Newsletter Issue 17

Next weeks events...

New Met Area meeting - Tuesday 13th March Novotel Hotel, West Drayton, Middlesex East Anglia Area meeting Tuesday 13th March - The Flying Fortress pub, Gt Barton, Sussex Scottish Area meeting Tuesday 13th March Hilcroft Hotel, Livingston, West Lothian Western Area meeting Tuesday 13th March - Brent Knoll, East Brent, Somerset Yorkshire Area meeting Thursday 15th March - York Golf Club, Strensall Young Movers event Friday 16th March Woburn Safari Park, Bedfordshire For more information and details about these events, agenda and speakers, click here

BAR Annual Conference 2012

Exciting changes to the Partner & International Associate Tour
The Partner & International Tour will now visit and witness a historic one off event a spectacular Parade & Muster at Windsor on Saturday 19th May, to celebrate The Queens Diamond Jubilee. Nearly 2,500 troops from the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force will parade through Windsor Castle and town before The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh. After, the group will have time to take in the sights of Windsor & Eton. Please note: lunch is included.

Book now!
There are just two months to go to what is shaping up to be an outstanding BAR Annual Conference, with the emphasis on fun as well as new improved business sessions and workshops. Our flagship event will be held in the stunning town of Royal Windsor during the Queens Jubilee year celebrations. Delegate packages start from just 110 +VAT so dont miss out on the opportunity to network with your peers, meet with industry suppliers, address the Board, learn from the business sessions, or simply enjoy the many social events! For more information, please click here or email: conference@bar.co.uk

Olympics 2012 access & parking update

Transport for London has released the latest area plans for access and parking during the Olympics for the following areas: Camden, Earls Court, Eton Dorney, Glasgow, Greenwich, Hackney, Lee Valley, Lewisham, Lords Cricket Ground, Merton, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth and Wembley. For more information, click here

Home Office Project Nimrodget involved

SOCA has been tasked by the Home Office as part of the governments organised crime strategy to produce an assessment on the extent of corruption by organised criminals in the public and private sectors. The project ultimately seeks to provide a comprehensive overview

on the threat and impact of corruption on the UK.

As this assessment will pull together responses from across public and private sector, all responses will be sanitised and strategically assessed to highlight only broad themes in the final report. SOCA is asking BAR Members for their thoughts, questions or feedback and to contribute to this assessment. For full details, please click here
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BS 8564 the Overseas Moving Standard

QSS will be giving a presentation on this new standard at the New Met Area Meeting next Tuesday, 13th March. If you are in that area and would like to find out more about BS 8564, this would be the ideal opportunity. (Note to other Area Secretaries: we would be happy to provide this presentation to other Area Meetings, if it would be of interest ). For further information please contact Chris Waymouth at QSS on 01923 699840 or 07831 309379 or email chris.waymouth@bar.co.uk

FEDEMAC latest news

Click here for information on the report from the European Commission following the recent public hearing discussions on 29th February on Road Transport: the future of the internal market for road haulage FEDEMAC would also like to notify all members of the StandarDays taking place on 17th & 18th April. This two day information session is aimed at new comers to standardisation; topics include European Standards and Business, Understanding European Standards and Development of European Standards. Registration is FREE. For more information and to register, click here

Last chance to book

Commercial Estimating Course: Tuesday 13th March at BAR Watford. For further information or to book your place please click here or email training@bar.co.uk

Making the most of your BAR Membership: viewing and downloading documents
The BAR Members Area (MyBAR) contains a whole host of relevant and updated industry information completely free of charge. Many web pages in MyBAR include Scribd, a web based document-sharing facility. Scribd allows various documents of various formats to be embedded into a web page. You can download via Scribd if you are a registered user (or sign up via your facebook account). Alternatively, click on the widget that displays a downward arrow icon, to download or save. These widgets are found on the right hand side of MyBAR web pages.

The CMG golf tournament is back!

The 2012 CMG Golf Day, sponsored by Basil Fry, will be held at St Pierre Golf Course, Chepstow, on Tuesday 2nd October 2012. There will be an exciting new format this year as commercial moving industry partners will be invited to promote their services to the industry. There will also be an after dinner speaker, John Stiles, a comedian who has a wide range of topics and brother to Nobby Stiles, the famous England World Cup winner from the 1960s. For full details, please click here

The British Association of Removers, Tangent House, 62 Exchange Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD18 0TG T: 01923 699 480 I E: info@bar.co.uk I W: www.bar.co.uk