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UNRATIFIED ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE WINKLEIGH SOCIETY 7.30PM ON 30TH NOVEMBER 2007 - COMMUNITY CENTRE, WINKLEIGH Present Marjorie & John Bowers, Robin & Angela Coombes,
Janet Daynes, Gordon Fraser, Philip Griffiths, Janet Hobbs, Brian Holland,
Peter & Margery Howard, David & Philippa Lausen, Angela Le May,
Derek & Margaret Miller, Julie Mitchell, Wendy Mondy, Peter Monkcom,
Alan & Marie-Claude Mulcahy, Colin Shears, Joan & Peter Stutt,
Will Wainwright 1.0 APPROVAL & SIGNING OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS AGM Our quarterly magazine - "Distinctly Winkleigh" - continues to receive excellent comments from people throughout the parish and beyond. We now have a new team - Peter Monkcom, Tim Rhodes and Alan Mulcahy - and one of their key priorities for 2008 is to get new contributors to further widen the appeal of the magazine. Wendy Mondy produced an updated Information Directory in May and Tim and Wendy are presently redesigning the Winkleigh website - "winkleighonline" - so that it can be updated and have more facilities. The Live Music evenings - which we run in conjunction with Beaford Arts - have been very successful. Audience numbers were up and, with particular thanks to 'devonartsculture' for its support, we have achieved a healthy surplus, which has been used not only to fund "Distinctly Winkleigh" but also to sponsor art workshops at Winkleigh Primary School. The "House Scouts" leaders - Janet Daynes and Gordon Fisher
- have worked tirelessly to expand the project and "House Scouts"
is now linked up with the Archives 4 All "Explore North Devon"
project. The number of images available on disk at the Community Kiosk
has continued to grow and it is bulging with donated documents and objects,
as more and more people are finding out about the rich history of Winkleigh. The Winkleigh Society Committee has always been flexible with new members
coming on board when there are new initiatives. Four officers are elected
annually at the AGM - chairman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer
- and we would welcome "new blood". Members of the committee
presently are Chrissie Cole; Robin Coombes; Janet Daynes; Philip Griffiths;
David Lausen; Wendy Mondy; Peter Monkcom; Alan Mulcahy and Tim Rhodes.
In 2007, the officers were - David Lausen (Chairman); Peter Monkcom
(Vice-Chairman); Wendy Mondy (Secretary) and Robin Coombes (Treasurer).
If you would like to stand as an officer of the Winkleigh Society or
become a committee member please let me know. With all best wishes.
David Lausen Music Night £2,794 Expenses for the year have totalled £2,152, comprising: Distinctly Winkleigh £965 We therefore have an operating surplus of £1,810, due entirely to the much greater success this year of the Music Nights, which achieved a surplus of £496 for the whole of the previous year. At the end of October, we have funds amounting to £8,611, of which £7,500 is on Bank Deposit, though it should be pointed out that of this, we hold £2,290 of unused House Scouts Grant, which will undoubtedly one day have to be refunded whence it came. ROBIN COOMBES 2.3. The Minutes Secretary stated that there was nothing specific
to report 3.3 House Scouts Explore North Devon was launched in Winkleigh last November and rekindled the interest in the archive. We now have a very small group of volunteers working on the project, some doing research and others taking photographs and uploading House Scouts data onto the website. This project has provided our archive with a laptop, printer/ scanner and a digital voice recorder and plenty of training for the volunteers. The website is up and running but is still being tested so it doesn't always work, but it is gradually taking shape and will look good when it is finished. We have held two exhibitions this year, one in June at the Kings Arms and the other on Fair Saturday in the Square, both were very well attended and a lot of interest was shown, some folks brought in documents and photographs for scanning ACE Archaeology Club have played a major role in both House Scouts and Explore North Devon doing a majority of the work, unfortunately there are still very few Winkleigh folk involved in either project, although there is a lot of interest locally in heritage matters. ACE are in the process of cataloguing the flints from Heath Hill and one of their members, Dr Judith Cannell has offered to identify them. ACE are also helping to conserve and catalogue the House Scouts Physical archive and have inked in all of the survey drawings, which are jobs that have needed doing for a long time. I am still hoping that if Winkleigh manages to take on the ownership of the Community Centre that there will be room for the archive. If not the Winkleigh Society will have the problem of re-housing it. House Scouts sessions at the Community Centre, every Tuesday evening
in the small room from 8.15 to 10.00 pm or on Wednesday morning at the
Mini market 9.00 to 10.30 am. There will be a meeting on 18th December 2007 at 10.00am in the Wembworthy Village Hall regarding the proposed footpath diversions. Philip also mentioned the need to keep good neighbours with our farmers
as the recently introduced right to roam did not give an absolute right
for all to wander over farming land and required the public to respect
the countryside code. The only right to roam location in the parish
was located just off the A3124 going towards Dolton on the east and
was an area of land called Hollocombe Moor. The directory continues to be well used and appreciated. It may seem strange to say that as we are all human in Winkleigh the publication of a new edition always prompts many to contact me with amendments and alterations. That is how it goes and in a way it is good that this happens, at least I get the information somehow. When I do get it sometimes I make mistakes and omissions for which I apologise. I can assure you that each time I start a new issue I promise myself that it will be perfect - however you see the result - my best effort. This year I have tried hard to include those who have moved into the new builds in the village, including a letter from the Parish Council welcoming them and bringing to the attention of those on Elms Meadow the presence and history of Shute Lane. We are glad to assist the Parish Council when we can. The Directory, is updated as often as possible since the last edition in May, and is published on Winkleigh's website www.winkleighonline.com so please do go there should you need more up to date information. As usual I will make a plea that you let me have any details that have changed, needing to be omitted next time and most importantly any new clubs, businesses and farms that have arrived in our parish. The next edition will have an up to date street map of the village, with thanks to John Flower. 3.6 www.winkleighonline.com The new ability built in will allow the community to advertise items for exchange, sale or just to give away, as a facility to log in and control access of information for protection. Additionally, the website will have a counter embedded in it so its use will be able to be reviewed regularly and with ease. Last, but certainly not least, a very large thank you is owed to Tim
