Minutes for the 2025 AGM
Alphamstone Village Hall
21st June 2025
The meeting commenced at 10.00am, the Chair, Kathryn Parsons welcomed
everyone to the AGM which covers April 2024 to end of March 2025.
The secretary, Laura is unwell so the Chair covered her report.
Appologies for Absence
Laura Richardson, Chris Parsons, John and Rosemary Ingram
Approval of the Minutes of 2024 AGM
Proposed Sue Gardener, Seconded Kathryn Parsons
Chairman’s Report
Well this was my first year as Chair and I admit that it has been a steep
learning curve. I would like to say a huge thank you to my support team, the
other trustees, Laura, Sue and Lynne who have had to put up with me as I
have grappled to get on top of the work.
My thanks as well to Ian, his first year as treasurer.
As Ian has said the amount raised by events went up last year which we are
very pleased about. Just a shame that the bills went up too!
During the year we co-opted Nicola Waters on to the team and she worked to
support Laura as secretary and also in creating our amazing new website.
The previous one was old and very tired. The new one is in colour and filled
with photos and details of upcoming events, so please take a look. We also
now have an email which can be used for bookings.
Nicola has decided not to stand as a trustee for this next year but I would like
to extend our thanks to her for all the hard work she did with us in the last ten
months.
During the year we ran the usual regular events of the coffee mornings and
the film club, each with a regular group of attendees.
On top of this we held our Fete, the Alphamstone History weekend, Games
on the Green, Winter Warmer Supper, Christmas Craft Morning, Christmas
Wreath Making and Big Breakfast.We also supported other charities with the Macmillan Coffee Morning and
Chocolate for Christmas.
We tried to get an exercise class up and running but unfortunately it had to
stop due to lack of numbers. The location of our hall seems to be a
disadvantage when trying to fill a regular class.
I hope that we have run a range of events, something for everyone in our
Village. But if you have any ideas or opinions on this then please say.
All of these events take a lot of team effort and organising but our overall aim
is to use this hall as much as we can for the good of our community and raise
enough money to cover the running costs and extra to keep the building in
good repair and make improvements when necessary.
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