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Club Notices<br />
STOW & DISTRICT CIVIC SOCIETY<br />
Calling all bakers!<br />
Do you fancy baking a few muffins or cookies? And do you enjoy eating<br />
them! Then please think of helping us at the Stow Cotswold Festival on<br />
Saturday 4 th July when we’ll be providing American-style refreshments<br />
for our special ‘quilting sewing bee’ in St. Edward’s Hall. Offers of help<br />
with refreshments - or to take part in the quilting - all gratefully<br />
received! Please contact Rachel for more details on what will be a fun<br />
event! (Tel: 01451 833783)<br />
Our next talk, “Barley, Beer and Barrels” is on Friday, 5 th June at<br />
7.30p.m. in St. Edward’s Hall, Stow when Martin Way will give a potted<br />
look at the ‘Mystery of Brewing’. Please note: this talk follows our short<br />
AGM which begins at 7 pm. (Members free / visitors warmly welcome.)<br />
Interested in joining us?<br />
Please call Rachel or Nigel on 01451 833783. Membership - single £8,<br />
joint £14. Full details of our 2014-15 programme are on our website<br />
and noticeboard. www.stowcivicsociety.co.uk<br />
Naunton W I<br />
Meets in the Village Hall on the<br />
1 st Wednesday of every month<br />
Visitors very Welcome<br />
Contact 01451 850475<br />
MORETON IN MARSH (EVENING) W I<br />
Our May meeting welcomed Lynda Warren, a WI historian, who took us<br />
back to our roots in 1915, when at one of the first meetings the<br />
programme consisted of, amazingly, a demonstration of a<br />
breadmaker,two other talks, one of which was goat management,<br />
including live goats, two musical solos and tea and cake.<br />
We now look forward to a busy summer programmes of Outings and<br />
Activities and two of our Quiz Teams are delighted to be through to the<br />
next round of the GFWI County Quiz.<br />
The next meeting will be in the WI Hall on Thursday 11th June at 7.30<br />
when the Speaker will be Kathy Butterworth talking on the “Lighter Side<br />
of Dementia” – looking after Uncle John.<br />
Please contact Jo on 01608 650821 if you would like to visit.<br />
Upper Windrush Local History Society<br />
Next meeting on Monday 8th June at 7.30p.m.<br />
Vikings in Gloucestershire - Speaker Tony Roberts<br />
Temple Guiting Village Hall. Visitors Welcome. Members £1 Visitors £2<br />
Thank you to everyone who came along to<br />
Blockley May Fair, a lot of fun was had by all!<br />
A couple of Thank You’s<br />
Stow on the Wold and Countryside<br />
Embroiderers Guild<br />
We meet every first Tuesday of the month for some fascinating talks on<br />
textile and needle related work. This month, 2nd June, the talk is by<br />
Maryke Phillips "My Stitching Obsession" followed by tea and cake, from<br />
2-4 at Broadwell Village hall. Visitors are always welcome, £5 charge. Our<br />
monthly workshops or sit and stitch days are open to non - members.<br />
For info contact Fiona Vann - Chairman 01451 821 291<br />
MORETON IN MARSH W I<br />
For our May meeting we welcomed Lt.Colonel Lesinsky on a return visit<br />
who explained to us the historical significance of "The Crown Jewels" and<br />
how they have been adapted and renewed over the centuries. We were<br />
extremely pleased to welcome some new members and guests.<br />
Our next meeting will be held in the W.I.Hall on Thursday 4 th June at<br />
2pm.The speaker will be Jill Salmonds on the "Culture and Costumes of<br />
South Western China". New members and guests will be warmly<br />
welcomed. For further information contact Trish on 01608 651367<br />
BOURTON & DISTRICT<br />
This month’s meeting will be on Wednesday 24 th June at the British Legion<br />
Hall, Bourton on the Water. Tea and coffee from 10am. The talk will be<br />
on “Droving through the Cotswolds” by Brian Smith, this will start at<br />
10.45am. £2 per head. The University of the 3 rd Age (U3A) is a group for<br />
retired and semi retired people that enables members to meet and share<br />
many educational, creative and leisure activities. Visitors very welcome,<br />
why not come along and see what we have to offer? More details<br />
available from www.u3asites.org.uk/bourton banddu3a@btinternet.com<br />
Susan Dodd, Publicity Officer 01451 822431.<br />
RLNI NORTH COTSWOLD BRANCH<br />
At the recent Annual General Meeting of the Branch, our<br />
Chairman, Mrs. Diana Porter, BEM, gave a resume of the<br />
past year’s activities. These included various coffee mornings, Car Boot<br />
Sales, Personal Donations, House to House collections and Supermarket<br />
collections. In total the Branch raised over £13,000 for the Royal National<br />
Lifeboat Institution with only £101 being paid out in expenses. A<br />
congratulatory letter, from Headquarters, on the Branch’s fund raising<br />
was read out. This gave a summary of RNLI life saving activities during<br />
2013 when Lifeboats were launched across the UK and Ireland 8,304<br />
times rescuing from the sea 8,384 people. In community fund raising a<br />
total of £13.4m was raised by Branch’s such as ours across the UK. In<br />
conclusion our Chairman asked members to note that the next fund<br />
raising collection will be at the Tesco store in Stow on the Wold on Friday<br />
and Saturday 23/24th May.<br />
FUNDRAISING<br />
PLANT SALE<br />
IN MAY<br />
Thank you to everyone<br />
who donated cakes &<br />
plants, and who helped<br />
to raise £1,200 for<br />
Kate’s Home Nursing.<br />
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