AGM Minutes

March 2, 2009

1. President’s Report

Pretty good year
Thank you all, especially Catherine and Jake
Highlights from Christmas Dinner:
- Why didn’t the skeleton go to the New Year’s Eve Party? He had no body to go with.
- Where should a dressmaker build her house? On the outskirts.
Lasting innovations: Wadham store changes with TAFF manager
No storage space
Thank you some more people

2. Secretary’s Report

Thank you all for coming to this year’s AGM. I’m going to outline briefly a few of the many things that TAFF have been doing in this very busy year. We now have 145 full members; with a futher 8 associate members, 21 old members and 27 alumni; who are getting involved in almost all of the massive number (by my very rough calculations well over 100) of drama productions that have gone on in OXford over the past year.

Over the past year I have worked on the redevelopment of the TAFF website, working closely with Richard Ashby, to ring its look up to date and improve some of the online tools such as the FQs section to make them a better used resource by our members. Work on this is still ongoing.

This has also been the first year in a while that TAFF has had a contested election, for which I acted as returning officer. I’m sure you all enjoyed reading the numerous and lengthy emails I sent out in connection with this. I am pleased to report that the election passed off very smoothly, and congratulations to Juliette who has been elected as my successor for the next year as a result. Good luck to her!

I’d just like to finish off by saying thank you very much to the other members of the Exec and Committee: Josh, Shivani, Catherine, Catherine, Hannah, Stephen, Claire, Alex and Alex and to our Senior Members. Everyone has worked very hard this year to ensure that TAFF continues to meet the aims it was established to provide, and I am sure this will continue for many years to come.

3. Treasurer’s Report

It’s been great
Got to work with Jake and Josh
Increased expenditure of £100 on Store Manager but this is viable.
Trip to London – successful
All the usual things
Thanks especially Alex P
Thanks Committee and Mark Roberts

4. Accounts

In the account there’s £1148.43
MT last year – £1148.43
MT07 £1065.80
Not had Cuppers income yet or money from Albatross (possibly).
Main expenditure – Freshers’ drinks and Banner

5. Other matters

Various mailing list changes were requested which Jake will action
Moser Store – whether we should start charging for hiring was considered. It was noted that back in the old days people were charged £2.50 per item.
Jake said that if requested he would keep working on the website.
In the light of the recent report in the Cherwell regarding the friendliness of Oxford’s drama related societies the meeting voted on and passed a motion resolving to be more friendly next year. For some reason it was minuted that we should “get the friendly factor out”.
James Methven has a workshop potentially for stage engineering if anyone is interested.
Mark Roberts also mentioned an etc desks workshop.

The Meeting closed at 6:25pm.

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