Minutes of BishopÕs Offley Millennium Green Meeting Held on Monday 9th February 2009 at The Star, Copmere

Present

Andrew, Julia and Victoria Brooks, Ann Fender,  Bob Gray, Amicia Hardy, Kevin Hart, Patrick Horton, Debs Nicholson,  Mark Shelton, Sarah Shelton, Russell Stanhope,

Apologies

Jon Ball, Raymond Briggs, Pat Kennedy,

 

Minutes of the Previous Meeting

Ask the Rhodes about a possible Young Farmers Disco on the Green ACTION Mark

Assets

A meeting with Amicia, Andrew and Mark had taken place to review insurance and budgeting for depreciation. Report on progress later in the year ACTION MARK

Tent

The old tent needs some attention to a window. Julia has agreed that we can borrow her machine. Work to be carried out when it is warmer.  ACTION SARAH

Retired Trustees

Documents for Barry Till were signed by the Trustees and witnessed by Julia.  

Christmas Tree

Russell offered us a tree that we could plant on the Green for future years which would need to be planted in the next 2 to 3 months. Decide on the tree location ACTION BOB

 

AOB

First Aid Course

First Aid Course is to be on 19th September location to be decided

Attendees please to confirm attendance to Debs ACTION ALL

Provisional list is Alison Horton, Jill Hart, Liz Hemmingway, Liz Stanhope and Vicki, Mark & Sarah Shelton, Amicia Hardy, Debs Nicholson.

Ask Jenny Muddimer if she knows anyone who would like to attend. ACTION DEBS

Confirm date of course and number of people allowed to take part ACTION DEBS

Survey digital would like to have 2 places if they are available  

 

Insurance

Insurance for Dash for Cash and Bike ride to be confirmed ACTION MARK

 

Millennium Green Deeds

Andrew has an original. They show the area for the Green to cover and it is quite small.

 

Memorial to Terrance Marsden (not updated as not reviewed at February meeting)

It was decided that we would purchase a bench for the Green. Investigate the purchase of the bench ACTION RAYMOND

Ask Mike Dunball about where we could get a plaque engraved ACTION PATRICK. There is still the idea about the bridle path next to his home to be named after Terrance. This is likely to become part of one of our 2010 projects. When we have firm idea Raymond can take to the relevant planning departments

 

 

 

100 Club

Held over to March when there will be 2 draws  

 

Website

The training on editing and downloading took place for Debs, Amicia, Sarah and Kevin in January kindly hosted and run by Nick Evans.

The Blog is also up and running

Each meeting decide on what should be published on the website ACTION AMICIA

Ask Duncan Farrow for copies of his old photoÕs of the village to be published on the website ACTION AMICIA

 

Newsletter

Sarah has written the Newsletter and will send to Patrick to print. ACTION SARAH & PATRICK

Review distribution area and delivering ACTION AMICIA

 

FUTURE EVENTS

Quiz at The Star on Monday 23rd February at 8pm  

Teams of 4, entrance fee of £1 a person

Please bring raffle prizes

Poster on the grass triangle ACTION PATRICK

 

2010 IDEAS

Victoria and Julia Brooks joined us to discuss the possibilities for the ÔCreation of Nature and Features TrailÕ that was one of the ideas for the Green to celebrate 2010. VictoriaÕs area of expertise is plants and Julia has volunteered to help by taking photographs and for safety. There were many ideas discussed such as marking points of interest, publishing a leaflet, doing seasonal walks. It takes about an afternoon to do 1.5km of hedge.  Victoria has very kindly agreed to do this work at no charge which is a wonderful gift to the Green. Victoria agreed to investigate a possible route and to come and discuss with us at a future meeting.

During the study Victoria may also identify areas that with some work could protect a habitat from an invasive weed. The Green could then arrange for this work to take place.

Barry Till has a lot of knowledge of the local wildlife so it may be worth speaking to him to support VictoriaÕs study.

If we want to spend money on markers or leaflets it was suggested money may be available from the Landfill Trust. ACTION ANN

 

Millennium Green Inspection

Look at the roadside verge to see if could be cut in the spring to allow some parking

The Green inspection February    ACTION PATRICK

 

Next Meeting Monday 2nd March 2009 at 8pm at The Star.

 Minutes by Amicia Hardy