Dear Members,
Jai Jinendra and Jai Shree Krishna,
1. One minute silence was observed for our members Prabhudas H Shah - aged 97 years who passed away on Friday 28 February: and Rajnikant V Shah aged 83 who passed away on Sunday 6 March.
2. Membership cards - we started distributing membership cards for 2025. The new cards do not have a year mentioned on it. This is because the new cards will not be issued every year. The QR code will automatically ready the card every year if the renewal fees have been paid. So, the new card issued will NOT need to be replaced for a new card every year. It will remain the same for the duration of your membership.
Those members that have not collected their new cards, please ensure that they collect them form the front desk coming Thursday.
If you have lost your card, there will be a charge of £5 to replace your card.
3. Donations:
- £101 from Mahesh and Prafulla Shah on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary which they celebrated on 8 March.
- Chaas - for the month of March 2025 is sponsored by Chandrakanta Parmar.
Many thanks from the Kendra to the above donors.
4. Revised format for Lunch donations:
The Committee has considered the issue of
The format of sponsored lunch was raised at 2024 AGM. The committee has considered and revised the lunch contribution as follows:
- SILVER SUPPORT - £750- 5 guests free; any more guest will be charged at £10 per person; Silver supporter will not take any left over food; left over food will be sold as usual. (Ordinary Lunch-no choice of menu items).
- GOLD SUPPORT- £1500 - 5 guests free; any more guest will be charged at £10 per person; Gold supporter will not take any left over food; left over food will be sold as usual. (Special Lunch- Limited choice of menu items - sweet, farshan, shakh and pickle).
- FULL DAYS COST - sponsorship for the full days cost - no more than 2 sharing. Sponsor for the full days costs can take left over food home.
5. Birthday cards:
The committee introduced a new initiative from April 25 - posting a birthday card to each member. Also, to announce members birthday at our Thursday gathering. A good number of members have expressed a desire not to introduce this initiative. Especially, the postage of the cards-considering the costs involved in posting and environmental footprint. The committee will consider this further.
6. 10th Anniversary of Queen's Award celebrations - This year we will celebrate 10 years since we received this award. The committee is planning to celebrate this occasion in early June.
7. Afternoon Programme: We celebrated Holi with coloured confetti. Members sang holi songs and all enjoyed the celebrations.
8. Comments box was laid out.
9. Today's attendance - 203
10. Food ordered - 180
11. Proceeds from the sale of food - £40