Little Marsden Community Action Group Minutes

[Mitch]

I'm just gonna email these to you sweets, catch ya later - off to pick up Cotty. byeeeee Mitch (change/add in anything I've missed)

LITTLE MARSDEN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP MEETING
JULIE’S HOUSE, NELSON
WEDNESDAY 17TH MAY 2006
7pm

Present:
Lou, Julie, Elaine, Michele, Mitch

Apologies: Reg, Karen & Sky

1. Trip to Nelson Neighbourhood Action Meeting, 5pm-7pm/Marsden Community Primary School, Percy St

Julie, Mitch, Michele, Elaine and Molly attended the meeting at Marsden Primary. We all agreed in discussions afterwards that it had been well worth going, and that it was good to meet Lynne, Bushra, Rebecca and Louise who were really friendly, encouraging and helpful about our ideas and little group.

Bushra, Rebecca and Lynne offered many helpful ideas, and took some of our yellow leaflets for the Jumble Sale at St Johns Southworth in June and they were keen to support us.
Other ideas & support offered included:

Help with funding applications & progress with setting up the group
Offer of use of meeting room at Railway Street
Support for our events
Help with distributing leaflets
CRB Checks
General advice

Elaine who lives in Brierfield also learnt that there is a similar Action group over her way, and she says she will go along to their meetings too. Elaine also discovered that there is a free gym service available in Brierfield that she didn’t know about. We thought we might advertise free services like this and more in our first newsletter.

Michele has since exchanged emails with Lynne, and we’ll be forwarding a copy of these minutes to them. Unfortunately they can’t make our next weekly meeting, but Michele, Julie and hopefully Karen if she can make, will be popping into Railway Street (date to be arranged) to find out more and how we can get support from them.

Next Meeting of Neighbourhood Action Group is Wednesday, 28th June, starting 6.30pm at Marsden Community Primary School, Percy Street, Nelson.




2. Jumble Sale – 17th June, St Johns Southworth – Plans Progressing

The leaflet is now done, with feedback form on the back. Everyone seemed to like it, and Mitch will copy more of these for Saturday when we meet for trip to Brunshaw. Some discussions on for next meeting talking about distribution of leaflet, door to door, advertising, getting posters and so forth.

3. Brunshaw Action Group – Visit to Social

Michele’s done a brilliant job of arranging our visit to Brunshaw – this Saturday, 20th May. Going along are Michele, Sky, Mitch, Reg and possibly Karen. Places are booked on the event - £5 each.

As well as having a right good time, we hope to learn more about how they have organised as a group, more about the socials they organise, how they advertise, and any advice we can get. We can also ask them how they went about getting funding for their newsletters.

4. General Ideas from the Meeting

From general chats in the meeting, lots more ideas came up!

Lou mentioned the problems and dangers of people parking in the mornings and afternoons at Marsden School. She said she had mention this to the local police, but they had not yet done anything about it. Lou mentioned doing some friendly stickers to make the points, with ‘I’m a Special Person, I can Park anywhere I like’ on them, and sticking them on windscreens, as well as taking some photos of the situation with Michele or Mitch’s digital camera and making a note of car numbers. Michele came up with the idea of ‘Marsden School Sticker Campaign, “I’m a special Person, I can Park Where I like’, highlighting the dangerous parking issues around the school!

Mitch said she’d do the stickers for next week’s meeting and at next meeting we can talk about a day when we will do this – possibly Thursday or Friday 25th/26th May. All agreed the stickers were a great idea from Lou.

Elaine mentioned again about finding out about the free gym, and we had a general discussion about how information about these things and other things going on in the community doesn’t get passed around,. We talked about what we could do to help here, and putting lots of information in our newsletters in the future.

Julie mentioned again having an outdoor event in Walverden Park – definitely one for the future all agreed.

Lou is currently checking out Marsden Community Sport and Arts Centre on Percy Street, and Julie spoke very highly about it too, and Rose Taylor, the Development Officer there. Lou is looking at how we can work closely with them, advertising their events and also making good use of the sports courses and workshops they are offering.

(Marsden Community Primary School’s website is here: http://www.marsden.lancsngfl.ac.uk)

We also had a chat about the services offered at Christchurch and at some point we agreed to find out facilities there, and what would be available to us – and cost etc. It was recognised that this was quite a popular venue, centrally placed in Nelson, very mixed attracting many residents.


