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The Link Magazine • December 2003 31
Day of decision for Haydon Community Association
The trustees of the Haydon Wick Community Association are hoping for a good attendance from people living in the Haydon Wick parish
area at its AGM on Monday 1 December, 7pm, at the Haydon Centre, when important decisions will be taken about its future.
For many years the community association has played a significant organisation and they have been invited by public notice to attend the
role in the community as the area developed from a small village to AGM to consider options for the future. The substantive motion has
almost a town in its own right. Its main role was to manage the Haydon been proposed by the trustees:
Centre with the backing of Swindon Council. 'that the existing Community Association be dissolved and its assets lodged in
Earlier this year the decision was taken to pull out of this arrange- a new trust fund created to provide grants to groups and for projects within
ment because satisfactory terms for the future could not be agreed. Haydon Wick and the neighbourhood.'
There was also concern about the potential liabilities under which Officers from the Wiltshire and Swindon Community Foundation
trustees operated, a factor which dissuaded people from taking up the will attend the AGM to explain how this new arrangement could be put
role. The association now has to decide if there is any virtue in its into practice.
continuing to exist. The Haydon Wick parish area covers Haydon Wick, Greenmeadow,
All adult residents of Haydon Wick parish are members of the Woodhall Park, Priory Vale and much of Abbey Meads.

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