Wythall Community ~ Newsletter ~

Issue 93 - February 2020

Wythall Community Association

www.wythall-park.org.uk

1 2 Newsletter No. 93 - February 2020

With thanks to the volunteers of Wythall Community Association who compile, produce and distribute 4,750 copies of this newsletter, free of charge, to nearly all the houses in Wythall Parish. For friends who do not receive a copy at home, they are also available in the library and at Wythall Park. (Park Hall, Wythall House and Wythall Community Club). It is funded by the Wythall Community Association.

Editorial

Welcome to the issue 93 of the Wythall Community Newsletter.

It’s another bumper edition full of articles from organisations and clubs based in the Wythall and surrounding areas.

As always, we need volunteers to deliver the newsletter to residents in the Wythall area, we also need volunteers to help run the annual bonfire event.

If you feel you can help in any way, please contact the editor at the email address below.

John Attwood - Editor

Copy for next issue. Edited and Produced by: John Attwood Will all correspondents and contributors please supply copy for the next issue by Published by: Monday 6th July 2020 at the latest. Max Wythall Community Association of 450 words. (Registered Charity No. 243332) Please send all copy preferably electronically, as plain text, within an Distributed by: e-mail with photos or logos as Wythall Community Association attachments, or on a CD to Wythall Volunteers Community Association at Wythall House. www.wythall-park.org.uk Photos should have a minimum resolution of 600 pixels per inch. Front cover photo supplied by: Geraldine Kent The email address is [email protected] 3 Wythall Community Association

Welcome again to Wythall Community Newsletter, produced by Wythall Community Association which is a registered charity here to run the 37 acre private park, Wythall Park, on Silver Street. As I’m writing this, I’m wondering whether the park will ever dry out again. We don’t have the best ground for drainage, but I don’t remember seeing it this bad. Here’s to a warm; dry summer! We have had some great support since the last newsletter towards funding. I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who booked to have their Christmas tree collected for a donation of £10, we raised very welcome funds, which will help the running of the park greatly. We also had brilliant support for our first attempt a providing a pantomime. It was a bit nerve racking organising it as you always worry when people are spending their hard earned cash whether they will have a good time, but judging by the noise from the audience (kids and adults), both the jesters and pantomime went down really well. We sold over £1,000 of tickets so made another welcome contribution to the running of the park. We also had our main fundraiser, bonfire night, but the weather wasn’t kind to us this year, so attendance and funds were both down. The mascots and Punch and Judy were great hits again with the crowd so a big thank you to those that braved it and supported us. All contributions are welcome, whether it is attending our events or becoming a member. It is a private park and it takes a lot of money to keep it running. We are still looking at car park charging to ensure it is there for the future and we thank everyone for their feedback. We do need to raise funds from the community to keep it there for the community. Costs continue to increase, and we have additional maintenance costs following the upgrade of the toilets, playground and the installation of the trim track from section 106 monies and allocated by Council. Running a 37 acre park and Park Hall, which is a community hall, is not cheap and whilst we really appreciate all the work the volunteers do, we still have to pay for grounds- men to keep the park tidy. While it is mainly the volunteers who maintain the equipment it still costs a lot in parts and running as it’s not the most modern of equipment. It also costs trying to keep the toilets open and clean!!!!! So to wrap up, a huge thank you to everyone who supported us in 2019 and we look forward to this and hopefully more in 2020. Have a wonderful summer and enjoy the park.

Sharon - Secretary Wythall Community Association. 4 Wythall Community Club

Yet again its happy new year time again. Following the recent survey it became apparent that quite a few people don’t understand how the organisations at Wythall work together. The charity, Wythall Community Association manages all the park and facilities. “Wythall Community Club” is just that. A social club and its main purpose in life is to provide a safe environment for socialising and recreation and to raise funds to help support the above Association - at present it raises in the order of £70k per annum. To do this we need the continued support of the members and the locals. As with ALL registered members clubs, it runs to a model set of rules, adapted to our constitution, and then lodged with the licensing authorities. These are not variable without reregistering the club. The Club in total is administered by the Club Committee. The Club pays a rent for the premises to Wythall Community Association.

If you don’t know how to join then please come along to Wythall House and speak to one of the bar staff who will point out a committee member. If you have a suggestion for improving things in the club, again speak to a committee member. A number of replies from the survey suggested we should do more on the park and more for the children on the park, etc. but activities outside of the Club area, Wythall House and lawn, are the responsibility of the Association so we will pass those suggestions on.

