BENVIEW COMMUNITY CENTRE
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Wednesday 27[th] November 2024
@ 10.30 am
PRESENT:
Kelly Harrison Doreen Hale
Caroline Houston Courtney Connolly
Dale Harrison Ulrike Letzner
Jordan Doran June Dunn
Julie Walsh May Butler
Stacey Burton Kim Aiken
Kushla Vinton
APOLOGIES:
Sarah Crothers Kathleen Shane
Damien Quinn Sean Brennan
Dale introduced herself to everyone present and explained that she is from Ballysillan Community Forum and would be chairing the meeting. Dale asked Kelly to give her annual report...
Community Development report
Thanks everyone for coming. We the staff would like to personally say a big thank you to the committee for their support of the past year. It has been a very stressful time with Belfast City council play services, we have had to sleepless nights thinking we were going to lose this service. We have secured one more year until July 2025 we are unsure what will happen after this and we don’t have the mental health energy to pursue this.
All groups are going well; pumpkin patch was a great success this year again. Christmas this year is a movie night, with a 14ft screen just for the kids who use the centre weekly. Funding is becoming harder to source but we have been successful with awards for all for our new sensory room and summer scheme. NIHE cohesion for the pumpkin patch and Christmas. DFC have finally made both staff up to the national living wage.
New alarm system was installed as it was old and not fit for purpose any longer.
Grounds need a makeover as it is now a health and safety issue as the brick work is getting worse.
ALL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ARE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
VACATE THE CHAIR FOR THE ELCETION OF OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 2018
Election of Officers (nominees must be from Management Committee)
Chairperson: Courtney Connolly
Proposed by: Julie Walsh
Seconded by: Kim Aiken
Treasurer: Kushla Vinton
Proposed by: Courtney Connolly Seconded by: Robyn Telford
Secretary: Sarah Crothers Proposed by: Julie Walsh Seconded by: May Butler
Block election
Kathleen Shane Julie Walsh Robyn Telford May Butler Kim Aiken Stacey Burton June Dunn Doreen Hale
Independent Chair will welcome the elected Chairperson to conclude the meeting. Sign: D.Harrison Date: 27/11/2024