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1 Meeting House Management Committee Agenda 2025-11-17
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2 Monday 27 November, 5.15 p.m., in 7 Victoria Terrace
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4 * Attendance: JP Ascher, Rachael Fitzgerald, Chris Jardine, Katrina
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5 McCrea, Laragh Quinney, Sammi Searle, Henry S. Thompson, Andy
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6 Tucker, Duncan Wallace
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8 * Matters Arising
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9 * Suggestions from Local Meeting (LM)
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10 * Blankets
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11 *Action HST* to inform LM: Done, and acknowledged by Juliet
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12 Henderson (JH, co-Clerk to LM)
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13
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14 * Unpaid leave for Eliza Giles 3 months in August-November 2026: EAPPI
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15 We now have firm dates: 12th August to 9th November 2026.
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16
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17 * 2026 Room Hire pricing
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19 *Action* HST and Managers to share a proposal wrt rates from
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20 January 2026 with RF and DW by 10 November for review: Done, but
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21 not until 12 November, delay was HST's fault.
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22
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23 *Action* RF to share the local comparators info: Done
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24
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25 * Convenor's report
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26 * Suggestions from LM: Bow Room
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27 The original minute from LM read in part:
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29 "We ask the Meeting House Management Committee to consider the
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30 following recommendations [wrt a contribution of £3700 from
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31 LM]:
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32 ...
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33 • money to be spent improving accessibility and ambience of
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34 foyer and Bow room. A ramp is needed for the Bow Room;
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36 I've learned that Richard Williams (long-time member of LM, was
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37 Assistant Treasurer way back, most recently member of Clerking
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38 Team), has visited the Meeting House and informally discussed
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39 possible improvements to the Bow Room with staff a couple of
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40 times recently.
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42 I wrote to JH to say that I'd asked Majk Stokes (Assistant
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43 Manager for Projects) to arrange a meeting with him and
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44 suggesting that he could act as an informal liaison between
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45 staff/MHMC and LM as we work to put a plan together for upgrading
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46 the Bow Room. (see item below)
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48 * Defend our Juries
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49
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50 SS and HST offered to staff the Meeting House if in the event it was
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51 needed as a fallback recovery venue for the planned actions in
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52 support of Palestine Action on 18 and 29 Edinburgh
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54 * Finance report
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55
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56 * Managers' report
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57
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58 * Quinquennial review/News from Trustees
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60 Martin Ward (MW) has proposed a meeting with HST to discuss
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61 coordination. Perhaps we should suggest a meeting with MW and any
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62 other Trustees who can make it with any of us who can make it at
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63 1815 on (Tuesday) 13 January, just before Trustees' next meeting at
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64 1845. We might also schedule our next meeting for 1715 that same
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65 day?
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67 * Works to be undertaken Bow Room
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68 [note error in heading of this item in the Minutes from 2025-10-20,
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69 which had "Upper Bow"]
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70 - Report from Majk Stokes
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71 - Role for Richard Williams (RW)?
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72 - Meeting with Majk Stokes (MS), RW, someone from Trustees,
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73 someone from MHMC
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75 * Staff escalation route if they need backup
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77 [see Minutes on this item from 2025-10-20]
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79 * Date of next meeting
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81 * AOB
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83 * Time without staff (if needed)
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