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- Improve bottle neck entrance to Foyer.
- Improve access to loos—stairs v. tricky for elderly.
- Cheerful, purpose built areas for children &
-young people—i.e. for latter, spreading sofas & [??] [??] 'dens' (?).
+young people—i.e. for latter, Squashy sofas & their own 'den'.
- Parking facilities for cars bringing elderly to
Meeting—imposs.
- Bike shelter.
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Anon
- - No suggestions/ideas
+ - Apart from considerable difficulty coping as a disabled (?)
+and weekly [sic] member (Member) particularly the Library—for coffee and
+the Hall similarly if I stay for lunch.
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Marianne Ferguson Rice
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+ - Essential in my view
+ - Mobility only considered here: Good, [but] the exceptions
+are Room 5 and the Bow Room
+ - I think so
+ - Upgrading of the toilet facilities (especially the
+men's)—essential. Might it be possible to provide a 2nd toilet
+accessible on the ground floor, beside the existing one? Possibly
+doing away with the existing sink and cupboards under it and moving the low
+sink nearer the doorway into the passage? A toilet suitable for people with
+mobility problems for general use on the 1st floor would be really helpful.
+
+- Perhaps double glazing would improve the use of the loop systems, at
+present they are of little benefit to those of us with a T setting on our
+hearing aids.
+ - For visually impaired people a lot needs to be done
+to assist them in moving around the building—please consult someone with
+real knowledge of the subject.
+ - In view of the downturn in lettings to outside
+bodies, we may have to rethink the free use of the building by all Quaker
+groups—I'll need to reconsider my pleadings for special cases for AVP
+Scotland and CAAT.
+ - I'd be interested to see a breakdown of the lettings
+to: a) charitable & b) commercial organisations. From an ethical point of
+view I'd hope to see a balance in favour of a), particularly smaller local
+charities, but I recognise the need for the income b) can bring.
+ - I'm just wondering if the constraints of Health
+& Safety regulation are leading to a more formal, perhaps over-organised,
+interior thus losing some of the informal, slightly more relaxed atmosphere?
+
Anon
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Anon
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- - Not ideal to have food & drink in a library.
+ - I think it could be developed more explicity as a community resource.
Anon
- - Don't know
+ - Not sure
+ - If we keep the building, we need a longer term strategy for
+its whole purpose. It may be that we need to look at alternative models for
+management. E.g. one management committee for the building's supervision.
+This would lead to a complete re-organisation of AM's committee structure.
+ - Q. 10: If we don't know how much the building is costing
+us, how can we answer this question. Information should have been provided!
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+
Alan Dickinson
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+ - Progressively difficult, because of parking
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Anon
+ John Phillips
- - There are clearly minor imporvements to be made, but the
+building is not flexible nor can it be expanded (except by purchasing more
+flats in 6 Upper Bow). Improving toilets will remove Room 5 (a useful small
+committee or even teenagers room) from use. Improved access to creche area
+would be good. Upgrading kitchen will be to be done one day, whatever we
+decide about Festival use.
+
+- It is hard to make judgements based on present use since for the past ten
+years our childrens' classes have been very much diminished. I guess this is
+the "fault" of all of us, but it may well reverse one day, when we might be
+glad of as many rooms as possible.
+ - The building is not very user-friendly for outside
+groups—it would be good if we could be as flexible as possible about
+where people can eat in the building and where hot drinks and refreshments can
+be served.
+ - I can't see any chance that we oculd purchase an
+equally good building using money raised by selling 7VT. Its wonderful
+position in the city means we have to sacrifice some convenience—and lots
+of money. Sorry!
+
Anon
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Anon
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Anon
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- - No so important to me but very
+important to giving Quakers a high profile.
+ - [Don't know] I would need to have infor to compare value
+here with value somewhere comparable.
+ - The soup lunch is very important
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- Improvement of toilet facilities if faunds allow.
-
- - The Meeting House, as you see from my ansers above, ticks
+
- The Meeting House, as you see from my answers above, ticks
all the boxes for me. I see no reason to move and many to stay. I think it
extremely unlikely we could find a better centre and would be best
concentrating on realising how lucky we are to have it.
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+
Alan Davies
+
+ - Because the Meeting House is large & central, it is
+costly to maintain & to run. This has two consequences: the
+commercialisation of activities such as lettings & the rise of the
+managerial staff. I do not think it important for the Mtg. House to be in the
+centre of the city. Furthermore, the Meeting is now so large in numbers that
+MforW can be overburdened with ministry & individuals can be lost. I woul
+suggest we consider splitting the Meeting in two & finding locations away
+from the city centre.
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Annie Miller
- Difficult at the moment, because the terrace is closed