Shea, Mollie and Lou’s daughter joined in the meeting occasionally. Mitch asked them if they were going to have a day out somewhere what would they like to do. The vote was definitely for an outdoor centre trip, with loads of outdoor rides. Molly mentioned the Lake District. Mitch to look into Outdoor Centres and costs involved for a day in the Lake District, and other possible day trips. They like Blackpool too!

Brief chats about arrangements for Brunshaw event Saturday, and afterwards popping to see a local band in Nelson that Julie recommended. We spoke about the music scene in Nelson a bit, and how that would be an important part of our group – arranging open mike music events, publicising local bands and so on. Mitch recommended that Julie do a ‘Julie’s Music Scene’ or something like that column in our newsletters because she knows what’s going on in the area.

Julie also mentioned about her involvement in amateur dramatics group. Mitch said there were quite a few in East Lancs – she knew of one in Padiham. Talk of another idea of setting up an amateur dramatics group in Nelson in the future.

5. Agenda for next Meeting – planned for Wednesday, 24th June, Julie’s House

Ideas for agenda for next meeting were:

1. Visit to Nelson Neighbourhood Action Group – Lynne & Bushra at 120 Railway Street by Julie/Michele & Karen. For information on next step, funding possibilities, support available.

2. Marsden School Sticker Campaign – Mitch to bring Stickers with “I’m a Special Person, I can Park Where I Like” – to highlight the Dangerous Parking near the school. Arrange Day.

3. Ideas for setting up a web forum for ‘Little Marsden Community Action Group’.

4. Jumble Sale/St Johns Southworth – 17th June – Distribution of leaflets (Mitch to bring loads to meeting), door to door organising in Clover Hill, Posters advertising further afield, Radio/Local Press

5. Ideas for first newsletter, to come out after Jumble Sale.

If anyone has anything they want to add to the agenda before next week, email/phone Michele or just bring your idea to the meeting.

6. NEXT MEETING

Wednesday, 24th May, 7pm – Julie’s House.

[michele cryer]

Thanks for posting the Minutes and suggested Agenda Mitch! I've altered the original document slightly, and added 1 other item to the Agenda: possible holiday to the Lake District in July, depending upon the cost and availability of the 'cottage' that houses up to 20 people, and on interest in taking the holiday...or words to that effect!!

Will email the document to all the group now.

[michele cryer]

For those of you who still use this forum instead of our new message board for the Little Marsden S.W.A.G. or C.A.G. here's the latest Minutes:

Little Marsden Community Action Group Meeting
24th May 2006
Michele’s House 7pm

In attendance: Mitch, Sky, Michele.
Apologies: Reg, Karen, Julie, Louise, Elaine, Rufus

1. Minutes from last meeting checked and found to be correct.
2. Suggestion made that we liase with community development workers, Lynne and Bushra over the following, and add any further ideas before next meeting:

• Making draft document of Aims and Objectives
• Making draft document of Constitution
• Sources of funding and what areas could be covered by funding
• Setting up a bank account and checking for any special charges that are applied by certain banks for transactions made by groups/organizations/charities
• Obtaining free CRB checks for members who will be supervising children etc.
• Looking at options regarding applying for Charitable Status at a later date, if that becomes applicable: pros and cons of becoming a charity
• Are there special rates for booking Community Centres weekly instead of for ‘one off’ occasions
• What are other local Resident Groups etc. doing? Are they currently active? Are there any ventures on which the groups could work together and pool resources? Eg: Allotments on Cloverhill Rd/Brunswick Street.

3. Prior to next main meeting all those who have received flyers for the Jumble Sale will attempt to distribute them in public venues such as shops, supermarkets, hairdressers, libraries, community centres, churches, community group buildings and schools
4. Jumble Sale to be promoted via press and radio following the next meeting, after which we will also arrange groups to distribute remaining flyers to a wider area door to door and by handing them out after church services in the areas
5. The Little Marsden C.A.G. web forum/message board is now up and running at: littlemarsden.proboards76.com Sky is to help Michele to construct a free Wannado website for the group also.
6. The Marsden School parking problem. It has been ascertained (by phone, following tonight’s meeting) that some parents are briefly parking their cars in the middle of the road in order to let their children out, causing obstructions and extra danger to parents and children crossing. It was thought that a ‘sticker campaign’ and photo session would be useful to deal with the problem, however tonight the possibility of following up Louise’s chat with the Community Policeman with a chat with the council regarding the problem and perhaps involving Traffic Wardens might be the next best step to take before employing the stickers. To be discussed further at the next meeting.
7. There was no other business.
8. Next meeting to take place on Thursday 8th June, 7pm at Julie’s house unless we make enquiries regarding holding the meeting at 120 Railway St. which is the premises belonging to the New Nelson Neighbourhood Action Group.

