FRIENDS OF RYTON COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL

 

Date: Tuesday 22nd Septemeber 2009

 

Time: 7.30 pm.

 

Venue: Community Room, Syd Cowans Sports Hall.

 

Present: Steve Williamson, Richard Griffiths, Tony Hall, Judith Donaldson, Kim White, Carolyn Willoughby, Brian Willoughby, Dave Campbell, Trish Campbell, Susan Forster, Carolyn Below, Dorothy Plummer,  Gail McLackland, Derek Marrs, Leslie Errington, Allison Bell, Chris Robson, Michael Bradshaw, Wendy Morgan

 

Apologies for absence: Susan Forster

 

Minutes and action

 

Area

Comment

Responsible

Timescale

Matters Arising

Summer Festival raised £5000.  Costs are reducing due to purchase of kit so less hire costs.

 

TH thanked FoRCS for support of Secondary Review activities and other purchases and presented a summary of expenditure.

 

 

 

 

 

Funding Applications

Discussion once again of app. Relating to visits and trips.  AGREED to cap available funds to £500 – Biology to receive £300, Art £100 and Textiles £100 towards supporting costs.

AGREED to support Toddlers Christmas part with £70

AGREED to support Old Folks Party tea costs retrospectoively in January

DECLINED individual application to suppost degree costs

 

 

SWI to inform staff

 

 

 

 

SWI

 

 

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York Trip

Timing was tight but AGREED to continue trip.

 

Book bus and prepare tickets to be available from Ann Spencer in school as well

 

Amend and distribute poster

 

Decide on raffle/quiz/etc nxt meeting – KW to advise

 

Thanked Julie and Kim for previous work.

 

All to promote event to friends and family.

 

 

 

CW

 

RGR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FoRCS

 

 

 

Asap

 

Asap

Christmas Fair

Discussion of Credit Crunch Christmas and difficulty of getting donations.  All to start enquiring about this.

 

Letter available from website for donations from traders and application form for stallholders.

 

DM offered to create flier

 

Dave Burr to be invited as Santa again

 

LE (?) suggested temp.ice rink and AGREED CW to ring Emmaville and check availability

 

Build-a-Bear found no escape!  CR to offer something TBA

 

Pinkies nail and beauty v popular last year.

FoRCS

 

 

 

 

RGR

 

 

 

DM

 

SWI

 

 

CW

 

 

 

CR

 

 

CW to invite

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AOB

Julie needed a proper thank you for her work with FoRCS.  Flowers via KW

 

Thank you card from Steph Howarth (and further embarrassment for SWI) read.

 

RGR suggested Fireworks Display activity – package from a business.  Further investigation  req.

 

Visited climbing wall.

KW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RGR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Meeting closed 8:40pm

 

Next Meeting Tuesday 13th September 2009