Eastington Community Centre and Sports Field - OHMG Charity report

The essential work of the small management and trustee committee continues to maintain and improve facilities for users of the community centre and sports field.

The Annual General Meeting was held to report on finance, progress on activities and to elect trustees. With the loss of Ron Bomberg last January, John Morris has stepped up to Chair of Trustees (as Ron requested). Early last year Ron’s son Alex Bomberg joined the Management Committee and has now been elected a trustee; thanks for taking on the baton. Also we are pleased to be joined by another elected trustee Graeme Dougan. This increases the number of trustees to six and strengthens our expertise in marketing, IT capabilities and charity governance.

The work of running the building is undertaken by a Management Committee of volunteers and three part time paid staff; trustees value and appreciate this work done.

During the summer there has been an improvement of facilities with the tarmac car park now with marked parking spaces, a fence to separate the car park from access to the rear of the building as well as extensive hard landscaping behind the building. Also all the downstairs rooms have been repainted and we are pleased with the work carried out by local contractors.

More recently the Minchinhampton Bowmen are using the field regularly for archery activity.  Stroud Football Club continue as regular users of the playing field with additional temporary changing facilities operational.

There is a request again for support from volunteers to help in various ways to continue the task to improve facilities. If you have the time and skills we will be pleased to hear from you. There is a volunteer work party arranged for the Saturday morning 30th January to tidy up outside, please help if you can or wish to see the facilities.

Also, see the advert on the back page of ECN inviting enquiries for new users of facilities. As a small community enterprise we need your support to maintain and improve facilities.

John Morris

OHMG Charity – Chair of Trustees   tel: 822353