WEa. Malmesbury

(Memo handed out at Malmesbury meeting on 24 Nov 08)

Without your help, the Spring 2009 course will, almost certainly, be the last one we run at Malmesbury

The Malmesbury and District branch of the WEA runs course at 3 venues:

    Malmesbury,  Hullavington,  Sherston

The workload involved in the administering and running courses at 3 locations is considerable and can no longer be done by the secretary alone.

At Hullavington and Sherston, there is a regular cadre of the membership that looks after the admin for the courses. Unless a similar arrangement can be organised for Malmesbury, then further courses beyond Spring 09 are highly unlikely

How you can help. The Malmesbury group, in common with Hullavington and Sherston, can organise itself to take over the following activities:

* Unlocking the hall and setting it out ready for lectures

* Clearing up the hall and locking up after lectures

* Providing the course administration; such as: course register, library box, course feedback forms etc

* Reviewing courses from the WEa catalogue and deciding on the courses it wants

* Contacting the course tutors to determine their availability.

* Providing the course details to the Malmesbury group secretary (David Bridge), who would then take over and arrange the course with the county organisation

* Providing some active participants to serve on the Malmesbury and District Committee

If you are interested in helping with the admin support and/or representing Malmesbury on the Committee, please give your name and contact details to either David Bridge (01666502729) or myself (Paul Hadley tel 01666837096), or you can email us at wea@hullavington.info  or via the new Malmesbury & District WEa website (see below)

Greater Visibility
In response to a request made by members at this years AGM for greater visibility of the committee’s workings, we have set up a website where you can see the courses that are being planned for the next year or so, along minutes of committee meetings plus information bulletins. We also plan to include the WEa complete catalogue of courses and Tutors.
The url for the site is http://tiny.cc/WEA

Please visit it and let us know what you think. Is it useful?, how can it be improved? Does it contain all the information you want?

There are facilities for you to comment via the website.