{"id":630,"date":"2013-04-14T12:46:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T10:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=630"},"modified":"2013-04-13T12:58:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T10:58:29","slug":"notes-from-meeting-of-church-family-sub-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/04\/notes-from-meeting-of-church-family-sub-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from meeting of \u2018Church Family\u2019 sub-group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Held Monday 18th February 2013<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Present: Anne McMillan, Pam Bridgeman, Angela Ruck, Lucy Hayward, Patrick Williams <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Absent: Sue Rush &amp; Nitin Shinde<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Events:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>HG Social \u2013 Jan 26<sup>th<\/sup> 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anne\/Pam reported that the first Home Groups Social Eve held on January 26<sup>th<\/sup> 2013 was a great success \u2013 despite freezing weather, almost 70 people attended and the \u2018bring &amp; share\u2019 approach worked very well<\/p>\n<p>We were also under budget for the social \u2013 and it was agreed that we would submit receipts and make donations in lieu \u2013 so that an accurate record can be kept of costs.<\/p>\n<p>Anne will arrange for photos from the event to go on the website and in the next issue of the magazine with a few accompanying words to describe the evening.<\/p>\n<p>The request for ideas &amp; suggestions on how we could improve similar events in the future yielded the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some sort of activity to encourage people to \u2018mix &amp; match\u2019 more \u2013 we had in fact planned this \u2013 but the number of people and room layout made it difficult to implement \u2013 but definitely something to bear in mind for next time.\u00a0 Taking a number to determine a table seems a simple way to accomplish this.<\/li>\n<li>A planned \u2018in situ\u2019 exchange of HG members\/ideas \u2013 the opportunity to attend other house groups on a one-off basis and see what they are doing.\u00a0 Clearly, this could get out of hand if not managed well \u2013 but maybe an idea to arrange a single representative from each HG to visit others in turn \u2013 need to give this more thought.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018More of the same\u2019 \u2013 the event was enjoyable and people want more opportunities to meet and socialise in an informal way.\u00a0 We are already planning our next event!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Summer Social \u2013 possibly July 14<sup>th<\/sup> 2013<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After some discussion \u2013 it was agreed that a \u2018late afternoon\/early evening\u2019 event would be good \u2013 based on a \u2018bring &amp; share\u2019 picnic and followed by some music.<b><\/b><\/li>\n<li>Pam suggested the grounds of Holy Rood in the Lawns and the team agreed this sounded lovely.\u00a0 Lucy offered to make some enquiries about feasibility with Ailsa at the CC Office, (done).<b><\/b><\/li>\n<li>There is no electricity or water at the site \u2013 so we may need to arrange for Portaloos as a minimum \u2013 Patrick will look into costs.<b><\/b><\/li>\n<li>Pam suggested a string quartet as this wouldn\u2019t require speakers\/electricity.<b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Parish Weekend Away \u2013 possibly Sep 2014<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There was a great deal of discussion about this event, the potential location\/programme and the \u2018lessons learned\u2019 from the last one in 2012.<\/li>\n<li>In a nutshell, it was agreed that Lea Abbey offered a stunning location, ready made programme for both adults and children and was well like by most.\u00a0 Only \u2018cons\u2019 were seating arrangements at meal times, (picking numbers again????) and travel time.\u00a0 Lucy has agreed to investigate possibility of coaches and various other aspects of the weekend to put together some suggestions.<\/li>\n<li>Pam &amp; Anne provided details of two other potential locations \u2013 Hebron hall and Lindors.\u00a0 Lucy will contact these and others and draw up some comparisons for discussion at the next meeting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>AOB<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Pam raised the matter of lifts to church, (and potentially other functions) for less able parishioners.\u00a0 Following the disbandment of the \u2018100 Club\u2019 there will no longer be automatic funding for \u2018access taxis\u2019 or normal taxis.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A number of ideas were discussed: repaying taxi receipts for the more able, (or 50%) or other sum TBD<b><\/b><\/li>\n<li>Any issues to do with insurance \u2013 Patrick believes that \u2018volunteer\u2019 drivers would just need to declare this fact to their insurance companies \u2013 but we need to check.<b><\/b><\/li>\n<li>It seems that there are 6 main CC events that this applies to: 4 x Choral Evensong; Carol Service; \u2018St James at 4\u2019, (usually held in the summer).<b><\/b><\/li>\n<li>There may also be some demand for the Weds 10.30am service.<b><\/b><\/li>\n<li>Anne agreed to contact Daniel Pitt for a list of those who may require the service &amp; Pam suggested that we ought to contact people directly to ask what\u00a0 they would like \u2013 for example, outings for shopping, garden centres may be welcome.<b><\/b><\/li>\n<li>It was agreed to re-visit at next meeting<b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>NEXT MEETING DATE \u2013 Monday April 29<sup>th<\/sup> 2013 at Pam\u2019s house.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Written by Lucy Hayward<\/p>\n<p>February 19<sup>th<\/sup> 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Held Monday 18th February 2013 Present: Anne McMillan, Pam Bridgeman, Angela Ruck, Lucy Hayward, Patrick Williams Absent: Sue Rush &amp; Nitin Shinde Events: HG Social \u2013 Jan 26th 2013 Anne\/Pam reported that the first Home Groups Social Eve held on January 26th 2013 was a great success \u2013 despite freezing weather, almost 70 people attended and the \u2018bring &amp; share\u2019 approach worked very well We were also under budget for the social \u2013 and it was agreed that we would submit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}