Sunday 23rd February – CYDRA’s 3rd Annual General Meeting

The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting.  All reports have been circulated either before the meeting or immediately afterwards to members and the full set of audited accounts is available for inspection.

Barbara highlighted the difficult year it has been throughout Cyprus and how that has affected everyone.  Shelters had to fight hard to survive and CyDRA has continued to provide what financial support they can, but with everyone suffering financially the knock on effect to charities is obvious.

Barbara thanked Lesley Hey for her amazing fundraising efforts throughout the year, gave details of the dogs re-homed and emphasised that the biggest positive step forward by CyDRA last year was the introduction of the training and education programmes, lead by Carole Husein.

The Treasurer highlighted the highs and lows financially and that it is fully apparent that 2014 is going to be a very difficult year for us, with a need to raise an additional 10,000 euros on top of the previous year’s fundraising if we are to continue rehoming dogs at the 2013 rate. Several plans are in place to work towards raising this additional amount.

There were updates from the shelters we support and a report about the Training and Education programmes.

This was followed by the re-election of the Committee, with all members from the previous committee being unanimously re-elected.  So your Committee members are:

 

 

Chair:   Barbara Bahlburg

Vice Chair:  Eamonn Quinn

Secretary:  Julie Quinn

Treasurer:  Maggie Dolan

Committee member: Carole Husein

 

Our thanks go to everyone for standing for re-election.

There being no other business relevant to the business of the AGM, the meeting was closed by the Vice Chair who encouraged everyone to continue working together to ensure another successful year for the dogs of Cyprus.

Full Minutes will be circulated to all paid up members prior to the next AGM.