Unfortunately, we face quite a lot of criticism on social media about various aspects of the club, BUT, very rarely do we hear “How do we join and help?” The committee is under-strength and many members have served for too many years as we struggle to recruit younger members. The Club is still here, and strong, with some 1200 members. That still leaves space for other local residents to come along and enjoy our excellent beers or coffee if you prefer.

So please be positive, here we are again, at the same point as last year, the club is run by the members, for the members, so if you feel like having an input , please talk to us, we need new young blood and ideas, but if you think that things happen overnight, well sorry, I am afraid that they don’t.

Des Ashby - Club Chairman Wythallcommunityclub.org.uk 5 Bruce’s Story -

Hello there and a belated Happy New year from me and everyone at the GSD Club. Do you know the Hippopotamus song? It was back to training last Sunday, no snow, but Dad was layering up ready for the cold and he put WELLIES on, he normally wears hiking boots, so I guessed something was up – yup, all the rain had turned the field into mud, really sticky mud. The big puddles were good fun for paddling in, but Dad nearly went on his bum when I got a bit excited pulling him towards my class – ooops, picture of me putting my brain ‘into gear’ rather smartly. So, do you know the song?? Mud, mud glorious mud. Still, never mind, just a bit of inconvenience, it’ll dry up soon and Reggie will be able to come back to training – poor fella, he hates mud. We had a fantastic Pirate themed fun day at training before Christmas – The games were great fun, especially as our owners got really competitive, lots of prizes to be won and we all got a goody bag to take home. The Animal House Rescue ladies were over the moon with our donations of food and other bits and pieces to help them look after some dogs and cats less fortunate than us and we gave the proceeds of the raffle to GSR Elite to help them look after some rescued GSDs. Trying to decide what to write this time I had a sudden, brilliant idea – ask my mates for their funny stories or experiences with their families over the holiday – we had some good replies: Monty said the Christmas tree really annoyed him, his Dad had put it right near his favourite spot – Ha Ha – every evening he said he jumped on his bean bag, flipped upside down and tried to take the tree out with his back paws, the tree moved sideways a bit each night, the decorations fell off and part of the tree folded up, he said he went a bit too far one night and decked the tree completely !!! Oh no Monty that’s so funny, I bet you were popular!! “Hello Bruce, Cooper here, my Christmas has been pretty dull really apart from my owners bought this new big tree thing and decided to put shiny things all over it, every time I went near the thing they all started screaming at me, so I kept going near it and they kept screaming. Some of the balls on the big tree thing were rubbish they didn’t squeak when I tried to chew them, but my family did, really loudly, apart from that, like I said rather a dull Christmas really” “ Bruce, it was just before Christmas, coming back from the park with my short sighted mum, minding our own business, when, a gang of cats appeared, naturally I was on full cat alert pulling my mum for all I was worth, her arm nearly coming out of its socket, the cats just froze, no movement! When we got

6 up close - I realised it was actually a sleigh with reindeer, so of course I styled it out pretending I knew all along it was just a Christmas decoration, hopefully mum didn’t cotton on to my mistake but she must have had a sore shoulder. Love Maisie” Maisie I was crying with laughter when I read this, I bet you got a shock when you first saw the gang of cats, I’m not sure I would have recovered my composure as well as you. Hey, I quite like this member participation. I’ve had so much fun reading the stories and choosing my favourites, maybe I can develop the idea – Hmmm – food for thought. Who said food? I’m starving, I’ll be back in a while ……. Sorry, I’ve been a bit longer than I expected, but a walk was offered and it would have been rude to refuse the invitation – then I had to race upstairs and find the kids for a cuddle up to get warm again. We were chasing around the bedrooms the kids squealing and me barking – Mum told the kids off (my work was done!!) Keep an eye on the Club website www.gsdtraining.com for the next Dog Show date, the planning is getting underway soon – I might try for some rosettes this year – ‘Handsomest Dog’ maybe or ‘Best 6 legs’ with one of the kids or I could do a trick – yup sounds a plan. As the Club’s special ambassador (self-appointed, of course), I still chat to the new puppies but found myself reminiscing recently about my very early days of training – back in 2014. I remember walking down the field to meet Sue, quite timidly (that didn’t last long!) and seeing some big and even bigger dogs around the field and thinking - it looks like I will still be able to come here when I grow up too – well I’m 6 this year and I still have ‘it’ ‘It’ being the ability to show my Dad up at any time, be perfect when he least expects, I know he thinks I’m the BEST and he’s quite correct. I need to remind him to top up the photo gallery – my poses are still pretty cool, especially the action ones.

