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In SUMM I feel that we have had a very successful year with, dare I say it, no terrible problems or massive expenses. The Hall continues to be used a great deal particularly by The Barn preschool who are considering using our Tuesdays as well. We are particularly lucky to have such a wonderful and active drama group, who use the stsge to very great advantage as they perforn] three plays per year. We are also fortunate that our evening users continue throughout the year, that is Zumba, Shanty Singing, Yoga and during the winter months Keep Fit. We have several private parties and charitable events, such as Bingo and Wll]e tasting for the Churcty at the weekends. This year, the Hall will play its usual, very important role during the four days of the Village Festival. We have had a successful folk music concerL but sadly, the elopement paty mentioned in last year's minutes was cancelled as the relationship had 11 .founderedl We have replaced the side door with a very smart metal door, which cost over £2000. We have also re-laid the concrete area by the dustbins, as that was cracking up very badly. The drain in that area had started to collapse which was not surprising as there was found to be an old well next to it with a hole about 1.5 m in diameter. Some of the fence on the car park side of the front area has become very rotten and we have been lucky to have some new pickets made and 11 provided for us by the community shed in Halstead for a token charitable gift. Once agai I would like to thank Lucy Orrow for organising another very successful Cl]ristmas shopping event last November, which raised over £600 for the Hall. Unfortunately, we have lost our secretary because of health problems and an increase in her worL and as yet we have not been able to replace her. We also are going to lose the excellent cleaner, Kelly, at the end of July We are on the lookout for both a new cleaner and a new secretary. I was very keen to see if we could move our financial accounting package to QuickBooks, which would hopefully save an almighty amount of time for our treasurer when it came to end of year accounts. We have done this, and with our Accountant's help, we are about to close our first years accounts. Although it has been difficult to learn how to use QuickBooks both our treasurer and I think it is an improvement. However, I have struggled somewhat with the Lemonbooking system. The idea was that I would be able to do invoices for each user, either as they booked for a one-off event or easily month by month. I have coped with the invoice side, but 11 l am not happy about the ability of Lemonbooking to pick up which invoices have been paid by QuickBooks. I am still in communication with Lemonbooking. With regard to our very old and slightly leaky roof, Ron and I decided that we should be putting money aside in a designated account for the roof and he will confwm that we now have £10,000 in there.
of maintsance that is i*orrying nie is the hedge on th¢ the fTDDt of the hall the pretty rotten Ii'irL fLIILe ib now ulniobt EXlea in the hLIkn l am concffned that this will make it very (fiAfbath tt) L2& )Tar I did raise the possibility of renioving this fLnce, but The Barn wetE l.ay keen that remained as there were one or two possible 8ap8 in & bed£e wbere some potential escapee children could get through. HO the bedge has thickened up enorniously now and l think the annual cut ill Tr"ery dfficult for Josh with the wire fence where it is. TATe are N'ery fortunate that all the current trustees have agreed to serve for aw&r year. This proposal was proposed by Juliet Hawthorne and seconded by G J marc001 Chairnwi