Meeting minutes

I was thinking that we can add the minutes of our meetings to this blog so that everybody can see what we are planning. Hope that is ok with everbody. First minutes below from the meeting on the 21st March below.

Present: Ian, Beth, Julia, Harriet, Chris, Lizzi
Apologies. Gwili and Pat

Introductions

Beth was a member of the former Oxcan group and is an artist.
Harriet explained her role in the group and said that she is to be replaced soon due to maternity leave by Heather. Harriet will be back in January.
Julia introduced herself and her skills in sowing and as an organiser of other events for Northwich Churches together.
Ian explained that he has been involved with a previous Oxfam group, plays in a jazz band and is an inventor.
Lizzi has recently graduated in education studies and hopes to go into international development work.
Chris is an aviation consultant and wishes to pass some of his good frtune on to those less fortunate. He raised the concern about how much money gets through to those in need and Harriet told us that 81p in ever pound goes direct to the project and the rest is used to keep Oxfam sustainable.

Harriet explained that Oxfam in trying to involved local communities in setting up groups in an effort to make fund-raising more sustainable and give people the opportunity to give time rather then money.

Harriet asked the group to consider if they would like an oxfam speaker ever so often to find out more about oxfam.

Action: All to decide how many speakers we would like a year and what in particular would interest us.

Ideas

The group explored the following ideas:

1. Creating their own fair tea brand to sell ( Beth can find out about this through Northern Tea on 01246 232 600 if the group are interested)
2. Christmas carol singing
3. Tagging onto summer fates
4. Tagging onto events like Thudersprint and the strongest man contest
5. Going for a 2 for 1 meal but paying for both meals and extra goes to Oxfam (Action:Julia agreed to see if this was possible at a local Northwich restaurant)
6. Getting Sir John Deans College involved
7. Sports days and picnics for children maybe and Marbury Park
8. Medieval event with spinners, re-en actors and music
9. The Big zoom which Oxfam are rolling out for young children.
10. A Halloween event
11. A sponsored walk
12. Poverty challenge where you get sponsored to do something which a person in poverty does e.g. living without energy. Oxfam run this in October/November.

Action- all present to look at this list and vote on which 2 they would like to move forward on before 16th April 2011. We can then discuss this at the next meeting.

Next Meeting: Monday 18th April. 7.30pm the Kingfisher pub. Please e mail Beth if you have not already contacted us but wish to attend bethbarlow@bethbarlow.com