Dear Friend,
Greetings to you, and a very happy New Year.
This is to advise you that the Annual General Meeting of the Friends will be held as follows:
Thursday 28 February 2008 at 7.30pm
in Room 206 (upstairs) at the School of Music, University of Canterbury.
There should be ample after-hours parking in the adjacent car parks but please do not use any user-designated (reserved) car parks. The minutes of the 2007 AGM, the Trust’s annual report and the audited accounts for the 2007 year will be available for perusal from 7.15pm.
Thanks to the work of your Trustees, we have again managed to hold the subscription rate to $5 per person, couples $8. Membership entitles you to voting rights at the AGM, receiving mail-outs like this one to inform you of organ concerts, and a generous discount on Ticketek prices for the International Organ concerts. If you wish to renew your membership for the 2008 year, or indeed wish to join for the first time, simply detach and complete the application form below and return it, or present it at the AGM, to our Treasurer with your subscription. To claim your discount when booking for a concert, please show your membership card which will be sent to you with the receipt shown below.
If you go to the events page, you will see that this year we are presenting three New Zealand organists, who are international artists in their own right. Each is the curator of a major civic organ and their programmes promise to be exciting and innovative.
Please actively promote these concerts among your friends. If everyone brought along just one new person this year, that would be a 100% increase! Why not treat a family member or friend by introducing them to the Town Hall organ?
Any donation of $5 or more over and above your subscription received by the Friends (as a charitable trust) towards our work of promoting the Town Hall organ are tax deductible. Would you consider helping us further by adding a tax deductible donation to your subscription? Even if you are able to donate even $10, this would help ensure these concerts can continue.
We look forward to seeing you at the AGM and the concerts this year.
David Towns
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Secretary to the Trustees, Friends of the Christchurch Town Hall Organ Trust
