{"id":179,"date":"2017-03-02T10:10:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T10:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vdfca.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:10:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T10:10:28","slug":"vdfca-agm-and-information-afternoon-january-26th-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vdfca.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/02\/vdfca-agm-and-information-afternoon-january-26th-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"VDFCA AGM and Information Afternoon January 26th 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On a cold and windy afternoon at the end of January we held our first Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Town Council offices.\u00a0 On reflection, it was not a great choice of date and so although we tried to tempt people there with scrumptious cakes and biscuits and lots of tea and coffee (thanks to Morrison\u2019s and Verwood Rotary Club), we were only small in number.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless it was a really informative afternoon.\u00a0 We briefly reported our progress since we started last year and got the official AGM business out of the way.\u00a0 Then Carl Bradley, from Waypoints in\u00a0 Verwood led an open discussion about issues raised from the audience concerning living with dementia and being a carer.\u00a0 Topics ranged from how to prevent the condition to managing challenging situations.<\/p>\n

Although we had further plans for the afternoon, this discussion was so useful that it ran for the whole session and by the time it concluded, all 20 people in the room felt that they wanted to participate.\u00a0 A clear theme to emerge was the desire for clearer financial and legal advice and the Steering Group has taken note of this for a future event.\u00a0 It was evident by the end of the afternoon that it had been \u2018Good to talk\u2019, to realize that we are not alone and help is<\/em><\/strong> out there.\u00a0 So although a smaller meeting than planned, as it happened small turned out to be beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a cold and windy afternoon at the end of January we held our first Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Town Council offices.\u00a0 On reflection, it was not a great choice of date and so although we tried to tempt people there with scrumptious cakes and biscuits and lots of tea and coffee (thanks … Continue reading “VDFCA AGM and Information Afternoon January 26th 2017”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vdfca.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vdfca.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vdfca.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vdfca.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vdfca.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vdfca.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/vdfca.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vdfca.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vdfca.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vdfca.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}