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Agenda • 7.30pm Annual General Meeting • 7.45pm Three years down the line - Mark Wingrove • 8.00pm ”Around Prestwood” Speakers – Abbey Gym Club – Sue Eagan – Malt the Brewery’s Success – Nick Watson – Update on the Chiltern District Council’s Emerging Plan – John Gladwin – Prestwood; it’s your village, have your say – Mark Wingrove • Displays: Abbey Gym Club, CDC Local Plan, Colts FC, KaSo, Nanfans Grange Ballet School, PACT, Prestwood Archive, Prestwood Revite Group (GMPRG), Prestwood Youth & Community Group (PYCAG), PVA. • 8.30pm Refreshments and mix & mingle • 9.30 pm Chairman’s Summing Up 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 2
AGM Mark Wingrove 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 3
AGM Agenda • 7.30pm Annual General Meeting – 1. Minutes of second meeting 21st April 2015 – 2. Matters arising – 3. Chairman’s Report – 4. Treasurer’s report – Statement of Accounts – 5. Secretary – Election of committee members 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 4
Chairman’s Report Mark Wingrove 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 5
Treasurer’s Report Sue Wingrove 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 6
Income & Expenditure Accounts for the ending 31 st March 2016 • • Income and Expenditure Account • Balance Sheet • Independent Auditor's report • Expenditure and income for 2016. 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 7
Accounts for Year Ended 31/3/16 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 9
Auditors Report 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 10
Election of Committee Members Katy Nex & Mark Wingrove 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 11
Committee members 2015/16 • 2015-16 committee members – Mark Wingrove (Chair) Katy Nex (Secretary), Sue Wingrove (Treasurer), Karine Lipinski, Barbara Rowett, Colin Veysey, Mike Kitching, Stephen Gordon, Ian Rodger, Caroline van Schaik – Simon Laurie, John Cadman • Resignations during the year – Mike Kitching, Stephen Gordon 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 12
Committee Members 2016/17 • The following are happy to stand for re-election: • Mark Wingrove (chair) Katy Nex (Secretary), Sue Wingrove (Treasurer), Karine Lipinski, Barbara Rowett, Colin Veysey, Ian Rodger, Caroline van Schaik, Simon Laurie, John Cadman • Election of Officers – Mark Wingrove – Chair – Katy Nex – Secretary – Sue Wingrove - Treasurer 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 13
Close of AGM 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 14
Three Year’s Down The Line Mark Wingrove 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 15
Hackers and Ne’er do wells • Computers try to hack into the site every day • Email spam has risen over the year and is now estimated to be much greater than legitimate email traffic • Service providers are tasked with limiting the proliferation of spam – Service providers frequently block our legitimate messages as they try to limit spam through automatic filtering. BT is currently doing this • More than 3hrs of technical support discussion with BT (India) ended with “we do not have access to the filtering of mail, that is a different department” . A department that they cannot connect me to. So case closed • We have now separated out BT addresses in our database and will send out a different format newsletter with a single link in it. • However despite this……… 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 16
Prestwoodva.org.uk stats 14000 Monthly website statistics (03/15-03/16) 12,810 12000 Page Views 10000 Sessions 8000 6000 5,272 4000 3451 2000 Users 0 Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Sessions Users Page Views 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 17
How have we done? • 55 page website +0% • 597 individual news items +64% • 357 user comments on items +123% • 884 subscribers to the newsletter +10% • 150 local groups & businesses listed +8% • 3400 visits per month +79% • 5834 pages viewed per month +23% • 324 PVA Facebook members +123% 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 18
How have we done? • Campaigns – raising awareness – Emerging joint local plan (CDC/ South Bucks public consultation) • 2nd website developed – Two BCC transport consultations – BCC budget consultation – HS2 consultation – 76 New Homes (Planning) – Weekend Wombling Days (litter pick) – IT safety online – Greene King & The Chequers (Tree) – Inconsiderate parking – Thames Valley Police Alerts – News items collated from many sources 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 19
Still, nobody came from Greenland 37,520 visits from the UK +50% 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 20
365 days activity The Chequers Prestwood Steam Rally Newsletters & Alerts Emerging local plan 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 21
Demographics 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 22
Most Popular Pages (last 3 months) 1. Home Page (3,135) 2. News page (2,739) 3. Against the name of the change of the chequers pub* (1,147) 4. News from Greene King* (1,009) 5. Future of the Chequers pub* (980) 6. The Chequers or The Prestwood a survey* (920) 7. 100’s of new homes proposed (local plan website) (619) 8. Chequers Licence application* (560) 9. A new heart for Prestwood* (546) 10. 100’s of new homes proposed (local plan marketing)* (516) * News item vs dedicated page 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 23
What are our goals for 2016/17? 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 24
More of the same • Promote & focus on groups from time to time • Encourage you to comment on items • Encourage you to add your activities in • Help as a catalyst to get behind what you consider is important & help connect groups together • Add more Prestwood based businesses • Be available to you to promote Prestwood Events • Independent channel to and from BCC, CDC and GMPC 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 25
Around Prestwood 8.00pm ”Around Prestwood” Speakers – Abbey Gym Club • Sue Eagan – Malt the Brewery’s Success • Nick Watson – Update on the Chiltern District Council’s Emerging Plan • John Gladwin – Prestwood; it’s your village, have your say • Mark Wingrove 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 26
Abbey Gym Club • Operating in Great Missenden and Prestwood for over 30 years • 230+ gymnasts attend weekly; ~300 on waiting list • Planning permission granted to build a new gymnastics facility on the Sprinters site • Registered for Gift Aid; need to raise £0.5m+! • Please support our fund-raising efforts, especially our “Buy a Brick” campaign Registered Charity (Charitable Incorporated Organisation) number 1156313
Switch to John Gladwin local plan slides here.
Prestwood; it’s your village! • In 2013 we asked you what was on your mind • Tonight we are asking again. • Three questions – How is PVA doing? – What is your biggest concern with regards to Prestwood? – If you could fix one thing what would that be? 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 30
Process • Pens and Post it notes are available • Use as many as you like • Keep it concise • No boundaries • Hand your Post it notes over to a member of the PVA committee • PVA will process and categorise your feedback and publish it in the next 60 days. • If there are some consistent themes we may come back and ask for more detail and help to establish one or more working group(s) 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 31
Agenda • Refreshments and mix & mingle • Displays: Abbey Gym Club, CDC Local Plan, Colts FC, KaSo, Nanfans Grange Ballet School, PACT, Prestwood Archive, Prestwood Revite Group (GMPRG), Prestwood Youth & Community Group (PYCAG), PVA. • 9:30pm Closing comments from the PVA 28/04/2016 Prestwood Village Association 32
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