2017 Diary - April

Our normal meeting - the third Sunday of the month - clashes with the Easter Sunday services being held at Longbridge Methodist Church.

We've confirmed a revised date of Sunday 9th April at our normal time of 3:30pm until 6:00pm

Midland Expo 2016

 

It now just over a week until our show, Midland Expo 2016. 

For up to date information please go to the Midland Expo website.

Bill Nicholls, one year on.

One year ago today we lost one of our longest serving members and staunchest supporter, Bill Nicholls.

For full details of Bill's life and contribution to the club go to; The Bill Nicholls In Memoriam Page.

First meeting of 2016.

A reminder to our members (or anyone who would like to come along and see what we do) that tomorrow we have our first meeting of the year at the new venue; Longbridge Methodist Church Reception/Cafe area, 1654/8 Bristol Road South, Longbridge, Birmingham. B45 9TY at 3.30 PM.

For full details please see the "About IPMS Birmingham" page

John Carter

We have received tragic news of the sudden death of one of our younger members John Carter.

At the moment we have very few details and understand that the matter is in the hands of the coroner.

Meanwhile, our thoughts and sympathies are with John's family at this distressing time.

AGM and New Venue.

The Sunday 15th November meeting included the club's Annual General Meeting for the election of the branch officers for the coming year. On this occasion there were no changes and all of the previous incumbents were re-elected unopposed.

George Green proposed that the competition theme for 2016 should be "The Best of British" - anything that is predominantly British in content, which was unanimously approved.

The major decision was the move to a new venue in the new year. While we have had no problems with the management and staff of Kings Heath Community Centre, regrettably the same cannot be said of Birmingham City Council Finance Department who, despite us having paid in advance for the room hire, persist in sending payment demands culminating recently in our Treasurer, Matt Nicholls receiving a communication from a debt collection agency. This is a totally unacceptable situation which has forced us to seek an alternative venue and Matt fairly quickly located somewhere suitable.

So, from January 2016 our new venue will be:

Longbridge Methodist Church

Reception/cafe Area

1654/8 Bristol Road South,

Longbridge,

Birmingham.

B45 9TY

Meetings will continue to be on the third sunday of each month but will start half an hour later than at present - 3.30 to 6.00 PM.

Meanwhile, the December 2015 meeting/Christmas party will be at Kings Heath Community Centre as usual.

Counting down to Scale ModelWorld 2015.

It is now only a fortnight until Scale ModelWorld 2015 and the plans for the club's display are well advanced.


This year there will be three elements to our stand:





Forming the centrepiece will be a tribute to the late Bill Nicholls who passed away in May. It will include some of Bill's models and photogrphs of him and his modelling activities supplied by his family.









This will be flanked by two further displays:



One featuring models built for, or are appropriate to, the club competition theme for the whole of this year - "The Silver Screen".








Plus a display models built IPMS Birmingham members for "Shermania" this year's "Across the Pond Challenge" with our friends at IPMS Syracuse in the USA.









And speaking of IPMS Syracuse we will be welcoming back our old friend from upstate New York, John Kesler making his biannual visit to SMW.



As always, we will be happy to talk to fellow modellers, so please drop by our stand for a chat.