Membership

Annual General Meeting 2025

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Sunday 10th August from 2pm
Hyde Park Picture House Screen 2

Our Annual General Meeting covering the financial year from April 2024-25 will be taking place in Screen 2 at the Picture House on Sunday 10th August after a screening of Gianni Di Gregorio’s modern Italian classic Mid-August Lunch, “a wonderfully patient, delicately observed film; warm, generous, never for a moment sentimental or patronising, never exploiting dottiness and eccentricity” (The Observer).

“Mid-August Lunch is a film of rare benevolence that treats its subjects with dignity and playfulness.”
Catherine Shoard, The Guardian

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Schedule

  • 1:30pm – Doors open
  • 2pm – Film: Mid-August Lunch (U, 2008, 71mins) introduced by the Friends
  • 3:20pm – Break for refreshments and membership payments
  • 3:50pm – AGM
  • 5pm – AGM concludes

We would be glad to see as many of you as possible there but you will need to be signed up to our Pay What You Decide membership scheme in order to vote at the AGM. You can join online now or there should be opportunity to join in person during the refreshment break.

The agenda and links to the relevant documents can be found on the AGM 2025 page on our website.

If you are planning on attending please let us know by completing this form.

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Important Information About Friends Memberships

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Since 2020 we have kept all existing memberships of The Friends of Hyde Park Picture House active beyond their initial expiry dates. Now that the Picture House is open again with their own membership schemes, the Friends will be focussing more on our wider charitable aims and to better reflect this we have switched to a new Pay What You Decide membership model.

This means that if you have not already signed up for the new Friends scheme your existing membership (from pre 2020) will be coming to an end before our Annual General Meeting on Sunday 24th September 2023.

We hope you will sign up and continue to be a Friend. The Friends still have a vital part to play in celebrating the heritage and promoting the work of the cinema we all love.

All new Friends memberships will be valid until the end of 2024.

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Our Plans For The Future

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Now that the cinema has reopened we can’t wait to get on with some of our plans. We thought we would start with building up our team of online supporters and reviewers. Seen a good film lately?  Why not contribute a short review for our Facebook page or website? Hated a film? Tell us anyway!  Or let us know if you have an interesting piece of history or anecdote involving the Hyde Park Picture House. You can get in touch via the Contact Us form.  

Another of our priorities is outreach to local communities, and introducing people and organisations you may know to the the life of the Hyde Park Picture House. Tell us your ideas…

We would also like to be involved in putting on social events, discussions, quizzes, and special screenings; helping with cataloguing the Picture House archive; and commissioning a mural on the exterior back wall of the cinema (in Pearson Grove). But our activity depends on you, our members.

We will be discussing ideas and next steps at the Friends Annual General Meeting. The provisional date is on the afternoon of Sunday September 24th 2023 at the Hyde Park Picture House, we hope to confirm these details soon. You’ll need to (re)join the Friends in order to attend because any extended memberships from before the closure will come to an end before the AGM starts.