 O'r sgadfyn ymlaen nhw'n dweud ystod yn ystyried ar y cymaint ar gyfer ddangos. Felly mae ydych yn gweithio fydd yn dweud, mae'n ysgaddu am ddiddordeb o'r cyffredin iawn, ac mae'n ddiddordeb o'r cyffredin iawn i dda'r hyn o'r hyn o'r cyffredin iawn. O'r cyffredin iawn i ddiddordeb a'r cyffredin iawn i ddiddordeb. Mae'n hirno i'r cyffredin iawn i ddiddordeb, a dyw o'n ddiddordeb o'r cyffredin iawn i ddiddordeb. felly rhaid i'r ddweud wir i mor gweithio'r gweld, umdill yr oesaf o ran 100,000 i'r £200,000. Mae'r hyn yn gwneud dod yn y ddechrau'n ddweud eich bwysig, mae'r Rheonidur yn gwneud ei gweld i ymddindodau, rydym i'w gweithio'r rhaid, y lle ein bod yn ei wneud o gwneud, i'r hyn o ddweudio'r ysgafaint, ond wedi ddweud ychydig wedi gweithio bobl. Ond mae'n rhoi'n ledden nhw wedi'n cael deall gyda'r unig, y Llyfrgell, y Llyfrgell, y Llyfrgell, y Llyfrgell, y Llyfrgell ac rwy'n meddwl i'n mynd i'n meddwl i'n meddwl i'r hyn o'r gwaith. Rwy'n meddwl i'n meddwl i'n meddwl i'n meddwl i'r hyn. Rydyn ni'n rhoi i'n meddwl i'r pwysig, ond wedi cymaint gweithio i'n meddwl i'r chweithio'r hyn, a fyddio'r cymdeilig, ddau drws i David Hyatt yn y llyst dungeons of something brilliant that happened because somebody stood up and took action wonderful so here we are two years later virtually to the day and so I'd love to welcome back eun chambers to tell us what happened next and call out is horrendous watching yourself on the big screen I'm going to hire an actor or something next time benedig Cumberbatch, byddwn i'n meddwl. First of all, pieces of paper, sort of still photo behind me. Guess who's over 35 years old? Older than you, Bob. When I stepped up here two years ago, I was inspired by attending the First Meaning Conference. Some of you may have been at that conference and if you've witnessed Pamela Warhurst talking about growing vegetables where once was only dog shit, inspiration is the only option. And as again today, if you hear Karen Pine urging you to do something, it's very hard to ignore. So I stepped forward. But I was also quite fearful. This was partly being foolhardy enough to stand up in front of people with 30 minutes prep in the pub next door. But also I was fearful that two weeks into our six week share campaign we'd only raised 7% of the £200,000 total that we needed to get. I was kind of desperate to do anything I could to save this community space that was at the heart of my neighbourhood. So what happened next? The first thing that happened was that in the team interval just right through there a remarkable man called John Waters stepped forward to speak to me. I don't think John can make it here today but I wanted to be able to publicly thank John for stepping forward that day. John's part of a consultancy called Living Leadership and he offered the use of his professional skills to help the parties involved in the sale and purchase of the hall to understand each other. There's a sort of hint of that in that clip was there's a sort of antagonistic relationship that developed between the church who were selling the hall and our campaign to buy the hall. And what John did was sort of calmly and cleverly guide us to see the real issue that was at hand. And as it turned out it wasn't really about money and it wasn't really about a dilapidated old roof. It wasn't really about expensive building projects that the church wanted to do and we wanted to do. It wasn't really about the broken drains. It was about the community that we lived in and that we cherished and that we all wanted to nourish. Over the last couple of years I've come to learn that spaces like community halls, churches, pubs, swimming pools, theatres, leisure centres, parks, squares, all those spaces are vital if the people of our neighbourhoods, our villages, towns and cities are going to make changes to the way that we live. Clearly we can't keep on doing what we've been doing for decades, living atomised, individualist lives, consuming beyond the earth's capacity. And as Mark pointed out this morning, we're not appearing to be very happy while we go about it. As I said in the clip we seem to have become uncertain and that was spoken about this morning as well. And it appears to me that bringing life closer to home seems to be a vital part of finding a way to live and work and be happy. But how can we decide what we should do, how we should do it, what help we should seek if we haven't got anywhere to gather together? So it seemed to me if they have our whole community could save the hall and repair its roof it could provide protection for us for what we gather together and figure out what to do next. You have to be able to get together. So two years have passed following the talks between the two parties hosted by John the church not only extended the purchase deadline to give us time to reach our target but they also dropped the asking price by £50,000. He's a very persuasive garden. By January last year the share issue had attracted over 800 shareholders raising £180,000. In July 2013 the community of Prestonville and many people beyond including some people in this room became the proud owners of Exeter Street Hall. And this summer after attracting amazing 11,000 votes in the people's millions lottery competition we spent our £50,000 winnings on our new roof. The place for the community to gather is now warm ecologically insulated and waterproof. Bob I'll check later whether Gore involved in that last item. Not only that but to put it in the simplest way possible Prestonville is now a nicer place to live because we saved our hall. We know each other better. We say hello more. We take part. And so I'd like to thank everyone at Nixon McKinnis for giving me that platform two years ago and another one today. And I would urge you all to follow the lead of John Waters and look at how you might be able to offer the benefits of your professional skills and experience in your own neighbourhoods. For while many of these projects are in pressing need of that what we have discovered today is a sort of wildly old rascal money. My experience with the hall and similarly with other projects in Brighton like Hisby Supermarket, the Bevy Pub, the Salt Dean Lido has shown me that just as often the real breakthroughs come through knowledge, expertise, guidance, experience. Community volunteers and social entrepreneurs have almost unlimited enthusiasm. They have abundant passion for their projects. They'll offer hour after hour of their precious time. But the benefit of professional guidance can save many of those hours of research. They prevent expensive mistakes, give purpose and direction instead of sort of chaos and blind alleys. As businesses and as individuals you can make a contribution to community projects and thus communal happiness. Go looking for them. Listen to their stories with patience and humility. If you feel you can't help, don't. But do ask yourself, do you know somebody who can? Above all, step forward, do something. And I'd just like to wad one last cheeky plug. If you want to experience Exeter Street Hall and its lovely community in action, go to the website exeterstreethall.org and book tickets for our French soiree this Saturday. I'm cooking the food and we've got a licence bar. Thanks very much.