FERRING HISTORY GROUP

The 2024 Annual General Meeting will be held at 7.30 on Friday 2 February, in the Village Hall.

AGENDA

1. To approve the minutes of the 2023 AGM (see below)
2. To receive the Chairman’s report
3. To receive the Auditor’s Annual Financial Statement (see overleaf)
4. To elect officers and other Committee members
The following have agreed to stand:  Chairman – David Garnett, Secretary – Simon Cornish, Treasurer – Stephen Abbott; other Committee members: Ed Miller, Helen McCutchan, Pete Coe, Kevin Lee, Michael Quigley.
Other nominations and volunteers most welcome.
5. Any other business

Ed Miller (Secretary) 29 January 2024

 Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 3 February 2023

1. David Garnett took the Chair and welcomed members to the AGM.
2. The minutes of the 2022 AGM had been circulated and were agreed.
3. The Chairman reviewed the past year as one of well-attended meetings with good speakers and some good walks and visits. The website was well stocked and the Magazine much enjoyed. Membership had reached 166 and over 100 members had already renewed for 2023. He thanked them for their support and thanked all Committee members for all their work during the past two years.
4. Stephen Abbott then presented the Annual Accounts for 2022, audited by C Hawes ACMA. (these also showed the account for 2021) Subscriptions collected in 2022 were up, at £1,295, with another £126 in admissions. Expenditure overall was £105 less than income – the main items being for printing the Magazine, speakers’ fees and the hire of the Hall, and the Group had a credit balance of over £2,700 at the end of the year.  There were no questions and the financial report was accepted with thanks.
5. Nominations were then invited for officers and Committee members. Proposed and elected en bloc were: David Garnett, Chairman; Ed Miller, Secretary; Stephen Abbott, Treasurer: other Committee members: Pat Attree, Tim Baldwin, Simon Cornish, and Helen McCutchan.
6.There was no other business.             

Ed Miller (Secretary)                6 February 2023

We had a great afternoon for our Kingston walk, after a very wet morning. About 25 of us, including two new members, did the walk up the Rife and westward along the Ferring and Kingston boundary across the fields to Kingston Lane, passing Kingston Manor, looking down the old ‘Street’ of Kingston village, over to East Kingston Farm, down to the beach at Kingston Gorse and back along the greensward to the Bluebird Cafe. The commentary I gave (and a few things I forgot to say) is in the Members’ Pages, entitled ‘The Kingston Walk’.

If you are a paid-up member of our Group you can ask me for a Username and Password and get access to these and many more pages of Ferring, and other local, history. – Ed.Miller43@msn.com

Welcome to our web site. Below the photograph of Ocean Drive, looking South, on a card posted in 1939, is a summary menu of what is on the site. Most of the pages are available to any visitor to this site, and the many articles of Ferring History may be quoted from, or reproduced in full, as long as there is an acknowledgment of Ferring History Group as its source. 

Other pages, with more detailed history, and (in time) many photographs, are for our members, who pay an annual subscription and, on application, are given a user name and a password. If you have a user name and  password please enter them in the box, below, right. If you are a member but do not have, or have forgotten, these please e mail ed@ferringhistorygroup.co.uk. If you are not a member, please use the contact button, on the panel above, right, to see how to become one..

You do not have to be a member to come  to our meetings (7.30 on the first Friday of February, May, August and November, in Ferring Village Hall) – we welcome visitors at £3 per head, paid at the door. Please go to the ‘Who we Are and What We Do’ tab below the photograph for more information about us. – Ed Miller (Secretary).