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Thanks for coming to our AGM 2025!

A big thank you to everyone who came to Grow Community – Sopwell’s 5th AGM; it was lovely to see old faces and new!

Man next to a platter of fruit, veg and herbs.

Expert speaker Hamid and his home grown produce. Image credit: Gail Jackson

Missed it? Have a read of our minutes below, including a summary of the fantastic talk by our invited speaker, local fruit growing expert Hamid El Bouchiki.

Download Grow Community – Sopwell’s 2025 AGM minutes here.

Here’s to another fantastic year, and looking forward to seeing you at our next Community gardening session!

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Grow Community – Sopwell celebrates another year!

Group of people walking towards building at sunset

Image credit: Gail Jackson

Thanks to everyone who came along to our 2024 AGM. This year included a tour of the growing spaces at the Cottonmill Community and Cycling Centre (well done to the youth groups growing in the raised beds!), an overview of an active year, and some fantastic sharing food.

Minutes for the meeting are now available here.
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GROW AGM 2023

Thank you to everyone who turned out for our annual review and AGM last night. With dusk descending, we were given a beautiful tour as Kate discussed the ongoing plans for the community centre before outlining future proposals, including further establishment of the orchard and wildflower areas.

Then, all back inside for AGM formalities and trustee updates, and the launch of the Sopwell Jigsaw Meadow project, before our community feast.

A real diverse offering of dishes using locally-grown produce for us all to share. It was a wonderful night and hopefully it can inspire even more of you to help the area ‘grow’ together.

You can browse through our photo-story annual review here: GROW Annual Review 2023

Minutes from our AGM have now been published. Download them here.

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3rd ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Tuesday 26th September 2023

To be held at:
Cottonmill Community and Cycling Centre, Old Oak, Off Cottonmill Lane, AL1 2EF, St Albans 7-9pm

There will be a sharing buffet from 8pm

AGENDA

Welcome, apologies for absence and introduction (Kate Swindells, Chair)

  1. Annual report (Kate Swindells, Chair)
  2. Financial Report (Alison Shiperlee, Treasurer)
  3. Resolutions to Constitution
  4. Change of Financial Year
  5. Election of Committee Members (Kate Swindells, Chair)
    a) Chair
    b) Treasurer
    c) Additional Committee member(s)
  6. Election of Secretary (in-coming Committee)
  7. Any Other Business (in-coming Chair)

Notices of Resolution

As required under Section 11 of Grow Community – Sopwell’s Constitution, the Committee hereby gives notice of intention to alter the Constitution. The resolutions to be raised at the AGM are as follows:


To change Section 6.10 from “Retiring Officers shall be eligible for re-election after a gap of at least one year.” to “Retiring Officers may be re-elected immediately after the end of their three year term.”


To change Section 8.7 from “Members shall elect at least 3 and not more than 7 Committee members to serve for the next year. They will retire at the next AGM but may stand for re-election.” to “Members shall elect at least 3 and not more than 12 Committee members to serve for the next year. They will retire at the next AGM but may stand for re-election.”
We will also be changing the dates of our Financial Year.

If you would like more information on the reasons behind these changes, please contact growsopwell@gmail.com.


If you would like to be considered for a committee member role, including officers (Chair, Treasurer, Secretary), please contact us to discuss this by Tuesday 19th September 2023.