Well it’s getting late, I’ll go check everyone’s OK then hop on the foot of someone’s bed.

Lots of Love

Bruce x

7 Wythall Community Choir

The choir is now seven years old with many of our members being with us since the beginning. We have 85 members on role and this is quite constant – we have new members and then a few leave but generally it stays about the same. We are still recruiting bass and tenor voices.

Most of us would say that we can’t sing, but then with all our rehearsing and when you put us all together – the sopranos, altos, tenors and bass – we sound amazing. It’s a real ‘feel good’ moment.

Last summer’s concert, at Woodrush School, raised money for the local charity Tracey’s Dream. We also gave a lunchtime recital at our Musical Director’s Church, Holy Trinity in Coventry. For this, most of us travelled together by coach so it became quite an outing and a bit of fun. In December, we joined the Community Carol Service at St Mary’s, along with The Coppice and Woodrush Schools, singing two of our carols. We held our own Carol Service at Hollywood Golf Club, which was a sell-out.

The Golf Club is where we, usually, hold our social nights. We had a dinner dance there last year and also a quiz night. We are planning an auction in February to be held there too. We have members who would have made very good auctioneers! Each year we try and go to a show too, last year we went to see Les Miserables at the Hippodrome.

One of the problems with our choir is it’s so big! There are several venues who would love us to come along but they don’t have the space for us all. So, we created a ‘Small Choir’, however, even this has 50 on the list now. It’s good to have these numbers to draw from and generally the small choir will take about 20 singers to a venue. We have enjoyed singing at the Hub’s birthday, Last of the Poppy Proms, the Dementia Café, Glenfield Nursing Home, the Elderly Care Group’s afternoon tea, Shirley U3A, the Christmas Farmers’ Market.

Last year we added songs from the musicals to our song list. However, during 2020 the Small Choir will be taking a rest. We are grateful for the support of our members who help set up each week and do all the behind the scenes things that need to be done. We are also grateful for donations received from others during the year – Becketts, Wythall Theatre Company and the British Legion – which all help us to provide singing for all.

8 Wythall Community Choir meet at the Scout Hut on Monday evenings (7.15 to 9.30 pm)

Contact: [email protected]

Val Farmer, Secretary

9 WYTHALL C.A. BOWLING CLUB

The Bowling Club now has it’s own website. Crown Green Bowls is a great sport for all ages. Check us out at www.wythallbowlingclub.org.uk.

In 2019 we achieved 2 promotions but suffered 2 relegations in the leagues, which equates to a satisfactory season overall.

On Sunday mornings, in the Northfield & District League, Steve Rynne captained the team to a mid-table position in division 2, with Chris Monington the most consistent performer. For the second year running we finished runners-up in the Sid Stephens Rosebowl competition.

Tuesday mornings are for over 60’s in the South & West B’ham league. Captain Clive Dolphin guided the ‘A’ team to a mid-table finish in the top division, himself leading the averages, whilst Shirley Barlow’s ‘B’ team achieved promotion back to division 4, with John Thompson the outstanding performer.

On Tuesday evenings we have two teams in the South B'ham Ladies league. Pat Bishop's 'A' team struggled in division 1 against tough opposition, and were unfortunately relegated, despite the efforts of Chris Monington who won the performance award. Sandra Smith set the usual good example to her ‘B’ team ladies to attain a respectable position in division 2, despite being short of players on a few occasions.

In the Yardley Wood Superleague, Harvey Lee’s ‘A’ team stormed division 1 to gain promotion to the Premier division. The ladies showed the way with Pam Birch and Sally-Anne Rose sharing the performance award. Barrie Stokes again steered the Wednesday ‘B’ team to a respectable position in division 3 with Steve Rynne setting a shining example.

