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The PowerPoint presentation given by Bryan Spooner concerning proposed changes to the Wing Community Charity at the Wing Open Meeting is here.
A PDF version is available for those who do not have PowerPoint.
For your reference, copy of current Trust Deed document is here.
We have some exciting sessions lined up for the next couple of months, see below.
You are also more than welcome to come along and bring whatever you may be working on for example crocheting or painting. We also have various games if you don’t fancy being creative.
Feb 8th, Wing Village Hall – Computer and tablet help
Feb 22nd, Manton Village Hall – Folk Art demo and have a go ??
Folk art are the beautiful paintings you see on canal boats.
March 8th, Wing Village Hall – Calligraphy demo and have a go
Pens and calligraphy paper will be provided.
March 22nd, Manton Village Hall – Scrabble and other board games or book making ??
Each session runs from 2.30 – 4.30. Cost £3 to include tea and cake
ALL WELCOME, we have people from all villages, Oakham and Uppingham too.
Contact: Wing: Joanne 737286, beawingj@gmail.com.
Manton: Helen 737157, hcmaitland@gmail.com.
The Parish Council have not posted any notices anywhere in the village informing the residents of this but it is scheduled.
The Parish Council, as Trustee of the Charity Wing Community Centre (Wing Village Hall) wishes to seek the approval of Wing’s community to extend the Scheme governing the Charity to enable the Village Hall Management Committee to spend monies raised in the future, in excess of that required to maintain and develop the Village Hall, on activities of wider benefit to the community.
The Charity was originally established to established to ring-fence the funds raised for the benefit of the village hall ONLY, to ensure it was kept to a high standard. At present the trust document restricts how monies raised can be spent.
If the village residents wish to agree to this change this will require a change to the Charity Commission Objectives.
The proposed change could release the constraints put upon the Parish Council by the originators of the Charity some 34 years ago to prevent the Parish Council using the funds for anything other than the maintenance and repair of the Village Hall.
The residents have for 34 years used the Village Hall as a base for fundraising for ANY good cause without let or hindrance. Please come along to hear how the proposed changes could work.
It is important that residents are fully informed about the impact these changes could have.
All are Welcome and Encouraged to attend.
Today is the prime holiday in the calendar. May you all have a very happy day especially those who are lucky enough to be with friends and family.
If you have a neighbour who is alone remember to call on them and make the day a little brighter for them too.
For those of you with a family that can’t be with you, you can speak to them or even see them for free using Facebook, Whatsapp, Skype or any of the many free apps that are available on your computer or smartphone. Merry Christmas To You All in Wing!
Help us to keep its unique character
One Way? … No Way!
Oakham does not want to look like Milton Keynes or Disneyland!!
This one-way proposal will create:
It will provide 30 fewer parking spaces for visitors.
Local shops are 90% against the idea.
THIS WILL AFFECT YOU
PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION!
[Although the petition has been handed in with around 3000 signatures it will continue to run online until mid-March 2018]
In June this year Rutland County Council bid for over £2 million from the Department for Transport towards the £3 million cost of a one-way system and regeneration scheme for Oakham town centre. The application was unsuccessful and there will be not DfT grant for this project.
The Chief Executive Officer and the leader of the council must have known this since mid-October, but we have seen no public announcement. Why not? What will the council do now? Will it scale down the project as it undertook to do in its bid to the DfT? What consultation will the council now undertake? Or will it blithely push ahead with the original plans, despite the rapidly rising tide of discontent and opposition?
If it goes ahead regardless, where will the missing £2 million come from? What other council projects will have to be abandoned? Which other budgets will be depleted? Will we, as Council Tax payers, now have to underwrite this potentially disastrous scheme which so many residents – and voters – are convinced is a bad idea?
Isn’t it time you asked your County Councillor some very pointed questions?
Tell Uppingham Ward Councillors your views by emailing
rburkitt@rutland.gov.uk , moxley@rutland.gov.uk & lstephenson@rutland.gov.uk
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