PBN Committee Meeting Minutes
Thursday 23rd May, Volpa Office, Perth
Present: Jane Rennie, Olivia Robertson, Georgina Coleman,Tricia Fox, Caroline Mackintosh, Rebecca Ellwood, Megan Mailer
Apologies: Claire MacFarlane, Donna Bednarek
Matters Arising:
None
Events
Breakfast networking was discussed and it was agreed to alternate between Costa Broxden/Inveralmond and Blend café in the city centre. It was also agreed to change the start time to 8.30am
2019 dates for Breakfast Networking:
Friday 21st June – Blend Café – Olivia to host
Monday 15th July – Costa Inveralmond – Caroline to host
Friday 23rd August – Blend Café – Georgina to host
Monday 16th Sept – Costa Broxden – Rebecca to host
Friday 18th October – Blend Café – Olivia to host
Monday 18th November – Costa Inveralmond – Tricia to host
Striving for Excellence
Tuesday 11th June, 12.30pm – Molke – AK Bell library
Thursday 5th September 5.30pm – Catriona McInnes – AK Bell library
Tuesday 26th November 5.30pm – Karen Reid – AK Bell library
Fundraising
A potential fundraiser was discussed – having a garden party in the walled garden at Murray Royal Hospital. Provisional date – 29th August. Tombola and raffle to be organized, licenses for selling raffle tickets to be arranged. Georgina to action
Charity
This year’s charity is to be the PKAVS walled garden
Membership
Membership was discussed. The question was asked as to what are the benefits of being a member of PBN? What to the members want out of their membership? We still have the problem of events being arranged and no one signing up. Suggestion made to lobby employers to allow their employees to attend events on a regular basis. It was also suggested that the committee look into having affiliations with local businesses so that PBN members can benefit from 10% off goods and services.
The committee felt that the ‘Business’ part of our name was old fashioned and needs to change. There was a discussion around this.
It was agreed that further discussion was needed and also research from each committee member prior to talking further.
Jane to send round a Doodle poll for a date in July to take this idea further
Admin
Megan Mailer has been appointed. She is just about managing the admin required in the 2 hours allotted. She will be responsible for crosschecking membership renewals.
Sandra at Findlaysons has agreed to hand over the accounting. The
Fiona Fraser has been appointed as the new accountant and has been responsible for setting up the new Quickbooks system. There is also a new Paypal account.
Constitution
Jane and Rebecca Ellwood who works at Thorntons are to liaise with Debbie Fellows and get this completed as soon as possible
Treasurer’s Report
None
AOCB
Social networking – reports show that there has been little engagement with Twitter so PBN is to close this down and concentrate on Facebook.
Date of next meeting:
Thursday 11th July, 5.30pm Venue TBC
Future Committee meeting dates for the diary:
Thursday 12th September, 5.30 Venue TBC
Thursday 7th November, 5.30 Venue TBC
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