Many thanks to the dozens of people who responded with positive feedback about my proposal to hold age-bracketed functions. Almost all people who responded agreed that these changes are necessary and overdue.

Those who know me are well aware that I am not the sort of person to exclude anyone and in fact my policy has always been to include as many people as possible. It is pleasing that accusations of an exclusion policy have been also non-existent. Our network members can rest assured that I will be advertising functions across all age groups.

Here are some samples of responses:-

"I think you have detailed the reasoning in a logical and non-discriminate way.."

"I agree with you absolutely Gareth, not because I don’t enjoy the company of young people but because they will not attend functions if they are discontent. As we both know they are needed to keep anything alive."

"On a number of levels, I agree things can become uncomfortable when the participating ages span too many years. It's just the nature of the beast.."

"A brave stand, but more importantly a right one."