8 attendees: OC =
Owen Clutton, MM= Mary O’Mahony (chair), RW = Roger Wright (secretary),
IS = Ian Stewart, JA = June Adams, AM = Angela Martin, NB = Nick Babb, PL=
Peter Lowe, GT = Geraldine Thompson, ML = Miguel Laino.
Agreed actions shown in bold red type.
The
meeting started with a CAFOD prayer inspired by Praise Be.
1. There
were no apologies for absence.
2. Minutes of last meeting
All outstanding
matters had been dealt with or would be discussed as part of the agenda.
3. Manna Centre collection
The collection held
on the weekend of 24-25th March had yielded a large quantity of clothes,
blankets and sleeping bags, as well as toiletries and household goods needed by
the Centre. NB had tweeted a photo of
the donations.
4. Parish Project
The event was an enormous success and produced a
profit of £1,091, added to which was the £1,000 donated as matched funding by
Concerto Partners. The effort and
enthusiasm of the Filipino community was placed on record.
Confirmandi event
The young people and their Confirmation leaders
held a fund-raising event on Saturday 24th March will produced the remarkable
total of £650 profit.
Traidcraft profit in 2017
This amounted to £434 which would be credited to
the project’s funds. Thanks were due to
GT and Di Betts for their hard work with the stalls
last year.
Sale of pots
Suzanne Horner had
showed MM a fantastic collection of earthenware pots and planters which had
been left by her recently deceased father-in-law. It was agreed that a sale of pots could be
held in the spring, partly in lieu of the annual plant sale. MM and ML left the meeting to inspect the
pots and returned with reports of their excellent condition.
Actions agreed:
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Choose a date for outdoor sale near the
church exit, probably in early May
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Wash the pots in car park near parish
garden entrance.
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Photograph and price pots.
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Promote sale through Briefly, website
and Facebook page
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Possibly circulate numbered images of
all pots by email.
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Encourage other people to donate pots
but only if in good order.
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Offer to deliver pots
Funds raised so far
OC would advise Geoff Ford and Austin Barradell of
the amount that could be sent to Fr Joe at this stage. The full list of donations and fund-raising
activities are to be found on the parish website. Our contributions will benefit the Technical
Education programme which Fr Joe is promoting.
5. Any other business
(a) NB noted that the next Manna Centre
collection would be held on 13-14th October.
RW – this is not in
the parish diary yet]
(b) NB
gave an update on the CAFOD initiative related to its new campaign “Share the
Journey”, encouraging groups of walkers to record their mileages. One such walk is based on the London Loop,
and two stages will involve Petts Wood, on 29th May and 6th June. Walkers will travel the 7 miles from Bexley
Village to PW, and on the other day 9 miles from PW to West Wickham Common. The dates had been changed from the original
plan, and as yet no clear idea of how St James' might
host the walk had been agreed.
(c) NB encouraged members to attend an “Understanding
CAFOD” day at Romero House on 28th April from 10.00am to 3.00pm. Full details and how to register at:
https://cafod.org.uk/News/Events/London-Understanding-CAFOD
(d) IS suggested that LiveSimply
should be a full item for the next meeting and this was agreed. It would also be a good opportunity to
consider the overall JPIC agenda to see what topics might be engaged in
future. IS
would circulate a note in advance of the meeting and others are encouraged to contribute
their own ideas. Memories of
what was achieved to win the award could be refreshed by visiting the parish
website. Either use the main menu item “CAFOD
LiveSimply” or follow this
link.
There being no
other business, the meeting closed at 9.15pm.
The next meeting will be held on Wednesday 25th
April 2018 at 7.45pm.