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SNCF New Year Reception 2009

The New Year Reception was held on 15 January 2009 at The Arena @ Clarke Quay.  Dr Balaji Sadasivan, Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, graced and celebrated the occasion together with more than 100 fellow co-operators and guests.

SNCF Chairman, Mr Chan Tee Seng, gave the line-up of events for the year in his welcome speech.  He urged all affiliates to schedule the dates of their own events around the dates of the key SNCF events and to give their full support and participation.

1.  NTUC & SNCF Women’s Event in celebration of International Women’s Day 2009

To celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day, the Women’s Programme Committee of SNCF and NTUC will jointly organise ‘Funnival by the Park’ at Bedok Reservoir Park on 8 March 2009 from 8.00am to 12.30pm.  

2.  Launch of Shared Services

In a bid for greater cost effectiveness, SNCF plans to bring in a larger pool of shared services in the areas of directors' liability insurance, audit services, legal services, secretariat support, etc.  The launch is scheduled for March/ April 2009.

3.  Extraordinary General Meeting

SNCF will conduct our EOGM in April/ May, primarily to amend the SNCF By-laws both to conform to the new legislation and to improve operational efficiency.

4.  SNCF Anniversary Reception

On 3 July this year, SNCF will celebrate its 28^th Anniversary with a Reception. This celebration also marks the 87^th International Co-operative Day.

5.  Campus Co-operatives' Bazaar

To encourage and involve our student co-operators, we propose to run a series of programmes, possibly starting this May with a retail management workshop. The skills thus gained will definitely come in handy for the Bazaar in August.

6.  Annual Co-operative Leaders’ Conference

Riding on the success of last year’s Bangkok Conference, we are confident of achieving another round of positive outcome at this year’s Conference which will be held here.

7.  ICA General Assembly

The ICA General Assembly and related events will be held in Geneva, Switzerland from 16 to 20 November 2009 at the Geneva International Convention Centre.