Our Thursday evening ‘A’ team, captained by David Watts, struggled in division 1 of the Heart of league, and were relegated to the second tier despite the excellent form of Ashley Rose. Meanwhile in division 5 Ray Morgan’s ‘B’ team enjoyed a satisfactory campaign with Ray himself leading the averages.

It’s over 60’s again on Friday mornings, and after surviving for several years in the top division, Graham Thomas’s ‘A’ team finally succumbed to relegation de- spite more excellent results from Pam Birch. However, the ‘B’ team, under the expert captaincy of Wendy Dolphin, maintained their position in division 4, helped considerably by the good form of John Thompson. 10 New captain Ashley Rose led his Saturday afternoon ‘A’ team to fifth place in division 3 of the Warwicks & Worcs league. Pam Birch completed a brilliant personal season by again being top performer and also shared the award for best away results with Paul Norris. The Saturday ‘B’ team faded after a bright start but captain John Thompson led them to a respectable position in division 8.

In the major internal competitions, The Plate was won by Steve Rynne who overcame Mike Reck in the final.

Chris Monington teamed up with Terry Birch and took the Open Doubles title with Pat Bishop and Audrey Cox as runners-up. Chris was triumphant again in the Ladies Open Singles as she was too strong for Carol Bettam. Two new members featured in the final of the Mixed Doubles as Llinoss Cotterell and Ashley Rose defeated Jan Lovesey and Paul Norris. Carol Bettam’s fortunes improved as she claimed victory over Pat Bishop in the Ladies Singles Handicap. In the Men’s Singles Handicap Steve Rynne was victorious again, this time against David Watts. Ashley Rose confirmed his position as Club Champion by beating Phil Richardson in the final of the Open Singles.

Four one-day competitions are held every season. In 2019 the Triples Shield was lifted by Betty Pell, Pete Statham and George Atkinson, and the Jubilee Shield by Rowan Green and Pete Statham. The Club Shield was claimed by Rowan Green and David Watts, and David was also successful in the Len Austin Plate, this time with new member Meriel Jones.

Social bowling continues to be very popular at Wythall, and dedicated sessions take place on Wednesday mornings and Monday afternoons.

Our Monday evening coaching sessions have led to several new members joining us. If you are interested contact

Phil Richardson (Secretary) on 01564 822760 or

David Watts (Development Officer) on 0121 430 2332.

Phil Richardson.

11 News from Wythall Tennis Club

You may be returning to tennis or a beginner. For adults there are a number of options. Try our award winning community pay and play adult sessions from 11am – 12.30pm on Saturday mornings for £4. If you don’t have a racket just borrow one of ours. You don’t have to book just attend when you can. Our head coach, Alex Doffman, runs adult community coaching sessions on Wednesday nights 8pm-9pm. Alex can be contacted on 07515 356884 or by email at [email protected].

A third option is to hire a court, only £5 per hour.

If any adult has just moved into the area and tennis is their sport, pay us a visit. Club nights are Tuesday and Frida,y evenings or Sunday afternoon sessions. Pay a nominal guest fee and join in. For more information visit our web site www.wythalltennisclub.co.uk. Or Facebook and twitter accounts. Membership fee includes free tennis balls and floodlights so the ‘one stop’ payment secures you tennis throughout the year with no hidden costs.

Junior coaching courses run on a Monday & Wednesday evening. Your child does not have to be a club member. For times visit our website www.wythalltennisclub.co.uk. You can contact Kevin Turner on 07948 396618. Courses are fun, don’t worry if your child does not own a racket borrow one from us until you are confident he/she wants to continue playing.

There are junior community “pay and play” sessions on Saturday mornings 10am – 11am. Rackets are available free of charge for all ages. These sessions are run by volunteers from the club. We are fortunate that Liam Harris and Grace Turner continue to give their time.

2019 was another successful year for our juniors. 10U boys were county champions. Squad was Matthew Powell, Lewis Bridgens, Harry Kazmi, Thomas Jones and Ethan Astle. 14U boys won their league; squad was Jacob Cheal, Charlie Spencer, Harley Hobbs and Thomas Csincsi.

We know women in particular have difficulty finding time to take up or return to tennis within their hectic schedule. So ladies why not visit us on a Thursday evening from 6pm. The night is open to the community so pay a visitors fee and join us for an enjoyable evening.

12 Our committee continues to oversee the club with special thanks to Deborah Turner, Karin Vale, Chris Maggs and Larissa Hobbs who all put a lot of time and effort in week to week. Maintaining our facilities is also essential.

