EC Meeting July 2017

General Secretary’s report July 2017.

6.2 Educational Trust

Grant applications by Citrus Consultancy have so far not yielded any successes. Further applications are being made for the Liberating Arts Festival. The Operations Manager is putting together closer monitoring and promotion of the new commercial partnership arrangements.

6.3 Hotel

Business expands profit levels do not necessarily follow. A meeting of the Directors will consider the position on August 4 th .

6.4 Nursery

A meeting to discuss the current and future business model is being held on July 14 th .

6.5 Returns from partnerships.

I am delighted to report that business with TC Branding has meant a £600 payment to the Trust.

The Ethical shop returns are meagre, but better than nothing. This needs more promotion in the unions. Commissions from other partners are being systemised by the Operations Manager and Head of Finance so that we can track them all better.

We are anticipating returns from Red Meet for hotel bookings.

A sponsorship letter to all suppliers and partners is being prepared.

7 Key events

7.1 Several meetings have been held with representatives of the National Kurdish community and the hotel management and myself. A detailed programme of the event has been produced. In relation to my very strong desire to make the event as secure as possible it was agreed to make it a pre-booking only event. While publicity has been extensive and widespread, a booking arrangement for such an event appears to have minimised the number of those pre-booking. The deadline for bookings was June 30. We have around 800 people booked in for the event. We have making stringent security arrangements which have been subject to police discussion and with a professional security company. At least two Turkish (Kurdish) MPs will join the event together with several performers from overseas. 7.2 We are sponsoring the film festival at the Tolpuddle martyrs rally. The Education Officer is speaking at two events at Tolpuddle. 7.3 I was really honoured to attend the Durham Miners’ Gala as a guest of the DMA who we have worked closely with for the last four years and I intend to invite them as our guests to visit Quorn. It may be that there are some fertile areas of mutual interest to discuss with regard to our educational trust. 7.4 Our Liberating Arts Festival deserves great support. You will see there is a superb programme. A special website has been created with this event with an excellent booking system. We have hit upon a really important theme. Cultural workers you need to be unionised

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