Meetings are usually held on the first Thursday of each month in Marwood Church Hall

 

We are always looking for new members and as you know they can be assured of a warm welcome so please forward this message to anyone who you think may want to join us. They can attend as a visitor while they make up their minds.   Marwood Ladies membership is growing slowly, we now have 30 paid up members and a couple of regular visitors. I try to book speakers from as wide a range as possible to cover most interests and we can afford. Yes, we do still have afternoon tea and often our speakers photograph the food as it reminds them of childhood teas.

                                                                               For more information please contact  Angela    01271 376744

 

Dear Ladies

 

Although ML is an informal group we do need an AGM. The Minutes can then be used to change the mandate at the bank if needed. It also gives an opportunity for members to bring to the group any concerns they want discussed.  

 

Agenda items and Nominations

ML Members please let me know by 27th August if you have any items for the agenda or to put your name forward (or to nominate ) a Leader or Secretary or for anyone who is prepared to arrange mid-month lunches. Please ensure if you are nominating someone they are prepared to stand. The AGM Agenda for 5th September will then be emailed to all members. 

 

Annual subs & meeting fees

Annual subs are due at the start of September and for another year we are holding the fee at £15. For ladies joining during the year a pro-rata charge is made. For members the meeting fee will still be £2 but we will be increasing the fee for visitors so they will now be asked to pay £5 per meeting. Raffle tickets will still be included in both fees and if you are providing the afternoon tea you don't pay the meeting fee that day.

 

Payment for annual subs can be made by cash, cheque or bank transfer, details follow:-  

Marwood Ladies Community Current Account, 

Sort code:  60-02-03  

Account no:  58664521

 

Membership 

If your contact details have changed during the year please let Carol or Angela know as soon as possible. We know anyone’s circumstances can alter during a year and we certainly don't want to lose any of our members but if you feel membership of Marwood Ladies is no longer right for you, please let Angela or Carol know asap. Of course you will always receive a warm welcome if you come back as a visitor.

 

For anyone joining Marwood Ladies we will need name, address, email address, phone number and date of birth but not year. The register of members is only circulated to members. If you don't want your contact details circulated please let Carol or Angela know at the time. 

 

Email list

If you want to unsubscribe from ML emails please reply to this email so you can be deleted from the list. If you know of anyone who may want to be added to the list please foreword this email to them. 

 

Best wishes

 

Margaret P, Carol and  Angela (01271 376744, or text 07887 640183)

 

Programme for Marwood Ladies 2024/2025

Thurs 3rd Oct Sarah Spurr - Farming Flowers

Wed 16th Oct Lunch Heanton Court

 

Thurs 7th November    Alison Mills from the Barnstaple Museum gave an illustrated  talk about some of the artefacts from the museum attic and brought many items along to show us. 

  Wed 20th Nov Lunch Ashford Garden Centre

 

5th December Quiz and Advent Tea Party. We welcome Sally Kershaw'. Who will give us an illustrated talk entitled " Make Me a Winner". As the meeting is in Advent and our last of 2024 we mark the occasion by decorating our tea table and having a few extra teatime treats..

No lunch in Dec

 

16th January - Coffee morning with sherry! Local Author Karen Farringdon explaining the background to her book The Angels of Englemere Wood, a true story of the evacuation of the London based Waifs and Strays home to Ascot, Surrey, during the Second World War. Sheila, one of the girls featured, was born in Appledore and became a very successful playwriter and another, Queenie, until recently lived in West Buckland.

 

 6th February at 2pm in the church hall when Punch and Judy and their puppeteers will be coming along to entertain and educate us into the history of the performance. 

 

 6th March when Georgia, Manager of Marwood Hill Gardens will give us an illustrated talk about the Gardens and future developments. Visitors are welcome. Teas for the meeting will be provided by Glenys, Beatrice and Jenny S. Raffle prize with by provided by Anne

 

 Wed 9th April in the afternoon (time to be confirmed). We have been invited to the old church, St Petrock's in Parracombe for a private guided tour followed by tea and cake in the Parracombe Community shop and cafe.

 

3rd May - Rob Palmer, speaker from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The talk will be about their archives, architecture and conservation. Gentlemen are welcome to attend as are lady visitors. Please let me know if you hope to come along to our meeting.

 

June 5th - PRIZE WINNING!Sally Kershaw was very bubbly and enthusiastic. Her pictures on the wall were really bright so we could see them. She won her first prize at the age of 13 from the Blue Jeans comic. A ghastly plastic belt. She won 2 car seats when she was pregnant with twin boys. She came second trying to win her dream kitchen and received a cook book. She had a holiday in St Lucia. 2 lots of garden furniture. A box of trout. £350 watch. Union Jack cufflinks. A trip to ‘Brookside’ in Liverpool where they were picked up in a stretch limo and met the cast. She is still hoping to win the elusive kitchen Aid food mixer. Sally says you need to enter at least 10 competitions a day. You have to be in it to win it!  

 

We held a second very successful flower making session under the guidance of Carol. The display will be put into Marwood church during the last week of June and the exhibition will run during July and August. Please call in and see what we have done in your name. Refreshments will be available on Sunday afternoons and Marwood Ladies will be on tea and cake duty on 3rd August between 2 and 4pm. So I am looking for volunteers to make tray bakes or individual cakes and offers to help make the tea and wash up. As you know we usually make an annual donation to Marwood Church so we have agreed to give any profit we make to church funds. 

 

Carol was asked about making more flowers. She has suggested that ladies go to her to save moving the materials around. The list below are the afternoons that Carol is available from 2.30 as long as she knows when someone or preferably more than one can come and she will adjust her life accordingly. So please give her plenty of notice and ring her to arrange when you can make flowers for our display. 01271 373779. I can do 12th June if anyone else is available that date. 

 

Wednesday 11th June

Thursday 12th June

Friday 13th June

Monday 16th June

Tuesday 17th June

Wednesday 18th June

Thursday 19th June

Friday 20th June

 

The following week they need to be in the church erecting the display

 

 3rd JULY  - our annual garden party and weather permitting we will hold it in Margaret Pover's garden, The Old Rectory, Marwood. If the weather is at all unpredictable we will be in the church hall. It starts at 3pm. So please come along for tea, cake, chatter and a turn around the garden if you want to indulge.  We would like to borrow a gazebo to put up in the morning. So  if anyone has one in their garden shed or garage please ring me