SUMMARY OF MEETING OF SUSILA DHARMA (BRITAIN) HELD AT LOUDWATER 19/20TH MAY 2007
Half
of Saturday 19th consisted of a workshop conducted by Marcus Hamilton,
to whom we are very grateful for giving his time. Now that our
team has grown, the Board were enabled to focus our intentions for the
future. We hope to have an article about the workshop in the next
Journal.
The
Board approved the annual accounts for 2006 in preparation for our AGM
in August.
Following
our inspection by the Charity Commission, the Board agreed a small
amendment to our Memorandum and Articles and discussed SD(B)’s
relationship with the Almoners. Thanks to Robin Jones for being
present for this item.
Indonesia
– DFID Governance and Transparency Fund
The
Board agreed that Hamid Kennedy should submit a concept paper to DFID
(Dept. for International Development) for a large project in Kalimantan
in partnership with Bardolf Paul and YTS which would work to improve
the quality of governance and transparency in regions that are
dominated by extractive industries such as mining and forestry.
ICDP.
(International Child Development Programme)
Lailah
Armstrong joined us at lunchtime to update us on the progress of the
ICDP projects in Colombia and Guatemala. The Board agreed to fund
the remaining two instalments of the UNICEF-led programme in Huila
province, i.e. £4,000. We also discussed whether we could help
Lailah to find funding from a donor outside Subud.
R.D.Congo
– Lemba Imbu
The
Board agreed to donate £2,000 towards the purchase of computers for
the cyber café. It may be possible to add an extra £800 to this
following re-assignment of other earmarked funds.
Kalimantan
The
Board discussed a proposal from Elpam, a project which continues the
work of the TSLICK project, for the empowerment of women. We
decided we would like more detail before making a decision to send
funds.
The
Board agreed that the £2,500 we had sent to Clearpath could be used
for a project helping landmine survivors on the Thai-Burma border
rather than the rice mill project which had been fully funded.
Thank
You 2007
We
would be grateful for support for our jewellery and used Subud books
stall and also the mini-art exhibition being organised by Sjarifah.
We will give a presentation to the delegates during Subud Britain
Congress and also earlier in the celebration for those not staying the
whole time. In our Classroom 21, we are meeting with younger
people to talk about SD on Fri.24th. We hope to arrange another
time to share experiences of caring activities. Don’t be shy
– come and tell us what you are involved in.
Thanks
to Daisy MacDonald and Robin Jones for attending our meeting and
working with Stephen Weil on creating a database to help with our
admin. Thanks also to Irmani Webb and Bustami Pollard, National
Helpers, for their support on Saturday.