Rhodes for his time and patience in building what will be a really professional
and easy to use website, unlike my beginners efforts which you have
all had to put up with for the last three years. Tim is such a valuable
asset with such expertise, kindness and patience. However, this year will see an up to date parish property list being produced by Torridge District Council which will be available to us at the beginning of December 2007. As co-operation with the relevant contact in TDC to keep the list updated noting any errors or omissions observed while working with our distributions lists, we will in return. be able to update this record at the end of 2007. At the recent public meeting regarding the future of the Community
Centre an extremely kind offer of help was made by Ian Ripper, who along
with Maggie Weston his partner, has bought Wheatlands farm. As part
of his experience includes managing and using data bases he has the
expertise to use the appropriate software to provide us with up to date
lists. So thank you in advance to Ian, who will be contacted shortly! Our 2007 AGM took place on 29th October and it has to be recorded that the number of attendees was rather disappointing. We did advertise around the village and, with so many things happening at present, a wider input would have been good. Anyway, having got that off my chest, I can report on a busy meeting at which we were able to cover a wide variety of issues concerning the ongoing operation of the Club. Thanks go to those who were in attendance and it was particularly good to see Sandra representing the local constabulary - it is important that we maintain and build on this vital link and we all hope that operational duties will permit an increased level of attendance on Wednesday evenings. Probably the most exciting happening in recent weeks has been our meeting with "Seize The Moment", the Hatherleigh-based art and music group, who have spent a number of Wednesday nights with us and introduced a whole new dimension to our activities. Unfortunately, their own commitments will limit their ability to be with us as regularly in the evenings, but they are intending to take a leading role in the creation of our "Art Wall" using the wall of the toilet block on the play area, which we have just received approval of funding (to buy paints etc.) from the Devon Community Foundation's "Rural Fund". Current plans are to commence this project on Sunday 2nd December and, if there is sufficient interest, we would like to make it into an "art and food" event by offering youngsters who would like an additional activity the chance to do some cooking in the kitchen whilst the artwork is going on. Whatever happens, there will be food of some kind and the day will be free! Whilst initially this must be seen as a "pilot", if it is successful and there is enough interest, we would hope to introduce regular such events with the broad aim of involving as wide a section of the community as possible - from the very young to the not so young. Yes - that could be you! How about it? As usual we have an appeal to make. After a long period of loyal service, "Dot" has decided she will not be able to keep on with her running of the "tuck shop" in the new year. Many are indebted to her over the years and we will miss her, but this does leave a big gap in our organisation. Is there anyone, or more than one, who could help fill this gap? It can be a lot of fun and a rewarding experience - so if you think you could help, please get in touch. Finally, a reminder, we are still recycling mobile phones. So, if you are replacing yours (Xmas perhaps), please remember we can make good use of it. Also we are still on the lookout for unwanted tools - and many thanks to those who have already helped with these items. Phone Nos. For any of the above or Youth Club information: I would like to make it clear that although Devon County Council did not pick us as partners for the Community Assets Fund (CAF), we are still part of the project and they have promised to help us find other sources of funding. The CAF of course is not to be confused with the Big Lottery's Community Buildings Fund that we applied for back in April, which we will hear more about soon. A Public meeting was held on the 15th of October to update folk on the process and try to get more of the community involved. The result was that CCOWS have expanded with over 15 new members, sub groups have been set up to tackle various tasks. This is such good timing as the Quirk timescale is very short, it ends in March 08 and there is a lot of work to be done. But things are looking very positive for the future of this old building. Thanks to Distinctly Winkleigh for delivering the CCOWS flyers advertising
the event with the last issue, it really helped a great deal. I hope
that the Winkleigh Society will be able to continue supporting our quest. 5.5 Winbeg For some considerable time there has been an alternative proposal for the airfield which has been incorporated into the Parish Plan and shared with the community at various public meetings. Although this plan has not definitely been accepted, it is hoped that it will be incorporated into the development of the airfield as part of the Local Development Framework. The consultation period for the framework has commenced and will be on the TDC website. Information regarding this is on www.winkleighonline.com There will be two EGMs of the Parish Council one on 19th December to discuss and formulate Winkleigh's response, the other on 16th January in the presence of Maria Bailey from TDC to discuss the Local Development Framework relevance for Winkleigh. As usual these will be open meetings for any and all to attend. The alternative proposal has been carried forward by a group outside
the remit of the Winkleigh Society, but with representatives on it from
the Society, the Parish Council and other relevant and interested parties.
One of these parties has been the South West Regional Development Agency,
who at the last recent meeting promised £50K towards the costs
of a development brief for the airfield area which will commence in
January 2008. David Lausen and Peter Stutt are on the interview panel
who will appoint the consultants chosen to undertake this development
brief.
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