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Minutes for AGM Little Acorns Playgroup
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Wednesday 19 October 2022 at 7pm in Church Hall
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Attendees of committee: Evangeline Watters, Alan Mcmenemy, Niamh Stewart, Faye
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Apologies: Joanne Booth
Zoe - Big Bedtime Read/Happy Healthy Kids:
Overview of both these programmes. Happy healthy kids is all about physical activity,
using inside and outside space and having healthy snacks. Big bedtime read will be
starting on Thursday 10th November. The Library will be in the side room and children
will be able to choose 4 books to take home. Reading regularly and consistency to
children has such an amazing impact on their development. Stay and play days for
parents and children will be organised throughout the year.
Evangeline- Chairperson's Report:
This is the first face to face AGM that we have had since 2019 as it has all been on Zoom.
Thank you to the committee members and staff for all their support throughout the
year. Congratulations to Zoe on her promotion. Congratulations to Justine who will be
joining the team as Deputy Leader in November.
The lease with the church is ongoing. We are in communication with them about getting
something formally agreed on.
We have forms for committee members to sign. The policies and procedures will be
emailed out for members to read.
Social services inspection is due in November. They will send a parents questionnaire
directly to the parents to complete.
This year the staff have been working really hard to improve service for parents and
ch ild ren through planning lots of activities. Thank you to them for all their hard work.
Faye- About our Committee..
We are inviting anyone to join out committee. This would be to help have an impact on
the Playgroup by planning activities and fund raising events. This is really important as
we are a charity and can't only rely on funding from EA. Its also an opportunity to meet
other parents who's children will be at the same stage of school throughout their
education.
What do we do? We meet every 6 weeks; we make sure that the setting is running well;
we work along staff to help and support them in anyway we can; we organise
fundraising events; we also help to manage and recruit staff; we manage the playgroup
finances.

Alan- Treasurerfs Report: {see report attached)
Budget ran from August to August. Our rent is currently £5000 and will increase once we
organise the contract.
We budget and set targets each year on spending. We have been lucky to have a lot of
funding from EA relating to Covid but we won't have that every year. We need to work
on fund raising this year to help close the gap.
New members:
Hannah Nelson
Aileen Devlin
Emma McKinley
Next meeting 30th November TBC