27th AGM on Tuesday 30th April 2013

We held this year’s AGM at Norcliffe Chapel in Styal.  13 of our 27 members attended plus Rangers Simon Hiley (Styal) and Shane Bates (High Peak).

The meeting ran from 19:35 to 20:10 and covered:

- Apologies for absence

- Review and approval of the minutes of the 2012 AGM

- Chairman’s Report (Daniel Black)

- Treasurer’s Report (Denise Clark)

- Committee 2013/14

- AOB

The Chairman reviewed membership numbers and enquiries, work hours for 2012/13, workdays/worktasks, socials and thanked the many people (Committee, members, Rangers) for their in help in making the past year a successful one.  Members were told about the group's Twitter account (@Manchester_NTV), the new PO box address (no longer Sale but c/o NT at 61 Oxford Street, Manchester) and the mntv.worksiteleaders@gmail.com email address.

Nine people were elected to the Committee for 2013/14: Daniel Black, Sue Bonner, Denise Clark, Philippa Greaves, Ally Hardy, Gordon Irons, Tim O'Donnell, Adrian Potts and Matt Smethurst.

After an interval for tea, coffee, cake and biscuits we had a very interesting talk from Simon about the development plans for the Styal Estate and Quarry Bank Mill.  The project, titled "Revolution & Revelation", will cost £6m (£3m from a hopefully third-time-lucky Heritage Lottery Fund bid and £3m raised locally).  The whole idea is to change the flow of visitors through the property so that areas seldom visited (eg Styal Village, Northern Woods, Upper Garden) get a lot more visits and people don't just visit the mill.  The aim is to increase visitor numbers to 300,000 per year!  As the project develops there will be a lot of work that MNTV can get involved with such as fencing and landscaping.