Minutes of April 2022 Main Monthly Meeting
Chair
Alison Currah (Chair) welcomed the 68 members attending the meeting and thanked them for attending. Alison welcomed the new members and asked existing members to make them welcome.
A fire inspection of the building has been undertaken, thanks to Rod Pritchard (retired Fireman) for doing this. Following this, Marilyn King has been co-opted onto the committee as Health and Safety Officer to help ensure the safety of members at meetings.
Alison reminded members that they can book tickets for events at any time and to please use the social account for payment, ideally by BACs and not the main membership account, which is used for subscriptions.
Following a suggestion box note, name badges are available for everyone.
Events
Tickets sales for the Boconnoc visit and the Anniversary lunch were on sale today. The theme for the Anniversary lunch will be on a 50’s theme with a prize for the best outfit. Other visits, including a trip to the National Aquarium are being planned and further detail will be announced shortly.
The new members evening will be taking place Tuesday 14th April at the Millpool Centre.
Please visit the website and Facebook pages for updates.
Group News
The Bridge and Mah-jong, Garden Safari were promoted.
Community News
The Looe Cinema Club is being resurrected and will be running films from July to December. Further details to follow.
The Looe Community Players are holding their next event ‘Play-by-Play’ on Saturday 23rd April. Tickets and further details from Marilyn King.
The Classical Concerts, part of Looe Live in September, is being planned and Nick Bailey is asking for accommodation support over the period for the pianist. Nick also informed the members that there are now recordings of panel discussions that were held in the Heritage Centre from Present Kernow and on Podcasts.
A new idea is the formation of a jigsaw group where members bring along and exchange used jigsaws at monthly meetings.
Speaker
Yvonne Toms introduced and thanked David Tovey (independent art historian) who gave a very informative talk on art in Polperro, the content being included in an exhibition at the Falmouth Gallery from April to July.
There will be no speaker next month as it is the Groups Showcase where members can learn more of group activities, followed by refreshments and performances by several groups.
The meeting closed at 12.05pm
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