Liverpool International Nordic Community
125 Years - Gustaf Adolf Kyrka Church
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from the LiNC chairman
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I
hope you all had a very good summer and enjoyed some holidays, but autumn is
upon us now. The Christmas fair, 1st
of Advent and Lucia make November and December the busiest months of the year
for us and I hope to see you at these events.
The
I can absolutely guarantee to
you all that the future of the Gustaf Adolf Church is secure and under our own
management.
As you know, the LiNC Charity is
now the proud owner of the car park which we purchased from the
It took some time to achieve,
but we are now hiring out 10 of the 13 car park spaces on a Monday to Friday
-daytime only- arrangement to local business individuals. This time restraint
has been a problem, because people want to rent spaces for the full 24 hours 7
days a week. We have had to reduce our original charging prices with a result
that the income for the 10 spaces is £600 per month. In order to reduce further
the bank charges I am asking us all to take part in another LiNC Car Park Appeal
with a view to achieving a £5000 total of further donations, particularly if
you have not already donated. Christmas
is approaching, perhaps you could give a donation to our appeal as a different
present to family and friends instead of doing the haunting task of finding
presents in the shops? Your generosity
will be officially acknowledged by LiNC. Names of donors so far feature on the
appeal page further on in the newsletter.
The church is secured and the
car park now owned by LiNC. This enables us to look to the future and to start
planning what activities we want to have in the building. We are continuing all
the existing activities, but we also have the option for new exciting
possibilities, so I ask for any ideas you might have. Please approach Stan or
me, by email, phone or in church.
Many of you will now have seen
the fully repaired basement from when the flood of water came in as our
Christmas present. All the work has been carried out to the highest standards
and paid for by the insurance company, which is recovering costs from the water
company. There has been no cost to LiNC or church. As you might have seen, all
the furniture has been replaced and new light-coloured flooring put down. In
our opinion this has improved the basement facilities to a high standard and completely
changed the atmosphere. Have a look at it when you come to the Christmas fair
at the end of November, if not before! As usual it has been mainly Stan, Mette
and Katrine who have had to put up with a lot of extra time and effort during
the repairs. I would like to thank them and everyone inconvenienced for being
so understanding during the repair work.
I am so enthusiastic about the
repairs done that I am determined to have the front stair well redecorated from
the basement to the church top. There
has been a long-lasting slow leak in the roof, which has been mended of course,
but the ugly signs are still there. I am therefore looking for volunteers who
can come and help in cleaning and painting the walls. I will do the areas that
are difficult to reach, so volunteers can assume that they will be standing on
the normal floor to wield their paint brushes. Contact me if you can help!
As always, we have had a varied
and interesting set of activities taking place in the early part of the year as
well as the normal church services. These have included choral recitals,
Wednesday lunches, Swedish country dancing, film club, lectures, the Finnish
school, other language courses among other things. This continues to show
everyone that we are a thriving cultural and social community. But we do not always appreciate how much
work is carried out by volunteers in the background to make events and activities
happen. I thank everyone who has been
kind to help us throughout the year.
I must draw your attention to
the costs of this newsletter. Each printed copy that we post to you at home
costs us almost 90 pence. We send out 450 copies in the post. This is a cost
that we want to reduce. WE WOULD VERY MUCH APPRECIATE A POSITIVE
REPLY FROM YOURSELVES SAYING THAT YOU WISH TO CONTINUE RECEIVING THIS NEWS
LETTER IN PRINTED AND POSTED FORMAT. There is a small form to fill to indicate
your interest in still receiving it by post. Please send it to us.
If you do have an e-mail address, please inform us. We will send the newsletter by email at no
cost whatsoever. You will also be informed when a special or extra event is on
at the church. I suggest that you print
out the programme pages for easy reference, it lasts up to April.
We continue to look towards long
term aims, particularly the installation of a much needed lift, but that is
going to require significant contributions from grants and other funding possibilities.
We are always searching for these.
So all in all, we continue to
work successfully and have lots of activities taking place. I hope that more of
you would like to come in and take part. You can also, of course, volunteer to
take an active part in the work that we do to bring all the activities to you.
We are secure in our Gustaf
Adolf Church. We need you all to spread the word about our LiNC charity and a
challenge from me is to ask all of you to get at least one new member each to
join us! We do need your FINANCIAL HELP
and support in donations and keeping up to date with your membership fees in
order that we can plan all the activities for the year and pay for the running
costs and maintenance work that is required on the building.
May I remind LiNC members that the AGM of the charity
will take place at the church on
6 November. Elections of committee members and
approval of our finances are on the agenda.
Thank you for your support and I am looking forward
to seeing you in the church.
Roger
Metcalf.
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