PLEASE WOULD ALL THOSE WITH EMAIL FACILITIES EMAIL THE REST OF THE GROUP WITH ANY IDEAS THEY HAVE FOR THE WORDING OF OUR AIMS AND OBJECTIVES, IN CONSULTATION WITH OUR FIRST DRAFT DOCUMENT AND THE MINUTES OF THE FIRST MEETING.

WOULD ALL THOSE WITHOUT EMAIL FACILITIES PLEASE PASS THEIR IDEAS ONTO THOSE WITH EMAIL FACILITIES SO THAT YOUR IDEAS CAN BE CIRCULATED TOO.

PLEASE COULD EVERYBODY ALSO THINK ABOUT ANY OTHER ADVICE YOU THINK WE NEED FROM THE NEW NELSON NEIGHBOURHOOD ACTION GROUP COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKERS, IN TIME FOR THE NEXT MEETING ON JUNE 8TH.

Don't forget our new message board for the Little Marsden Group can be found at:

littlemarsden.proboards76.com

Please visit it often, and become members!!!

[michele cryer]

LITTLE MARSDEN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP MEETING MINUTES
NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT OFFICE, NELSON
THURSDAY, 8TH JUNE 2006
7pm

Present:
Julie Cummings, Elaine Bradshaw, Michele Cryer, Mitch Simmons, Karen Thomas, Bushra Yaqoob, Molly Cummings

Apologies: Reg Hall, Sky, Louise Evans

1. General Introductions & Advise from Bushra

We went round the room and introduced ourselves so Bushra knew who we
were. Elaine started. She’s a Nursery Nurse at a Brierfield School (Woodend), plus a school governor. Elaine stressed she was interested in the action group because she is keen to do things for the community.

Mitch (who hates speaking) said she was a homeworker, often felt isolated and that coming together through socials and the action group was personally important to break that isolation, plus like Elaine she’s concerned to put back into the community. Involved in local community campaigns like the mast campaign, plus still a trading member and previous core group member of East Lancs Lets. (Forgot to mention) Also a member of the National Group on Homeworking (NGH) and keen to reach other homeworkers in the area through the community group to break probably their similar isolation.

Michele is a single mum with two kids. Very experienced in community work and has undertaken several courses through Burnley Community Network on Governance training and so forth. Still a member of East Lancs Lets, and previous member of the core group of East Lancs Lets, producing with great skill their newsletters and organising many socials such as the recent family disco at St Johns Southworth, Nelson. Michele stressed the importance of a community action group organising socials, bring local people of all ages together, and families with no means of getting out and about. She stressed wanting to make the group inclusive to all, building trust and friendship and breaking isolation.

Michele introduced Karen, a good friend who always supports her. Mitch also mentioned Karen’s superb people skills, always helping people and her house is always busy with friends – the kindest of hearts, always helping people out. Karen has 6 kids.

Julie, and daughter Molly also has another son Shay (? On spelling), is a single mum, talented musician and singer and has lots of contacts within the music scene in Pendle and Burnley. Also a great people person, has attended many community children’s groups in the area and events at Christchurch.

Bushra introduced herself. She’s a Community Worker with lots of experience in the past in Housing and Tenancy, and other community groups in Burnley, Women’s Forums, Youth Forums, and now the Neighbourhood Management project in Nelson.

Bushra talked a little about what her, Lynne and the Neighbourhood Management Team have been getting involved in including coaching, getting out and about in the community talking to residents and kids, footballs sessions across Pendle, organising cricket lessons and session with a qualified coach.

2. Funding/Grants Advise and Information on Local Group Activities

Bushra gave us lots of advice on CRB checks (Mitch to enquire whether as Lets members we can organise this through Burnley CVS).

Bushra advised registration with Lancashire Youth Association, and Lancashire County Council – registering as a community group.

