Company - Minutes

Joint Councils 1st Ballyclare Church Halls 9th November 2010

1. Welcome and Opening Devotions Our President, Mr Drew Buchanan, MBE, welcomed everyone to the meeting and asked the Battalion Secretary to lead our opening devotions.

2. Attendance and Apologies The attendance book was circulated and 24 Officers representing 15 Companies signed the book with 7 others offering their apologies

3. McCune Cup and Fitzell Cup presentations The President invited the secretary to announce the results of the McCune and Fitzell competitions. These were as follows:-

McCune Cup - Competed for by Companies within the Carrickfergus area
3rd place 4th Carrickfergus with 36 pts
2nd place 2nd Carrickfergus with 37 pts
Winner 8th Carrickfergus with 53 pts

The President presented the McCune Cup to Mrs G. Armstrong

Fitzell Cup Competed for by Junior Sections within the Battalion

3rd Place 8th Carrickfergus with 23 pts
2nd place 1st Kilbride with 25 pts
Winner 1st Larne with 31 pts.

The President presented the Fitzell Cup to Mr W. Magill

4 " Oh Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy" The President introduced Mr. Colin Miller who is the Disability Consultant for the Boys' Brigade in Northern Ireland who spoke on the topic of understanding our boys better.

5. Break into separate council section then re-unite

6. Battalion website. The President update those present on the updated website.

7. Benediction. There being no further business the President brought the meeting to a close by giving thanks for the supper to be supplied by our hosts and everyone saying the Grace together.

Company Section Council

A Opening Prayer The President occupied the chair and opened this part of our meeting with prayer.

B Training matters Skills training for Ballyclare was completed satisfactorily and next one would be in Carrickfergus area in late January/early February. We had not been able to run the non-residential YLT course in Carrickfergus due to only a few signing up despite the interest previously shown.

C Sports programme The Battalion sports programme was going well and it was hoped that the current programme, with dates and venues to be similar to this year, could be repeated next year. It was noted that there had been a clash of dates with the sports programme and the training programme and both convenors will be asked to try to liaise so that clashes do not occur.

D C.E. Exam and Battalion Church Parade. The Secretary enquired as to how many companies present would be entering the C.E. Exam and also asking those present to put the date of the Battalion Church Parade into their diaries and make a firm intention to be present on Sunday 27th March 2011 in Larne. Comment was made that the Londonderry Battalion had moved their Church Parade to October when everyone was engaged in their Company programme and had a much better attendance. The Executive would look into this.

E Any other business (1) Michael McConkey reminded the meeting that the closing date for applications for Boys and Officers to join the Team India project was the 4th December 2010. (2) Discussion on the development of the resource area of the Battalion website and the need to put display ideas into the site to be able to enter that area which would be password protected. It was also requested that badge-work ideas should also have an area within the resource section of the website.

F Close The President closed the Company Section Council and we returned to the main meeting.