Just to clear up a couple of points for you Nigel. It must be getting on for 5 YEARS since you attended a board meeting, so to say that "The Hotel End" is considered anti Trust and that "a lot of the committee are not all that motivated" is quite a statement to make when you have no evidence to back it up, apart from your own 5 year old views.
Further more you say that the meeting at the Moat House was "poorly attended" when in fact the room was full and extra chairs were bought in for people to sit in the adjoining room.
I'd heard that most of those thought that they had gate crashed a wedding ceremony/reception?