7-8.30pm, Thursday
10th January 2019
Welcome, introductions
& apologies
Attendees: JD, TM, SM, CS, LS, MP, PE, DM, CS, MK, JN, LB,
IB
Apologies: JG, DF, AC
Action Log/minutes
– December minutes were accepted as a true and accurate record
Evaluation of the
Christmas Cracker event
- Should decorate the marquee to make more of a
feature for performance area
- Invite a church to be part of the event and try
to get a nativity in future to add to the festivities
- Be clearer on publicity that FoLP organise the event
– posters in noticeboard, leaflets with social media and website details on
- Need to be more organised on fundraising and
getting prizes for the raffle – someone needs to be in charge of approaching
businesses
- Need a publicity plan and someone to co-ordinate
it for each event
- Need an entertainment plan and one person to
organise/co-ordinate it (e.g. to ensure music matches song sheets!)
2019 Annual Planning
– Projects, Events, Maintenance
- Meetings – continue to be first Thursday of the
month, 7-8.30pm at the Vine Café on Bolton Road.
- Volunteer days – 11-2pm every 2nd and 4th Sunday
of the month. No volunteer days in December.
- Provisional date for the AGM is 13th April, enquires
are being made to find a suitable venue to hold a social after AGM business has
been completed.
Event planning
- 7th APRIL – Great British Spring Clean (Keep
Britain Tidy)
- 2nd June – Community Picnic & Games (part of
National Volunteers Week)
- 22nd June – The Great Big Bike Get Together
(part of the Big Bike Revival and the Great Get Together of funding permitted)
- 3rd August – “Wild About Salford”
(Summer Family Fun Day Event)
- 6th October – Autumn Fun Run (Tim to lead)
- 8th December – Christmas Cracker
Projects Planning
- Grow Well funding bid – need to submit
additional information by Monday 14 January. Should hear back a week or so
later. Bid includes wildflower meadows, fruit trees and programme of nature
themed events
- City of Trees have promised to donate 200 whips
for the beech hedge and 6 fruit trees (Catriona has asked Liz to email CoT to
confirm SCC permission). Paul Jones (SCC) will grind out the tree stumps where
the hedge is planned – he needs to know when the whips will be delivered
- It was agreed the woodland area in the park
should be used for natural play and as a sensory area, e.g. stepping stones,
wind chimes, fairy doors and general whimsy
- Café (Liz to get an update from Annie Surtees the
interested party about quotes for the container services costs)
- Refurbishment of the sports area (Liz is
investigating potential funding sources) and work with the group to access
potential funding
Publicity /
Communications
- It’s been agreed that the survey will be put on
hold for now as the key priorities for the year have already been agreed.
- Aaron to set up social media accounts and develop
new webpage including getting a new email address
Finance update
- Back account remains in positive balance.
- We made £504 net profit from the Christmas event
A.O.B
- Paul Jones has also advised that one of the ash
trees in the park is diseased and needs to be felled. Ian has asked him to keep
it in the park so we can sculpt it into a train in the woodland area (Catriona
to dig out details of the person who did the Duke’s Drive sculptures)
- Membership and the mailing list – It was agreed
the £1 membership will be collected from April.
Due to GDPR the old mailing list will be scrapped. More effort will be
made at events to sign people up to the new mailing list for those who don’t
use Facebook using a contact details slip.
Date of next meeting
– Thursday 7th February, 7pm at the Vine Café