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--- a/7vt/report.html Fri Jun 05 19:23:19 2009 -0400 +++ b/7vt/report.html Fri Jun 05 19:27:27 2009 -0400 @@ -34,14 +34,16 @@ tr.t td {border-bottom: 2px solid black; border-top: 1px dashed black} tr.gt td {border-bottom: 5px double black} tr.ti td {padding-top: 6pt} - thead.r th {text-align: left}</style><title>Report to Area Meeting from the Future of Victoria Terrace Working GroupDRAFT: contains contributions received through 1/6</title></head><body style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, Arial; background: rgb(254,250,246)"> + thead.r th {text-align: left}</style><title>Report to Area Meeting from the Future of Victoria Terrace Working GroupDRAFT: Nearing completion, some appendices still +missing, as well as remaining red bits to be addressed</title></head><body style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, Arial; background: rgb(254,250,246)"> <div style="text-align: center"> <h1>Report to Area Meeting from the Future of Victoria Terrace Working Group</h1> - <h1><span style="color: red">DRAFT: contains contributions received through 1/6</span></h1> + <h1><span style="color: red">DRAFT: Nearing completion, some appendices still +missing, as well as remaining red bits to be addressed</span></h1> <div class="byline">Alison Burnley, Madeleine Harding, Phil Lucas, Brian Mayes, Laurie Naumann, Rufus Reade, Eileen Schott, Henry S. Thompson</div> - <div class="byline">4 June 2009</div> + <div class="byline">5 June 2009</div> </div> <div class="toc"><h1>Table of Contents</h1><ul class="naked"><li><h2>1. <a href="#intro">Background and introduction: The remit of the working group</a></h2></li><li><h2>2. <a href="#exec">Executive summary of work and conclusions</a></h2></li><li><h2>3. <a href="#history">The past</a></h2></li><li><h2>4. <a href="#present">The present</a></h2></li><li><h2>5. <a href="#future">The future</a></h2></li><li><h2>6. <a href="#appendices">Appendices</a></h2></li><li><h4>6.1. <a href="#remit">Appendix A: Remit from Area Meeting</a></h4></li><li><h4>6.2. <a href="#quests">Appendix B: Questionnaires for different user groups</a></h4></li><li><h4>6.3. <a href="#open">Appendix C: Summary of contributions from open meetings</a></h4></li><li><h4>6.4. <a href="#friends_use">Appendix D: Friends' use of 7 Victoria Terrace in 2008</a></h4></li><li><h4>6.5. <a href="#other"><span style="color: red">Appendix ?: What else?</span></a></h4></li><li><h4>6.6. <a href="#refs">Other sources</a></h4></li></ul></div><div id="intro"> @@ -308,7 +310,7 @@ <div> <h4>Early developments in Meeting House use</h4> <p>Quaker use of the building developed well in the early years while Ian and -Lise were wardens, as did community use. A group, which included Lise and Ian, saw from the beginning the opportunity offered by the August Festival Fringe to develop the use and profile of the building. Lise was an able vegetarian/vegan cook. She and Ian had ‘green’ concerns and it was decided to run the Library as the ‘Rainforest Cafe’ for two weeks during the Fringe, raising money for rainforest charities. The Hall and Meeting Room were offered for exhibition and concert use concurrent with this. +Lise were wardens, as did community use. A group, which included Lise and Ian, saw from the beginning the opportunity offered by the August Festival Fringe to develop the use and profile of the building. Lise was an able vegetarian/vegan cook. She and Ian had `green' concerns and it was decided to run the Library as the `Rainforest Cafe' for two weeks during the Fringe, raising money for rainforest charities. The Hall and Meeting Room were offered for exhibition and concert use concurrent with this. </p> <p>After Ian and then Lise left, Mark and Anna Twinam-Cauchi, a student couple, were wardens for a short while. When they left, a rota of volunteer keyholders was set up to open up, service organisations renting rooms and welcome callers. A support group of Friends, which included Archie Campbell and Jennie Nielson was put in place, with the specific purpose of ensuring a Quaker profile for the building. By 1994, they were running a rota to staff the building on Wednesdays to greet visitors, advise any who had problems and explain Quakerism. </p> @@ -1040,7 +1042,8 @@ <li>Our building’s shop windows make us unusually visible—they encourage people to come in and make it clear what you are getting into. This and our openness to the community are unusual for a religious building and have helped change the attitude of others to Friends. We need to value and develop this. </li> <li>Building could be more of a focus for Quakers in -Scotland, perhaps having an office from which Quakers can speak to the Scottish Parliament. +Scotland +, perhaps having an office from which Quakers can speak to the Scottish Parliament. </li> <li>An expression of our responsibility and values—care for the environment, peace etc—a focus for us speaking out from a spiritual base. We have responsibility to use our facilities for the community. </li> @@ -1109,12 +1112,14 @@ <li>Emphasis on wider vision important. Strong base to enable Friends to cope with all the rapid changes in society and to