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Mumsnet Village Hall - committee members and volunteers needed

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FavouriteMug · 15/01/2022 18:44

I've got the keys and we've got the entire building to ourselves. There's a kitchenette with a large enough fridge for Gin (maybe milk if absolutely necessary).

I need committee members and volunteers to organise a packed social calendar.

On the agenda for first meeting:

The Mumsnet Play - we need to agree on the script and then we can start casting

Life Drawing Class - we need a subject and smocks of course

Cake and Gin night - cant decide which night but I think gin should be funded from play proceeds.

Hot Desk Space - those of us who work from home can come together once a week and pretend to be busy and important.

Excercise Class - but what? We don't actually need to turn up but it should at least appear on the calendar.

Book Club - I can't be arsed so someone else will need to volunteer for this.

So, whose in and what can you contribute?

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FavouriteMug · 15/01/2022 23:41

@Politics4me

I would like to organise a Model Railway Group. We could use the small side room and have it coming out through a tunnel into the main hall and back again.
Are the train carriages sturdy enough to carry shot glasses? It's given me an idea for our gin tasting evening ......
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NeverDropYourMooncup · 15/01/2022 23:42

The formation of a Raffle Committee needs to be approved by the Finance Committee and then recommended to the Full Hall Committee for approval. Shouldn't take too long, the next meeting of the Full Hall is scheduled for April 4th, so after they've discussed the Q1, 2, 3 and 4 I&E Public Funds, the Skills Audit, the recommendations of the Fundraising subcommittee that the Finance Committee rejected, the issues with the previous Friends of the Hall Association and the regrettable investigation that resulted in the Summer '98 Candyfloss Machine Incident that Millicent Bowles still hasn't forgiven Linda Buckley for, they should be able to fit it in under Any Other Business some time around 2.37am, which gives plenty of time for the Chair of the Finance Committee to make the corrections and submit them for the end of the Financial Year at 9am the following day.

Politics4me · 15/01/2022 23:45

@BorisBooster, We will concentrate on building models to strict scale first. Perhaps Local Historians have photographs of the 1st Station Buildings before the Youth Club set fire to them.

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NeverDropYourMooncup · 15/01/2022 23:46

@FavouriteMug

Can anyone help decipher the wifi password?

On the slip of paper on the notice board it looks like thegentssmellsofwee but it's not working?

You need to substitute the s for a 5 and use uppercase for the characters in the formula n+2^32sqrt327+e18 with an exclamation mark at either the beginning or the end, I think.
godeeva · 15/01/2022 23:46

The jigsaw club rang to ask for the keys. They seem to have lost the final 5 jigsaw pieces for the latest project - the portrait of Her Majesty which is to be displayed for the Jubilee(or coronation. The puzzle cannot be displayed with an incomplete tiara.

BorisBooster · 15/01/2022 23:47

[quote Politics4me]@BorisBooster, We will concentrate on building models to strict scale first. Perhaps Local Historians have photographs of the 1st Station Buildings before the Youth Club set fire to them.[/quote]
Ah yes Youth Club .... they would like use of the hall every Friday ...

NeverDropYourMooncup · 15/01/2022 23:50

@godeeva

The jigsaw club rang to ask for the keys. They seem to have lost the final 5 jigsaw pieces for the latest project - the portrait of Her Majesty which is to be displayed for the Jubilee(or coronation. The puzzle cannot be displayed with an incomplete tiara.
Have you checked the third Baby Jesus on the left in the cupboard at the back of the Sacristy of St Maggie's, yet? I think that's where tiaras and other regalia themed items are stored, along with three sets of Gaudete candles since Amandine Jefferson upset Father Andy somewhat by using them for her Candlelight Seance on Advent Sunday as pink was more in keeping with the wishes of the spirit World.
pollysshoe · 15/01/2022 23:50

@NeverDropYourMooncup

The formation of a Raffle Committee needs to be approved by the Finance Committee and then recommended to the Full Hall Committee for approval. Shouldn't take too long, the next meeting of the Full Hall is scheduled for April 4th, so after they've discussed the Q1, 2, 3 and 4 I&E Public Funds, the Skills Audit, the recommendations of the Fundraising subcommittee that the Finance Committee rejected, the issues with the previous Friends of the Hall Association and the regrettable investigation that resulted in the Summer '98 Candyfloss Machine Incident that Millicent Bowles still hasn't forgiven Linda Buckley for, they should be able to fit it in under Any Other Business some time around 2.37am, which gives plenty of time for the Chair of the Finance Committee to make the corrections and submit them for the end of the Financial Year at 9am the following day.
Mods: Please can we put a Candyfloss trigger warning on this post. Millicent is still in treatment for PTSD.
100problems · 15/01/2022 23:51

We are going to need a 55 page Risk Assessment before the insurers will let the Youth Club use it.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 15/01/2022 23:52

Ah, apologies, Polly. I'll add it as an action to be added as a Standing Order once it's been submitted and approved by the Chair for the Agenda, discussed and approved by the Full Hall.

