Annual General Meeting 2025
21 November – 7:30PM – Boyle Family Resource Center
- Attendance
- Maria Devine, Denise ODowd, Dyphna McNamara, Laura Hidalgo, Bevan DeQueker, Mick OMeara, Joe Treacy
- Club Committee Vote
- Chair: Laura Hidalgo
- Secretary: Mick O’Meara
- Treasurer: Bevan DeQueker
- General Advisor: Maria Devine
- Some Numbers
- Since September 2023
- 49 movies screened, including:
- 41 Feature-length
- 8 Shorts
- 33 Movie Nights for members
- 14 Events including Boyle Arts Festival, Night&Day Festival, Jazz Day, Culture Night, Haloween, Womens Day, Disabilities Day, LGBT Day
- Accounts For 2024
- Full details in the spreadsheet BoyleFilmClub Accounting to 2024
- Breakdown:
- Cross-venue project with Creative Heartlands
- Discussion about working closer with other small town venues in the North-West
- Common licensing, focussing on rish movies
- Syncronizing screening dates
- Discussion about working closer with other small town venues in the North-West
- Membership pricing
- Discussion around focussing more on full memberships or on casual single-movie memberships
- Decision: Full membership to continue, they are cheap, and partial membership has been available already
- Getting the word out – Discussion around reaching more audiences
- Prepare more leaflets
- All members to have access to leaflets to distribute to friends
- Send more reminders of upcoming events using existing communications channels
- Investigate an SMS singnup and info service
- eg text ‘boyle film club’ to 12345 and get the current programme in response
- get a reminder on screening days
- New ideas to investigate
- Weekend matinee child-friendly screening
- Bringing films to nursing homes
- Movie Suggestions
- TBC