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|||From|||222'|To|3i||||2022||
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||||Charity name||||Heart ofGissing CIO||||||
||Other names charity is known|||by|||||||||
||Registered|charity number (ifany)|||1161599||||||||
||Charity's||principal address||Gissing Community||Building||||||
||||||Rectory Road||||||||
||||||Gissing||||||||
||||||Postcode||||I~5XB||||
||Names ofthe|charity trustees who manage the charity|||||||||||
||||Oflice (ifany)||oaten acled ifnot forwhole
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||Mrs GArmour||Chair||Interim chair from||||||||
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||Mrs
I Banham-||||||||||||
||Gibbs||||||||||||
|3|Ms C Bowley||||Resigned|9/05/21|||||||
|4|Ms FBrown||||Resigned|11/05/21|||||||
|5|RCoombes||||Resigned|25/05/21|||||||
|6|JCromley||||||||||||
|7|Mrs A Cullum||Chair||Resigned|7/05/21|||||||
|8|H Dyke||||||||||||
|9|D M Eddington||||Secretary|from|12/10/21||||||
|10|Ms KHeath||||Resigned|29/06/21|||||||
|11|Ms F King||||||||||||
|12|Mr A King||Treasurer||Treasurer|from|12/10/21||||||
|13|BNorman||Vice Chair||Vice Chair|from 12/10/21|||||||
|14|CTyler||Vice Chair||Resigned|20/05/21|||||||
|15|Ms SWatt||||||||||||
|16|Mrs 6Wtllett||Treasurer||Resigned|as treasurer|||||||
||||||12/10/21 —now trustee||||||||
|17|D Reynolds||||||||||||
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|Summary of the main
achievements
ofthe charity
during the year|||The year was characterised
by slowly emerging
from Covid Lockdowns.
This required
us to maintain the shict hygiene measures
and cleaning
regimes
in order that we could continue to altraci users tothe Community
Building and to re-start holding
community
events.|
||||Acilitim
returning
through the year included the Gissing Singers,
Gissing Arts, the Garden and BeeGroups, Crafiers Cafe and Reading
Gmup, as well as Performing
Arts East dance classes, yoga and Jungle
Body sessions.
The Hentage and Habitat group, as well as holding
regular interesling
talks forthe community
is collaborating
with Norfolk
Wildlife Trust in conservation
projects in the village,
involving
community|
||||volunteers.|
||||We have also seen the return ofprivate parlies from members ofthe
community
attracted to the space and modem facilities ofthe community|
||||building.|
||||We suffered a high turnover
oftrustees
in the year, possibly a side-effect
ofCovid, but successfully
reappointed
officers and managed to maintain
the energy and creativy which the charity has always shown.|
||||We managed to hold three successful
major events, a summer
ceiebraion to bring the village together fofiowing lockdown, a musical
evening
invohiing
performers
from within the community
and a quiz night
which was held jointly in aid ofthe charity SANE.|
||||In order to restore the visibfiity ofthe charity following the worst ofthe
pandemic, we published
and distributed anew brochure,
detailing the
many groups available to villagers.
In recogniTion ofthe dramatic impact
ofCovid on people's lives, we also published
the "Lockdown Diaries",
chronicling
viUagers' experiences oflockdowns,
through their emails,|
||||essays, poems, photos etc.
Whilst doing this we continued to maintain the Community
Building both
inside and out using a combination
ofvolunteers
and where necessary,
tradespeople.
We also installed the 1 megabit high speed broadband
service into the building to benefit current users and to increase its|
||||adrachveness
to potential users.|
||||Once again this year we awarded an annual educational
bursary to aid a
young person in their education
and career development.|