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Malcolm Lockey Profile

The Year Ahead
It is a great privilege being National President and believe me when I say that it is a ‘job and a half!’ My feet have hardly touched the ground since Scarborough and if you check out my diary there is a lot more to come!!

I am here to serve the Association – and that means you. If you want to involve me in anything, simply check my diary on the website and if I am free – invite me. It would be good to fit in additional visits when I am in your area.
My theme for the year is ‘Reach out’. Everything that I shall be doing this year will be shaped by that theme and informed by the revised objects of the Association that were unanimously agreed at our AGM. If you have missed them – check them out here. Our objects encourage us to be active!

(Congratulations to Brian Ward, Hon. Sec. of Shepperton who was the first to spot [or tell me] that I had not included the revised Objects of the Association on this page.  He wins a bottle of wine which I shall deliver personally whenever we may meet at some point this year.)

I’m certainly going to be active when I walk the Association’s 100 mile Millennium Way in aid of my chosen charity – the Ocean Youth Trust, later this month. I’m going to try and keep a ‘blog’ during the walk so check out what’s happening below at the bottom of this page. You will be welcome if you want to come and join me.

The Ocean Youth Trust does some impressive work among young people – many of whom are disadvantaged. The challenge this year is for every club to give a minimum of £10 per month – or £100 during the average year – in support of the charity. If we can do this, we shall raise well over £80,000 which will go a very long way to help OYT do much needed follow up work among the young people who have sailed with them. Check out OYT’s regional websites or keep an eye on our own website. And don’t forget – we 41ers have a chance to sail with OYT this year.

A last word: it would be good if the money you give was ‘new money’ – money that does not come out of your own pockets – but money you raise by doing something – a garden party – a safari supper – a concert – anything where you can reach out and be active!

Have a good year. I look forward to meeting up with you at some point!

Malcolm