What's going on with MAD

[Barfridge]

As many of you know, this year has been very difficult so far for MAD. But I am completely overjoyed to report that this is all changing. We have a revitalised committee and grand plans for 2011 and beyond.

The new executive committee is as follows:
Chairman - barfridge (aka Heisenberg, aka Jeff, aka me)
Vice Chairman - rharris (Richard)
Treasurer - pommy (Carrie)
Sexretary - Dr browncow MD (aka about a billion other names, aka Cam)


The good news
- There will be a MAD raffle bike this year. We are currently exploring options, it will be launched in September, and drawn in December.
- There will be a MAD ride this year, to be held on Sunday 6th of November, in conjunction with the Perth Motorcycle and Scooter show.


The not so good news
- Due to not being able to secure a suitable date to work within our timeframe and not impact on the other events we have planned, the MAD ball will not be held this year. But it shall return in June/July 2012.


MAD is not going anywhere, we look forward to seeing you all at our events this year. As always, we can't do what we do without the ongoing support from PSB, from Deej and the staff all the way down to the people who help out on the day, and for this we are eternally grateful.

Love,
barfy

[gunn parker]

Hate to be a noob here but what is MAD? I have seen it mentioned a few times now.
cheers

[speed3]

The Making a Difference Ride: The Making a Difference Ride (M.A.D) - Raising funds & Awareness for spinal cord injury research and rehabilitation

[gunn parker]

Cool, thanks

[Kytty]

Nawwww Thats a bit of a sad news about the ball. But YAY MAD still lives

[j-mac]

Schweeeeet.... I love the idea and look of this whole concept. What's being done to put the word on this beyond the PSB comoonity Barfridge?

[devolved]

Sad to hear about the ball - was looking forward to that.

[Dubs]

Congrats.

Dubs

[Shady7/8]

New commitee should see much achieved!

Good luck guys and gals!




Ps you're a sucker Jeff!!!

[Fastgirl]

Good to hear MAD will live on through even more volunteers stepping up. Well done to the new team for keeping it all going.

[QuietLil]

Congratulations & best wishes to the new MAD committee.

[Max Power]

MAD should organise an epic run across the top end to cooktown, then south along the coast through the daintree to cairns. That would be an EPIC MAD RIDE !!!

[Chaos-incarnate]

MAD should organise an epic run across the top end to cooktown, then south along the coast through the daintree to cairns. That would be an EPIC MAD RIDE !!!

You start, we'll catch up.

Do you need anything Barfie? Some of us are willing to help, but are on roster which can make things a bit difficult. Still, there may be stuff we could do?

[Barfridge]

Yes, I am a giant sucker for punishment, always have been

At the moment we need people with skills in obtaining sponsorship/PR/media relations and everything else to do with getting us out there more and getting people to give us money. This is something we have traditionally not been so good at, and we intend to change that. So if you have some spare time and any skills in this area, I would love to hear from you.

Otherwise, we are all hard at work behind the scenes getting the structure of MAD right, planning things properly, and putting key people in place to operate as a well oiled machine.

We will be putting out calls for volunteers as we plan individual events.

[firewrench]

Congratulations Jeff and crew. It's nice to see this highly worthwhile charity continue on in your capable hands. I've seen how you throw yourself into your passions and I'm sure MAD will benefit greatly from your leadership and vision. My hat's off to you, sir.

p.s. Still gonna wash bikes with bikinis?

[Barfridge]

nah, we'll use sponges on the bikes, and save the bikinis for the girls.

[Sventek]

Great news!

[tim the pool man]

I just checked in on the ball thread to see if a date had been set so I could lock in the penguin suit and found it closed... I now see why but would it be an idea to post the reason on that thread?

Just sayin...

[Barfridge]

yeah, good point. I'll sort that out

[tim the pool man]

Cheers Barfy, oh and congrats too