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North West Surrey Local Group Million Voices for Nature Newsletter a North West Surrey Local Group million voices for nature letter news Web site: www.nwsurreyrspb.org.uk Spring 2011 Group Leaders: Dave and Mary Braddock Newsletter Editor: Peter Hambrook (For contact details please see the back page of this newsletter) Leaders’ Spot Hello All, Although concerned about the world, I am fed up with all the doom and gloom going round at the moment. Summer is only a few weeks away so we are going to start this newsletter, upbeat, with a good old bit of North West Surrey drum banging. Our group membership is stable and we have our first junior member of the group, so a very warm welcome to JO1, or Jasper as he is better known. Hope you get as much out of the group as I do... having just come back from two fantastic trips to Norfolk and Spain. Our website is doing very well with many “hits” each month and the electronic newsletter is going from strength to strength, just shy of half of the group receive it this way. Please consider having yours delivered electronically. Collectively a considerable saving for the group finances and best of all it's in colour! Just drop me a line. We are a small, friendly local group. We don't raise vast amounts of money but we have a big heart. Last year despite the economic downturn we managed to raise a staggering equivalent of £71 per group member. This sum does not include the amount raised by pin badges or RSPB memberships - more about these inside. Sadly, I am a bit of a closet statistics gatherer. How many of you know that we have sold over £19,000 worth of pin badges in the last six years? Or how many of you know that we have made a profit of over £3,600 on selling plants, £3,000 from street collections, £1,200 from giving talks to others and £385 from selling bird boxes in the same timescale. Did you know that we have also recruited 145 members to the RSPB in that time? I could go on and bury you in figures but I won't. To be honest, I must admit that I knew we did very well but not the actual totals achieved. The point I want to make is that by and large we let our achievements go unnoticed. I hope to change this and will unashamedly blow our trumpet when necessary. Where do we go from here.............? Any suggestions? Dave Braddock. Leaders’ Email Addresses Please note that Dave and Mary’s email addresses were inadvertently reverted to their old ones in the current programme. Their correct email addresses are shown on the back page in this and the previous two newsletters. WELCOME! A very warm welcome to the following new group members: Jasper Worrallo (Sunbury); Elaine Brindley (Thorpe) We look forward to meeting you at our indoor and outdoor events. Editor Required After editing this newsletter since Reg Leutchford stood down in 2000, I have decided that it is time to hand the baton on to someone with new ideas. I have therefore advised the Committee that I wish to relinquish the post of Editor following production of the spring 2012 issue, or earlier if possible. I have given a year‟s notice in order to enable my replacement to get up to speed and ensure a smooth hand over. If you are interested in taking on this job please contact Dave, Mary or myself and we will arrange to give you a briefing on what the job entails. I will put some thought into a formal job description once this newsletter has been put to bed. Peter Hambrook Local Group News GROUP ACHIEVEMENTS Recent Events Quiz Nite January 2011 Nine teams of six turned up on the 15th January for the annual North West Surrey RSPB Quiz Nite at New Haw Community Hall. New Haw has been the home of this quiz since it started 10 years ago and over those years the teams have pitted their wits against question writer and “Ref” Dave Braddock! Some have fared better than others with a sense of competition and friendly rivalry amongst the various teams in the war to win! Led by Question Master Craig Watson, who has done well not to be tongue tied by some of the far reaching questions, there has been opportunity for laughter and banter between both him and the tables. At the very first quiz Craig had brought along girlfriend, Louise. They are now happily married and living in South Wales, making the trip especially for the Quiz Nite to share our company once a year. The reason for reviewing the last ten years is that Dave has decided to stand down as question writer and “Ref”. So thanks to everyone who has made the Quiz the great success it has been – a great team effort, raising approximately £3,000 over the ten year period with all proceeds course going to the RSPB. Each year a team of helpers have made sure that tables are out ready and put away. Another team in the kitchen ensures the Ploughman‟s supper is ready for the break - and cleared away afterwards. Simon and his sister Karen have been round each year getting in the money for the raffle. People have been really generous over the years donating raffle prizes, and for a couple of years the winning team even gave back their winnings! This year was no different to the others (except for 2010, the odd year out, having been postponed to March because of snow!). There were seven rounds of different subjects, namely: films; songs; natural history; Royalty; „It‟s all Greek to me‟ (these last two being new ones for this year); „Pot Luck‟ and, as usual, a picture round to hand in after the break. Some teams kept their original names such as the „Little Bustards‟, „Resplendent Quetzels‟, „Jolly Robins‟ and „The Twitchwells‟ while other chose new ones such as „Spring Siskins‟, „Bar-tailed Halfwits‟, „Lovely Lapwings‟, „The Magpies‟ and the „F in Frigates‟. Each year Dave has made a point of wearing a silly hat, as his wife I can‟t even remember where this idea came from! Sometimes “The Hat” would be planned many weeks before the event, another time it would be a matter of sorting it out on the day. David Shenton, a regular attendee of the Quiz, would make a bee-line on the night to see what the hat looked like! He was disappointed in 2011 - Dave went overboard in a different direction! Having been given a Billy “Man” bag for Christmas, he decided to get in touch with his feminine side - see the picture of my man wearing stripey tights with shorts. It raised a laugh on the night and he now knows how girls get on with wearing tights! RSPB NW Surrey Local Group – Spring 2011 2 The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a registered charity: England and Wales no. 207076, Scotland no.SC037654 Anyway, the winners on the night once again were the Little Bustards, 10 points ahead of their nearest rivals, “F” in Frigates, and third were a new team The Magpies. Enjoying the bags of Jelly Tots as losers were the Spring Siskins. We made a £236 profit on the night. If there is anyone out there who would like to take up the gauntlet and the challenge, this position now lies vacant. Mary Braddock National Nest Box Week – RHS Wisley Sat 12th February 2011 With spring very much in the air we set up our information display at RHS Wisley gardens to help promote National Nestbox Week. Hannah, Mick, Alan, Chris, Simon and Paul were on hand at various times during the day and were kept busy dispensing information and being called upon for all sorts of advice „avian‟. It is quite evident that the Great British Public is very fond of their garden birds - and rather less fond of cats, grey squirrels, foxes and magpies. Three new RSPB memberships were taken out during the day, several interested people took away details of our local group and Mick did a sterling job keeping the Wisley tills ticking over with his advice and considerable sales skills in birdseed merchandising. We were given a prominent position in the garden shop to set out our display and were well looked after by the RHS staff so for all of us it was an enjoyable, worthwhile and successful day. Paul Brindley Pin Badges. Simon has been running our pin badge monitoring scheme for several years now and you saw the magnificent running total on the front page. Simon and his team have raised over £1600.00 this year and Simon is asking for more people who would be willing to help by being a collector. He would also like some ideas or suggestions of sites we could approach to take a box. I think thanks and congratulations should go to Simon and his team for all their hard work and efforts. Either drop Simon a line for information or I can pass on to him. Dave Braddock Memberships. Mary and the events team have recruited a creditable 17 RSPB memberships this year. With people thinking of their finances more it has been much harder recruiting this year but Mary and the gang have managed to keep up their sterling work. Many thanks to them all. Dave Braddock CAMPAIGN CORNER Would you plant seedlings in an endangered habitat? Gardeners in the UK are using peat at an alarming rate of 3 billion litres per year.
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