R's rue: 02/22/23

Making Money

I am one of the trustees for the Trelawnyd Community Association which is a charity .

It’s “official remit is as follows

The TCA was formed in 2018 by a group of friends to try and enhance social cohesion and reduce loneliness in our small rural village. The aim was to provide activities, entertainment and education as well as advocacy and help for those that needed it

A recent subgroup of the charity has been formed to take on the running of the Memorial Hall, a building which given the recent financial crash , has proved to be an expensive place to run. I am a member of the sub committee which is in the process of marketing and fundraising for the hall.

One of my ideas is to make use of the buildings massive windows

There are five in the hall proper , each with 48 individual panes of glass in it.

That’s 336 panes of glass in total.

I was thinking that we could offer each of the panes out for sponsorship , in memory of a loved one and that person’s name could be memorialised on a plaque or on the window itself

After all the Hall itself was built at the turn of the century by Michael Ralli, in memory of his wife Polynmia

Sponsoring a pane for say 30£ Could earn the hall over 10, 000£

Any other fundraising ideas ?

from Going Gently https://ift.tt/o2Wu7Cm

Seaside

We live inland, seventy miles from the sea. And yet our heartbeats remind us of the rhythm of waves bursting then receding upon this island's shores. It's always nice to visit the sea. A bit like coming home. It has healing qualities and troubles seem less troublesome there.

In the autumn of 2017, I carelessly dropped my old camera and damaged it. Soon afterwards I bought a replacement camera leaving 1600 images on the memory card of the old one. It was only yesterday that I downloaded those pictures onto my desktop computer. It was good to look through images that are over five years old now - from a time before the COVID plague.

I was reminded that we visited the coast of North Norfolk in 2017 - on England's North Sea coast. We stayed in Dersingham near the royal estate at Sandringham. It wasn't far from the seaside town of Hunstanton - famously the only resort on England's east coast that faces west and we walked on empty beaches with big skies.

It was most pleasurable to be close to the sea and to explore a corner of The Island of Britain that was pretty much unknown to us.

These photographs bring it all back - well, almost.