September meeting

Dear colleague,

You're warmly invited to the next branch meeting of Calderdale NUJ, which will take place at 7pm on Monday September 25th at the Three Pigeons pub, Halifax (near Eureka and the Shay). There'll be a chance to talk to our full-time officer Miles Barter who is coming over from Manchester for the occasion.

The meeting will be focusing particularly on how the NUJ can help younger members as they develop their journalistic careers, so we're extending a particular welcome to everyone under 35. Whether you're planning a future in the regional press, in the nationals, in the magazine sector, in broadcasting, as a PR, or as a freelance, the NUJ is there to help. Don't forget the specialist training courses which are available to members, for example.

But of course we'll extend a warm welcome to you whatever your age! Come and spend an hour or so with other local journalists, and find out from Miles how to benefit to the full from your union membership.

And a PS. The NUJ will be 100 years old next year, and as part of the run up to the celebrations Leeds NUJ is organising a special party on Thursday October 19th at O'Neills bar, Great George St, Leeds from 7.30pm to midnight. Free buffet, cash bar. (This commemorates a meeting held in Leeds in 1906, which led to the founding of the NUJ a year later). Members of the NUJ in Calderdale are warmly invited to join our colleagues in Leeds. We're asked to book in, so buffet numbers can be sorted out. If you'd like to go, please either let me know or email Tony Harcup at Leeds branch direct at Tharcup@aol.com.

Andrew Bibby, branch secretary