 |
 |
|
|
 |
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
| ||
The eleventh meeting of the Derbyshire Chronic Pain Support Group Committee was held on Tuesday 3 September 2002, at the Guinness Trust Community Room, 1 Sidney Street, Derby.
Attendees: Mark charity (Chairperson), Ray Whitehurst (Treasurer),
Janet Owen (Secretary), Margaret Whitehurst (Membership Secretary),
Sandra Cunningham, Naomi Memmory, Jacklin Moss, Paul Hearne,
Sheila Coxon
Apologies: Eileen Hogg, Peggy Archer
Mark Charity (Chairperson) opened the meeting by welcoming, introducing and thanking everyone who attended.
Minutes from the last meeting held on 13 August 2002 were approved and signed as a true record.
1. Matters Arising From Last Meeting – Membership Numbers on Committee
At the last meeting a discussion took place on whether members who bring their partners/carers to the meetings and have not paid the family membership cannot be classed as members of the group. This was bought forward to the meeting and further discussions were held about how to overcome the problem. It was suggested that we change the name of the coffee morning from being a membership coffee morning to just an informal coffee morning. This allows anyone who is interested in joining to attend to see if they want to become a member of the group, once that person has been two or three times ask them if they would like to join the group. If we are not careful we can alienate the membership. What we need to do is write a letter to members explaining what we are doing; we cannot carry an unpaid member for very long. We have not got a lot of money in the bank and one way of increasing our funds is by people becoming members and contributions being made at our meetings. Paul said the only people allowed to come to the speaker meetings are members of the group. A vote was taken and Paul proposed and Mark seconded it. At the moment we have 22 fully paid up members in the group. Paul suggested that we come back to this subject in 12 weeks time.
2. Information and Membership Booklet – Aims and Objectives
Page 4 and 5 in the booklet are not part of our Constitution so therefore cannot be included in the booklet, our Constitution are on Page 6 to 9. There is a lot of information in the booklet and we need to know where it has come from, as if we are not careful we could be infringing copyright law.
On Page 15 some of the items have references against them and we need more clarification and acknowledgement of entitlement to use them.
Also some information that has been given out at the Pain Management Clinic is in the booklet, we need to ask their permission for us to put their literature into our booklet.
Page 11, fourth paragraph – The statement made is too personal, we need to be careful on what we say.
Mark said that on the back of the booklet Steve has put his own name, Mark considers it should be the groups name not an individual. In the booklet we should put an acknowledgement to Steve for doing a good job. Mark proposed and it was seconded.
At the back of the booklet the contact details to be changed to info@coping.org.uk and take out the personal details.
Paul to contact Steve on the above items that were discussed at this meeting.
3. Statement of Funding
Ray presented the latest statement of the accounts, which stand at £151.26 to date. Breakdown of the expenses incurred by the Chairperson are laid down in statement of accounts. Our next expense will be the Membership cards.
4. A.O.B.
Jacklin visited the CAB to ask about the law on disabled parking all they would say is “Reasonable Arrangements”. Sandra said we should lobby our MP’s to improve the Disability Discrimination Act to say that shops should have special parking for disabled. Write a letter to our MP’s regarding disability parking, Margaret Beckett, M Tyler, S Bolton, Shops/Supermarkets, Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby City Council, Jacklin agreed to write letter. Proposed by Mark and seconded by meeting.
Disability Now are doing a system called “Baywatch”, Mark to ring Disability Now to find out more information for the next meeting.
Received an Email from Amanda Basen, regarding our application form for funding, asking for more information which will be supplied as soon as possible.
5. Date of Next Meeting
It was agreed that the next meeting be held on Tuesday 15 October 2002, 10.30 a.m. at the Guinness Trust Community Room, 1 Sidney Street Derby.
