TENBY2020 will be holding a special general meeting at the De Valence a week next Monday evening, April 14, at 7.30 pm, in the Augustus Place Community Hall. All residents and business people of the town and the surrounding area are welcome. The purpose of this meeting is to consider a proposal from the last-elected officers to wind up the Tenby2020 organisation and hand on the remaining funds to the De Valence Trust, which was set up four years ago to support events in the town and run the De Valence Arts and Community Centre. If the proposal is agreed it is expected that the funds will be spent on forthcoming events like the Town Criers Festival later this month, or the Tenby Blues Festival scheduled for November, or the Winter Carnival at the end of the year. However, that will be for the meeting to decide. On behalf of Tenby2020, Mike Thorne said: "People who are active in the community will probably be aware of the efforts that have been made over the last couple of years by the last-elected officers of Tenby2020 to resuscitate the organisation from its current somewhat dormant state, or to replace it with a new organisation. "Those efforts have been largely met by indifference by the citizens of this town, and a number of us have come to the conclusion that it is time to wind up the organisation. "We consider that Tenby2020 made some impact in its six years of active existence - its café culture events may have had some influence on the county council making a new attempt at pedestrianisation, it was influential in the designation of Tenby as a Tourism Growth Area, it succeeded in getting substantial Objective 1 funds for supporting events in the town, and it set up the Trust that now runs the De Valence. "Above all, it provided a useful forum for discussion of the future of the town. However, there is no point in flogging a dead horse, and so we have called this special general meeting to propose that the organisation be wound up. It is hoped that a good number of residents and businesses will be able to attend. "Although this might be considered to be bringing down the curtain on Tenby2020, all good things must come to an end, and we move on to other things."
