Venue: Crown Building, London Thames College, Hanger Lane
The President Dr Shanta Bir Singh Tuladhar opened the proceedings and welcomed the founder members, Executive Committee members and all the members and supporters present at the 5th Executive Committee Meeting No 1
Attendee
Dr. Shanta Bir Singh Tuladhar, Krishna Chakhun, Binod Shrestha, Rameshwor Shrestha, Menka Shrestha, Pratima Joshi, Sabin Rajbhandari, Suraj Shakya, Arjun Pradhan, Pabitra Shakya, Rameshwor Singh Dangol, Manish Shrestha, Kumar Shrestha, Ganga Devi Shrestha, Manisha Dangol Shrestha, Uttam Amatya, Surendra Shrestha
Apologies: Shashi Manandhar, Amrit Sthapit, Mahanta Shrestha, Kedar Maharjan
Absent without apology: Dhiraj Bade-Shrestha, Om Pradhan
1. Handing Over Taking Over
Change of signatures
a. It was agreed that three people to operate the cheque even when only two persons are enough to make a cheque bankable.
b. President, Treasurer and Joint Secretary to have their signatures as the authorised signatures.
c. Change of signature in the PPGUK account to be done by 15-18 September.
d. The post was maintained by Kedar Maharjan , joint general secretary.
Letterhead and Stationary Changes
a. New address of the new committee was given by General Secretary, as
6 Melrose Court,1 Williams Road
West Ealing
London W13 0RJ
b. New PPGUK address to be forwarded to everybody and website to be updated with the new address.
Handing over of minutes and agendas from past committee
a. Past cultural secretary, in the absence of past general secretary, handed over all the minutes and agenda of previous Executive committee.
Handing over of bank statements and accounts from past Committee
1. All the important documents, cheques, paying-in book and accounts were handed to General Secretary by Pratima Joshi in the absence of past Treasurer.
2. General Secretary to meet past treasurer and provide all the member with the up-to-date account as soon as possible
3. General secretary to put the all accounts of all the previous executive committee in the website
4. Show all the previous sponsorship as entry and exit in the account
5. From now onwards, all sponsored cash to be deposited in Bank and expenses to be paid only by cheque
6. The cash balance in Bank is stated to be £5,009, the bank statement to be obtained and signed by President and Treasurer of the previous Committee and handed over to the present Executive Committee along with balance sheets of 2006-07 and 2007-08.
2. New Year Celebration Committee – 1129
1. General Secretary proposed the need of New Year Celebration Committee for the smooth running of the various activities
2. A 129-Member New Year Celebration Main Committee – 1129 was formed under the chairmanship of the President, in which all members of present Executive Committee, founder members, members of former executive committees, executive and active members of all regional committees and active members from different parts of UK viz. Central London, South East London, North West London, Aldershot, Basingstoke, Reading, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff and so on.
3. To coordinate the various activities like Mhapuja, Publication of Guthi magazine, cultural activities, etc, a 13-Member Working Committee has been formed under the chairmanship of the President as follows:
1. Dr. Shanta Bir Singh Tuladhar
2. Rameshwor Singh Dangol
3. Krishna Chakkhun
4. Ojesh Singh
5. Rameshwor Shrestha
6. Pratima Joshi
7. Menka Shrestha
8. Manisha Dangol Shrestha
9. Manish Shrestha
10. Ganga Devi Shrestha
11. Sabin Rajbhandari
12. Binod Shrestha
13. Anju Shrestha
4. President and the General Secretary will decide on the members of the Main Committee
5. Working Committee will look after all the activities including the following for New Year Celebration.
· Hall Booking
· Hall Set up
· Security
· Stage Coordination
· Chief Guest and Guests
· Artist/ dancers/ announcers
· Guthi Magazine publication
· Tickets sales and promotions
· Newa Dress coordination
· Food arrangement and setup
· Stuffs/information to bring from Nepal
· Sponsorships and Advertisements
· Other activities
6. Suraj Shakya to help General Secretary to prepare the draft for publication in media ,press releases and the news of the Guthi, all media matters to have approval of the President
7. General Secretary to collect all the pictures for the website and to be uploaded only with the consent of the President.
3. Any other Business
1. The Sports Sub-committee formed with Suresh Vaidya as Chairperson and Binod Shrestha as Coordinator was approved.
2. A Cultural Sub-committee was formed with Manish Shrestha as Chairperson was formed .
3. The10th Anniversary of PPGUK will be a milestone and the year will be celebrated in remarkable way.
4. Honours and felicitation activities will be conducted during Mhapuja as follows:
1) All founder members of PPGUK will be felicitated
2) Eldest British Newa man and eldest British Newa woman will be honoured
3) Some British Newa talents talents in UK contributed to Newalogy and/ or PPGUK will be honoured
4) Newa children who have done remarkably well getting all As or A*s in GCSE exam will be recognised and encouraged to do even better
5. Manisha Dangol Shrestha to take lead on all the things related to Fashion Show in Nepal Fair - 2008
6. Ganga Devi Shrestha and Menka Shrestha to help Manisha in the Fashion Show
7. PPGUK will take part in NRN cup and £150 was raised for football.
8. Sports sub-committee to plan for next Table tennis competition and let the executive committee know about its development.
9. Rameshwor Dangol’s proposal that Newas from all the regions should be selected for PPGUK Football team was approved .
10. More Newa festivals to be celebrated, so general secretary to come up with the proposal to celebrate other at most one in three months.
11. Arjun Pradhan proposed to have a branch in Wales and Shivaji Shrestha is ready to lead the Branch.
12. It was decided only wherever there are at least 25 members we can have branches not only in Wales but also in various other places.
13. President Dr. Shanta Bir Singh Tuladhar to contact with Newas from different parts of UK coming to participate in Nepal Fair and arrange for a meeting.
14. The proposal to run Nepalbhasa classes in Central London was approved, and Menka Shrestha agreed to give a room at Camden and Ganga Devi Shrestha agreed to give a room in South East London
15. It was agreed to make Guthi the common magazine of PPGUK and all regional news and articles from different parts of UK to be published in that and South east London branch also agreed to this.
16. Purna Kumar Shrestha will be visiting UK for a lecture and President to give him free accommodation on behalf of Pasa Pucha Guthi and a talk program on behalf of PPGUK to be organised
17. Talk programme by Purna Kumar Shrestha to be held on Saturday 04 October 2008 at 14:00 details to be posted in PPGUK website and all the media to be notified.
18. Signature campaign to pressurise the Nepal Government to declare Nepalbhasa along with Khas (Nepali) language as official language of Nepal Government and also to put Nepalbhasa as alternative to Khas and othe languages in the curriculum in Nepal.
19. Kumar Shrestha, Chairman of South East Branch of PPGUK strongly opposed the present Constitution of PPGUK and stated that if this Constitution is implemented the branch will get separated and hence it was agreed to make necessary amendments/ revisions in the Constitution to make it acceptable to Newas of all regions of UK.
20. The Constitution of PPGUK to translated in Nepalbhasa and Khas Languages and the copies an all the three languages to be circulated to all Newas in all regions of UK to receive comments for necessary revision in the Constitution.
21. A special General Meeting will be convened in the month of January 2009 to amend/ revise the constitution.
22. Kumar Shrestha invited everybody in AGM of PPGUK, South East London Branch to be held on Sunday 12 October 2008, details to be posted on PPGUK website.
23. Kumar Shrestha invited for Mhapuja on 29 October 08 organised by PPGUK South East Branch.
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