we have ours in october so that it fits in with the school year,, the new paretns have started and can join, and the old ones whos kids are now at school dont have to hang around so long
we always hold it in the evening due to working paretns, during the day would be harder what with siblings etc.etc
and sometimes we even get dads there, have had a few dads on the comittee in the past!! they were brave!
it is not on a set date or day, but earleir in the month seems to work better,
also agm is for an hour then we go the the pub!! to meet the new comittee but is normally just the staff and a few older ones, staff are paid for the hour at the meeting and are contracted to attend.