Secretary’s Report 2017
Thank you to everyone who has helped to make the past year so successful, with regular booking most nights. The long running saga of the soak away has been resolved thanks to Rick supervising and Rosie and Nick doing the work.
Thanks to Nick who continues to keep a steady hand on the reins, to Liz for clearing under the stage and continuing to supervise the cleaning, most importantly for managing the finances. To Richard who has taken on as booking secretary, which is not always plain sailing.
It was good to welcome Dave Proctor onto the Committee, we do need more members.
Finally, thanks to all the committee for continuing to pull together.
Wendy
CHAIRMAN’S REPORT
This has been a very good year for South Hill Parish Hall. It has seen a continued stability in regular bookings. Groups such as the playgroup, give us an increase in children’s parties and wedding bookings.
The hire charge of £12 per session is a fundamental strategy to our success, in growing new and repeat business.
I would like to thank Wendy for her work as secretary and Liz for her role as treasurer, and Richard in his first year as bookings secretary.
Thanks to Clare, Andy and Ali who have all given up their free time to give a continued impetus to the committee and organising events.
We had a great Harvest Supper, celebrating our 50th year with a sell out of tickets and fundraising auction to produce our best total ever. Everybody enjoyed The Golberdon Girls choir who provided the entertainment. Big congratulations to all the committee for providing an excellent self selection buffet.
The hirers have continued to benefit from our decision to introduce a permanent weekly paid cleaner.
From now having completed a funded joint project with SHARE to provide solar panels on the Parish Hall roof, we are benefiting from the electricity generated in the day and feed in tariff. We need to capitalise on the free energy by installing storage heaters or similar.
The canopy at the rear of the building facing the playing fields has created an outside all weather area which has been well used and appreciated by hirers.
To the Future –We are going to continue to find people that would like to use the hall during the day as our evenings are fully booked. We continually need to raise extra funds to pay the Council Tax, a sum of £400 each year.
We have replaced the leaking roof on the field side of the new extension and installed fans to help reduce condensation in the roof space. For the future we will need to start budgeting for replacing the main hall floor, which continues to suffer from dry rot.
The next big project is to refurbish our twenty year old kitchen. Our aim is to replace it with commercial stainless steel units and tops. So it can deal with the demands of a popular Parish hall.
For the future to continue with the success that is South Hill Parish Hall.
To maintain a high quality venue this is value for money.
To help provide a wide range of events for the community.
Nick Easton
Chair