She also spoke about potential funding and grants available, some accessible through Pendle Community Network including Community Chest, Learning Funds, Awards For All and the Local Area Grants Scheme.

Michele brought up the issue of registering as a Charity, which we may need to do if we’ve over £1000. Bushra mentioned that this can get quite legally binding, so perhaps too early at this stage. Aim for small grants and awards available instead.

Pendle Community Network contact – Ann Macabre – Community Worker and Joanne Calvert, Senior Community Accountant ([e-mail])
www.pendlecommunitynetwork.org.uk

We also asked Bushra about what other groups in the area are doing, and she mentioned Friends of Walverden Park’s Gala event coming up in August, plus other groups such as Cloverhill Residents Association (CRAG).

Bushra particularly mentioned Cloverhill Allotments Society and Dave who works with them, and how kids are getting involved in this, with garden diaries.

Also mentioned was St Johns Southworth Youth Club held every Tuesday and Walverden Action Group.

Local Venues

Local venues were also discussed, and Bushra mentioned the very successful Temple Street Youth Club in Southfield.

Contact here is Leo Nolan of the Pendle Leisure Trust.
www.pendlelife.co.uk/roundabout/opencms/pendle_leisure_trust

Elaine mentioned an event she’d been to recently at Bacup Leisure Centre, with an excellent DJ, who kept the kids happy with a selection of great games. She has the DJ’s contact details for future reference.

Bushra mentioned the possible use of the Palatine Club in Whitefield which has a bar, or Unity Hall which doesn’t have a bar, but has a kitchen area.

On venues, we talked about what venues were preferred, and agreed that a variety should be used to reach everyone – to include pubs, church halls, outdoor parks such as Walverden Park, Leisure centres and schools, with a variety of events during the day and in the evenings.

3. Advise on Building the Group

Julie mentioned a logo, and a few ideas from tarot cards she has (Jules designated logo designer!!)

Bank accounts were mentioned, and starting one with the local Nelson Natwest.

Bushra also gave out copies of Pendle Learning Network’s booklet of free courses, many of which are useful for groups setting up. Some of our group intend to go on a few of these courses.

4. Publicity & Leafleting for St Johns Jumble Sale – Sat 17th June

Michele then moved discussions towards publicity for the Jumble Sale. Bushra took some more leaflets to hand out through some of her networks.

Agreed areas where posters should go: Nelson Library (already one in Morrisons), all the Pendle Community Groups in central Nelson. Local Pubs (already one up at the Trafford), churches and schools.

Julie putting some in St Johns, Christchurch and schools.
Sat, 10th June – quick lunchtime session of handing leaflets out in Nelson Town Centre (Mitch & Michele)
Press release – Nelson Leader – by Michele
Elaine to contact 2BR for radio mention.
Door to dooring – Sunday and through all of next week:
Julie, Michele and Karen to do all around Napier Street (possible meet Sun 11th June/Lunchtime).
Mitch to do Southfield Street up from Netherfield.
Mitch has supplies of tea, sugar, orange squash, paper plates – but needs to get some plastic/paper cups as we don’t have any.
Elaine/Julie are going to make some cakes/biscuits – beverages & food to be sold for a small amount on the day.
Mitch to do 1000 copies of leaflet – 700 to Michele/Julie and Karen. 200 for mitch, probably about 100 handed out on Saturday.

Additional Note – future Car Boot Sales & Socials
After the meeting Michele, Mitch and Karen popped into the Trafford Pub at the top end of Railway Street. We discussed with the owners the possibility of running a car boot sale/jumble sale one a month in their large car park. This would work well as they serve food & drink.

They agreed this was an excellent idea – and they are also advertising our jumble sale on the 17th June at St Johns. We are returning Saturday 10th to attend a barbeque and hand out leaflets for the Jumble Sale.

This should prove another excellent venue for quizzes, possibly bridge nights and so forth, plus a monthly regular car boot sale to raise money!!

5. Date for Next Meeting

Thursday, 15th June 2006 – 7pm, Michele’s Garden, Nelson.

Final organising meeting for the Jumble Sale. Allocating various roles, eg. Who’s doing tea and coffee, small entrance fee, and organisation of stock.

[michele cryer]

Minutes of meeting held 14th June 2006

Michele’s house

7pm

In Attendance: Mitch, Elaine, Michele, Reg

Apologies: Julie, Karen, Rufus


The meeting was held mainly to discuss the finer points of planning for Saturday’s Jumble Sale, notes as below:

12pm...Mitch pick up me and Karen.

