Dear Friend of the Harris Garden,
I hope you have been keeping well. I am aware there have not been many updates since COVID and therefore would like to update you all on the changes that have happened in the last year as we have been unable to meet.
Firstly there have been some changes to the committee. Laura Wells, our Treasurer, stepped down in Summer to focus on her studies. Laura will be hugely missed on the committee as she is very knowledgeable and worked hard to keep on top of the charity's accounts for several years. This position now remains vacant, so if you know someone who would be interested to do this role then please do get in touch.
This also brings me to say that in Autumn last year I left the University of Reading, and therefore will step down as chairman due to my time commitments. I hope to still have some involvement on the committee however this will obviously be more limited now.
At our last committee meeting we discussed the fact that we are running a much smaller committee now and this means it does not feel right to ask for a subscription when it is not possible to return anything for our members. We therefore plan to trial a period to remove the subscription fee but will maintain an email list to update you on an ad-hoc basis should there be events or any updates on the garden. If you would like your email removed from our records then you can get in contact at any time.
The committee will now meet quarterly to plan investment in the Harris Garden. With that, the committee plan a much needed update to the website this year and to make it easier for visitors to the garden to make any donations that will 100% be used in maintaining and investing in the garden. I am sure many of you enjoy visiting and walking around the garden and this has been especially important over the last two years. Therefore visitors to the garden are likely to feel the same and the committee believe that replacing subscriptions with any donations from visitors is worthwhile.
If you have any questions on these updates then I’d be happy to hear from you.
Best wishes, Jordan
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