Crooke Village Residents Association Meeting
Crooke Hall Inn
Tuesday 11th March 2025

Attendees

Howard Cain (HC), Sue Neve (SN), Charlie Neve (CN), Linda Kellie (LK), Paul Green (PG).

Apologies

Mike Thomas (MT), John Whitely (JW), Dawn Glynn (DG), Pete Glynn (PG), Morag Tebbit (MoT), Steve Tebbit (ST), Sam Hughes (SaH), Stacey Hughes (SH), Kath Bradley (KB).

Matters arising from the January meeting 2025

The February minutes were proposed by PG and seconded by HC, the minutes were signed off by the Vice chairman, HC.

HC went back to the gentleman interested in voluntary work in the local are with the details of the CRT contact for volunteers. He also went back to St Anns school inviting them to a CVRA meeting to give more details of the help they require.

Vice Chairman's Report

HC informed the meeting that he will put a copy of the updated constitution on the Committee WhatsApp group.

Treasurer's Report

LK said she had been made aware of difficulties of people who were trying to pay money into the CVRA bank account. She is liaising with the bank and payee to try and rectify the problem.

Secretary's Report

SN informed the committee that she has now been added as a signatory on the CVRA bank account.

SPC Report

CN attended the Shevington parish meeting on 26th February 2025. The closing date for applications for the post of parish clerk has now closed and five CV’s have been received. The CV’s will be processed and interviews conducted in the next few weeks.

Agenda

Acquisition of moveable flood barriers

CN said that the Shevington Parish Council and Wigan Brighter Borough had both given £250 each towards the purchase of movable flood barriers for Crooke. We are still waiting on a response from Jigsaw regarding a donation from them.

Match my Project- Wigan council Initiative.

HC has uploaded details of the CVRA onto the site and this has been accepted. The idea is Wigan council would match funding for certain local projects.

Pavement parking notices.

HC said this was something Councillor Galligan had made CVRA aware of. It is regarding cars being parked on Wigan Borough pavements, blocking pedestrian access. A link for this will be put on the Crooke Village website.

Safeguarding Training for CVRA committee.

Safeguarding training needs to be completed by all committee members, HC to share the link

AOB

CN said an application for a stall at the Shevington fete, Saturday 21 June 2025 needs to be completed by the end of May 2025 if the CVRA wish to take part. HC said he would put this on next month’s agenda for discussion.

CN also made the group aware that he had seen Contractors (Hopkins) and Wigan Council representatives in the playing field, they were looking at the paths. They said they hoped the paths around the field would be resurfaced by the end of May 2025.

CN told the meeting Wigan council had planted two more trees in the playing field near the WW1 commemorative oak tree. They had also replaced the QEII Platinum Jubilee tree on the green, as the original had died.

The meeting closed at 20.15pm The next meeting will be Tuesday 8th April 2025

This concluded the Meeting of the CVRA for March 2025.