Newsletter – June 2018

Welcome to our latest Newsletter. I’m sure you’ll have received many emails over the last few weeks concerning the new regulation about data privacy called General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR. Like all charities and organizations, we need to ensure we also comply, so we’ll be sending you an email tomorrow and ask that you kindly fill it in. This way we can keep you fully up to date with everything we’re doing at ARC. 

Palmers Field Update

We are at a crucial stage for ARC because we are close to agreeing a lease with Aldbourne Parish Council. As we’ve mentioned before we received some recommendations from our solicitor. As a result, we’ve been in touch with the council expressing our concerns over a few matters in the lease.

Although we are very keen to sign a lease, it’s essential that the lease complies with all our charitable commitments, which have been laid down by the Charities Commission. Equally we have to be certain that the terms of the lease will not affect our ability to raise the necessary funds to achieve our aims and commitments

Because of the advice we’ve received, we are concerned that the current terms of the lease may not meet these important requirements, so we are seeking extra professional help. Although we can never be certain of funding until applications have been made, we are consulting with experts who would be able to give us some professional guidance. While we appreciate this is taking more time than we would have liked, it’s essential that we can agree terms of a lease that will satisfy the needs of Aldbourne Parish Council as well as ARC. 

Out and About

As this is a very exciting year for ARC, we’re determined to keep the village fully informed of every stage of our progress. One of the ways we’re doing this is to be at as many village events as we can, so that people can come along for a chat and have an opportunity to ask questions. We have a big banner so please look out for it starting from the Fete on the green on Saturday the 30^thof June. 

We will still keep you updated with emails as well as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Please click on the links at the bottom of this page.

Please also let us know if anyone else would like to receive this newsletter and as always if you have any questions or suggestions, please do get in contact with us at, info@ARC-Aldbourne.org.uk.

In the meantime, we’d like to thank to all our supporters for all their continued commitment; we really do appreciate it.

Many thanks again

Malcolm Pryce, 

Chairman, Aldbourne Recreation Centre