Centenary period - accepted by Shrine Council
Walsingham Association - proposing a National Day Pilgrimage, Federation Mass at the Cathedral, 6th Form college competition, Youth Rally
Guild of Ransom - Ransomers bring refurbished statue from chapel to Red Mount for Mass on 19th. Then to Walsingham on 20th and the Ransomers' Centenary Weekend
Pilgrim Badge - medieval style
Books - produce a Walsingham Book; give-away prayer book for pilgrims
Slipper Chapel Window - Three designs from Paul Quail; replace east window and refit it in a new position
Festival Week - Catholic Stage Guild; investigate BBC3 concert broadcasts
Exhibition - Westminster Cathedral - to book a date
AoB - video for the Archives; articles for Catholic Press; leaflets for Tourist Board
Video
17 Archive Record results for Video
Pilgrimage Badge - designs considered; cost £1
Festival week - no response from Catholic Stage Guild
Walsingham Association - long list of ideas and WA approach
Outline Centenary Year - draft schedule of events presented by Fr Williams
Working Committee - Fr Williams to form a small working team (include Fr Rollings and Mr D Hullett)
Slipper Chapel Window - Shrine Council to see final design
Publications
AoB - additional designs presented by Monsignor Stark; Guild of Ransom prepared to meet the cost - matter held in abeyance
Pilgrim badges - samples presented; agreed on pewter/silver
Timetable - events are being pencilled in calendars
Young Adults Pilgrimage
Seminar - various suggestions for speaker
Schools competition - being organised
Flower festival - 22/25May 1998
Westminster Cathedral - discussions ongoing
Publicity - leaflets in Spanish and French to be updated
Video - well under way
Walsingham Association
AoB: Cardinal Hume to do Dowry Pilgrimage; Catholic Stage Guild not responding
Pilgrim badges - mock-up next week
Festival week - project to be given to John Jordan and Nigel Kerry
Young Adults National Pilgrimage - lot of interest
Selling Shrine items - via village outlets and repository shop
Seminar - possibly joint with Anglican shrine
Schools competition poem/verse competition
Flower Festival - in May?
Exhibition - Westminster Cathedral date to be investigated
Publicity - too expensive to use a commercial company unfamiliar with the Shrine
Video - Fr Fenton SM has experience and is currently working on a series about the Vatican. Fr Williams has had discussions with him about the video and content
Walsingham Association
Introduction - Pilgrim Hostel opened by Bp Clark (15 November 1986); programme of work now complete - many benefits deriving from it
Pilgrim Club - not successful (Mr Warwick discussions) - discontinue serving alcohol - other licensed premises available
Visits - Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Cardinal D Eugenio de Araujo Sales, celebrated Mass on 11 January
Executive Meeting - delay re-roofing of amenity area
Walsingham Association - Hostel fund raising committee disbanded - raised £112,000
Shrive Archives - Fr Brian Ventham, SM has been putting archives in to good order - work well advanced - researcher (Fr W McLoughlin OSM) doing a doctorate on Our Lady of Walsingham
Ecumenical Relations - Fr Roy Fellows is new administrator of Anglican Shrine
Slipper Chapel & re-siting of Blessed Sacrament (C of R) - Tabernacle resiting not finished - discussing design with Architect, Mr Brian Salter
Amenities Area - going to tender shortly
Pilgrimage Programme - Pilgrim bookings up by 2,000 - cancellations at 1,500. This year marks 100th anniversary of the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom. BBC video "A Year in Walsingham" to be shown on Good Friday
Shrine Development
The Appeal
The Slipper Chapel and Services Area
Maintenance
Other plans at the Slipper Chapel
The Sayers House and Caretakers
The Dedication of the New Chapel
The Season 1981
Future projects: Railway track; Accommodation for Sick Pilgrims
Village Properties
Liturgy n the New Chapel
Ecumenical Relationships
Other Foundations: Sue Ryder House; The Focolare House; The Walsingham Carmel; The Sons of Divine Providence
Constitution
Panel of Interviewers
Conclusions
Agenda for Guild Committee / Meryemana Council Meeting - 13 April 1990
Agenda for Meryemana Council meeting
Minutes of Guild Committee & Meryemana Foundation Council:
1 apology
Matters arising - concert balance sheet; EEC Grant forms sent; lease not yet signed
Meryemana Membership scheme
Separation of Guild and Meryemana Foundation
Election of Officers - Guild Officers listed; Meryemana Officers listed
Meryemana Progress report
Walsingham Pilgrimage - deferred
Matters arising - lease details still not settled
Situation report - money coming in slowly; need 50% before starting
Companies and Trusts
Progress Bulletin - interim target for June £75,000; Gifts received £25,000
Events sub-committee report
Project sub-committee - 4 aspects: Education (Myra); Historical/Cultural (Alice & John Southworth / F Grace); Religious (Canon Christian, Fr Bagstaff, Stella); Social (Marlene)
Video- exampled being studied
Amin/Accts - Year End
Meryemana membership
Separating committees - Guild from Meryemana Foundation
7 in attendance (4 apologies)
Situation report
Trust & Companies
Events sub-committee - Open day at St Nicholas (9 June 1990) arrangements
Project - Report from Canon Christian (religious sub-committee)
Video - Mr Mellamphy to contact firms
Admin/Accs - Guild and Foundation now on separate financial footing
International connections
Membership scheme
4 in attendance, 4 apologies
Minutes - not available
Situation report
Events
Project
Video
Membership scheme
Matters arising - lease to be signed in two years
Situation report
Companies and Trusts
Publicity
Video - £1,000 for a professional approach; TV company?
