Crooke Village Residents Association
Crooke Hall Inn
7:00pm. 13th December 2011

Attendees
Jim Haynes, Morag Tebbit, Stephen Tebbit, Doreen Haynes, Alison Thomas, Derek Keene, Michael Thomas, Paul Liptrot councillor, Paul Green, Jan Green, Joe Shovelton, Derek Bent, Brian Musgrove, Dawn Bootle, Duncan Poole, Trisha Poole, Andrew Moakes chair of S and DCA, Margaret Carter organiser of fete and North West in Bloom, Sheila Milnes secretary of S and DCA, D Bent, E Heeton, Alex Cornish, Carole Miles Shevington Parish Councillor, John Whitely, Chris Rotherham, Norman Hart, Ira Whitely and Joe Shovelton.

Apologies from
Revd John Hilton, Chris Robinson Adactus, Mike and Winnie Smith, Mike Crosby, Graham Foster, Sandra Musgrove.

Minutes of last Meeting.
It was proposed to be a true and accurate record, by Brian Musgrove and seconded by ST.

Matter Arising
None.

Reports

Treasurer
This was read out by JH as Graham could not attend the meeting.

The small grant fund of £240 has been received - we did apply for £420 for the running of the Association and the monthly meetings but we failed to secure the full amount due to carrying some reserves in the bank.

Tools have now been purchased with the Adactus grant - a huge thank you again to Adactus for their support.

The Brighter Borough grant we applied for has been approved - this was for the projection equipment - we have not as yet received payment from Wigan Council.

The Christmas card sales have gone extremely well and there are only a handful of packs remaining; we are currently showing a profit of just over £500 - a huge thank you to Paul Green for his efforts in selling the cards door to door.

This concluded the 'Treasurer's Report'.

Shevington Parish Council
Mike Thomas related there was not much happening at the SPC.

Shevington and District Community Association.
JH said 2012 was going to be a busy year. He talked about proposals for events in the village. See later on in minutes. Two meetings were mentioned - 27th January S and DCA meeting re Queen’s Jubilee, and 24th January - meeting re fete.

Website
S & D C A gave an award to Paul Green for the CVRA Website, on Lancashire Day, 25th November at the Methodist Chapel in Shevington . Thanks to PG for his absolutely wonderful website. Two notices had been put on the notice board –the quiz answers and winners, also the new library times from January. PG has put 10 new photos of Crooke on the website. PG added a link to SPC and S & DCA. The dvd has still to be edited.

Fund Raising/Grants
JH told us we have a grant from Wigan Metro which covers the payment of the room we meet in at the pub. Brighter Borough money was still to come for the projector. ST said he has collected £41 for the quiz. Thanks to him for all his effort.

Proposals for 2012.
JH talked about an exciting year ahead in 2012 in Crooke and in the country. We must do something for the Queen’s Jubilee, The Olympic Games and North West in Bloom. Much discussion followed, but the meeting concluded that the next meeting in January would specifically attend to these issues. JH and DK would look into a £2000 grant from Wigan Metro for a stone for Crooke. PL would look into finding funding from outside (Ventor was named). A letter was to be circulated to the villagers of Crooke re Queen’s Jubilee, The Olympics and North West in Bloom. JH and GF to write this letter.

AOB
Discussion followed about who owned the land at the entrance to the village as it was a mess. PL will send JH a plan from the Ordnance Survey Office, and look at Land Registry. PL suggested we get in touch with John O’Neil re a Heritage grant. JH said we will have to do something about Lawn’s Wood. MTh JH and GF had cleared some of the entrance to Lawn’s Wood and Wigan Metro had put mesh on the board walks and will resurface foot paths. Paul Collins mentioned Transition – a green venture in Totnes. James Noakes is person on Wigan Metro dealing with this issue. Crooke could be a part of this green initiative. Joe Shovelton mentioned, someone had mentioned to him, about the electricity box next to the Christmas tree. This was the responsibility of Shevington Parish but JH would speak to Krystina Pilkington about the removal of it. The ugly fencing was discussed and the meeting concluded that better fencing would be erected next year. Derek Bent from Ambush , the Heritage boat, would like somewhere to moor in Crooke. A meeting was arranged to discuss the matter.

The meeting concluded at 8.15 with a light buffet and film -750 years history of Wigan.

Date of Next Meeting
Tuesday 10th January 2012 at 7 pm in the Crooke Hall Inn.