By OGAE UK Secretary & Treasurer, Simon Bennett OGAE UK CLUB UPDATE As at the start of September our total membership stood at 7,310 and we continue to attract a steady stream of new members. It will be interesting to see how many members renew their memberships when they expire and so we will only get a proper idea of how our core membership numbers have changed towards the end of this year. Here are a few updates on current developments and initiatives.
CLUB UPDATE Annual General Meeting We are currently working on arrangements for this year’s Annual General Meeting. The AGM is a formal meeting where the Committee reports back on the membership on the club’s activities during the year and gives a summary of the cub’s finances and plans for the future. A date and venue will be announced in the coming weeks. Unfortunately, the minutes of the last AGM were not circulated to members as promised. We are working to address this issue as quickly as we can and apologise for this unacceptable delay.
Website: We are aware that there have been problems with our website recently. Rest assured that we are working on the problem and hope to have it fixed and the site back up and running as soon as possible.
The Malmö Arena
Eurovision 2024 Tickets
Committee structure Those who attended last year’s Annual General Meeting may recall that the Committee undertook to bring forward some proposals for restructuring the club’s governance and for addressing the vacant committee member position. Making such changes is quite a long and complicated process and it was always going to have to wait until after this year’s Eurovision given that most committee members were working so hard on arrangements for Liverpool. We had hoped to present our proposals and action plan by now but various factors have meant that this proved impossible. Circumstances have changed slightly and new club elections are due within a few months, but the Committee is still working on its proposals and will present them as quickly as possible. Membership Details Please remember that all membership details can be accessed at any time on www.membermojo.co.uk/ ogaeuk . You do not need a password to log on to Membermojo and you will find instructions on how to access your account on the start page. Once logged on, you will be able to check your membership details as well as update personal details such as your postal or email address. If you have an OGAE International membership card you can find your UK membership number at the bottom on the right under the flag. Please provide this number if you are writing to us with any queries. Please do not use the card number as this is only used by OGAE International and not by us.
Membership Renewal You can easily check the expiry date of your membership by logging on to membermojo. The vast majority of memberships expire on 31 October 2023 and renewal is NOT automatic. For those members who joined since this year’s contest, your membership may be valid until 31 October next year, you can easily check on membermojo . For those memberships that are expiring, you will receive an email notification 30 days in advance and two further reminders. The emails will provide all the details you need to renew but you can access this at any time from early October by logging on to membermojo . Do not worry if you miss the 31 October expiry date, you will still be able to renew and maintain your continuity of membership for several weeks after this date. If you do not want to renew your membership there is no need to take any action. Simply ignore the expiry messages and your membership will lapse on 31 October. l Please remember, however, that if you allow your membership to lapse but later rejoin, you may lose your qualifying years of membership for future ticket ballots. Membership Cards The vast majority of members have an electronic membership card delivered through the Cardskipper app. The only exceptions will be people who joined very recently or who have not provided unique email addresses or mobile phone numbers. These cards are issued and controlled by OGAE International. All UK cards expire on 31 October 2023 regardless of the expiry date of your UK membership. Cards will be renewed as required in November but please remember that our membership details and the cards are maintained on completely separate systems and it will take a little time to update your cards after you renew (especially if you do so after 1 November). Membership cards are only issued to members over 16 years of age and please remember that you may only have one membership card, even if you are a member of multiple clubs. Please do not email the main club address with queries about membership cards. Instead, if you do not have an OGAE International membership card or are having issues accessing it, please register your issue using this link https://forms.gle/ T8sr52Z8D9uPhmtt6 . We appreciate that the text for this link is rather convoluted so we will be sending out an email with a direct link to the reporting database. l Please do not try to set yourself up on Cardskipper without receiving a link by email or text message as the system will not recognise you.
We are already getting a lot of enquiries about tickets for Eurovision 2024. Nothing has yet been announced regarding tickets and OGAE International ticketing procedures are currently being reviewed. OGAE International is responsible for ticket negotiations and will then decide how many tickets are allocated to OGAE UK. Members should be under no illusions about the availability and price of the tickets. The capacity of the Malmö arena for the contest has not yet been finalised but the quantity of any tickets made available to the entire OGAE network will be limited and OGAE UK’s share will probably be smaller than in 2023. We have no indication yet of ticket prices, but they are very likely to be in line with the prices in Liverpool. We will communicate details of the OGAE UK ticket application and allocation process, including those for accessible tickets, as soon as they are finalised.
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