Connect Bude

Campaigning to re-connect Bude and Holsworthy

2025 AGM Notice

2025 AGM Notice

Notice is hereby given that the Eighth Annual General Meeting of Connect Bude will be held at the Falcon Hotel, Bude on Saturday 18 October 2025 at 11am. Tea and Coffee available from 10.30 am. Please feel free to come along!

Dear Members and Supporters,
It is my pleasure to invite you to the 8th Annual General Meeting of Connect Bude to be held at The Falcon Hotel, Bude on Saturday 18 October 2025 tea and coffee available from 10.30am for a 11am start. The meeting to conclude by 12 noon. Members, Supporters and Members of the public who are interested in our campaign are warmly welcome to attend. (Please note that only fully paid-up members will be able to vote on any proposals presented at the meeting. Supporters will not be
allowed to vote.)

The meeting will give us an opportunity to review progress made in the last 12 months:

  • Ewan Murray from Connect Launceston will update us links between Connect Bude & Connect Launceston
  • Tim Steer from Rail Future Devon & Cornwall Regional Branch Chair will update us on regional regional developments
  • Bruce Thompson will update us on the No 6 bus link to Okehampton developments.
  • Katie Goode on Digital/website updates

After the AGM we will be inviting questions from the floor and, hopefully, recruiting more new members. People wishing to become Individual Members (£10 per person), Corporate Members (£20 per business) and Supporters (£Free) can do so at the meeting or via this site. The annual renewal date for your membership is 1 January. However, those new members who join after 1 October this year will not have to renew their membership until 1 January 2027.

One of the key objectives of the AGM will be to formally elect members of the committee. If you are a member of Connect Bude and would like to be considered as a committee member, please complete the nomination form included with this invitation and return it to our Secretary by 16 October.

I do hope that you will be able to attend and look forward to seeing you on Saturday 18 October. Refreshments will be available from 10.30am.

Please encourage all who support our aims to attend this important meeting.

A copy of the AGM Notice is below along with a nomination form and an agenda for the Public Meeting which follows the AGM.

Yours sincerely,
Richard Wolfenden-Brown
Chair, Connect Bude