Scotland Area (SCOONS) Meeting Report 23rd March 2021

[Graeme Dunbar]

We held our second Zoom get-together on Tuesday 23rd March starting at 8 pm. There were 19 members present, including some who not on the first call.

I understand there are 78 Society members in Scotland and the membership secretary was able to email 62 on our behalf. (Many thanks Brian!) Of these, 27 have made contact and presently we have 23 interested in meeting up via Zoom.  We will never find a time that will suit everyone so we decided to arrange fortnightly calls and try varying the days of the week to work with time clashes so that members will be able to join for part of the time.

The schedule for April and May is posted on another thread.

We have some experienced and active modellers but also a number of new and returning modellers who are keen to learn modelling techniques so hope to  help one another and also reach out to others who can help us. We also have members who have been active in promoting model railways at exhibitions and online and with a view to exhibitions starting again are keen to promote the Society.

Our numbers are healthy for Zoom calls but being geographically spread so widely it is less likely that we will start regular physical meetings as I'm sure many other groups anticipate doing again. We considered other means of electronic contact but this forum seems ideal as potentially reaching all Society members in Scotland and so hope to make greater use of it. Our intention is to let others know about our activities in 'Branchlines' in the 009 News and are aware that space there may be limited so the forum will be of great help in providing additional space.

[Sara Marshall]

As mentioned by Graeme, the schedule is to be found here ...

   https://www.009society.com/forum/index.php?topic=4628.0