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Minutes of Acklington
Village Hall Committee Meeting
14th October 2010
Apologies received: Vi Currie and Barbara
King
Members present: Eddie Critchlow, Sharon Thorpe,
Bob Smailes, Alison Sharpe, Lorna Budge, Steve
Thorpe, Graham and Barbara Cock
Signing in of representative members from user
groups
Bowls Club Graham Cock
Parish Council Eddie Critchlow
WI Barbara Cock
Church David Hammond
Sports Club Lorna Budge
Barbara King is the ACT representative and will
need to sign in at the next meeting. There are
no representatives from Art Group and the School
to be followed up.
The following positions were elected:-
Chairman Eddie Critchlow Vice-chairman Graham
Cock Treasurer Bob Smailes
Secretary Sharon Thorpe
Steve Thorpe was co-opted onto the committee. Vi
will need to be co-opted at the next meeting.
(max 3)
The minutes of the last meetings on 9th
September 2010 were read and approved
Correspondence received
Insurance renewal due. Check cost of including
user groups equipment on policy.
Update on back room and garden
Richard Sullivans latest correspondence was
passed around. Estimates of building costs are
due by 24th October.
John Robson, Vi and David Currie, Garry, Lorna
and David Budge, Alison and Eddie dug the fence
posts in. John will obtain the wiring etc.
Maintenance, repairs and decoration
A work party was arranged for Sunday 17th
October at 1pm to tidy and take an inventory of
the kitchen and paint the gents toilet.
Graham will sort out attaching missing sign
for the ladies toilet.
Toilet brushes are required for the toilets.
The heating has been serviced.
Fundraising
Christmas Coffee morning and table top sale
Saturday 27th November 10-12. Alison is
contacting potential stallholders. We will run a
tombola, raffle and cake stall.
Christmas Quiz Saturday 11th December
Warkworth Choir have contacted Alison and a
fundraising night is arranged for Tuesday 7th
December. They will provide mincepies and us the
mulled wine. Alison has contacted the school for
them to come along and sing.
All events need to be publicised in the
Pelican and a flyer
Any other business
Barbara had asked to bring up publicising the
village hall activities on the website and
Pelican. We had agreed at an earlier meeting
that as we were publicly accountable the
information should be freely available. Eddie
would ask Barbara to put something about our
projects in the Pelican/website.
The date of the next meeting was arranged for
Thursday 11th November 2010 at 7pm. This has now
been changed to Thursday 18th November at 7pm. |
