Meeting options: Please Read
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 7:00 pm
Right then, here we go...
I spoke to the manager at the Volly today, and talked about the problems of holding a meeting with all the noise going on. As we suspected, the room upstairs was being hired out, and for a fair whack of money, so nothing we could compete with to guarantee the room. However, we did come up with some options.
The first suggestion is that he would try to give us notice before the meeting, so we can make alternative arrangements if needs be. While this is useful, it won't really solve the problem, but I was very grateful to hear that he still supports us and wants to help.
Option 2. Move to a different night. Basically Thursday is always going to be busy... and frankly that's the case wherever we choose to go. The suggestion is either Sunday evening or Monday, and importantly he said that he could pretty much guarantee we'll get the upstairs room 99% of the time if we switch to one of those nights.
So here's what I think. Let's move meetings to the first Monday of the month, and continue to support a great pub with the best function room we've had the use of. Obviously I can't make this decision alone, and I'm aware that it'll not be perfect for everyone, but I don't think that we're going to have much luck finding an alternative venue.
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I spoke to the manager at the Volly today, and talked about the problems of holding a meeting with all the noise going on. As we suspected, the room upstairs was being hired out, and for a fair whack of money, so nothing we could compete with to guarantee the room. However, we did come up with some options.
The first suggestion is that he would try to give us notice before the meeting, so we can make alternative arrangements if needs be. While this is useful, it won't really solve the problem, but I was very grateful to hear that he still supports us and wants to help.
Option 2. Move to a different night. Basically Thursday is always going to be busy... and frankly that's the case wherever we choose to go. The suggestion is either Sunday evening or Monday, and importantly he said that he could pretty much guarantee we'll get the upstairs room 99% of the time if we switch to one of those nights.
So here's what I think. Let's move meetings to the first Monday of the month, and continue to support a great pub with the best function room we've had the use of. Obviously I can't make this decision alone, and I'm aware that it'll not be perfect for everyone, but I don't think that we're going to have much luck finding an alternative venue.
Please post comments, and vote on the poll