We are also very fortunate having Andy Moreton, Larissa Hobbs, Graham Vale, Tony Sanders, Alan Boffey, Dean Spencer and Richard Harris offering their services.

Wythall Tennis Club.

Cinderella Pantomime 2020

The Fool Monty Red the Jester

Earlier this year Wythall Community Association put on their first pantomime to raise funds towards maintenance of the park. It was really well attended and we packed out Park Hall. The kids seemed to have great time and even heckled the panto people, which kept the adults entertained. The jesters are both local people and were very entertaining, for more information about them you can check out their websites www.amazingmagic.uk and www.thefoolmonty.co.uk

Next year hopefully Peter Pan will be paying us a visit.

13 Wythall History Society

The Society meets in Wythall Village Hall at 7:30pm on the last Friday of the month. Visitors are welcome. They pay £2.50 for each visit. Refreshments are provided free of charge.

The programme until September 2020 is as follows:-

1. 31st January - “the Story of Kinwarton” (picturesque village near Coughton Court) by Mr Godfrey.

2. 28th February - “The poor are always with us” by Richard Churchley.

3. 27th March - “The History of Chadwick Manor” Mr Gascoigne.

4. 24th April - “Mad Dogs and Myria Martin” by Mary Bodfish.

5. 29th May - “The Smallbrooke Family of ” by Mary Fogg.

6. 25th June - The annual Society outing. To be announced.

7. There are no meetings in July and August.

8. 25th September - The Society AGM followed by an illustrated talk on “St Mary’s Church”, Wythall.

The Society also plans to visit The Birmingham Lock Up, Blakesley Hall and Selly Manor this summer.

For more information please phone Barrie Stokes on 0121 5744956

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16 17 2020 Christmas Tree Collection and Recycling.

We would like to thank everyone who booked the collection of their Christmas tree and made a donation to the upkeep of Wythall Park.

Also a thank you to the volunteers. Those that dealt with the bookings and those that worked on the day, the teams collecting the trees and those on the park shredding them. Thanks also to the Countryside Carers who turned the chippings into a lovely path through the trees which smells great.

A big thank you too to Kevin from Wythall Nurseries and Christmas trees who helped promote it and also leant us a brilliant trailer to help the collection.

Everyone's support is greatly appreciated.

Look out for us again next year, we will be collecting on the weekend of 9th and 10th January 2021, always best to plan ahead!!!!!

18 &

Dennis Potter Court Strong & Mondays 12pm

Steady £3.50 per session Do you want to improve your balance and co-ordination? Do you want to increase your strength, mobility and flexibility?

Do you want to improve your posture and stamina?

Then this class could be just right for you - helping to improve all of those things.

Call the number below to book your place Please contact the strength and balance co-ordinator at and Redditch Borough Councils on 01527 881404 or [email protected]

Active Bromsgrove

19 Shirley & Wythall Chess Club There’s been a chess club in Wythall since the 1970s. Ever since the glory days of Bobby Fischer and the great match in Rekjavijk vs Boris Spassky, and, if you believe the newspapers of the time, half of the collective might of the CIA and KGB. That wasn’t us. We’re neither the CIA nor the KGB, and unfortunately not of the same calibre as either of the 1972 World Championship protagonists. Technically, we’re not quite the same club that existed in Wythall at that time – that was Wythall Chess Club, and on occasion their opponents were Lodge, which grew up, or grew old depending on your point of view, to become Shirley, Colebrook Shirley, Shirley & Lucas and finally Shirley & Wythall, having done a bit of a road trip around venues in the area. We do claim some legacy from Wythall Chess Club though, in that when we moved to Wythall House in 2002, we combined the talents of Shirley Chess Club, Lucas Automotive and the original Wythall Chess Club. The fact that we have remained at our current venue for 17 years is testimony to the suitability of the venue and the facilities there. We occupy the Darts Room every Thursday evening, and many Mondays, when our nine teams compete in two different leagues and six knockout cup competitions, playing teams as distant and different as Wolverhampton, Malvern, Daventry and Banbury. The staff at Wythall House are efficient, helpful and friendly. As a club, we consistently have a total of 28-30 players in our ranks, which puts us just outside the top 4 in terms of club size in the Birmingham League, and the same in the Leamington & District league. Generally though, we manage to punch our weight, and have won the top prize in each of those leagues – we were Birmingham League Champions in the 2012-13 season, and Leamington League Champions in 2007-08. We also won the inaugural Birmingham Summer League in 2013.

