Comments on: Update on the split between the NCMD and the newly formed AMDS

By: Muddy Hands

Muddy Hands — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 10:49:57 +0000

ok let’s get this straight in my head, ncmd, has been taken over, by people who are in the business of being interested in the financial gain rather than the interest of the members, well that’s nothing new, when the pas was being formed, and most changes since, I for one do not think the metal detectorist had a proper representative but no matter what, they did there best against the old enemy, the old guard that wanted to ban all detecting, I have detected through this and I might be slightly cynical but I am looking at this with older eyes, and not with the new eyes of people just joining the hobby, as for insurance, I have always been with FID, but looking around for a change as the take over a few years ago, creates it’s own problems, mostly no contacts, but look closer at the ncmd, and thier new handlers and who they know in the academic world, and now is the ncmd being run as a money making machine, so you support the new, off shoot why ? the contact I have had with them, I have not had a response so what’s the best one to use, or do we arrange an insurance our selves, the other possibility is several other companies offering more of an expensive alternative
detecting was simple before money got involved, I’m interested on the way people look at this as now the money vultures have got involved with rally’s insurance and financial gain in the artifacts, but I am not so affected, to quit it’s just insurance is a safe bet

By: Lorraine Stanley

Lorraine Stanley — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 21:03:29 +0000

Thank you so much Peter, for your hard work and support you have given the Western Region and others, just wanted to say thank you

By: Sydney Hallam

Sydney Hallam — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 07:16:48 +0000

Hi Peter, Thank you for your continued support and during the times when the NCMD had a web site to tell all the —- about us and we had you to give us a way to answer back. you have been a very good friend. I have put a link to your site detecting finds on our face book group. Syd

By: David Rees

David Rees — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:39:23 +0000

I am disappointed at times, in people. The very last time I met an individual named in Peter's update regarding the NCMD, was shortly after resigning from a club I worked for as Chairman over four years. We met, had a drink together, and that person told me that he wished to thank me for all my efforts over the years on behalf of the club members, and that it was long overdue. We shook hands (pre-covid days) parted company with that understanding. It is a pity that this same person decides to wade into something he is obviously not clear about. He has ignored and now is party to the many unconstitutional misdemeanours of the others he is now working with.

You have to ask why now, when he never, ever during the past five years did anything for the NCMD region he resided in. It is the salary proposed in the minutes of the last AGM?

That is why in the past, the NCMD was managed by well meaning volunteers and anyone being proposed to the position of an officer in the NCMD had to undergo what is set out in the constitution to even be considered.

It is clear that the constitution is being totally disregarded and now members do not even get to view an agenda prior to a meeting, copies of minutes, and the accounts – well they have not been transparent for some past years, have they?

Well, the blackmail of insurance is no more as there is now a good alternative. There are also some good plans to better look after those who were previously just placed on the central register that will be revealed.

As a metal detectorists don't just give your money to people with no track record for at least a couple of years at region level with a proven ability to protect the hobby. The AMDS and the Affiliated Region for Metal Detecting (ARMD) has people in it with more experience in defending the hobby for over 40 years and that is provable. .