Hi all, today I spoke to various people at HECC, who are all 'leaders'
(i.e. committee / council members sort of thing) about last Thursday.

I expressed our concern that our not knowing that there were people
staying in the church, along with their personal belongings etc was
unfair to all concerned - had communication been better then the people
who were staying may well have wanted to secure their personal
belongings, put away drinks, left things in a different place etc, and
had we known we could have either planned to meet another day, or
somewhere else, or planned around losing the use of that amount of space
etc.

The person who had arranged for the visitors to stay has apologised
unreservedly - she simply hadn't thought about anyone using the rooms
this past week and as it was arranged in a rush she hadn't checked the
diary etc.

The other two people I spoke to both approached me about it, having
heard what had happened, and both were very apologetic, saying it was
totally unacceptable and all it should have taken was a bit of
communication and forethought to avoid an awkward situation. I got the
impression that they were both rather unhappy that it had happened in
the first place.


The event that the visitors were taking part in is an annual event, and
the only one of it's kind that the church participates in, so there
should be no chance that anything similar can happen (until this time
next year . . .but I'll remind the church about this year then).

I don't think we can really ask / expect anything else, but what do you
guys think? DH seems to think that I should press for a discount on the
hall rates for last session, though I have no idea if that would go down
well or not with the church - so are we happy with apologies and 'it
will not happen again' type comments?

(Just for your information our group is the only group that the church
'hire' the rooms out to, everything else that runs is done in a
distinctly religious way, not quite outright evangelism, but not too far
off either).

So now I'm not too sure whether to just leave things as they stand, or
to make more of a point of it?
--
Jenn
UK
Mum to L - 01/99, M 04/02 and J 05/04