Hi ClairE
I have to agree with Eco Warrior and KeithM
If you come on for the first time in ages all guns blazing it gives the impression that you feel attack is the best form of defense. There have been one or two posters who have questioned what the Friends of Diglis Fields have done with the funds and given that there has been no transparency by the committee ( no accounts published, no information on how the money has been spent and certainly no photographs or other information regarding the activity of the committee, I fully understand why one or two people would post as they have ).
Would you please post the state of play regarding how many members of the committee there are now, and there nick names? For insistence I had no idea that the treasurer had decided to leave, until it was published on here, I have no idea who the committee members are and I certainly have no idea on any future plans the Friends of Diglis Fields have for the year ahead.
The committee has never posted any minutes of any meetings you have had or even posted information concerning the interaction between yourselves and the Greener and Cleaner Department.
All in all I would give full marks for all the work that the group has put in but I'm afraid that you have not been keeping all interested parties up to speed. It seems odd that you want members of this site to contact you using their PM facilities so that you can conduct future proceedings without letting the rest of the residents know what's going on.
I know you published a newsletter but again there wasn't a mention of how the money was spent, ie: how much did the benches cost, how much did the printing cost that was referred to by christopher, how much is left in the coffers.
Stuff like that people need to know or they might jump to the wrong conclusions as it may have happened in this case, who knows?
So as Eco Warrior said please don't spit out your dummy and do please be more transparent with your supporters, after all I have donated money in the past to the cause

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