6 in attendance; 0 apologies
Cornhill event - did not yield enough money; more supporters/members needed
Marriage Celebration - cancelled
Speakers Scheme - list approved
Future of appeal committee - to continue?; set of actions listed/discussed; review status next meeting
Event
157 Archive Record results for Event
2 apologies
Matters arising: Finance is £43,500
Future events: Land air rally; Cornhill; Marriage vows
Speakers scheme
Membership scheme
5 present; 3 apologies
Matters arising - 3 spaces allocated at St Nicholas
Situation report - Willis Faber not donating
Events - collaboration with other organisations
Project review - signing lease commits to £3,000 pa + insurance; Civic centre exhibition; remove pews first; Flat and Chapel to be started first; fund raising a separate function form the project
Membership - disappointing
recruitment
4 in attendance; 3 apologies
Matters arising - Marriage Celebration; Calendar; Carol singing; Christmas cards; Christmas Appeal (£20 raised); Lease
Prayer Vigil & Service of Reconciliation - discussed; Canon Christian and Fr Orme to be in charge; programme discussed
Speakers scheme - circulate availability
Future events
7 in attendance (4 apologies)
Matters arising - £37,000 in hand
Situation report
Trust & Companies - dead loss for companies to give anything; non-replies to be treated as refused
Events sub-committee
Project
Video - record all events such as the Open Day
Admin/Accs - waiting for Tax forms
Membership scheme - discuss at next meeting
AOB - Pews; work priorities; Open day; Telethon; Speakers; Printing; Open Day presentation of cheque
4 apologies
Matters arising: Salvation Army concert had raised £200
AGM: date to be changed to allow accounts to be ready
List of Directors & Trustees to be reviewed
Liaison with Nettuno
Membership fees
RC Bishop reluctant to allow Meryemana appeals in his churches
(manuscript note: section of minutes missing on tape)
The Guild of our Lady of IpswichAll in attendance
Matters arising: American style visit (donation of £100); Focolcare movement; St Mary Stoke church donation £140 (from a coffee morning)
Leaflet revised
Speakers scheme
Ecumenical meetings
Cornhill event
7 in attendance; 4 apologies
Matters arising - Talks; reception of Meryemana news; positioning with other Christian groups; discussion about Meryemana philosophy versus other's beliefs and attitudes; attitudes of clergy with "closed minds"
Financial report
St Nicholas Church - English Heritage "bombshell" letter discussed; decided to meet Ipswich Borough Council and English Heritage; lease signing deferred; Project Viability - concern about small number of people involved; focus on fundraising instead of developing the project; remains impossible to get through to clergy
Membership scheme - increase in applications reported
Coming events - Vigil of Prayer & Service of Reconciliation (19 January 1992); Lent Course - content discussed
6 present; 4 apologies
Matters arising: Village fete; Jean Orme; Equipment at St Mary's; Unitarian Flower Festival
St Nicholas Project
Events
Finance: Accountant's bill claimed one third of income; word process or broken; moving funds
6 present; 1 apology
residue of appeal funds
No response to request for comments - hence Guild and Newsletter to be called "Meryemana"; motto "Unity through Grace" unchanged
AGM: 6 September; Speaker - Derek Hutchins "An Ecumenical Miscellany"
[AGM Ipswich Life Group - Agenda included in minutes]
Membership Leaflet
Meryemana Speakers Service
Sale of Bowhill Elliot and White: the wall with the plaque is part of this premises. Need to contact Robert Mellamphy is acute to ascertain whereabouts of the statue of Our Lady of Ipswich; confirmed the sale is subject to leaving the plaque in place; issue over insurance for the plaque (last 2 premiums not paid)
Prayers at the Elms
Future events
AOB: Sponsored Cycle Ride arrangement; Canon Christian discussed sites for a small chapel
9 present; 2 apologies
Matters arising - no word from English Heritage; Labels for leaflet ready; Working party to start soon
Election of Officers: Chairman - Dr Heley; Secretary - Miss Myra Newell; Treasurer - Canon R Christian; Publicity Officer - Miss Judy Fell
AGM Matters arising - approach to Dike of Grafton; vacancies for council
Marriage Event - actions listed
Budgets - approved
Advent Course
4 present; 1 apology
Matters arising: Flower Sundays; Blessing of Pets; Singers performance; Brass Band Concert
Correspondence - lease; insurance; rent
Head Hunting
Finance
Pews to be marked, photographed and removed
Steering Committee membership
7 present; 2 apologies
Matters arising: Removal of St Nicholas pews
Correspondence: Bishop cannot do Pet Blessing; requesting 5 year rent-free lease exchange of correspondence - no resolution
Steering Committee
Future Programme: OAP's singalong; Pet Blessing to - can Franciscans take over: Taize evening
5 present
2 year lease offered by IHCT at £2,500 per annum. Discussed: tenure short; need for income from sub-letting; development could be over a five year period; perhaps hire instead of rent.
Future programme: Hymnalong - no progress; Opening of church on St Nicholas day uncertain due to illness; need more people to help
3 present; 6 apologies
Correspondence: Ascent (discussion group for retired people); Request for piece about Meryemana from Ecumenical Society of the BVM; contact with Seventh Day Adventist Church; Lady Miriam Hubbard support; Charity stall offered at Holbrook Village Fete; subscriber.
St Nicholas Project: finances not good; no news from the Bibleway Church; Meryemana possessions in St Mary's church (model of church, word processor spares, ...)
Events: Taize service; Women Praying for Peace; Coffee evening and Bring and Buy; Stall at fete
New council members: various actions
AOB: BBC invitation; Financial situation
2 apologies
Correspondence
Appeal Committee
Open Day report
Events Committee
Renewal of lease
Newsletter
3 apologies
Flower Festival
Discussion - Priorities; Shrine; members being informed;
Document on study centre produced by education sub-committee
Suffolk College
Potential uses for centre
6 apologies
Land/Air event - £112 raised
Cornhill event - discussed
Ecumenical meetings - details discussed
Membership scheme - discussed
Trustee meeting - discussed
Appeal committee need for new members
Financial statement insufficient to base a budget on
5 present; 6 apologies
Matters arising: Flower Sundays; Pet Blessing; Land/Air Rally (raised £72)
St Nicholas - pews; lease; parking
Future events - considered for next year
Steering Committee - suggested members: Patrick Ouderk, FR James Walsh, Rev Tony Cox, John Southworth, Rev Roger Wilkinson, Mrs Smitherhorn; planning body; JD being compiled
Taking Soundings
Other Business - discussion on the nature and presentation of the Pilgrimage Walk; "too catholic?"; difficulties when only one person organising the whole event
6 present; 0 apologies
Committee membership changes
St Nicholas: No agreement can be reached with IHCT whilst flooding problem persists. Vestry conversion estimated at £13,000 target completion December; arrangements over rental levels
Animal blessing event - planning continues; posters to be printed and distributed
AGM 26 May