ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CATHOLIC RAMBLERS CLUB
Minutes of the 65th Annual General Meeting held in the Holy Apostles Church Hall on Saturday 7th October 1995.
Refreshments were served as the members arrived. The meeting commenced promptly at 3.30pm.
Attended by over 30 members.
1 Paul Brunning welcomed everyone and recited the St. Francis prayer.
2 Apologies for absence were received from, Fr.David Barnes, John Lawrence Tony Finnegan.
3 The minutes from the 64th AGM had been circulated and were accepted as read.
4 There were no matters arising from the minutes.
5 The Secretary's report was given and accepted:
Paul Brunning asked Madeline Lawrence if John was going to continue as Auditor for the coming year. Madeline said she could not answer for John in his absence. Paul agreed to contact John and report back to the committee.
Paul proposed a vote of thanks to Peter Lobo for his continued help.
The committee which emerged from the 65th A G M were, Helen Hunt as Secretary and Kevin Doyle as treasurer, committee members in alphabetical order. Paul Brunning, Terry Dobson, Maurice Hickman, Francis Kershaw, Caroline Nolan, Peter Macdonald and Catherine Scott. The committee met five times during the year. All members of the committee walked during the year and some led rambles. At the first committee meeting they had agreed the following distributions of duties, Paul as vice President would chair the meetings, Maurice would take over as ramble list compiler. Peter and Francis as membership secretaries, Caroline and Catherine as social secretaries and Terry would continue map reading sessions.
Social events, Advertising and methods of promoting the Club were discussed at the first meeting. All members received a printed notice to place on the notice board in their local church. The advertisement for the club was again placed in both the Westminster and Southwark Directory for the year. Peter Lobo has agreed to leave his
name as a contact in the Southwark directory, Helen had contacted the Westminster directory to alter the name from Mary Hennessy to her name. Ron Scott had also agreed to leave his name as a contact in the Brentford Diocesan directory. We had several enquiries during the year, a percentage of those became new members.
Social events arranged during the year were, Christmas Dinner at the Hostaria Romana in Vauxhall Bridge Road. The Christmas Party which was held in the
Holy Apostles Church Hall in Pirnlico and proved a great success. The committee had heard that it may be difficult to book the hall in future as the Priest had been warned about the noise from the music. The summer party was also held at the Holy Apostles Church Hall and was also well attended. The monthly dinners still continued and were attended by 4 to 6 members.
Several members arranged weekend breaks in both France and Great Britain.
Two Masses were also organised by the committee. One on the 1st Saturday in October for the Members and a Mass for Deceased Members on the 1st Saturday in November. Both were followed by a meal in a local Restaurant.
A day of recollection was organised at The Grail Centre in Pinner. This was attended by 18 members. The day was conducted by Jessica of the Grail Centre. Fr David Barnes, the Club's President joined us for lunch and participated in the second half of the day. He celebrated Mass at the end of the day and the group went away refreshed.
Lunch was provided.
A committee was formed to promote the publication of a book on the history of the club, Caroline Nolan, Tony Finnegan, Paul Brunning, Dorothy Hickman, Mary Hennessy and Helen Hunt. Caroline gave an account of what the committee had done. A bumper raffle was organised by this committee to raise funds for the book project. Helen applied to The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea for a Permit to run the raffle, this was granted. The raffle was planned to take place at the Christmas party next year. This committee also held an afternoon tea party in the Holy Apostles Hall. Programmes and news letters from the club records were put on display. Paul Brunning, Caroline Nolan and Tony Finnegan sent out invitations to our long standing members and asked them to provide any material which may be of use .This was held on the same day as the summer party and was very well attended. Material and photographs handed over to the committee will be returned to their owners. Paul
said he would contact members and interview them in their homes.
6 Kevin Doyle Presented the Treasurers report of which a copy was distributed to members on their way in. A copy will be sent out to all members in the next programme.
7 Several points were raised about rambles. The question of duty members being appointed was discussed, ie whose responsibility it was, also that the leaders should make sure they do not lose any members on rambles. A few members got lost and had to find their own way home. It was suggested that this could be avoided if a duty member was appointed. Members complained that some leaders do not allow enough time to catch up. It was also pointed out that the number of members turning up for Sunday rambles reached 30 or more and that this amount of people would need careful monitoring in order to keep the group together. It was suggested by some leaders that members could help by moving with the group or letting the leader know if there is a problem. If members join or leave at the pub stop they should inform the leader. It was also suggested that some leaders spent too iong in the pub and got back to the station late. It was also suggested that there were not enough short walks on the programme. The committee pointed out that a selection of short rambles on Saturday were on
the programme. The question was raised again about leaders been paid expenses for walkouts. Most leaders said they did not wish to claim expenses but if a leader felt they could not afford the expense they should contact the committee. It was again suggested that it would be helpful to have ramble leaders TeI. No in the programme. This remains up to the individual leaders if they want their Tel. No in the programme.
8 The committee expressed concern that members were falling behind in paying their
subscriptions after receiving several reminders. Members were reminded that their
subscriptions were due in October and membership was deemed to have lapsed if not paid before the end of December. Subscriptions should be sent to the Treasurer or they could be paid to any committee member.
ELECTION OF COMMITTEE
9 The new committee elected were as follows: Hon Secretary, Helen Hunt, Hon Treasurer,
Kevin Doyle, Maurice Hickman (Ramble List Compiler), Dorothy Hickman, Tom Heron,
Mike Hoffman, Patrick Lucas and Margaret Moran. This left the committee unbalanced as we were short of a female member. The committee would try to find a female member to join the committee after their first meeting.
7 The meeting was closed at 5.30. Members attended Mass in the Church of the Holy Apostles For the St Francis Members which was followed by a meal at Brahms Restaurant Lupus St. Pimlico.
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