EC Meeting Papers January 2020

EC Minutes 29 November 2019

Sis. Pratten discussed the difficulty of getting the message through to younger people .

14. GFTU and ET Finances. Management Accounts Budgets Affiliation fees 2020

Bro.Nicholls gave a summary of the financial information that had been circulated to EC members. Bro. Williams welcomed any questions regarding finances . No questions were raised. Bro. Lawrence raised that in order to encourage attracting more users to Quorn an urgent review of the Wi Fi services that were available be investigated to improve technical issues.

Bro. Williams confirmed this would be a priority.

15. Any other business.

Bro. Gillan reported that POA had noticed an increase in charges with Unity bank and they could potentially save £7k a year and would be happy to pursue without prejudice and produce a report back.

EC members welcomed the report.

Bro. Gillan reported that Banner Theatre had attended their conference back in May and praised the staff for their work. Bro. Gillan proposed for GFTU to consider donating to Banner Theatre.

Bro. McGowan seconded this proposal and confirmed that SWU had donated £1000 to the company.

EC members agreed for Sis. Ryan to circulate this to affiliates.

Bro. Linn asked if the GFTU would consider giving the Hotel staff a Christmas bonus. Bro. Nicholls explained that this was a hotel directors’ meeting issue and not for an EC meeting discussion.

The meeting closed 4.30pm

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