Annual Management Conference for Conservative Clubs in Yorkshire

Saturday, 3rd October 2009 - Gomersal Park Hotel, West Yorkshire

 

This year's conference took place on a rather blustery day at the Gomersal Park Hotel. Attendance was quite a bit down from last year's event, perhaps because of the weather and the timing of the conference just before the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Still, 38 delegates from 14 clubs came and were informed, entertained, and suitably refreshed (courtesy of Scottish & Newcastle).  ACC approved suppliers were represented by Mark Harrop and Terry Jones from Kelly's Eye/Lottery King, Barry Walker from FB Walker & Son, Graham Bennet from Bennett-Kaye, Jack Bethel from the Dransfield Novelty Company, Cathrine Moore and Sheila Bissett from Bissett, Kenning & Newiss, and Mike Scanlon and his team from Scottish & Newcastle.

 

Mike Scanlon gave a very useful presentation on how clubs can effectively manage their costs by following very sound advice which is not very difficult for all club committees to implement, and which could make the diffrerence between surviving the effects of social change and the economic downturn and going out of business. This was backed up by a short paper which detailed the measures and showed the financial effects of following or ignoring the advice. Mike also advised that S&N customers would also soon be seeing the international brand name Heineken on their invoices and adverts, as Heineken had now become the parent company. This would not alter the special service provided to clubs. Customers would still be able to call on the free support and advice, and asked to make sure they take up the benefit of Technical support or management advice at the earliest opportunity...

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