CARRYDUFF RETIREMENT GROUP 2023 2024 CHARITY 0. 103531 I LISI&£S CHAIRPERSON VICE-CHAIR SECRETARIES TREASURER ASSISTANT TREASURER cOMMIEE Elizabeth Graham Helen Proctor Maura Middleton and Connie Rod Shirle HerTon Jennifer Fowler Ellish Crosb , Jean Ed ers ar. Ursula Jackson The Group meets on the second Monday of the month in the hall belonging to St Ignatius Parish Church. Our membership number is 40 but on a monthly basis would average around 30 attending. We have a few names on the waiting list. We continue to be reglstered with the Northern Ireland Charity Commission and have lodged the required documentation on the relevant section of the website. The Group confirms that it has had due regard to the guidance on public benefit produced by the Commission, that there is no harrn to the older people who are our beneficiaries and that we accrue no private benefit. The following is a brief Ilst of our activities from March 2023 to February 2024: 13 Februa 2023 13 March 2023 24A ril 2023 15Ma 2023 12 June 2023 IISe tember1023 2 October 2023 9 October 2023 13 November 2023 I l December 2023 8 Janua 2024 Annual General Meetin and tea an Valle Re ional Park- talk and film Daffodil Tea with Crawford Bell as Guest Sin Coronation Lunch rant-aided b LCCC Portstewart Outin with lunch at Tull lass Hotel Meetin and Tea Outin to Ards and Dinner at McBride's, Comber Meetin and Beetle Drive Yams inners Christmas Lunch at Auld House John Cartwri ht. Anti ues er
Sad, we have lost some of our members. Some have passed away and some are not able to travel to the Group. As a Group, we feel that our Members benefit from our various activlties. both mentally and physically. Friendships are formed and we look foward to Meeting5, Outing and seeing our friends. Much help and assistance has been received from Gina Biggerstaff and Linda Mccracken at Li5bum ond Ca511ereagh Council, for which we are very grateful. We appreciate all the help that the volunteers from Carryduff Hub give us by letting us have a room for our Committee Meetings. Our Group appreciates the fact that Rev Lowry and St Ignatius Church grant us the use of the Church hall and also the use of the Church Warden who sets out tables and chalrs for us. Sandra Thomas, Co Treasurer of the Vestry, has helped us With the Church diary and gave us guidance on carying out a fire drill and sun/ey recently. Signed on behalf of the Management Committee Maura Middleton, Secretary