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is an organisation linking the
villages of Bossingham, Lower Hardres, Nackington, Petham, Stelling Minnis,
Upper Hardres and Waltham.
The purpose is to create and effect requested activities and opportunities which
may be beyond the scope of the separate villages and their current societies.
A Hundred was the name for a group of villages at the time of the Doomsday Book.
The organisation was formed in 2000 when it performed a musical community show
entitled "This is Your Story", which depicted happenings within the villages
during the last 2 millenniums.
A second musical, "Singing in the Reign", was performed in November 2002, as
part of the celebrations for The Queen's fifty years of rule.
In June 2005, a Festival of Country Life and Arts was held in different venues
throughout villages.
There are now three main spokes within The Hundred, namely:-
Monthly talks
Monthly professional music performances and plays
Monthly walks on local footpaths, usually to local pubs!
THE HUNDRED SHOWS.
The following are booked events for the 2008/9 season:-
Saturday 4th October—The Farnham Maltings Group “The Drawer Boy”.
Saturday 22nd November—Cabaret Show “Delicious” (2 girls and a pianist).
The following shows have been booked provisionally:-
Saturday 17th January 2009—“Water Horse”. A local group of local musicians
appealing to the younger set.
Sunday 18th February 2009—“Darwin”. A Christopher Robbie one-man show.
Saturday 14th March or Sunday 15th March 2009—The Puppet State Theatre Company
“The man who loved trees”. This is a show for all aged 7 and above.
All at Petham Village Hall starting at 7.30pm.
ONE HUNDRED TALKS
Wednesday 1st October—Anne and Richard Wickham “Trekking and Touring in New
Zealand”. (Petham Village Hall).
Wednesday 5th November—Tom Lynch “In Shackleton’s Footsteps”. (Lower Hardres
Village Hall).
Wednesday 3rd December—The Hundred Christmas Show (Petham Village Hall).
Wednesday 4th February 2009—Dr. John Puckett “The Hundred Bats”. (Lower Hardres
Village Hall).
Wednesday 4th March 2009—Lt. Col. Mike Martin “History and Heroes of the
Victoria Cross”. (Lower Hardres Village Hall).
All starting at 7.30pm.
Regarding The Christmas Show, the following groups have been booked:-
The Fortuners, The New Moves, The Singing for Fun choir, and The Tappers. There
will be a flower display by the Petham Adults Study Group in a separate room.
The Committee agreed that there will be no admission charge and no tickets will
be issued. Light refreshments and soft drinks will be free, and there will be a
cash bar for glasses of wine at £1.50 per glass.
The AGM is to be held on Tuesday 18th November 7.30pm in Waltham Village Hall
(In Nackington V H if Waltham is not available).
A "management" committee is in overall control of all the
events. This comprises:-
Chairman and Treasurer ------ Richard Wickham
Telephone: 01227 700434
Secretary ------------------------ David Barlow
Telephone: 01227 709312)
Committee member -----------
Phil Brown
Committee member -----------
Trevor Conway
Telephone: 01227 700327
Committee member ----------- Ian Wrigley
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Dear Hundred Members, August 2008
The last 12 months has been another busy and eventful year for The Hundred and I
hope that each member has found something of interest and entertainment within
our programme of events. I am very pleased to write to all the members of The
Hundred and not only bring to your attention our forthcoming progamme of events,
but also invite you all to renew your membership of The Hundred for the year
commencing 1st October 2008.
The Hundred Committee has decided that the annual
subscription for 2008/2009 should be set at £4.00 per member minimum,
but any voluntary additional subscription fee from members would be very
welcome, since any additional sum will help to cover the basic expenses of
running The Hundred. This membership fee includes the receipt by members of our
newsletters and programme, together with the participation by members in all the
regular activities of The Hundred, including The Hundred Talks and The Hundred
Walks. As was the case last season, we shall continue to offer a free glass of
wine or soft drink to members attending The Hundred Talks, as an additional
incentive to encourage members to attend these Talks!
I sincerely hope that you will accept this invitation to renew your membership
of The Hundred – a glance at the programme of
events must surely convince you that membership will be good value for
money. Please complete the membership renewal slip (click
here) attach your cheque payable to “The Hundred” and return these
to me at the address at the foot of the renewal slip. Don’t delay – renew today.
Regrettably, anyone on our current mailing list who does not renew their
membership by the end of October, will be deleted from our membership list and
therefore not receive future newsletters and details of forthcoming Hundred
events.
Would all members please note that The Hundred AGM will be held on Tuesday, 18th
November 2008 at Waltham Village Hall at 7.30pm. Please come along to this
annual meeting and give us the benefit of your views and opinions – free drinks
and nibbles will be available during the evening! Further notification regarding
the AGM and the agenda will be sent to all members of The Hundred at the
beginning of November. Amongst the items on the agenda at the AGM, we shall be
appointing the members of The Hundred Committee for the following year. This
Committee acts as the steering group of The Hundred and membership of this
Committee is not an onerous task, involving you in attending 3 or 4 meetings a
year within the area covered by The Hundred. We are looking for a new member of
this team to particularly represent the interests of Waltham and the surrounding
area – please contact me for further details.
