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“Our Meeting Venue”
Park Farm Hotel & Country Club**
Banesley
Lane
Ravensworth
NE11 0HS
(0191) 482 4870
* *(formerly known as ‘The Ravensworth Park Country Club’…and NOT
to be confused with ‘The Ravensworth Arms’ in Lamesley)
The images below help to show how to find the Park Farm Hotel
& Country Club from the Coalhouse roundabout (the south end of the Team
Valley Trading Estate) on the A1 dual carriage way. The Park Farm Hotel &
Country Club is approximately 6 miles (10 minutes driving or riding time)
North-West of the Sports and Social Club of Dunlop Tyres.
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Exit the A1 dual carriage way at the
south end of the Team Valley Trading Estate (at the Coalhouse roundabout) and
take the exit signposted for ‘Lady Park’.
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Continue for approximately 500 m (0.3
miles) until the road bends left.
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Continue to follow the bend to the left
(past the junction to the right, on apex of the bend)
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Continue up hill for a further 1.2 Km
(0.8 miles) where the road bends again to the left.
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The entrance to the Park Farm Hotel
& Country Club is on the right side of the road just before the bend
changes direction.
RoADAR Northeast
is one of 50 groups throughout the country, run by a dedicated
team of members committed to passing on their skills to all associate
members.
We have a core of Driving and Riding Tutors, who have all achieved the high
standards demanded by RoSPA to provide their services free* to guide
associates towards attaining a high grade within the system.
All guidance is based around ‘Roadcraft’: The essential the
Police Drivers’ Handbook & The Police Riders’ handbook to
better motorcycling. Tests are carried out by RoSPA appointed Examiners who
are serving or retired Police Officers, usually Police Driving / Riding
Instructors or Examiners.
Tutors donate their time free* to associate members for practical sessions,
and are unlimited until you are ready for your test.
We meet on the third Tuesday of every month at Park Farm Hotel & Country
Club, Banesley Lane,
Ravensworth and usually have a speaker to give a talk on interesting and
associated topics.
We have a thriving motorcycle section which has a well supported social
section with regular ride outs. For further details see the Motorcycle page.
Why not take the first step towards improving your driving and / or riding
skills by joining us and have an initial assessment made of your driving /
riding, you will be surprised as to how easy it can be.
RoSPA Advanced Drivers and Riders Northeast
Group Constitution
1. The name of the Group shall be the Northeast
Group of the RoSPA Advanced Drivers and Riders (hereafter called 'the
Group').
2. The aims of the Group shall be to encourage
interest in road safety, to improve driving/riding standards and in
particular to help drivers/riders pass the Organisation's advanced driving
test.
3. Application for full membership is open to all
members of the RoSPA Advanced Drivers and Riders Organisation, that is,
anyone who has passed the Organisation's advanced driving/riding test at any
grade, on payment of an annual subscription the amount of which shall be
determined by the Group's Committee. Associate membership of the Group is
open to people who wish to take the Organisation's advanced driving/riding
test. All subscriptions become due on March 31st each year. New members who
join after October 1st will not be expected to pay renewals for the first
March that passes. Members who reside outside of the Northeast will not be
guaranteed tutoring from the Group’s tutors: this area is defined as
lying between Middlesbrough in the South, Carlisle
in the West and Boulmer in the North.
4. People in all grades of membership and whose
subscriptions to the Group are current are entitled to vote.
5. The management of the Group shall be vested in
a committee consisting of a chairman, a secretary, a treasurer, a training
officer, and up to ten other elected members, all being aged eighteen or
over. The committee shall be elected annually at a general meeting of the
Group and shall consist of no more than fourteen members. The committee shall
meet at intervals of approximately one month and at least six times in any
twelve month period. The meetings are to be called by the chairman with a
notice of at least two weeks. The secretary shall have the responsibility for
the keeping of minutes. Each member has a vote on all matters. Five members
shall constitute a quorum.
6. The committee may appoint a suitable person to
be a non executive President of the Group. The President shall not therefore
be a trustee and shall have no voting rights.
7. The committee shall have power to:
(i) co-opt any member of the Group for a special
purpose, the tenure of such a co-opted member to terminate at the next AGM;
(ii) fill any casual vacancy which may occur in
any office or in order to make up the number of its members;
(iii) make standing orders for the governing of
the Group provided that they shall not be inconsistent with the provisions
thereof;
(iv) be responsible for the normal running of the
Group and its activities and
(v) put forward to the Group the names of persons
who have served the Group well for election to Honorary or Life Members as
the Group may determine.
8. The committee shall open banking or other
accounts in the name of the Group with such bank and/or similar organisation
as the committee may select. Monies received by the officials of the
committee on behalf of the members of the Group or others shall be paid into
such account or accounts. Cheques shall be signed by any two of three named
officers of the committee. The treasurer shall be responsible for reimbursing
any out-of-pocket expenses incurred by a member of the committee while on
committee business.
9. An Annual General Meeting shall be held in
March and this shall be notified to all members at least three weeks before
the appointed date. Twelve members eligible to vote shall form a quorum at
the AGM or at any Special General Meeting. The secretary shall be responsible
for summoning general meetings and for the keeping of minutes of a general
meeting. The treasurer shall be responsible for arranging an annual audit of
the accounts and shall present the audited accounts at the AGM.
10. Alteration to this Constitution shall receive
the assent of two thirds of the members present and eligible to vote at an
Annual General Meeting or a Special General Meeting. A resolution for the
alteration of the Constitution must be received by the secretary at least
twenty-one days before the meeting at which the resolution is to be brought
forward. At least fourteen days notice of such a meeting must be given by the
secretary to the membership and must include notice of the alteration
proposed.
11. If a member of the Organisation is convicted
of a serious traffic offence the Chief Examiner may expel them from
membership. If this occurs, the Group committee must remove the person from
Full membership of the Group. At a later date to be decided by the committee
that person may be admitted to Associate membership of the Group. If an
Associate member is similarly convicted of a serious traffic offence the
Committee has the power to expel them from the Group. Their rejoining the
Group after a suitable time will be at the discretion of the committee. The
committee must discuss such cases with HQ before taking any action. The
committee has the power to expel any Associate or Full member from membership
of the Group for misconduct prejudicial to the aims of the Group or of the
Organisation but such persons should be given the opportunity to present
their case to the committee.
12. The Group may be dissolved by a resolution
passed by a two-thirds majority of those present and eligible to vote at a
Special General Meeting convened for the purpose of which twenty one days
notice shall have been given to the members. Such resolution should give
instructions for the disposal of the assets held by or in the name of the
Group, provided that if any property or assets remain after the satisfaction
of all debts and liabilities such property shall not be paid to nor
distributed among the members of the Group but must be given or transferred
to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (Registered Charity No
207823) for dispersal to other Groups or to such other charitable institution
or institutions having aims similar to some or all the aims of the Group as
the Group may determine and if and in so far as effect cannot be given to this
provision then to some other charitable purpose.
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*A contribution is expected towards the fuel of
motorcycle tutors, who use their own bikes for the sessions.
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