Tayside OWL Committee Meeting by Zoom Friday 11th August 2022

Present Anne-Marie Mackin (Secretary), Penny Martin (Treasurer) Kirsty Adam, Jillian Ritchie. Cara Roberts

Apologies: Alison Wilson (Chair), Mel McRae, Trisha Carrigan-Key,

Penny led the meeting in the absence of Alison. Jillian had to leave just as we were starting the meeting. This meeting minutes are needed in order to apply for the OWL Scotland grant (deadline 1 September 2022).

Penny went over the grant criteria. Our current balance is £3721.89 (13 June 2022). However, we have funds ringfenced for POP from the Scottish Finest Woods Award (£450 remaining) and funds set aside for the Tracking Workshop (£468 from legacy funds) which has been carried forward, plus Penny has a claim to put in for Treasurer/ web content work carried out. Our account therefore won’t have an excess of £3000 available on the date of application, so Penny confirmed that according to the grant criteria we can apply for the admin grant and CPD session grant (max 2) from OWL Scotland. Anne-Marie will hold off claiming admin costs until Autumn as hasn’t had many mailings or minutes to do.

We have events on 29th October (Lost Words) at The Shed and 26th November (Winter Crafts) to fund. This event will be held at the Scout Hut as The Shed isn’t available and so we need to pay rent (£40 – Penny to process). The Tracking event on 4th September is covered by previous funding. Penny and Bonnie are delivering the Lost Words session but we still need to organise the Winter Crafts. We have a range of willow workers to contact but have a plan B of a simple craft with storytelling which Cara could do if need be.

POP have a new volunteer who might need to do First Aid training, which could be covered by the SFWA budget.

Penny to send AM descriptors of the upcoming events for the August member mailing and will check if Alison has the winter crafts organisation in hand.

Penny has been working on the Tayside OWL Group website pages, but minutes and events still need to be added. Events need to be in place for the grant application. All to check out the new web pages and make suggestions for any content/ edits if needed. https://owlscotland.org/local-groups/tayside-owl-group/

Kirsty agreed to send Penny info on POP to put on the projects page, plus any images.

We discussed the networking event at Pillars and a couple of people are hoping to go.

DTONM 7th Sept 7.30 at The Shed