1. Zoom Meeting Opened -7.08pm (Vic time)
2. Present: W. Chirgwin, M. Stringer, B. Voysey, J. Spiteri, C. Dyer, M. Miller
3. Visitors: Nil
4. To receive apologies: J. Siggins
5. To receive and confirm the minutes of 26thMarch 2025
Amendments - Nil
Correctly Moved and Seconded
6. To discuss business arising from the above minutes:
· Facebook pages moved to General Business
Correctly Moved and Seconded
7. To receive correspondence in:
a. New Members – 24th Apr, 30th Apr, 22ndMay, 5th Jun
b. Horse Deals Statement – Mar, Apr & May
c. Balance Sheet & Profit and loss Statement for Mar & Apr
d. Profit and Loss Statement July to March
e. LBC Tax Invoice for March - $1764.25
f. Greg & Steve Norris – Tax Invoice for Lodgment - $121.00
g. Printmedia Tax Invoice for Reg Certificates - $1463.00
h. Renewal of Zoom $246.29
i. Email re NSW Member Facebook postings and publishing AMPS® correspondence: Discussed briefly. Member in question not rejoining
AMPS® therefore it was agreed the matter was finalized.
8. Correspondence out:
· Number of return phones, emails and texts to members regarding membership, registration, transfers, stud returns and general pony enquiries, etc.
9. To receive and accept new members subject to Membership Committee Approval
· 24th Apr, 30thApr, 22nd May, 5th Jun
Correctly Moved and Seconded
10. To receive and accept new Measurers.
· NIL
11. Reports
· President – W. Chirgwin
Hi everybody, Time is flying it would seem whether we are having fun or not and guess what is nearly upon us, yep National Annual General meeting which for the last couple of years has run successfully via zoom will again run under the same zoom format, commencing at 10:00am on Saturday the 20th of September. The zoom ID for the meeting will be supplied by the National Secretary via email so please feel free to email her if you are wanting to attend the meeting from your own lounge room. All our regular meetings are now also held via zoom which saves a lot of time and money with the current price of fuel, for our committee as they don’t need to travel and can zoom from wherever they are. If you have thought of wanting to be on the National Committee but didn’t think you had the time now might be a good time to make that commitment as it is certainly more manageable and I would really like to see some new faces on committee. I would like to thank our current committee again for all the work they do as always with challenges, its not always easy but we still seem to somehow keep our society viable so thank you. Hope to see some of you via zoom for our AGM commencing at 10:00am EST on Saturday the 20th of September.
· Secretary – M. Stringer
Things are starting to move slowly with memberships, upgrades and foal registration coming in and the states are starting to get ready and start organizing shows and fundraising etc. All current financial members will soon receive their membership renewal and nomination forms which invites them to nominate for any National Committee and State Delegates positions. As all positions will be vacated and voluntary, I would hope that members would think about coming on board and giving it a go as we need help to keep the Society moving forward so if anyone knows anyone please encourage them to come on board and nominate as we really need new members to join us.
· Treasurer – J. Spiteri
Figures for the end of April
Income $1485.00
Expenses $3355.10
Loss $1870.10
Total Equity $26268.78
· Small Talk Editor – J. Spiteri
No Report
· State Delegates
VIC – M. Stringer
As we head into the cold winter months it is the time to prepare for the foal and youngstock shows where we can go to just for fun and a few laughs. I am in the process of updating our show date calendar for the 2025 – 2026 the Vic Committee have already set some dates and Venues for the group shows
Gippsland 12th Oct Berwick Showgrounds Judge Sandy Leggit, Westernport 26th Oct Berwick Showgrounds, Geelong Pocket Ponies Show 2nd Nov Geelong Show Grounds, Central Goldfields 30th Nov Heathcote Showgrounds, AMPS Championship 10th Jan Werribee Park, Double Show 18th Jan Berwick Showgrounds, Northern Show 1st Feb, Barastoc 7th Feb Werribee Park Its coming up to the Vic AGM so if anyone would like to put up their hand to be State Delegate the nomination form will be in the mail out with your membership renewals etc. I am happy to help anyone who would like to give it a go just let me know. Again, I need to thank my committee and their families for all their hard work over the last 12 months from setting up the grounds and donating their time to help run the AMPS® shows and those who donated Garlands, prize money, trophies and raffle prizes without all of you there would be no shows or classes. We hold our Victorian meetings on the first Friday night of every second month so if anyone has any ideas as we need to get more members involved, so If you know anyone that maybe interested in making a difference please encouragement them to come to meetings and help the Victorian Committee and AMPS® Society
SA – B. Voysey –
Planning is in place for our SA 2025 / 2026 Show Season with High Point Classes at 3 or 4 Ag Shows, several of our own Shows, as well as a State Championship Show. As is our custom in SA, so that we can save on funds we will share Show venues and Judges with MHAA® SA. We are also planning a couple of Promotional Events this season, which are always popular with our Members and are a great opportunity to show to the general public the versatility of Miniature and Appendix Ponies. High Points have been calculated for last season, have been checked and I am in the process of advising the Members who were successful and once they are all notified, we will begin High Point Presentation preparations.
NSW - B. Voysey We had very good entries in the Miniature Pony Classes at the Sydney Royal Show this year and I was told by the Judge that the entries were of a very high standard, with one of our Members being successful in winning two sections of the competitions. As well as other Members achieving great results in the Harness section. Our Members were very pleased to have an Interstate Judge this year and felt that the Judging was extremely thorough and fair. I have submitted feedback for the 2025 Show and Judge names for consideration for the 2026 Sydney Royal, as well as requesting they consider including Appendix Classes Unfortunately, AMPS® NSW had to postpone our planned show at Merriwa in May, but we have some other Shows planned in conjunction with MHAA® NSW in the coming Show Season.
12. General Business
· Facebook pages: M Stringer reported that she still has no access to any of the AMPS® FB pages due to her page being hacked and she is unable to set up new pages.
Facebook pages were discussed and B Voysey suggested that ideally we should always have at least 2 National Committee Members as admin on all pages.
It was agreed by Committee that as M Stringer is unable to access the
AMPS® National and Victorian Pages that J Spiteri, M Miller and
C Dyer have admin roles on them. Therefore, if anything needed posting on these pages either one of them could do the post.
B Voysey confirmed that her and M Towle were admin on the SA and NSW pages, now that M Stringer is not able to access these pages. Therefore B Voysey will look into adding C Dyer and J Spiteri on these pages as back-up admins.
13. To accept and ratify payments.
· LBC Tax Invoice for March - $1764.25
· Greg & Steve Norris – Tax Invoice for Lodgment - $121.00 – W. Chirgwin needs clarification on what this invoice is for.
M. Stringer to follow up with A. Ryan LBC before payment of this Invoice.
· Printmedia Tax Invoice for Reg Certificates - $1463.00
· Renewal of Zoom $246.29
Correctly Moved and Seconded
14. Next Meeting Date
· Following AGM Saturday 20thSeptember 2025 10am (Vic) Zoom
15. Meeting Closed
· 8pm (Vic Time)
