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Club news - events, sponsors and requests

updated 17 January 2008

OBC Tours to Tibet and Cambodia
These trips are already booked for 2008. If you would be interested in taking part in a similar tours in 2009, please contact Mike Edgecombe via mail@orientalbirdclub.org.

BirdFair 2008, Rutland Water, near Oakham, Rutland, UK.
OBC will again have a stall at British Birdfair 2008, Rutland Water, near Oakham, Rutland, UK on Friday 15 to Sunday 17 August 2008. The fair is a great opportunity to meet friends and Council members at the OBC stand. Overseas visitors are particularly welcome.

24th OBC Annual General Meeting in Cambridge, UK
The 24th OBC Annual General Meeting will be held in Cambridge, U on Saturday 8 November 2008. Further details will be published nearer the event time.

Sponsorship
We are delighted to welcome Carl Zeiss Ltd as a Corporate Sponsor and hope this is the beginning of a long relationship. Not only did they provide the top prize for the annual draw, but also stepped in to sponsor the Forktail-Zeiss award and the Club also benefits from their bursary that helps to defray the cost of the stand at the Birdfair.

Forktail back-issue papers now available online
To disseminate knowledge about oriental ornithology further, the editors of Forktail, the Journal of Asian Ornithology, have decided to make papers from Forktail freely available online.

Pdfs of papers and short notes for issues 13 onwards can now be downloaded directly. Earlier issues are still being scanned and will be added in due course. Articles from new issues will be put online once they are two years old.

Joining OBC remains the best way to obtain the latest Forktail articles, and the only way to receive OBC's superb BirdingAsia publication twice a year.

OBC Membership
For the eleventh year, subscription rates remain the same! Ordinary membership was raised to £15 in 1997 and we have been able to hold them at the same rate ever since, even though the standard, content and size of both our publications has risen considerably in the meantime! There are several reasons for this, one of which is the increasing membership. Today our membership stands at 2,026. All members can help to promote the Club - when you visit the region take along a copy of BirdingASIA - there are still people out there who have never heard of the Club! The more members we have, the better value for money we can deliver!

Advertise in BirdingASIA
Council thanks all those who advertised regularly in the OBC Bulletin and hopes that they will continue to do so in BirdingASIA. Advertisements help to offset production costs and benefit the Club significantly. The standard advertisement rates [black and white] are: full page £135; half page £85; quarter page £60. Colour advertisements are available at extra cost. For more information, contact Richard Thomas

We offer a complete service too: we can construct adverts from the text that you send us, and insert images and logos as required. Alternatively, we can accept your print-ready Pagemaker, Quark or film adverts. Pagemaker is the preferred format. Please contact Richard Thomas, OBC Bulletin Advertising: richard.thomas@birdlife.org.uk.

OBC Corporate Sponsors
The OBC Corporate Sponsorship scheme was launched in late 1991. The scheme basically allows donors of significant funds (normally £500 or more) to use the Club's Forktail logo on promotional literature etc. Corporate Sponsors are also listed on the inside front cover of the Bulletin. Currently they include: Asia Ecological Consultants, Avifauna, Birdquest, BirdTourASIA, Carl Zeiss Ltd, Club 300, Limosa, Rockjumper Birding Tours, Sunbird, The Bagh Resort, Wildsounds, and Wildwings.

Over the years whilst many sponsors have continued to make donations to the Club, a number of them have not, but no formal approach has been made to either extend or terminate the relationship. Led by Promotions Officer Mike Edgecombe, Council has now commenced a review of the scheme. Organisations who have not made donations for several years have been contacted with a view to renewing their sponsorship. In the meantime they have not been listed in this Bulletin. We look forward to welcoming them back to the scheme in the very near future. We are of course very interested to hear from members who may have some influence in their companies when it comes to charitable donations. If you may be able to help, please contact Mike Edgecombe at mail@orientalbirdclub.

OBC Business Supporting members
The Business Supporting membership scheme was started in 1992 and was intended to become the backbone of the Honorary membership fund. Participants in the scheme pay an annual subscription of £45 and which pays the subscription of three honorary members. At present Business Supporting members support about one third of the 155 honorary members.

OBC Business Supporting members currently include: Bird Information Service, Birdquest, BirdingEcotours, Birdwatch, Flamingo Tours and Travels, Tom Gullick, Jetwing Eco Holidays, Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden Corporation, International Taiwan Birding Association, Jungle Lodges & Resorts Lt, Lama Parivar, Limosa Holidays, Lynx Edicions, Murphy's Wildlife Holidays, Nature Safari Pvt Ltd, Naturetrek, Rockjumper Birding Tours, Subbuteo Natural History Books, Taiwan International Birding Assn, Victor Emanuel Nature Tours, Wild About India, Wildsounds, and Wildwings. OBC Council thanks our Business Supporting members and we look forward to welcoming more in 2005.

OBC Supporting Members
The rest of the honorary members are paid for by the Supporting membership scheme. In this case the members pay £25 and support one honorary member. If they wish they may nominate a deserving individual. Currently there are over 110 Supporting members playing a major role in the Honorary membership fund. Join OBC explains how to join the scheme.


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