued to have excellent records, kept by Lynn Jordan, Vince Dover and Steve Peary, which have contributed significantly to the planning and effectiveness of our Sunday mornings.  This included drives for trainee Observers, and those training for National Observer. 

Owing to lack of numbers, we did not organise a Diploma Course for 2025, but we hope that we will have sufficient numbers for a course to start in January 2026. 

Barry Sloan, our Publicity Officer, has continued to maintain the Group’s presence with vigour on all forms of social media, with our own public Facebook page.  The Chairman thanked Barry for his enthusiasm in maintaining and co-ordinating our presence, and equally to Steve Peary for keeping our website up to date and relevant.  Steve has been given a further task for the next few months to create a new website for the Group, IAM RoadSmart having given notice that they will no longer host a website on behalf of 39 Groups.  It just shows how vulnerable we are to the whims of Head Office; just 10 years ago we were actively encouraged to join the main IAM website with the benefits of free hosting, support and loading of IAM promotional material!

The Chairman had now completed his twenty eighth year in office, and members were aware that in previous years he had quoted the IAM guidelines recorded in the IAM Group Handbook. These state; “It is very strongly recommended that the post of Chairman be held for no more than three years and that there be a break of at least one year before being nominated again”. He did not wish to prevent anyone who would like to take the role from doing so, yet he was also conscious that many groups were closing because they were unable to form a committee.  We were very fortunate to have a dedicated Committee of 13 people to keep the group together, and with the necessary varied skills to do so.  He was happy and honoured to be Chairman of such a strong, active and enthusiastic IAM RoadSmart group.

He was very conscious that playing an active part in the Group was a hobby to us all – and for a hobby to be rewarding we needed to feel a sense of personal achievement. He hoped that everyone involved feels just that and closed, as usual, with the biggest possible ‘Thank You’ to everyone.”

The Secretary thanked the Chairman for his work during the year.  As always, he had worked harder than any other committee member and his enthusiasm, devotion, dedication and leadership skills inspired us all to remain one of the top IAM RoadSmart groups.

The Advanced Driver course cost £200 between 2nd April 2024 and 31st March 2025. It now costs £204.

The Group recruited 21 associates during the year compared with 15 last year and 19 in 2022-23.  Thirty-five members didn’t renew their subscriptions.  Our membership at the beginning of May 2025 consisted of 129 full members, 14 associates and nine friends.  These add up to a total of 152 compared with 163 at this time last year.  We were currently sending out only 28 monthly Newsletters by post compared with 126 by email.  Those who received theirs by post, were asked to think about transferring.  They would get access to the Newsletter’s web links and save the Group printing and increasing postage costs.  Special thanks were due to those who sent postage stamps for their newsletters.  The Group subscription remained at £10.

The Secretary closed by repeating what the Chairman had said many times, personal contact and recommendation continued to be very important in recruiting new associates and sincere thanks were given to those who had encouraged friends or relatives to enrol this year.

The Treasurer reported another straightforward year, continuing the management of the accounts online, allowing prompt payment of invoices etc.  We still needed to progress to more members paying their annual subscriptions online. The number of new associates coming through continued to be low despite our extensive advertising through social media and recommendation.

A slight drop in both members and new associates contributed to a drop in income in the Charity Account.  Expenses were lower mainly because we had not paid room hire in advance as we have in the past.  The current slightly larger bank balance will decrease over the year as we pay room charges.  Turning to the Social Account, Ride and Rambles and Raffles brought in a similar amount to last year, but not having the surplus from events we had last year meant a drop in income.  Speaker expenses were similar but the Xmas dinner subsidy was greatly reduced.  These led to an overall drop of almost £200 in the account.  Overall cash in both accounts remained in a healthy position to cover payments needed.

Thanks were due to Roy for producing the balance sheet and liaising with Warran Bolton for the audit of the accounts.  Thanks were also given to Margaret and her band of helpers in organising the raffles.  Chris was thanked for organising the speakers and looking after the clothing account as were Vince and Lynn for the social events.

All office-holders and committee members, who had to seek re-election were re-elected along with Dougie Phillips who rejoined the Committee.  Contact details can be found on the inside front cover of the Newsletter.

Group Required Contract Statement to Members

Here at the Bolton & District Group of Advanced Motorists we would like to thank you for renewing your membership with us, as part of your membership contract with us, we will contact you with information on training, committee, and social events, together with newsletters/magazines relating to the group and Road Safety.

Pictures, videos and written updates of Bolton & District Group of Advanced Motorists, events such as training, committee and social events at which you may be in attendance or referred to, will also be regularly published on Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter etc, group newsletters/magazines and group related websites.

Bolton & District Group of Advanced Motorists also shares your information with IAM RoadSmart in order to administer membership activities.

Option to Withdraw from the above

You have the right to withdraw from receiving or participating in any of the above, by contacting Bolton & District Group of Advanced Motorists.

 

I DO NOT WISH TO:-

□   receive information on training, committee, and social events, together with newsletters/magazines relating to the group and Road Safety.

□   to appear in or be referred to in or on any group social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter etc, group newsletters/magazines and group related websites.

Signature:                                                                          ______________________

Name (in capitals):                                                            ______________________

Date:                                                                                 ______________________

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Please notify the Bolton & District Group of Advanced Motorists by email to gkwhittle@btinternet.com or by letter to:-

Gary Whittle,

Group Secretary

Bolton & District Group of Advanced Motorists,

50 Albert Road West

Bolton

BL1 5HG

 

If you do not return this document with your Subs renewal form we shall continue to communicate with you as we do now.

 

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Reg Local - a series of video’s on How to Pass an Advanced Driving Test

There are 9 modules and can be found by clicking the following link; 

 

https://www.youtube.com/c/RegLocal/playlists

 

Introduction

System of Car Control

Steering

Braking

Acceleration Sense

Cornering

Overtaking

Signalling

Commentary

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