Chair’s Annual Report - Dec 2020 (AGM 25/3/2021)
2020 has been a very challenging year for Vulture Club and all its members. We commenced the year with exciting plans but as you are all aware by March, we were entrenched in a worldwide pandemic and the UK went into a Lock-down. But our facilitators weren’t phased they met with Trustees to decide on a plan to ensure that our therapeutic activities could continue a more creative way albeit on-line.
Our aim was to continue with our activities whilst supporting as many of our members as we could. Those members who could not access the support group on facebook, were supported by telephone contact, and we encouraged members to reach out for support if they felt overwhelmed by the Covid-19 situation. We have all had to adjust to a new way of accessing our activities and support and this has been on the whole very successful, we had to undertake going “Live’ on face-book a thing none of us imagined having to do - Will introduced his story time, Maggie continued with her art sessions, Annie carried on with her Creative writing, Discussion topics and
monthly Personal Development workshops and I continued with the book club readings.
Being unable to access our building to meet meant we had to go virtual, we introduced members to Zoom, and whilst carrying on with our daily activities, Monday to Friday, we soon realised that our service was now operating 7 days a week, with members being encouraged to post any interesting topics, such as poems, music, bird watch, their drawings and paintings, and any suggestions for activities. In Spring we attended a fancy-dress party, doing ‘turns’ on the face book page. We still held our WBN on Zoom, A Roaring Twenties theme based on the Great Gatsby Book which we had received from the Reading Agency. Later when the restrictions lifted members formed a local walking group and we managed to distribute The Great Gatsby to most of our members. At the beginning of August Lorraine left our employment for pastures new, she has been greatly missed but we all wish her every success in her new job and our grateful thanks for her excellent fund-raising efforts over the years she has been involved
with Vultures, I am sure we will see her again once this Pandemic is over. I wish to thank Jacqui Miller for stepping into the breech and taking up the role of Administrator to enable Vultures to carry on running smoothly supported by Marion McHugh.
In August, Will and Maggie took a leap of faith and started our Marras Project, amidst the COVID-19 restrictions and this has been delivered almost entirely by Zoom.
During October through to December, Annie, David C, and Colin H directed and encouraged all members who wished to participate,
to write and video their own monologues, which they then helped members to perform, and a video was put together by Colin and aired 17[th] December on the members Facebook support page, after which Colin produced DVDs to help raise funds for VC, I understand we raised about £190.00. I also want to express my admiration to Wayne J and the other members involved who approached the
Trustees about a music project called Limewood, the Trustees and Facilitators gave their approval of this project but could not offer any financial support at the time, their commitment to the project deserves a mention, even donating their own money to hiring a room they could safely meet in whilst we were unable to access our own building, to practice their music and singing, we hope that Vultures can take the Limewood Project further once we are able to meet up with Wayne and the members involved to discuss it in more detail.
Finally, I just want to thank all the facilitators, trustees, and members for their hard-work and creative ideas that have enabled VC to continue with their therapeutic activities during this pandemic and to ask you all to continue to support each other and encourage members who are struggling and feeling overwhelmed by the situation to reach out for support. I am hoping that we are soon able to meet again in our building and return to our face-to-face activities where we can shake hands and hug each other once again.
Marian Muir Chair Vulture Club December 2020
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