AGM
The Trust held its AGM on Saturday, 23rd August 2025, with fifteen attendees. The following were elected as Trustees for the 2025/2026 year.
Quentin Doig (Chairperson), John Aldridge (Treasurer), Peter Watt and Wendy Duffy, (Deputy Chairpersons), Virginia Taylor (Secretary), Barbara Climo (Operations Coordinator), Diane Payton, Ailsa Carey, Judy Neil, Shirley Phillips.
Recent Board Meeting Decisions
The Board has made the following decisions this year for your information:
- The Board developed, approved and circulated a Health and Safety Policy to all drivers. One of the requirements of that policy is that all drivers provide a medical clearance every two years.
- Ministry of Justice driver history checks will also need to be renewed on three yearly cycles.
- Barbara Climo, our Operations Coordinator, reinstated the MCVT Facebook page and has made regular posts. This has resulted in attracting new clients.
- MCVT now supports Alzheimer’s Marlborough and is transporting one passenger from Picton to Blenheim and return twice a week so that the passenger can attend support programmes.
- The Board approved the purchase of a backup mobile and a new laptop for use by the Operations Team.
Operations Updates
- Our membership continues to grow, with 70 new members joining us in 2024. Current membership is 512.
- In 2024 we completed more passenger return trips than in any previous year, reaching 472 by year-end. We are well on track to exceed that this year with 305 trips already completed in the first eight months of the year, carrying 471 Passengers.
- We have 29 Blenheim based drivers, 2 in Seddon and 22 in Picton.