Community Fundraising - Son et Lumiere; Events & Publicity sub-committee (Denys Bell, Marlene Mullett, Robert Mellamphy, Judy Fell, Alice Salisbury, Stella Sanderson, Myra Newell); foundation membership to start soon
Progress Bulletin
Contingency Plan - follow up promises/undecided; fewer consultations with Mr Sparks
AOB - waiting for Foreign Office help regarding international connections; intertwining of Guild and Meryemana bank accounts
(Agenda for meeting on 20 March 1990)
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
Chairman's report:
- Chapel of Reconciliation – legacy is invested in Singapore and will eventually be re-invested to fund maintenance
- Shrine Administration – bankruptcy? (but for goodwill of bank); moratorium not effective (shop still placing orders); financial management required (hence a financial sub-committee; Stan Tucker as part-time Administration Officer); auditors consider an 18 month programme to manage debt and finances; Staff structure; Bro. Hawkes to be Deputy Director.
Director's report:
Agreed sale of property not a regular practice but would help in erosion of current debt.
Liturgical:- Permission given to retain Blessed sacrament in the Slipper Chapel – revisit decision in a year
- Sacrament of the Sick – approved by Cardinal and Bishop
- Masses timetable – working satisfactorily
- New Organs – commercial recording – referred to Administration Officer
- Sister Marina – her last meeting.
Sub-committee report: - old school; Youth Hostel; Sue Ryder; Newsletter article
- agreed, when time comes, feasibility study to be lead by Catholic Medical Practitioner
Railway Track – negotiation with Mr Gurney continue
Publicity: - Permanent Adornments
- Notices
- Brochure – 2,000 copies
- Advertisements
- Papal Mass
Executive Committee – given the number of issues, important to hold soon - next on 11th May
Walsingham Association – 47 branches/groups; another shrine council representative?
AOB: - Builder's liquidisation issues
- National Feast Day of Our Lady of Walsingham – formal petition for 22 May
- Papal flag – can be flown
- Stations of the Cross – Sheffield WA donated £400 for this purpose
Slipper Chapel Window - new design not yet ready; Mr Tony Rossi commissioned to oversee work - work start in Autumn 1996 and complete by Lent 1997
Finance - budget for 1995/96
Phase III - work postponed will commence 6 November for completion 1 March 1996
Walsingham Trust - Trustees agreed to be: Executive Committee Chairman, Diocesan Finance Officer, Bishop, Director of Shrine, Mrs Audrey Broughton (secretary)
Gifts - decisions on gifts to be taken by a committee comprising Bishop, Director, Executive Committee Chair
AoB - video for Centenary Year (commission Fr Fenton)
Bishop's opening remarks – Sister Eileen introduced; Completion of Chapel of Reconciliation; Appeals Committee raised £465,000 in two years
Matters arising – anything put up in the Shrine to be approved beforehand by the Shrine Council
Director's report – all properties except 2 sold off; repairs to Slipper Chapel roof (£25,000); Staffing explained; Bernard Warwick to start 1 December; Accounts by Coopers and Lybrand; tabernacle position; benches; 1982 events
Future projects – encourage more pilgrimages; railway track
Financial statement – broken even
Shrine Council Composition – staff representation; Shrine Manager as observer; Walsingham Assoc representation to remain at one.
Jubilee 1984 – joint celebration of first pilgrimage and Walsingham Association; proposals to be made
AoB – Fr Birch presented the design which was not what had been expected; VAT recovery; Major Fraser drawing up Appeal Accounts; Guild of Our Lady of Ransom to donate towards expenses for reroofing; Lynford Monstrance on loan to Walsingham
Matters arising: National Feast Day of Our Lady of Walsingham – Bishop Gray (chairman of National Liturgical Commission) approached, matter not raised at Hierarchy meeting yet.
Directors report: Chapel of Our Lady of Reconciliation handed over by the builders on 11 November; Appeal £440,000 raised; Repair work to Slipper Chapel; Canon Francis Kieran's bequest; Security at Slipper Chapel; Dedication of Chapel of Reconciliation on 25 March; Season 1981; Railway Track; Sick Pilgrims Accommodation; Properties in Village Report; Liturgy on the new Chapel; Ecumenical relationships – Pope's visit.
Constitution: Amended to reflect requirement to have independent audit when soliciting funds from the public.
Bursar's Report – Staff reorganised
Post meeting – viewing of video made by employees of Anglia Television used by Walsingham Association and others.
Phillips, Murial MrsA visual record of the trip in the form of a slideshow. Runs for 5 minutes and 46 seconds. Places named include: Laon, Rheims, Auxerre, Beaune, Paris. Images of the group, individuals, places, churches. Fr Walsh accompanied/lead the group.
File: NNOct04.wmv, 10.2Mb, 30 April 2005
Accompanying slip by Maggie Cooper explains how to run the slideshow.
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