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2025 MX-5 Club AGM Report

18 November 2025 / Words by Ian Combes & Bryan Shedden, Photos by Rob Wilko

Annual General Meeting

The 2025 AGM of the MX-5 Club of NSW was again held at the Ryde-Eastwood Leagues Club. Many thanks to our Vice-President Jeff Rowe for organising the venue and the buffet – the food was excellent as always.

Again, we had a video option (Google Meet now) for our members who could not attend in person. Many thanks to Bryan Shedden for setting it up. It is a technical challenge though, and managing it in a short time is very stressful, especially if you want to have some food, so we’ll have to think about what we do next year.

We had 47 members attend the AGM in person, and another 6 via Google Meet, with 44 apologies. Thanks to Ed Cory and Norm Barker for making the long trip north from Canberra!

I have attended a few AGMs now, and I think that this was a great night – seemed more enjoyable even than last year.

In the President's report, I presented an overview of the Club’s activities over the last year. The highlight was filling up our Natmeet event for next year. Did that in less than three months.

John Purcell presented his report as Club Captain – this year focussed on the 25^th anniversary lunch. What a fabulous event that was!

In lieu of our Motorsport Secretary stepping down, I presented a motorsport report. This year was our first year back in the CSCA (Combined Sports Car Club of Australia). It was a pretty good year in motorsport, and much easier now that we don’t need to run all our own track days.

Our Treasurer Helen Green presented her report. This year there is a lot of cash going through our books for Natmeet next year, but that event is well and truly in the black. The club remains in a strong financial position.

All the reports can be read in detail here:

At each AGM, we need to re-elect half our office bearers, so this year that was myself (President) and Wayne Luxford (Secretary). We also re-elected half our greater committee, so this year that was Bryan Shedden (Membership Secretary) , John Purcell (Club Captain) and Fiona Shedden (Regalia Officer). The Motorsport Secretary position was vacated at the AGM. Whilst we invited nominations for the position in the meeting, surprisingly no-one put their hand up, so it is still vacant. We will canvas applications for the role in the new year once we have tidied up the motorsport role descriptions. The General Committee Member role is also still vacant.

Once the election of the committee members was confirmed by the AGM, we moved onto the awards presentation.

Awards Presentation

First off, it was wonderful to have Josh Erdogen and Piper Wood attend the AGM as invited guests, representing Lucid Detailing, sponsors of RPM Chapter. Josh was presented with a certificate of appreciation.

Next up was the presentation of Membership Tenure Awards. We had 70 members who qualified for 5-year badges (sadly, none of whom attended the AGM), 46 for 10-year badges, 25 for 15-year badges, 14 for 20 year badges, 2 for 25-year badges, 3 for 30-year badges, and this year we have 3 members who qualified for their 35-year badge. The full list of tenure awards call be found here.

Ed Cory (25 years), Colin Caldwell (35 years), Elaine Caldwell (30 years), Mike Hicks (25 years), Ken Liston (20 years), Sandra Duric (20 years)

Graham & Sandra Wakeham (15 years)

Garry Keyvar, Marc Gibson, Barbara & Chris Wyatt, David & Elaine Gazzard, Malcolm Steel (10 years)

The recipients of the MXV Award in 2025 were: Chris Wyatt, David Gazzard, Ron Gallop, Keith Monaghan, Bob Judd, Elaine Gazzard, Lena Hill and Tony McDonald. Lena, Chris, David and Elaine were all present on the night. Earning an MXV awards takes some real commitment over many years, so many congratulations!

Bryan Shedden became the first club member to be presented with the Gold Service Award in recognition of 15 years on the Committee. Bryan has served continuously on the Committee since 2010 as Publications Officer (2010-2012), President (2012-2016), Membership Database Secretary (2016-2021), Website Coordinator (2016-2019), NatMeet 2020 Chairperson (2017-2018), Vice President (2024), Membership Secretary (2021-present), and is a Life Member. Bronze Service Awards for 5 years on the Committee were presented to John Purcell and Sandra Duric. Sandra served as Publications Officer (2006-2009) and RPM Convenor (2023-2025), while John served as Hunter Convenor (2020-2023) and Club Captain (2023-present). Their extended term of service benefits the Club by maximising efficiency of operations and utilisation of their experience. Thank you to all recipients for your work in making our club successful.

The President's Award this year went to Elaine and David Gazzard for pulling off an amazing double act this year – as well as being Hunter Chapter Co-convenors, they also put in a huge effort to get our 2026 Natmeet event off the ground. Natmeet has had a very active committee other than Elaine and David, but they certainly put in outstanding individual efforts. Very worthy winners!

The final award of the night was Life Membership to Barry and Jenny Luttrell. While I know that this came as a massive surprise to Barry and Jenny, they have well and truly earned it. Not only have they been very active in the Hunter Chapter, they have both put in a huge effort over many years in motorsport in the role of Event Secretary. Those who know will confirm that this role is not for the faint-hearted – and Barry and Jenny have been at it for many years. Very well deserved!

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