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Criw Niwbwrch Cyf

Minutes of General Meeting 21st May 2007
Bod Iorweth 7.30pm

Present:
Joan Roberts Liz Webb
Dafydd Hughes Chris Bowler (minutes)
Barrie Freeman (Vice Chair)(chaired this meeting)
Roy Roberts Delyth Owen (Barnardos)
Ken Bowler (Treasurer) Peter Rogers
Enid Williams (Youth Service) Robert Stewart
Aled Roberts (Youth Service) Anna Sen

Agenda

1. Apologies:

Helen Tapley Nia Hughes
David Chadwick Richard Hughes
Lorraine Williams Martin Taylor
Dylan Hughes Pat Cohen
Tomos Hughes

2. Matters Arising from the Minutes of the last meeting

AOB 7.An account has been set up with Huws Gray.
3. The quote for alarm system has been received for £1359 from Tony at White Lodge that is felt to be very competitive and will be accepted; he is to be asked to quote for the CCTV system.

Action: KGB to approach Tony re CCTV

The minutes were accepted by the committee as a true account of the meeting of
16th April 2007

3. Aled Roberts – all weather pitch

The All Weather Pitch provided by Lottery monies is to be made available to a wider community out of school hours. The school site was chosen to improve PE in schools. Newborough school was chosen as SW of Anglesey is devoid of facilities although generally secondary school sites are used. As it is on the site of a County Council building maintenance and insurance will be paid for by the CC. The proper title is MUGA . As yet it has not been formally handed over as it is still under construction and consultants. The green surface is not satisfactory and is to be done again. The court lines are to be marked on and then it will be handed over. It currently attracts unofficial use and it is established policy to leave the gates unlocked to prevent young people climbing the perimeter fence to access the site. One issue that has not been resolved as yet is the question of vibration noise from the fence, possibility of improvement is being looked into.
It is proposed that there should be free access of MUGA except when specific groups want to use it. Therefore, a form of booking for groups and someone available to ensure that the booked group is not interrupted when it is using the facilities needs investigating. He advised there are groups within the area who might wish to book such as badminton, five a side, etc. Rob Stuart volunteered to be the booking diary clerk. There was some discussion re cost of hiring or if it is to be charged for. Other issues discussed were should it be locked at night; will floodlighting bring other problems with it; how can noise and bad language be prevented. It was agreed that in principle, CN might be interested in taking over the booking etc under its umbrella and a decision would be made at a later date after discussion and finding out more information. AR to report CN’s response back to Community Council.

Enid Williams – proposed Youth club with volunteers
EW advised the committee that she has been liasing with RR re reopening of YC with volunteers. She needed to be satisfied that the following were in place before commiting to arranging the sessions for the next half term: venue, insurance, equipment, CRBs and leadership. Mr Thomas has agreed to let the school facilities to the youth group proposed to be led by two youth workers with volunteers on a month trial basis.
Reluctance to work with one of the youth workers was expressed by two of CN’s volunteers and they advised that if that if she were to continue with the club then they would be unable to do so.
If CN wished to put on a voluntary youth club at EB in September there may be issues over ownership and wear/tear of some of the equipment belonging to the Youth Service. EW to discuss this and other issues as above with her team and to get back to CN.

4. Building Progress Update

RR reported that the plumbers and electricians were in EB and plastering is yet to be done.
It is anticipated that CN volunteers shortly will be allowed to work in EB.
On 8th June the kitchen from D & R Plumbing will be arriving and needs to be signed for and given a cheque for payment. Fitting the kitchen by the 2 Dylans will start 9th June.

Action: KGB to sign cheque for D & R Plumbing for £2,100 and arrange to be on site for delivery.

It was agreed that to save time and make a more adequate base, blocks for the new stage to be built on, to be put in by the contractors.

Action: CJB to confirm this with EW at site meeting to be held soon.

5. Finance

The accounts have been finished and sent to Company House. Early settlement was made for discount.

Interest accrued recently at HSBC: March £234.71, April £188.39.

Cheque from Medrwn Mon for £2,500 for kitchen banked.

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6. Activities
a) Car Boot sale – a total of £330.27 was achieved through sales on the day and ebay prior to that
b) Children’s activities – summer. A meeting with Sian Mai Jones and Roger Pierce of Sports Development Team is planned for 7th June to discuss joining with them for holiday playscheme using CN’s Cymorth Grant. A possibility of training up young people as leaders for future playschemes to be discussed at meeting.

7. AONB

Funding has been applied for via AONB for landscaping of the grounds. The application is not as simple as we had been led to believe and it will probably take some tweaking before the application is put before the decision making panel. £25,000 is the ceiling of the grant per application.

8. Recruitment/selection Project worker posts

The posts will be advertised from May 25th in various free journals. Closing date for applications is 23rd June. CJB reported the advert is bilingual but the cost of translating the whole of the application pack would be in the region of £140. The first 300 words are translated free using Mentor Mon or similar organisation, after that cost is £60 per 1000 words.

9. Update on meetings with external agencies

LW reported meeting with Sefydliad in Beaumaris. There appears to be a question as to whether we have the time currently to continue with this as it involves playgrounds in all areas of Anglesey. It was felt that we have more than enough to do in our own area before committing ourselves to other external issues.

10. AOB
a) Committee shown card sent by Martin and Helen in response to CN’s Wedding card

b) CAB – CJB reported meeting with CAB manager to discuss costings. CAB is keen to use the centre for Financial Literacy sessions but is not prepared or cannot afford to pay much. The amounts discussed were very low. It was agreed by CN that offering a service such as above was important to the residents and that proposed detailed costings be forwarded to CAB asap

c) RS suggested investigating use of Cledwr Hall near Betws y Coed for future activities for young people.

9. Date of next Meeting:
Tuesday 26th June 2007. 7.00pm

Roy’s house – Pen Wal Bach
7.00pm

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