SUFFOLK COMMUNITY FORUM Annual General Meeting Wednesday 22Th1 November 2023 at 6.30pm 124 Stewartstown Road, Belfast TheQueen's Award forvoluntsry Servl
Suffolk Community Forum Annual General Meeting Agenda. Wednesday 22rbd November 2023 at 6.30pm Wel¢*)me & Apologies Presentation of Annual Report Sarnrny Wlson- Interim l Outgoir¥J Chair Presentation ofAnnual A¢nts Ne Dwglas Outgotng TTea5urer Nomination$ for new Commitlee Nominations of reps for eath group Election of offi¢ers will tske place at next Forum meeling. Any other business
¥ SUFFOLK ** commuNy FORUM CIIAIRVERSQN'S RF.IY)RT Suffolk Communty Forum rs Fleased to present its Annual Gera1 Report for the year 2023. Thi5 has been a drfficuh period for the Forum and for swety rn General, coming straight out of the Covid stiuabon we have seen the much talked alx)ut cost of liwng, protocol issues, nori-exislence of local Government. All these issues have made the procurement of fuTKling even nNye ¢VIt for the Forum and for Ihe individual groups. Change has also taken pl within the forum, wilh the resignation of both our Community Development Manager Carolyn. which I would like lo place on record and acknowtedge her rnassÉve contribulion lo the Forum and the eslale during her period wlh us. Ajso. lo our Chair Terry after many years of seNi¢e and ded1110n to the Forum and again we wsh to pass on our thanks to Terry for this. I would like to thank each and every member of the Forum for attending meets.ngs and the work they have committed themselves to in ensuring the work ofthe Forum has continued despite major challenges. The biggest challeThJe over the last year has been the finalising of the deal with LIDL around provilling fvnding us to develop the MUGA s(Kial enterprise. There was lol of hard work by members of Ihe Forum on this at Sometimes feit like il would never gel over the line. This project wll be key to the sustainabtlity of this estate and the is much hard work to come over the coming months to get this seen through to the end. a special menlK)n on this goes lo Sara Bunting and Edwn Pools who provided much neede(I help on this parb"culady over the final stages and I know they are still very much on board with this woject. Our current core funding with DFC through the Neighbouthoc¥J Renewal Programme has been extended several time5. M has been agreed to April 2024 with the expectation Ihal this wll be extended lo April 2W25. FThYever this has not been officially confirmed. The access to funding from SRRP has been maintained and wll eijntinue lo be maintained and this does help lo keep the Forum afloat yeaf to year. Going fOard I feel we need lo keep on wilh the momentum built up on the MUG we have seen much change over the year and we now need a pellod of stability, we need lo gel our W0e1 in pe, UkNJate our kx)li¢ies and
procedures and every representative to work togelher for the good of the Forum and our Community. I believe we have good people on the fofum th good he8rts for IF)is community and together we can help to build and strengthen Suffolk. A final thanks to anyone who contributed or helped in anyway lo the wor% of the Forum this year. Sammy Wilson Ghairperson A Charity with the Northern Ireland Charities Commission No NiciooiJ7 124124 Annual Ac¢ount5 2021-2022 Neil L)ouglas went through the account5 from last year with the group and asked members to read through them. Updates on Projects: An update of the projects of 2023 will be added to this report when the new Gommunity Developrnent Manager is in place. Meeting5 Attended: We have continued the following meetings throughout the year SRRP Board of Directors NIHE Housing Community Nemork Lenadoon Neighbourhood Partnership Housing and Gomfflunity Neiwork PSNI Neighbourhood Teams David fiobinson, Chief ExeGutive. FGG Good Relations