Ladies Circle

My name is Chris Goodacre and I was co-opted in September to serve as your National Treasurer until May 2010.  I am a single mum and work part time, well 30 hours a week, for a company who runs associations. I am responsible for the accounts and running events.

As National Treasurer, I spend a great deal of time chasing circles for their capitation fees and chasing areas to pay their pool fares and delegate fees for National Council meetings.

Pool fares and delegate fees are charged to each area, regardless of whether they send someone to represent them at the national council meetings or not.

The pool fares bill is worked out by adding all the National Councillors travel fees together and then dividing it into areas based on how many members in each area.  The delegate fee is the rate we would be charged by the venue for a delegate attending the meeting on the day – therefore in effect your area has pre paid for someone to represent you at National Council meetings. This does not have to be your area chairman or vice if they are unavailable, but anyone willing to attend and represent your area views. They would be able to claim their travel at 18p per mile.

I would therefore be very grateful if you could take a look at your outstanding invoices and get them paid as soon as possible.

I look forward to meeting you in the next year and if you have any queries then please contact me at This eMail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Chris Goodacre

NALC Treasurer