Minutes of the meeting held September 10th 2007

Meeting Started  7:30

Members Present  14

Guests Present Eric Whalley, Rob Heys. Lewis Carroll

Apologies received Derek and Diane

Treasurers Report Bill reported a balance in the accounts of £X

Membership report  Lesley reported that we were up to 135 members with only the odd number missed out

Merchandise report  Rob reported that the Barrowford show had been viewed as a success as a profit had been made and the new Football in the Community team had been present.

No further news was reported on the newsletter, website or the programme notes – although it was later decided, after the opinion of the football club chairman was aired, that we wouldn’t do one.

Questions to the club were then directed at our three guests;
Eric Whalley said that he is happy if the OSC is making money for the club, he also said that he has no problems with what we have been doing so far and if we hear that somebody has said anything about us we should approach that person.
Lewis said that he is happy to work with the OSC on any future projects and that we should approach him with any ideas we may have.  Eric further added to that Lewis is paid to do a job whereas we aren’t and his job depends on his results.
We asked Eric about our idea for running competitions in the local media and offering matchday related prizes or merchandise.  He is happy for us to go ahead with this venture and added that we should approach the club for freebies to give away.

Bill Nuttall then presented the meeting with news that the Lottery funding had finally come through for the planned exhibition.  We had been awarded £X and the project was expected to take around a year to finalise.  Gayle Knight then guided us through what the bid had been approved on, and after this the meeting unanimously voted for Gayle to become Project manager, which carries a fee of £X.

The football club agreed to supply somebody to work on the steering group, but who would be decided after being offered around the office.  Also volunteering for the steering group was Gayle Knight, Nigel, Lesley, Sarah or Pete,  Mel, Dave, Matt, Malcolm, Bill and Rob.

Meeting Closed at 8:15pm