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Open Meeting & Brockley Society AGM
Wednesday November 15, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Wednesday 15 November 2023, 7 – 9pm
Lucas Vale School, SE8 4QF
(Access from via gates on Tanner’s Hill or Lucas Street)
Part 1: Open Meeting, 7pm
Speaker: C. J. Schüler. A talk (and questions) by the author of The Wood That Built London: A Human History of the Great North Wood.Drawing on historic documents, maps and environmental evidence, the book charts the fortunes of the Great North Wood that once covered much of what is now South London, stretching from Brockley to Croydon: its ecology, ownership and management, the gradual encroachment of the metropolis, and the battles fought by locals and the London Wildlife Trust to save what remained.
C.J. Schüler is the author of numerous books including three illustrated histories of cartography. He has also written on literature, travel and the arts for The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, The Tablet, The Financial Times and New Statesman. He was chairman of the Authors’ Club from 2008 to 2015.
Part 2: Annual General Meeting, 8pm
Everyone is welcome at our AGM.
A G E N D A
- Welcome and introduction
- Minutes of the first AGM of Brockley Society CIO, 19 April 2023 (see here)
- Chair’s Report
- Financial Report
- Planning Report / other reports
- Approval of reports
- Confirmation of management committee elected on 19 April and any new nominations or resignations
- Election of Planning Group
- Nominations and invitations for volunteers to other projects
- A.O.B.
Additional management committee nominations: please email chair[at]brockleysociety.org.uk
Under our new CIO constitution you may continue to be an associate member, as before, without filling in any forms and independent of where you live. If you want to become a voting member please complete our membership form.
Everyone is welcome at our AGM.