Monday 19 May 2014

Its good to talk



Hot  on the heels of the IWA/CRT workshop described in last  weeks blog  , I was reminded last week of  a training video  made in the 1970's by John Cleese Meetings  Bl***y Meetings- sometimes hard not  to think that  way  on the third consecutive evening arriving home after 10! .
But  there is much going on and  much information to share  -  it  was good to see so many  members at  the Royal Wootton Bassett Branch AGM  and  to  be able to  update everyone there about the work  going on to progress the planned restoration at Studley Grange

Tuesday  was  the turn for  the Trust engineering team to look a some  of the current  issues. Perhaps most  notable was a discussion about  what  policy  should be considered  for maintaining or replacing the  brick arched  culverts that  take  many  water courses under the canal.

Wednesday  a trip to Steam in Swindon  for a session of the Examination in Public  of Swindon Borough Councils Local Plan. The  topic of the day  was  tourism  and the town centre. The Trust  noted the huge opportunity  for  attracting visitors  to a restored  canal. Disappointing that there was  no opportunity to play the Water Adds Value video!
The Trust’s monthly  Finance &  Administration Committee met  in the evening ( affectionately  known as Fin Com) . A new venue for the meeting  - Waitrose’s new store in Wichelstowe where  their  training room is available for use  by  community groups – a nice setting by the canal  and handy  for  any  last  minute shopping!  Some interesting discussion at  the meeting about  what  organisational  structure(s)  will be  required  as the really  big projects  start to  be delivered.

The final  interaction of the week was again  at  Steam  but  this time  a breakfast meeting of Involve Swindon ahead of the day’s main event – a very successful business exhibition. Our opportunity to talk  to businesses keen to make Swindon a  more attractive place  for their workforce

Ken

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