Finally, we are now able to offer members the choice of receiving the
newsletters and programme by e-mail or by hard copy through the post.
The membership renewal
slip includes a box to tick if you would like to receive
communications from The Hundred by e-mail, together with a space for your e-mail
address. If you do not tick the box and give us your current e-mail address, we
shall assume that you wish to receive communications from The Hundred in the
form of hard copy by post.
Yours sincerely,
Richard Wickham - Chairman of The Hundred
THE HUNDRED ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING 2007.
TUESDAY 20th NOVEMBER 2007 at BOSSINGHAM VILLAGE HALL.
1) Richard Wickham (Chairman) welcomed 12 members to the 8th AGM.
2) Apologies were received from B.Toogood, M and C Hood-Cree, S and R Steel, N.
Hunt, J Canney, M and H Powell, A Wiltshier.
3) The Minutes of the 2006 AGM were approved and signed.
4) Richard Wickham presented his Chairman’s Report. He advised that the last 12
months had been another busy and eventful year for The Hundred. Following
discussion at a committee meeting in May, it had been decided that the annual
subscription for 2007/8 should be held at £3 per member minimum. However, many
members had responded positively to a request for voluntary additional monies
with their subs. There is currently a membership of 127. The Hundred has
continued its policy of printing colourful, eye-catching newsletters and,
additionally, information regarding activities is communicated to people living
in the area through Parish Magazines, local newspapers and posters and flyers.
About 30% of members have now indicated that they would prefer to received
e-mails in the future.
The Hundred Shows group, under the excellent leadership of Trevor Conway, has gone from strength to strength in achieving its aim of producing live entertainment to suit different tastes and age groups in Petham Village Hall. Perhaps the highlight was an audiovisual presentation by Ben Osborne entitled “Jungle Journeys”. Details regarding the forthcoming programme have been sent to members and each event will be fully publicised to a wider audience. Since the launch, the productions have shown a financial surplus of £974.
Each of the autumn and winter Hundred Talks has attracted an appreciative audience, with the programme covering a wide variety of subjects. The new season started in October with the theme of “Half a Dozen Hundred Features” in which a group of local speakers highlighted some of the attributes that make The Hundred villages so attractive. Thanks go to Ian and Pat Wrigley who continue to organise such a popular programme of Hundred Talks.
Special thanks also go to Alison and John
Wiltshier who have organised a programme of autumn and winter Hundred Walks.
The Chairman concluded by recording his thanks to the Committee members for all
the work and effort that they have put into running The Hundred over the past
year.
5) Richard Wickham presented and talked to the Accounts for the year ended
31.10.07. These showed an excess of income over expenditure of £673.33, mainly
as a result of surpluses from most of The Hundred Shows. However, there is an
outstanding invoice of £175 which will reduce the excess to £498. A new Business
Instant Access Account was opened during the year on which interest of £37.71
was accrued. The cost of Postage and Stationery (£205.21) was for the last two
years combined. There should be no expenditure for Advertising in future as this
related to paid Parish Magazine adverts which will be discontinued.
Bank balances as at 31.10.07 were £1152
(current account) and £2000 (Instant Access account).
There was a suggestion from the floor that the interest be allowed to accumulate
on the Instant Access account.
The Accounts were unanimously accepted.
6) Richard Wickham asked for comments from members.
John Wiltshier felt that the Talks should be better attended and suggested that
Parish Magazine advertising be undertaken again. Ian Wrigley advised that
articles about individual talks are produced for the Parish Magazines and fed
into the local papers’ news.
Peter Crouch considered that personal recommendations would always be successful
in encouraging greater attendance.
In answer to a question from Evelyn Crouch, the Chairman advised the names of
the villages within The Hundred, i.e., Bossingham, Nackington, Lower Hardres,
Petham, Stelling Minnis, Upper Hardres and Waltham.
Ian Wrigley advised the reasons for cutting back the number of talks, i.e., the
April one was dropped because of an annual low turn-out at talks around that
time, and the December one has been replaced by the Christmas Show.
Trevor Conway advised that the cost of tickets for the Hundred Shows remain
fairly high despite “profits” from previous shows, because of the fact that the
subsidies formerly received will no longer be forthcoming.
Trevor was congratulated for his hard work and management in relation to the
shows.
7) There being no additional proposals regarding Officers or the Committee, it
was proposed by Peter Crouch and seconded by John Wiltshier that Richard Wickham
be re-elected to the Chair (also to Treasurer) and David Barlow be re-elected as
Secretary. This was passed and the Committee was re-elected en bloc.
David Barlow
Secretary
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