12.15..Start to set up Jumble at st.john southworth Parish Centre.

1.00...Open Jumble Sale to public and close when it really peter's out..

4.30...We have to have vacated the building and tidied up after ourselves...

Volunteers so far:

Mitch, Michele, Elaine, Paul, Karen, Julie, Reg, Becki, (Eileen) and hopefully some members of Cloverhill/Walverden Action Groups.
Becki and Karen have volunteered to help serve refreshments, hopefully Eileen may help with this too.

Items required:

Tins for cash and a flow of loose change to begin with.

Tea, Coffee, Juice, Milk, Sugar, Paper/Plastic Cups, Biscuits, Cakes, any home made would be appreciated, or buy some cheap at £ shops/Farmfoods...not too many!!

Labels and pens

Carrier Bags for people to take their goods home in...as many as possible!!

Suggested Admission Charges:

Adults 25p Children Free Of Charge.

Cakes 20p Biscuits, to be discussed.

Tea/Coffee 30p

Juice 20p

Pricing guide:

Teddies/soft toys 50p - £1.00 Clothes 50p - £2.00 Books 50p H/B? 20p S/B? Can be discussed further when setting out the stalls.

Separate stalls for each type of item: Men's Clothing, Women's Clothing, Children's Clothing, Books, Videos/DVD/CD, Bric-a-brac, other...

Mitch will act as Treasurer for the group until further notice, unless somebody else volunteers.

All proceeds from the Jumble Sale to be counted at the end of the day and people reimbursed for any out of pocket costs out of profit made.

An evaluation meeting to take place asap following the event so that roles within the group can be discussed further and a constitution adopted, with a view to opening a Bank Account.

(Modified for double line spacing as reading it was doin' me head in!)

[Mitch]

Hey up, just emailed you minutes from 5/7 Michele - haven't put um up here yet as you'll be wanting to add in/check um.

tarara Mitch

[michele cryer]

Thanks Mitch. I'll double check them tomoz and add bits and pieces where necessary. Thanks for tackling them for us!

See ya tomoz...

[ashuri]

Hm, this sounds interesting. I might come along if I can get there. Where and what time then ?

[Mitch]

Hi Ashuri,

We just had an informal meeting at the Trafalgar Pub last night - we'll make sure we put the dates and venue up here in future.

Next social event we're currently planning is a regular Car Boot sale at the Trafalgar Pub, Railway Street, Nelson - it has a massive car park which they're letting us use. We'll probably be organising a bouncy castle for the kids and wot not.

Next meeting will be one night week beginning 6th August - not finalised yet - we'll definitely let you know. Music events are top of our list - we've a number of muscians (Jules especially - & Cotty) in our group so we could well do with your help there - we're just trying to raise some decent funds through Jumble sales and carboot at the mo!

There's some minutes to go up here from last night - they should be up this weekend, plus minutes from meeting before last Michele can bob up here in a mo - so you can have a read through and find out more.



Good to hear from you.

Cheery cheers Mitch

[michele cryer]

Hi Ashuri,

Great to hear from you again, and to hear you're interested in the group. As Mitch said, we could do with lots of help at arranging music events for fundraising and such...

You're welcome to attend any of the events we organise and the regular meetings we have, I will add you to the email list, however when I tried writing to your email address before, I got a message that it wasn't a correct one, so please PM me with the correct email to post to.

The Minutes from 5th July 2006 are as follows:

LITTLE MARSDEN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP MEETING
NELSON NEIGHBOURHOOD ACTION, RAILWAY STREET, NELSON
Wednesday, 5th July 2006, 7.30pm
Present:
Michele, Karen, Bushra, Mitch
Apologies:
Julie, Elaine, Sky, Louise, Reg, Rufus

1. Aims & Objectives

Discussions went straight into outlining our aims and objectives, and discussing working constitution. Michele had typed up a provisional ‘Aims and Objectives', and with suggested ideas for amendments based on breaking isolation, bringing residents closer together through social gatherings, what specifically we wanted to achieve, what area of Nelson we wanted to focus on, starting small and building, what kind of events we wanted to organise, building relationships with other groups and where the group was headed in terms of long-term goals. Also, the importance of assigning roles, eg. Treasurer.

