This is an essential part of our existence as a self-run community group. Come along and hear about the group’s activities and direction. Help to shape its future by getting involved and electing a new Committee. All are welcome.

For more information please contact us at a session or via majurawomensgroup@gmail.com

Agenda for the AGM
About the Committee Roles

Agenda for the AGM

1. Present
2. Apologies
3. Minutes of the previous AGM
4. Business arising from previous minutes
5. President’s report
6. Treasurer’s report
7. Election of members of the new Committee

The AGM will be followed by a delicious morning tea – ladies, please bring a plate

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About the Committee Roles

MWG is run entirely by volunteer committee members, primarily the other women you see at the group each week. We do not expect committee members to have any previous experience or particular skills. None of the roles are particularly taxing of time although it is expected that committee members can attend most (though not all0 of the meeting held during the year. The times and dates of these are decided by the sitting committee. There are four specific positions identified in the constitution:

• President – co-ordinates the group’s activities;
• Vice-President – assists the President;
• Secretary – keeps minutes of meetings and elections; and
• Treasurer – collects all money, makes payments authorized by the group and keeps accounts.

The group cannot legally function without these four positions being occupied. The other jobs (minimum of 3 maximum of 6) undertaken by the committee members are

• Grants Coordinator – applies for the funds which enable the group to operate;
• Program Coordinator – facilitates us choosing what we’d like to include in the next term’s program and then organises people to come and run those sessions;
• Backyard Project Coordinator – monitors the progress of the project and liaises between the artists and the committee about the project;
• Newsletter Coordinator – sets deadlines for the next edition of the newsletter, edits contributions, and compiles the newsletter;
• Ordinary Committee Members – additional committee members who attend meetings and help out where needed

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Local mothers from the Majura Women’s Group have created a large mosaic artwork, “heartland” to express their love for their home, Canberra.

The artwork will be permanently housed at Kippax Library in Holt. MLA Mary Porter will officially launch the mosaic at 10:30 am tomorrow, Thursday 11 June, at the library in front of a crowd of guests, library users, group members and their children.

The women worked with well-known local community artist Tess Horwitz to design and make the mosaic, meeting each fortnight through 2008 and early 2009 to develop the project, which was funded by ArtsACT.

The design features echoes of many aspects of Canberra’s history, environment and geography – Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, bogong moths, Parliament House, Northbourne Avenue, falling autumn leaves and the Canberra bushfires of 2003.

Majura Womens Group started almost thirty years ago to provide women at home with small children opportunities to meet and develop new skills. The group’s artworks can be seen all over Canberra, including works donated to Dickson Pool, the QEII Family Centre, Calvary and Canberra hospitals, Dickson Public Library and Goodwin Village demential unit in Ainslie.

The group and its sister organisation, the Brindabella Womens’ Group, receive ongoing funding from the ACT government and welcome new members. The group’s website is http://majurawomensgroup.net

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