2025-03-31-accounts

WINDYHALL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 2025 CHAIRMANS REPORT Another year 8one and agaln It has been a pleasure to chair our communlty group and work with great group of people in our estate and try and do some good in the area . A5 theyearstarted we began making plans for events flrst up was easter we had our anual egg hunt and easterparty very well supported by the local community some 30young kids wtth thelr pare nts in attendance made for a great day sometime after easter we were contacted by a local church 8roupto see if we had any Interest in dolng something together of course we thought it was a good Idea and the church group organised a BBQto gauge what support they would get the BBQwent very well and was a success and leftthlngs open for future events with group. After easter it came time to plan our annual July festival to which we got downhearted when we were not gfve our usual councll funding it left uswlthout any funds to run any events the feellng In ourgroup and Indeed other Coleraine groups who all got theirfunding denied was that the money was spent on the return off the GOLF so the local people had to pay the price and be left out . Lucky forus wewere In contact wlth Garethfromcoleraine housin8executive whomwe metatinter agency meetlngs Gareth was able to obtain fundingfor ourjutyeventwhlth meant it could 80 ahead as usual to whlch the community where very happy about especially the young children I would Ilke to out here in textourthanks to Gareth and Coleraine H.E for their helpand last Minuit rescue of our July event whlchwas verysucce55fuland wellsupported by family's from Windyhall and surroundln8 areas includin8 members of the church group. In Au8USt we met up wlth the church group again at their request to talk about havlng somethlng In the area to engage with the local people and get some feedback on anything they could do in the area therewastalk of a senloryouth club so we arranged an end of summerfun day and BBQwhlch they funded the day was well supported and a senlor youth club Is In the plannln8 Stage for 2026. Into Septemberand talks for our next events Started but lack of funding would prevent our annual Halloween party, 50 our focus wentto Chr15tmas wlth what Ilttle money we had we decided to do mealsfor our elderlyresidents in Decemberthlsturnedinto a bigger event after we were contarted by the church groupwe workedwlth previouslytheygave us a donation which meant we could scale up and provlde Christmas dinnerfor all over &Js in Windyhall we invited them down to the communltycentre and gave a 3 course meal and forthose unable to attend due to health issues we had thelr meal delivered and In the evenlng we had Christmas music and treats for the klds and of course a speclal visit from Santa which made a perfect endin8 to a great day whlch was well attended and we recelved a lot of posltive feedback for especlallythe dinn er. To finish up id like give huge thanks to ourgroup volunteers who put in the hard work and make everything possible none of thls woukl happen withoutthem and another huEe thankyou to the church 8roup for helplng us wlth a donation . Looking forward now to 2026 and more hard work in the community. Chairperson