WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS

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Next Open Forum Meeting - all welcome

The Open Forum discusses issues regarding the running of NORLETS and is open to all. The next meeting will be on 27th April at Andy's house where you will all be made very welcome. Please call or email for more venue details if you'd like to attend. database_admin@norlets.org.uk or call 01603 460176

ANNUAL: GENERAL MEETING

Sunday 4th May, 2-3.30pm. The AGM at Inner Space in the city centre. Members will soon receive this month's newsletter explaining the vacancies available as we enter a new year for NORLETS trading and expanding. There is also the encouragement for you to have your say in a mini-poll included in this mailout.

Members Subs!

Subs are now due - please send cheques to the treasurer or to pay electronically, find the sort code and account number on the newsletter shortly to arrive in your mail box. Thank you for sending you £4 (single)/ £5 (joint) membership as soon as you can.

LATEST NEWS TO NORLETS MEMBERS

What is Community?
I have been reflecting about what makes my community - I grew up in a small town where most people knew you or your family - 95% of the kids went to the same schools, the shopkeepers knew your parents, that kind of thing.
In the city, times are different and are more representative of the direction our society has been moving in for a while - multinational corporations, massive supermarkets etc. etc. The children in our street in North Norwich can choose from four catchment area primary schools. The local shops are rarely independently owned and people can seem wary of talking to each other in the street as faces are less familiar.
I believe the need for community is inherent in each of us and I see that it springs up in other ways in modern life. We help our friends out, perhaps taking time off work to be with our families, sharing meals together. Random acts of kindness are another method of reaching out to those around us, sharing life and giving a glimpse of community. We individually make our own circles of community ­ perhaps one circle is our neighbours; another may be those who share our religious, spiritual or political beliefs; those whose families are at similar stages to help out with childcare, homework, housework.
NORLETS is one of these circles of contact that we can each choose to include as part of our individual experience of community. Perhaps there are one or two people that you trade with regularly, perhaps you stay in contact with more than that. All that we choose to share in this circle and the others in our life, builds up our strength of community. A friend I have met through NORLETS put me in touch with a website you may enjoy - where people all over the world are sharing skills, space and land, not for money, not for lokes but www.justfortheloveofit.org. Check it out!

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