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MEETING MINUTES
Finance
Committee Report: Welcome
to Chrissy Nossell and Val Reeve, two of the three members of the new
Finance Committee who have taken over from Mary Lucas who was Treasurer for
the last 2 years. A very big Thank-You to Mary for all her hard work on
behalf of the WIBC. Anniversary
Parties
– approx €850 was raised at the House of India and €1,533 at the Grand
Café from ticket sales and raffles. Well done to all those members who
arranged these great evenings, organized the raffles and donated prizes –
many thanks to you all! Grand
total
– the unofficial total in the WIBC account is in the region of €9,500 + The
finance committee vetoed paying a €2,000 cheque to Ana Vasbinder for the
Javea shelter, as firstly Ana is no longer a council member and secondly we
have no control over where the money is spent. The
idea of the Emergency Fund was whole-heartedly supported, so long as a small
sub-committee of 3 to 5 members is informed of exactly where the money is
needed. Calpe
Social Services had asked the WIBC to financially support a multi-lingual
poster campaign with an emergency phone number. However, one of our
member’s experience of Calpe’s
Social Services was that they had no back-up services (she was just told to
change the locks), so this will be put on hold until we can liaise further
with the Social Services. Anniversary
Parties: Both
parties were a huge success, although it was expressed that it would have
been nice to have one big party for all members. Lessons
to be learnt
– Free
entry for children under 12 should be lowered to under 5, as a the older
children took a lot more food than the adults and then left it. Tickets
need to be for sale several weeks in advance in order to be available
at both meetings. Reservations
cannot be taken without payment – we lost a lot of money at the House of
India where people had reserved places and didn’t turn up, but we still
had to pay the restaurant. This has happened several times before! In future
if people have not paid by 4 days before the event they lose their places
and the tickets are given to people on the waiting list. Also
ticket sellers were running around in their cars trying to meet up with
members to deliver tickets. A possible solution is that members pay directly
into the WIBC bank account and then pick up their paid tickets at the door? WIBC
as an official Association: Members
agreed with a suggestion that the WIBC should now be registered officially.
A new member suggested that a way round this could be to affiliate the WIBC
with another official group (such as Action Aid or whoever).
Member’s comments and suggestions would be gratefully received for
this to be discussed at a later meeting. Send to admin@WIBC-Spain.com Extra
Meetings: Members
suggested we have extra meetings in the evenings, for example, other than
for networking - for education, brainstorming, socials! Savita
held a “girlies nite” at her house on Tuesday where members were invited
to bring along their products to sell to friends etc. Food and drink was
also donated and it was a very relaxed, enjoyable evening. Post
your invitations on “Notice This” on the WIBC website. “Notice
This”
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