Very recently we have acquired access to the Scottish wild life garden in Johnston Terrace. This is very welcome for all -but particularly for the children---a garden opens up lots of possibilities for +but particularly for the children—a garden opens up lots of possibilities for fun and learning.
Over the years the Meeting House has hosted many link group weekends. These have allowed young people from all over Scotland to come together for a residential weekend, to share their thoughts and feelings in a safe environment, to learn more about being a Quaker and benefit from being with like-minded young people.
It is hard to quantify/evaluate just how important these events are, but @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ our young people involved with Friends we need to care for and nurture them. 7 Victoria Terrace is an ideal place to do this.
The building was in quite a poor state when it was purchased by the Monthly Meeting. @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ In 1994 the new wardens/managers appointed were explicitly, as a part of their jobs, expected to develop the full use of the building and generate an increased income from the letting of the property to outside organisations. As can be seen from the attached income and expenditure table, this proved to be successful with differential charges being levied of small voluntary organisations and larger government or other public sector bodies some of which had long term, fairly permanent, arrangements to regularly hire out parts of the property. A significant, but fluctuating, contribution to the funds has been received from the Festival Fringe Committee over most of those years.
-| Political Party | 4 |
| Young People | 2 |
| Health Training | 3 |
| Professional Body | 7 |
| Sell-care | 5 |
| Church Group | 5 |
| Art Gallery | 2 |
| Rail | 3 |
| Yoga Class or similar | 2 |
| Social Interest | 11 |
| Environment | 3 |
| Spiritual Healing | 2 |
| Peace | 5 |
| Education | 3 |
| Educational Training | 3 |
| Charity | 4 |
| Grassroots | 1 |
| City of Edinburgh | 1 |
| Political Party | 4 |
| Young People | 2 |
| Health Training | 3 |
| Professional Body | 7 |
| Sell-care | 5 |
| Church Group | 5 |
| Art Gallery | 2 |
| Rail | 3 |
| Yoga Class or similar | 2 |
| Social Interest | 11 |
| Environment | 3 |
| Spiritual Healing | 2 |
| Peace | 5 |
| Education | 3 |
| Educational Training | 3 |
| Charity | 4 |
| Grassroots | 1 |
| City of Edinburgh | 1 |
The building is ideal for young people’s -link weekend---there is no other Quaker building in Scotland +link weekend—there is no other Quaker building in Scotland that is big enough. We do need to nurture and care for our young people if we are going to keep them involved with Friends.
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ Improvement group.Against the background of the information presented so far, we now turn to considering the future. On the one hand there are the practicalities: @@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ result in a situation materially different from our current one.
From the returned questionnaires and the discussions we have had it is clear that the majority of users of the premises would prefer to remain in Victoria Terrace if this is @@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ against the background of the answers to those questions, further work will be needed before the next set of decisions can be considered.
Your response to this questionnaire will be of great assistance to us. Please feel free to add your comments on any relevant matter. Thank you.
Grand total for the year:£16,873
The following documents, while not part of this report, have been lodged with Area Meeting as they provided input to our work:
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