Alison opened the meeting and welcomed our newly enrolled members and also some new ladies, before we were served our Pie and Peas, which were delicious. She then showed us twenty slides of members and told us three things about each person. The challenge was to match the clues to the picture. It was great fun, and we had to wait till the end of the meeting to find out if we were right.
Mavis, our temporary treasurer, read out some of the major points from our annual accounts. Last year we collected £271 for make a Mother’s Day, (We have already collected £200 this year at our AGM We also collected £207.66 for Prisoners Packs last year. £135 of our funds was used for various anniversaries, special birthdays and visiting of the sick by Margaret Parker & Irene Jones during the year.
Our Commissioning Service by David Walker, Bishop of Manchester will be on 27th March. The MU shop will be open that day. At the end of 2022, Church House will be moving from Deansgate to St. John’s House in Bury, but the shop will remain on Deansgate. Volunteers would be welcome for cake baking for the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations on June 12th, and also for Tottington’s Big Day Out on 3rd July please.
Irene was delighted to be presented with flowers from Mavis on our behalf, to thank her for all her years of visiting the sick. We have five indoor members and some other members who often can’t get to meetings. If anyone wants to volunteer to visit once a month it would be very much appreciated.
Isobel and Margaret would like to remind everyone about the evening trip out to the Spread Eagle at Sawley on 14th June. They’ll need to know at the April meeting if you’re coming, and they’ll need the payment of £35-40 for the coach and the meal at the May meeting please. At the end of the meeting we were served tea and cakes while Alison read out the correct answers for the pictures and clues. A lovely evening was had by all.
Jean x