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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