promote ‘good lives’ within and around the community. Rental decline may not last (cf what has happened at Friends House). </li> <li>Could worship happily in a very small Meeting but this building has built up a powerful significance for people all over -Scotland, +Scotland +, Britain and even the world. This space is very precious and we have a responsibility for it. </li> <li>I belong to a small Meeting in a rented building—difficult to make one’s presence known. The presence of the Meeting House—there for all of us in -SE Scotland—helps to take us out of our insularity and remind us we belong to a wider Quaker community. Very important for raising our profile and it is a home to come to. +SE Scotland +—helps to take us out of our insularity and remind us we belong to a wider Quaker community. Very important for raising our profile and it is a home to come to. </li> <li>This Meeting and the meeting house have enriched my life spiritually and helped me strengthen my witness in the world. Vision is to keep strengthening the spiritual life of the community and from here to continue to take it out in witness. This needs to be even more focussed than it is. </li>
--- a/7vt/report.xml Fri Jun 05 19:23:19 2009 -0400 +++ b/7vt/report.xml Fri Jun 05 19:27:27 2009 -0400 @@ -4,11 +4,12 @@ <doc> <head> <title>Report to Area Meeting from the Future of Victoria Terrace Working Group</title> - <title><emph color="red">DRAFT: contains contributions received through 1/6</emph></title> + <title><emph color="red">DRAFT: Nearing completion, some appendices still +missing, as well as remaining red bits to be addressed</emph></title> <author>Alison Burnley, Madeleine Harding, Phil Lucas, Brian Mayes, Laurie Naumann, Rufus Reade, Eileen Schott, Henry S. Thompson</author> - <date>4 June 2009</date> + <date>5 June 2009</date> <style>td.t, td.s {text-align: right} td.n {text-align: center} td.s {font-weight: bold} @@ -207,7 +208,7 @@ </item> <item> <p> -Little has been done to the double <name>Crèche</name> room on the first floor, except for redecoration. This is awkward of access, through a narrow corridor which leads off the kitchen and can only otherwise be accessed from the tenement common stair. There is a lavatory off the corridor between the kitchen and this room. +Little has been done to the double <name>Crèche</name> room on the first floor, except for redecoration. This is awkward of access, through a narrow corridor which leads off the kitchen and can only otherwise be accessed from the tenement common stair. There is a lavatory off the corridor between the kitchen and this room. </p> </item> <item> @@ -285,7 +286,7 @@ <div> <title>Early developments in Meeting House use</title> <p>Quaker use of the building developed well in the early years while Ian and -Lise were wardens, as did community use. A group, which included Lise and Ian, saw from the beginning the opportunity offered by the August Festival Fringe to develop the use and profile of the building. Lise was an able vegetarian/vegan cook. She and Ian had ‘green’ concerns and it was decided to run the Library as the ‘Rainforest Cafe’ for two weeks during the Fringe, raising money for rainforest charities. The Hall and Meeting Room were offered for exhibition and concert use concurrent with this. +Lise were wardens, as did community use. A group, which included Lise and Ian, saw from the beginning the opportunity offered by the August Festival Fringe to develop the use and profile of the building. Lise was an able vegetarian/vegan cook. She and Ian had `green' concerns and it was decided to run the Library as the `Rainforest Cafe' for two weeks during the Fringe, raising money for rainforest charities. The Hall and Meeting Room were offered for exhibition and concert use concurrent with this. </p> <p>After Ian and then Lise left, Mark and Anna Twinam-Cauchi, a student couple, were wardens for a short while. When they left, a rota of volunteer keyholders was set up to open up, service organisations renting rooms and welcome callers. A support group of Friends, which included Archie Campbell and Jennie Nielson was put in place, with the specific purpose of ensuring a Quaker profile for the building. By 1994, they were running a rota to staff the building on Wednesdays to greet visitors, advise any who had problems and explain Quakerism. </p> @@ -780,10 +781,10 @@ have to be undertaken. Health and safety requirements have stipulated improvements to the kitchen likely to cost in the region of £30,000 if cooking is to be undertaken and offered for sale, for -example in conjunction with the <emph>Rainforest Café</emph> at +example in conjunction with the <emph>Rainforest Café</emph> at the time of the Festival Fringe. Extending and improving the toilets is estimated would come to about £50,000 and opening the -crèche to the library about another £5,000. No figures are +crèche to the library about another £5,000. No figures are available [<emph color="red">as far as I can remember</emph>] for the re-hanging and further insulation of the windows to the south west of the building or for improving the heating. </p> @@ -840,7 +841,7 @@ <item> Reduce activities to Quaker activities only—this would reduce opening hours and lettings and increase costs per capita.