20 Currently we have teams in each of the top four divisions of the two “proper” leagues, where the season runs from September through to April/May, and we expect to enter at least three teams in the Summer League next year. Planning for next season (2020-21) has already started, with a development plan that includes additional events and potentially more club time. Whether you are already a serious player, or fancy a friendly game or some informal tuition, drop in and see us. We meet every Thursday from 7.30pm at Wythall House. Newcomers of any ability, gender and age are welcome. You can find more information on our website: www.shirleychess.org.uk Gordon Christie, Shirley & Wythall Chess Club Development.

Wythall Community Quiz Nights - Starts at 8:30pm £6.00 per team - Max team members of 6

● Saturday 29h February

● Saturday 28h March

● Saturday 25th April

● Saturday 30th May

● Saturday 27th June

Wythall House, Silver Street, Wythall.

See website for further details

www.wythallcommunityclub.org.uk

21 Springing into new life

I wonder what the signs of Spring are for you? It could be seeing crocuses or daffodils, maybe it is seeing lambs in the fields, it might be the longer light in the evenings or being able to go out without a heavy coat on. As the relatively new vicar of St Mary’s Church I am enjoying seeing which flowers emerge in our garden and travelling around the area and spotting the lambs. For many Spring is a very much enjoyed and cherished time of year. It is the season of ‘new life’. Seeing new things appear and noticing that change from the cold and wet to the warmth and sunshine. I believe that the Christian faith has much to say about new life. Firstly, we all know that day to day living often has its challenges. In difficult circumstances we might feel we need help to keep going and we may also hope that things might be different. As a Christian I find it an amazing help to be able to pray and ask God to strengthen me in the things I face. My faith also gives me hope and I can ask God to bring new things and indeed ‘life’ into circumstances. If you would ever like someone to pray for you (or with you) then please do contact me ([email protected]).

Secondly, the church has great joy focusing on ‘new life’ when we celebrate Easter. We rejoice in the resurrection of Jesus and see the new life, forgiveness and joy we find in him. Our Easter journey begins on Palm Sunday which is 5th April where we plan to have a real life donkey with us. On Wednesday 8th April 1-2.30 we have an event for all the family making Easter Gardens and having an egg hunt. Our Easter Sunday services on 12th April are at 9am and 10.30 – everyone is welcome (as you are any Sunday).

You can contact the office on 01564 823248 or email [email protected].

I look forward to meeting you. Rev Amanda Featherstone

22 WYTHALL & HOLLYWOOD LADIES GROUP 2020

Our meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month at Wythall Royal British Legion in Houndsfield Lane starting at 8.00pm (except December). We always try and book an interesting group of speakers each year and a couple of memorable ones from 2019 were Mrs Betty Webb - telling us about her time at Bletchley Park during WW2, such an interesting lady: also Dave Barry entertainer, a great sense of humour and a lovely singing voice. We also hold a beer and skittles evening with fish and chip supper once a year. Our Christmas meal was held at the Down Inn, Bridgenorth, with a 3 course lunch and a singer. A great day out with both food and entertainment enjoyed by all who went. We have a variety of speakers booked for this year, as you will see from the attached programme and we hope to organise a few trips. For the first time ever this year we have also booked a speaker in August. We are always happy to welcome new members to join us, or come once as a visitor. If you are interested please ring for more details on 01564 823487 and speak to Janet. 2020 Programme

January 29th ‘Everyone loves a wedding’ – Molly Murray Feb 26th Chat evening/snacks March 25th Women’s land army – Jane Arnold April 29th Beer & Skittles evening/fish & chip supper May 27th Puppets around the world –Dorothy Porter June 24th Mary Quant talk – Ruth Lowe July 29th Remembering the Swinging sixties – Mike Watkins August 26th Cakes 4 casualties – Kath Ryan Sept 30th The nurse who changed Guinea-Bissau October 28th AGM November 25th Flower arranging demo – Carole (Pinks florists) December Christmas Meal (Date & venue to be arranged) NB – Speakers may be subject to change due to circumstances beyond our control. 23 24