What we came up with so far in terms of Aims/Objectives – which still needs agreement from all of the group is:

“Little Marsden Community Action Group is a community group formed by a group of friends with the aim of brining the residents of Cloverhill, Walverden, Southfield and, in the future, wider Nelson closer together.

We hope to begin to break down isolation in the area and engage local residents in social events such as music events, jumble sales, car boot sales, entertainment nights such as bingo and dominos, and social trips and days out.

We are aiming to break down barriers and fear within the community and build trust, primarily through social gatherings, and by providing opportunities to work together and offer support to each other. We aim to offer support by sharing skills such as gardening, DIY, cleaning, dog walking and befriending and build both companionship and trust through fun social events”.

The Aims/Objectives were broken down into 5 areas as follows:

1. Engage local residents to organise social events to defeat isolation.
2. Promote family, inter-generational learning.
3. Break down barriers between different communities within Nelson and to provide support for each other and an opportunity to work together in day to day life.
4. Alleviate fear and build trust and confidence by the formation of friendships and by sharing skills.
5. Provide an outlet for Social Networking, providing contact details of people in the area who can provide the necessary skills required to help in and out of the home, and become a signpost for contact with support groups.


2. Future Goals and Development

Discussions then moved towards what we intended to do in our first year, how we would develop and what are future long-term goals were.
A flipchart was used to list ideas which were as follows:

FIRST YEAR – UPTO AUGUST 2007

Meet every two weeks.
Develop and adopt Constitution by August 2006.
Plan social events up to 2 months in advance of each:

• Music nights.
• Theatre and Dance Therapy Workshops.
• Regular Car Boot Sales, various locations to meet needs of different communities.
• Quiz nights.
• Aiding other local Community Groups with joint activities.


By August 2007 we hope to have achieved our first year’s aims/objectives by fundraising and with the help of Grants. During this development phase we will be building our own skills such as, management of groups, organising volunteers, gaining First Aid and Hygiene Certificates and ensuring that we and any volunteers are all CRB checked/cleared, developing policies within the group and have planned our first AGM to take place in August 2007.




3. Other Discussion Points

Building relationships, and learning from other groups, particularly SCAF, was discussed. Michele is already working with SCAF on one local project and has visited the SCAF building on Smith Street and met the team.

Bushra gave us a tip on the unsigned bands/channel 4 website:
Link - www.tunetribe.com

A discussion was also held on the specific location focus of social events and activity. Cloverhill, where most of the groups current base is, made sense as the main area to start small with and build a profile.

Information was also given on the Youth Centre based at Unity Hall, Vernon Street, Nelson – they run a regular youth group for 13 to 20 year olds there. (days??)

It was agreed the constitution should be aimed to be finished for 6th August, with an informal meeting with all the group at the Trafalgar in the meantime.

Pendle Community Network’s training courses were also discussed, as was applying for grants, particularly at this stage for running costs.

As in the above chart, we discussed the focus for the first year. Karen and Mitch talked about people’s fears and trying to help with those. In the first year the focus will be on development, building confidence, holding social events, working with other groups to facilitate learning, planning and building policy and procedures.

4. Next Meeting, and Constitution Meeting

Next meeting will be an informal meet at the Trafalgar Pub, Railway Street, Nelson, at 6.30pm on Wednesday, 12th July, for tea and chats about aims and objectives, and constitution.

A more formal Constitution & Aims/Objectives finalising meeting to be arranged at the above to be held at Railway Street, Nelson at some point during week commencing 7th August.

[michele cryer]

I've just noticed that we haven't posted any Minutes of meetings that took place between 14th June and 5th July, but I'm sure we must have had a meeting somewhere in that time?

Anyway, if we didn't then I'd just like to report that the Jumble Sale we held on 17th June went really well, we raised £77 which is being put aside for any further events and to cover printing costs for flyers.

I'm in close contact with Bushra from the Nelson Management Team who has been advising me about how to divide our fundraising efforts between holding fundraising events and applying for grants too, so that we can reach further into the community without being held back by the Funder's criteria for allowing us their cash.

[michele cryer]

Finally, I need to direct you to our Website which can be found at either of the following links, it is still under construction so doesn't have much on it at present, but will be filling up soon, hopefully!!

littlemarsden.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/

littlemarsden.mysite.orange.co.uk/