The Sec gets all the flack when things go wrong - and never gets any praise when things go well. Our Chairman cannot even attend our meetings. I called for a meeting as I had negotiated a grant for £5000.00 to purchase a storage container, Rotovator, Strimmer, Water troughs and a lot more equipment for our allotments, Out of a membership of 19 (we are small site) only myself and one other member turned up, The other committee members did`nt attend so we did`nt get a quorum and because of the lack of interest we lost the grant. The notice was up for weeks about the meeting - who got the fault? Not the absent Chairman nor the absent committee members or absent tenants, - NO I did because I am the Sec -Its a lonely place being the Sec I can tell you. I felt very disappointed as the grant application took up nearly 4 months to process and to be let down at the finale hurdle be my own members and committee was hard.
