DRAFT MINUTE of the THIRTY FIRST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF

GLENUIG COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

GLENUIG HALL on Wednesday 13^th November 2024 at 7:00pm

 Members attending: Pamela Conacher, Peter Langhorne,  Jean Langhorne, Helen MacRae, Angus Mann, Martyn Green, Glenda Green, Alasdair Carmichael, Eoghan Carmichael, Marie Lewis

 Apologies received from: Sheena Carmichael, Lou Johnson, Murdo McAskill, Sue McCann and Fiona MacIsaac

 

Minutes of previous meeting: the minute of Thirtieth Annual General Meeting were accepted.

Chairman's Report: Chair Alasdair Carmichael provided a written report (Appendix 1 below).

 Verified Accounts to 31st December 2023: accounts had previously been circulated by email and hard copies were passed to those who wished them. Accounts were accepted by the meeting.

 Election of Member Directors

The three Member Directors who have served longest since they were last appointed or reappointed should retire at the AGM. Those retiring by rotation are Fiona MacIsaac, Glenda Green and Pamela Conacher. Retiring Member Directors are eligible for re-election.

All three retiring directors were reappointed unanimously. Proposed Eoghan, seconded Pamela

Peter Langhorne was proposed as a Director. Pod proposed, Glenda seconded, proposal was accepted unanimously

 Appointment for Independent Verification of Accounts: Agreed to continue with R A Clement Associates for 2024 accounts.

 Any other competent business:

GLENUIG ARTS GROUP

·         The constituted Glenuig Arts Group is a sub-committee of the main GCA committee and as such holds its AGM on the same date, time and place as the AGM of the GCA.

·         Chair Jean Langhorne presented a report on the Awards For All programme and funding that ran from August 2023 to August 2024. Overall the project was very successful in delivery, participation and budgeting. Full report attached below.

·         There is no financial report due as the sub-committee does not have independent finances. All funds and transactions are included in the Glenuig Community Association’s accounts.

·         At each AGM all members of the sub-committee retire but are eligible for re-election. Existing sub-committee members are Jean Langhorne, , Fiona MacIsaac, Helen MacRae, Lou Johnson and Marie Lewis (co-opted Associate Member). All were reappointed and Eoghan Carmichael was also appointed to the sub-committee.

 Meeting ended at 7:35pm, to be followed by a meeting of the GCA Directors.

We are having a wee hiatus in Glenuig Hall while the Community Association and the Glenuig Arts Group continue our longer term planning. We are hopeful of hosting one or two more events in the hall this calendar year but as yet have no confirmed dates.

As a community we are excited by the formation and progress of Glenuig Community Inn Committee, set up with the aim to make community ownership of Glenuig Inn a reality, retaining it at the heart of the community. The current owner and manager Rona Yard has done an excellent job of bringing the Inn back to its former status and is fully supportive and encouraging of the new community ownership proposal. The group have a new Facebook page for discussion on the proposal, have a website in development, and plans for a consultation with the wider community in the near future. Readers of De tha Dol? will be hearing more in due course.

This continues the development of an already very active community. We have Glenuig Community Association, which owns and manages Glenuig Hall and promotes other initiatives within the community, Glenuig Arts Group which has taken on promoting an arts programme in the hall, Glenuig Shop in the centre of the village, Glenuignet providing broadband services to the community, Moidart History Group (Comann Eachdraidh Muideart) and the Moidart Coastal Rowing Club. All these are separate entities with their own legal and management structures. All are run by volunteers drawn mainly from the small communities of Glenuig and Roshven, and while there is some crossover many of the activists focus on their own particular interests, leading to a varied and very busy community life. Information on all the groups can be found online through any reliable search engine.

We look forward to letting you know more about progress and coming events next month.

Eoghan Carmichael