RJnomore1 · 15/01/2022 23:54

So good news, I’ve sorted out the public liability insurance, performing rights license, events alcohol license and the food hygiene certificate for the kitchen.

Now I’ll need volunteers for training : health and safety, first aid, and food hygiene first… I’ll put all the committe down yeah? And the invoices to the treasurer? Is anyone still talking to the treasurer we need two of you to sign off the payments?

StrifeOfBath · 15/01/2022 23:54

Hi everyone, lovely to meet you! Just popping in to ask a couple of questions. I’m the representative for the village Rainbow Alliance. We have been meeting in the other hall but since the fire…well…we need to find another venue and I am wondering whether you would take us in?

The thing is we would need the toilets to be changed to Gender Neutral. We have decals designed by Phoenix (She / His) , shall I just get them stuck on?

Nat6999 · 15/01/2022 23:56

Can we arrange a monthly disco for the young people of the village,? Give them something to do on the cold winter nights ( keep all the under age drinkers in one place) I'm sure we can get funding from the bottle bank takings.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 15/01/2022 23:57

@100problems

We are going to need a 55 page Risk Assessment before the insurers will let the Youth Club use it.
That's for the Finance Committee to recommend. Unfortunately, the Vice Chair's comment 'No fucking way are those sociopathic little shites coming anywhere near our Hall' was duly noted on the last Committee's minutes, rather than the Confidential Part 2 Minutes and we couldn't refuse Neil Patterson's Mum sight of the ordinary ones. So the Vice Chair now has to excuse himself from all discussions relating to the Youth Club as it's regarded as a Pecuniary or Other Material Interest, as he pointed out that it made his life rather difficult when he got home that night to find that his wife had seen what he'd said about their child.
godeeva · 15/01/2022 23:58

@100problems

We are going to need a 55 page Risk Assessment before the insurers will let the Youth Club use it.
Is that why the Health and Safety guy was visiting? He was talking an awful lot about the uncovered wires being so close to the wooden furniture. Poor chap...unlikely he would understand Tinder Mawler's brilliant interior design skills.
BorisBooster · 16/01/2022 00:07

@StrifeOfBath

Hi everyone, lovely to meet you! Just popping in to ask a couple of questions. I’m the representative for the village Rainbow Alliance. We have been meeting in the other hall but since the fire…well…we need to find another venue and I am wondering whether you would take us in?

The thing is we would need the toilets to be changed to Gender Neutral. We have decals designed by Phoenix (She / His) , shall I just get them stuck on?

No blue tack to be used on any signs.

Signs used by hirers must be authorised by the committee in addition must be laminated.

Politics4me · 16/01/2022 00:08

@FavouriteMug
If we model in O gauge we could carry shot glasses of gin. Could be 'different'
We need to organise what company we focus on. I have been reminded that both GWR and LSWR used the Junction Station. It was 3 miles outside the village and a similar distance from Little Wotsit, the promoter thought that was equitable. A tradition continued by BR and still followed.

Votes please

Mumdiva99 · 16/01/2022 00:14

Can I just check - whose been taking the minutes tonight? I know I said I would but remember I told you I couldn't use my laptop in the hall as the plug hadn't had an electrical safety check and the battery's so old it runs out in a few minutes (ironic really).

tectonicplates · 16/01/2022 00:15

@NeverDropYourMooncup

Oh, that didn't take too long.

We need to research and appoint an official composer. And then set our requirements, namely that any anthem needs to be in the key of B sharp minor half diminished with a sharp 7th, flat 13th and a suspended 22nd in the Tonic chord.

Does that Tonic chord come with Gin?
Tyredofallthis1 · 16/01/2022 00:18

Who is in charge of buying the teabags? I have a complaint to make.

pansypotter123 · 16/01/2022 00:22

It's all very well coming up with these new dangled ideas but in the past we always did it like this........(produces millions of folders of ancient minutes).

And another thing, shouldn't all this be put to the committee first? Confused

(Speaking from personal experience here!!! Smilebrilliant thread!!)

eagerlywaitingfor · 16/01/2022 00:22

Can we add these items to the next set of minutes please?

  1. Toilet rolls. Margaret says it has happened again, and it's really not good enough.
  1. I've been approached by a persistent very nice woman via who would like to hire the hall one Saturday afternoon a month for her and her friends to hold craft fairs selling wonderful items that we can't do without. Can't remember her name offhand, but she kept calling me 'Hun'. Do we want to support local small business owners or not?
  1. Someone left a window open after the last Jubilee celebrations party in 1977. We don't want that happening again, so we need to decide whether or not a laminated notice will be sufficient, or whether we get Bob to put a padlock on the handle.
pansypotter123 · 16/01/2022 00:22

Fangled

godeeva · 16/01/2022 00:24

Tectonicplates the treasurer instructed me to bring the gin in the usual way...so I am off to Sainsbury's to stock up the wheelie bag.

dodobookends · 16/01/2022 00:29

Who's doing hall bookings? The local Conservative association would like to check availability of the hall please.They want to book an early evening one day next week for a cheese and wine party.