The February mailing of 16mm Today and Bulletin is scheduled for collection by Royal Mail from Warners Midlands in Bourne later this week.  The entire mailing to UK and overseas members will be collected at the same time. Mailing to UK members is First Class.  There are no mail delays at the time of writing.  Information for the UK can be found here.

Mailing to overseas members is by Air Mail. There are no major delays expected to non-UK mailings. Further information regarding mailing to addresses outside the UK can be found here.

SMT and Bulletin will be available on our Members Site from 09:00 on Saturday 8th February.  If you haven’t received an invitation to activate your account on the site, or can’t find it, please email members.site@16mm.org.uk providing your surname, membership number and post code and we’ll send an invitation as soon as we can.

This mailing for UK recipients this month as it includes the Annual Report and the National Garden Railway Show Prize Draw tickets, along with SMT and Bulletin.  We are unable to send the first two to overseas members, to keep the package weight under 500 grams.  Customs arrangements arising from the UK’s exit from the EU require additional processes for overseas mailings exceeding 500 grams and due to the infrequency of such mailings, Warners don’t have these in place with Royal Mail.  The Annual Report will be published to our Members Site concurrent with SMT and Bulletin.  If any overseas member requires a paper copy of the Annual Report, please contact me at membership@16mm.org.uk and we’ll make arrangements to send one to you.

This year we will not be sending the Show guide with the February mailing. The guide will be available on the Show website nearer the show date of 12th April, and paper copies will be available at the show.

Many thanks go to the editors of the magazines – to Greg Moir for his first time editing 16mm Today and to Harry Jones and Jonathan Mead for their work on Bulletin. Also thanks to Andrew Mountfield, with contributions from the Association board, for the Annual Report, and George Sheppard for arranging the Draw Tickets

Thanks as well of course to all the members who contributed to the publications. Your input as always is very welcome and critical to the editors being able to present varied and interesting content.  I hope you enjoy what I’m sure will as always be an enjoyable read.

Tom Rowland, Membership Secretary