</item> <item> -The Rain Forest Café—the café could go and/or drinks and snacks alone could be provided for visitors. +The Rain Forest Café—the café could go and/or drinks and snacks alone could be provided for visitors. </item> <item> The Meeting House as a Festival Venue—events/opening hours could be reduced and income would be reduced. @@ -1020,7 +1021,8 @@ <item>Our building’s shop windows make us unusually visible—they encourage people to come in and make it clear what you are getting into. This and our openness to the community are unusual for a religious building and have helped change the attitude of others to Friends. We need to value and develop this. </item> <item>Building could be more of a focus for Quakers in -Scotland, perhaps having an office from which Quakers can speak to the Scottish Parliament. +Scotland +, perhaps having an office from which Quakers can speak to the Scottish Parliament. </item> <item>An expression of our responsibility and values—care for the environment, peace etc—a focus for us speaking out from a spiritual base. We have responsibility to use our facilities for the community. </item> @@ -1045,7 +1047,7 @@ </item> <item>I am a member of another organisation given a building which it can no longer afford to run. This has brought the organisation close to collapse. Our expenditure on the building must not be allowed to outrun our income. </item> -<item>I’m grateful that the question we are addressing today does not mention the building. I hope we can think away from the building. Remember that George Fox referred pejoratively to churches as ‘steeple houses’. +<item>I’m grateful that the question we are addressing today does not mention the building. I hope we can think away from the building. Remember that George Fox referred pejoratively to churches as ‘steeple houses’. </item> <item>Responsibility for a property takes time and energy as well as money. Not having this responsibility frees up this time and energy. Ownership of a building is OK only if this is kept in balance. Losing the balance will have a negative impact on the core purpose of the community. </item> @@ -1067,7 +1069,7 @@ Stafford St to move to a building which would be well used by the community—this is a real pleasure. </item> -<item>Struggle with ‘the vision thing’. But my vision is that I want to keep coming to ‘church’—it’s fundamental to my life. We have reconstructed the work of the ‘hireling priest’ in our own distinctive way and the ‘steeple house’ by a functional building that meets our needs. No need to be apologetic about being like other churches in this regard. It tells people that we are here—part of this city’s spiritual space. My vision therefore is of a place as well as a spiritual community. +<item>Struggle with ‘the vision thing’. But my vision is that I want to keep coming to ‘church’—it’s fundamental to my life. We have reconstructed the work of the ‘hireling priest’ in our own distinctive way and the ‘steeple house’ by a functional building that meets our needs. No need to be apologetic about being like other churches in this regard. It tells people that we are here—part of this city’s spiritual space. My vision therefore is of a place as well as a spiritual community. </item> <item>Meeting doesn’t need to be tied to a building. Quality of Dunblane Meeting didn’t change as it moved from place to place. </item> @@ -1086,15 +1088,17 @@ <item>(After invitation to hear from South Ed Friends, who use a space not their own): Good to have a place where displays can stay up all the time—we miss this. </item> -<item>Emphasis on wider vision important. Strong base to enable Friends to cope with all the rapid changes in society and to promote ‘good lives’ within and around the community. Rental decline may not last (cf what has happened at Friends House). +<item>Emphasis on wider vision important. Strong base to enable Friends to cope with all the rapid changes in society and to promote ‘good lives’ within and around the community. Rental decline may not last (cf what has happened at Friends House). </item> <item>Could worship happily in a very small Meeting but this building has built up a powerful significance for people all over -Scotland, +Scotland +, Britain and even the world. This space is very precious and we have a responsibility for it. </item> <item>I belong to a small Meeting in a rented building—difficult to make one’s presence known. The presence of the Meeting House—there for all of us in -SE Scotland—helps to take us out of our insularity and remind us we belong to a wider Quaker community. Very important for raising our profile and it is a home to come to. +SE Scotland +—helps to take us out of our insularity and remind us we belong to a wider Quaker community. Very important for raising our profile and it is a home to come to. </item> <item>This Meeting and the meeting house have enriched my life spiritually and helped me strengthen my witness in the world. Vision is to keep strengthening the spiritual life of the community and from here to continue to take it out in witness. This needs to be even more focussed than it is. </item>